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Focaccia [a] is a flat leavened oven-baked Italian bread. [1] In Rome, it is similar to a type of flatbread called pizza bianca (lit. ' white pizza '). [2] [3] [4] Focaccia may be served as a side dish or as sandwich bread and it may be round, rectangular or square shape.
Sheet pans were also used to heat the testum although it would not heat the bread as quickly. [15] Like the testum, the thermospodium was used as a portable oven and was owned by wealthy families. [3] It was a type of small oven similar to a brazier. [16] One thermospodium found at Pompeii was made from a square box resting on four decorative ...
Freshly baked bread Anders Zorn – Bread baking (1889) Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread, but many other types of foods can be baked. [1]
Baking is a food cooking method that uses prolonged dry heat by convection, rather than by thermal radiation, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones. [2] Bread is a commonly baked food. Baking bread in a commercial oven Bread being baked in a tabun oven
A double oven A ceramic oven. An oven is a tool that is used to expose materials to a hot environment. Ovens contain a hollow chamber and provide a means of heating the chamber in a controlled way. [1] In use since antiquity, they have been used to accomplish a wide variety of tasks requiring controlled heating. [2]
For generations, white bread was the preferred bread of the rich while the poor ate dark (whole grain) bread. However, in most Western societies, the connotations reversed in the late 20th century, with whole-grain bread becoming preferred as having superior nutritional value while Chorleywood bread became associated with lower-class ignorance ...
A large baking stone inside an oven Pizza on a pizza stone. A baking stone is a portable cooking surface used in baking. It may be made of ceramic, stone or, more recently, salt. [1] [2] Food is put on the stone, which is then placed in an oven, though sometimes the stone is heated first. [3]
A wood-fired oven and al forno dishes are a feature of many Italian restaurants. Brick and clay ovens are a key feature of cuisines of the Mediterranean and Middle East, with wood being the main fuel for many parts of Europe for many centuries. A typical oven found in Italian restaurants is brick lined with an arched oven door, and a wooden ...