[Sca-cooks] Cloche Oven

[Terry Decker]

You're talking about using one, Alton Brown used one, so I'd say that the
cloche oven has been used later than the ancient Greeks.

What you are really talking about is the "bake pot."  The cloche oven is a
family or field method of baking bread where a permanent oven is
unavailable.  Various forms of the oven appear from the Bronze Age to modern
times, as the covered bake stone is the next step up from the uncovered bake
stone .  To a large extent they were replaced by the covered cast iron pot
(Dutch oven), which is less prone to breakage.

Today, terra cotta bakeware is usually used in conjunction with a regular
oven to evenly distribute the heat.  Used properly, it produces lovely,
crusty bread.

Bear


>> It's called a cloche oven.  The ancient Greeks used them.
>>
>> Bear
>
>Any idea if it was used any later than that?  I originally saw the idea on
>"Good Eats" where Alton Brown was cooking Prime Rib this way, I talked to
an
>engineer friend and he said it would work for bread so I figured this was a
>bit more sightly than the old Coleman oven.  Any other information you
might
>have would be fabulous!
>
>Kristianne