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Books on Wood-Burning Brick Ovens

  • Bacon, Richard M. The forgotten art of building and using a brick bake oven. Dublin, NH:  Yankee, Inc., c1977. 64p. Same also available from: Pizza Operator Pro Shop P.O. Box 27 Lamar, IN 47550
  • Denzer, Kiko. Build your own earth oven: A low-cost, wood-fired mud oven; simple sourdough bread; perfect loavesBlodgett, OR: Hand Print Press, c2001
  • Dubey, S.C. "Brick oven: useful suggestions for construction," in Basic baking: science & craft. Anand, India : Gujarat Agricultural University, School of Baking, copyright, n.d. Includes instructions for building a brick bake oven with large thermal mass, although use of powdered glass in construction is questionable for North American use.
  • Detailed plans (in French) are in the book Guide de l'amateur de pain by Lionel Poilâne (Paris : Robert Laffont, c1981, pp. 224-233). ISBN 2-221-50307-4.
  • Wing, Daniel and Scott, Alan.  The bread builders: hearth loaves and masonry ovensWhite River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Co., c1999
  • School of Baking, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand, India. "Brick-oven (construction & handling)" in Indian Baker, Vol. XXI, No. 2, (June 1994), pp. 19-23.

Historical only:

  • Boily, Lise & Blanchette, Jean-Francois The bread ovens of Quebec. Ottawa, ONT, Canada : Nat. Museums of Canada, c1979. (available French or English).

 


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