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Crispin and all,<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/4/2015 7:26 PM, Crispin
Pemberton-Pigott wrote:<br>
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Today we will test a few stoves that have been tried in the
field. Bread baking is very popular with each home having a
tandoor. It consists of a purchased oven built into a classic
form by the home owner using clay and hand tools. It is heated
with small wood. When it is reduced to coals the coals are
covered with a metal tray and the dough is slapped onto the
surfaces (it is cylindrical, either horizontal or vertical) and
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The dough sticks there and bakes, basically using retained heat.
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Crispin, <br>
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Please send photo(s) of the tandoori to which you refer above. I
am imagining it as rather short (squat), and with the described
metal tray being horizontal. But tandoori cooking that I have seen
has been essentially tall-ish and vertical, with the flatbread
plastered on the sidewalls of the tandoori. <br>
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Your message has started me thinking about such backing that is not
typical "space oven" of the western world (with heat all around in a
chamber), but is a "surface-contact oven" that has a hot interior
around it . Note that pizza cooking can be mainly surface contact
with a hot interior around it, but tortilla cooking is with a hot
surface but no hot enclosure above the tortillas. Big difference,
but still quite related.<br>
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Anyone who wants to do "hands on" work about this and is interested
in such baking can contact me directly. Some of these cooking
experiments can be easily done without (or with) a biomass burning
stove, that is, could be done inside a typical modern kitchen or in
an improvised (TLUD based) kitchen like where i ate one night in
South Africa in October. <br>
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Paul<br>
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Paul<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Doc / Dr TLUD / Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>
Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
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