wood fired bread

Having just finished a dinner of wood-fired oven pizzas, I thought it would be a good time to publish another post. On Saturday morning we baked a few loaves of each type in the big oven, and they came out beautifully. In the photos, you can see the honey sunflower loaves in the oven, and just after they came out, then a few of the apricot ginger loaves after baking. We both figured the oven could have been hotter, but we can see now that it will indeed be lots of fun learning to bake with the new oven. The hardest part will be resisting the temptation to put anything and everything we can think of into the oven to see how it does. It still amazes me that most of the time, when you look in the oven, it just looks like a cavern, not an actual oven, and only when you stick your arm in, or watch the loaves baking do you get a sense of the amount of heat inside.