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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Aug 24, 2008, at 11:19 PM, Rob wrote:

> http://heatkit.com/html/bakeoven.htm is a page with photos of a
> several different  types of ovens.

Thanks for that, Rob. Heatkit.com has lots of great photos and also  
lots of links to other masonry oven sites.

I recently bought a couple of the best books on the subject and am  
trying to rationalize the time and effort to build a masonry oven. I  
would like to accumulate a bunch of baker friends and have bake  
parties. It's a bit of a waste to build one of these babies and then  
fire it and only bake a few loaves and a pizza.

One of the things I have recently learned is that one can bake bread  
that is far superior to what we all eat, unless we have good access to  
a specialty bakery run by a top baker.