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Re: Ancient Roman Oven Photos
I met a woman who said she remembered being at a pizza party there years ago.
I fired the oven for several days, raising the temperature a little higher each day.
Not wanting to crack or collapse the oven, it dried slowly and came to 940F.
Carbon from the cold firing burned off, and made the oven look new.
It took days to cool, as it?s built on the second level, under the house.
When I Look at my photos posted here, the little stones look like pieces of
?Terra Cotta? roof tiles. I would like to know how they built this also.
The town is about 400 years old, I suspect the casa to be from the same era.
It?s built over a cave ?Trappeto? 14? x 72? that was to be an olive mill,
but the project must have been abandoned many years ago, as the mill stone still sits outside.
A friend of my wife posted about the villa on his blog, saying ?someone must buy it?.
We went to see it, and were told to view it ?with rose colored glasses?, we needed to,
as it needed lots of work. We fell in love with it, bought it, and had it renovated.
The movie/book ?Under the Tuscan Sun? doesn?t really show the adventure involved.
I think every restaurant serves pizza. I don?t believe any Italian pizza baker would
use anything other than a ?wood fired oven?. They often fire with olive wood.
This is Puglia where the bread is famous. One bakery in town uses a ?Deck oven?
stoker fired with olive pits. Bread (about 2kg), large holes. Olive oil, the best.
They don?t want bread to overwhelm the taste of the local olive oil.
Documenting WFO?s in Italy, would be like counting sheep.
Carl
Originally posted by luca
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I fired the oven for several days, raising the temperature a little higher each day.
Not wanting to crack or collapse the oven, it dried slowly and came to 940F.
Carbon from the cold firing burned off, and made the oven look new.
It took days to cool, as it?s built on the second level, under the house.
Originally posted by JoeyVelderrain
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?Terra Cotta? roof tiles. I would like to know how they built this also.
The town is about 400 years old, I suspect the casa to be from the same era.
It?s built over a cave ?Trappeto? 14? x 72? that was to be an olive mill,
but the project must have been abandoned many years ago, as the mill stone still sits outside.
Originally posted by lwood
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We went to see it, and were told to view it ?with rose colored glasses?, we needed to,
as it needed lots of work. We fell in love with it, bought it, and had it renovated.
The movie/book ?Under the Tuscan Sun? doesn?t really show the adventure involved.
I think every restaurant serves pizza. I don?t believe any Italian pizza baker would
use anything other than a ?wood fired oven?. They often fire with olive wood.
This is Puglia where the bread is famous. One bakery in town uses a ?Deck oven?
stoker fired with olive pits. Bread (about 2kg), large holes. Olive oil, the best.
They don?t want bread to overwhelm the taste of the local olive oil.
Documenting WFO?s in Italy, would be like counting sheep.
Carl
it would have been lime mortar though.
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