[Sca-cooks] Fwd: Oven temperature question

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> The few pictures I have seen of medieval 'communal ovens' all appeared to be constant temperature
> ovens, with the fire burning at the rear/sides of the oven, much like our modern pizza ovens.  Of
> course, these were all paintings from post-period, and could very well have been artist
> interpretations.

Hm... I've seen post-period instances where you have a small fire in the 
oven stack below the oven, but you actually heat the oven by putting 
coals in it, then cleaning out the coals. 

However, there are also chafing dishes from period which seem to 
have been built as 
long benches of cooking surface with niches underneath for fire/coals...

-- Jadwiga, trying not to fuss about her dayboard for saturday.

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