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  • dmun
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    Said deliberately, "mississippi" takes a second to say. It's a way of counting seconds.

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  • KEmerson
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    And a "Mississippi" is...? I remember it as a counting method, only barely reliable from one person to another depending on their concept of time, especially when someone pronounced it "missippi".

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  • dmun
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    Why do we have to cook at such extreme temperatures, compared to a conventional oven? how is it possible to slow cook.....say a Morrocan tangine at such elevated temps?
    Pizza is cooked at blistering temperatures, and a few other things, chicken pieces, chops, shishkebobs, pita breads, that sort of thing.

    Lower temperature dishes are cooked with retained heat cooking, the fire is shoveled out, the temperatures drop to normal oven temperature, and in go your breads, cakes, roasts, that sort of thing. Later you cook your merangues, your slow simmered dishes.

    You get the idea. It's a declining temperature curve.

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  • texassourdough
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    Hi James!

    Nice idea! I agree, Mississippi's need to be defined. The other useful scale would be flour blackening which is probably useful for 500 to 800 degrees or so. A little experimentation with an IR thermometer should provide a useful column for judging hearth temp.

    Jay

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  • PizzaPolice
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    I love the Mississippi's. Kinda says it all like the white dome and how the first couple turn out.

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  • Chickensoup
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    Why do we have to cook at such extreme temperatures, compared to a conventional oven? how is it possible to slow cook.....say a Morrocan tangine at such elevated temps?

    remember i'm learning.

    chicken

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  • jengineer
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    add in how Mississippi is to be used

    hopefully they won't have a high threshold for pain

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  • CanuckJim
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    James,

    Not too shabby for a first cut. I think you have it knocked. Breaking it down further would not add a lot of useful information. Under the "some bread" temp, you might add pan breads, enriched bread, sweet breads or some such.

    Jim

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  • james
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    Here is a shot at a wood-fire temperature scale. I would appreciate comments on this -- it's a first cut.
    James
    Attached Files

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  • jengineer
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    almost laughable when one is talking about dome temps in the 800's and floor temps between 700 and 750 for cooking pizza.

    Maybe a flat factor (1.71) can be applied to the 425 number to equal 725F

    Mark 1 = 243C = 470F = Very cool
    Mark 2 = 266C = 510F = Cool
    Mark 3 = 293C = 560F = Warm
    Mark 4 = 316C = 600F = Moderate
    Mark 5 = 338C = 640F = Fairly Hot
    Mark 6 = 360C = 680F = Fairly Hot
    Mark 7 = 385C = 725F = Hot - throw the pizza in!
    Mark 8 = 410C = 770F = Very Hot
    Mark 9 = 432C = 810F = Very Hot

    nah looking back at those numbers you should come up with your own scale

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  • james
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    Temperature ratings in wood-fired ovens

    I came across this on the Internet today, and it has me thinking. We need a standard method of describing heat in a wood-fired oven, ranging from warm to very hot. Now that we have finished V1.0 of the Cooking e-Book, I can see that this will help.

    Can we come up with a wood-fired version of this?

    Their "very hot" isn't very hot.
    James

    Conversions

    TEMPERATURES

    Gas Mark 1 = 140C = 275F = Very cool
    Gas Mark 2 = 150C = 300F = Cool
    Gas Mark 3 = 160C = 325F = Warm
    Gas Mark 4 = 180C = 350F = Moderate
    Gas Mark 5 = 190C = 375F = Fairly Hot
    Gas Mark 6 = 200C = 400F = Fairly Hot
    Gas Mark 7 = 210C = 425F = Hot
    Gas Mark 8 = 220C = 450F = Very Hot
    Gas Mark 9 = 240C = 475F = Very Hot
    Last edited by james; 04-04-2007, 12:22 PM.
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