From the Wood-Fired Oven: Traditional Techniques for Cooking and Baking with Fire Author: Richard Miscovich | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DJBAETO | Format: PDF
From the Wood-Fired Oven: Traditional Techniques for Cooking and Baking with Fire Description
In the past twenty years, interest in wood-fired ovens has increased dramatically in the United States and abroad, but most books focus on how to bake bread or pizza in an oven. From the Wood-Fired Oven offers many more techniques for home and artisan bakers—from baking bread and making pizza to recipes on how to get as much use as possible out of a single oven firing, from the first live-fire roasting to drying wood for the next fire.
From the Wood-Fired Oven offers a new take on traditional techniques for professional bakers, but is simple enough to inspire any nonprofessional baking enthusiast. Leading baker and instructor Richard Miscovich wants people to use their ovens to fulfill the goal of maximum heat utilization. Readers will find methods and techniques for cooking and baking in a wood-fired oven in the order of the appropriate temperature window. What comes first—pizza, or pastry? Roasted vegetables or a braised pork loin? Clarified butter or beef jerky? In addition to an extensive section of delicious formulas for many types of bread, readers will find chapters on:
• Making pizza and other live-fire flatbreads;
• Roasting fish and meats;
• Grilling, steaming, braising, and frying;
• Baking pastry and other recipes beyond breads;
• Rendering animal fats and clarifying butter;
• Food dehydration and infusing oils;
• And myriad other ways to use the oven's residual heat.
Appendices include oven-design recommendations, a sample oven temperature log, Richard's baker's percentages, proper care of a sourdough starter, and more. . . .
From the Wood Fired Oven is more than a cookbook; it reminds the reader of how a wood-fired oven (and fire, by extension) draws people together and bestows a sense of comfort and fellowship, very real human needs, especially in uncertain times. Indeed, cooking and baking from a wood-fired oven is a basic part of a resilient lifestyle, and a perfect example of valuable traditional skills being put to use in modern times.
- File Size: 115778 KB
- Print Length: 352 pages
- Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing (October 31, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DJBAETO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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Received my pre-ordered book today and I must say it is a fantastic source of information for anyone having or considering using a wood fired oven. I have quite a few wood fired books in my collection but this one covers it all. Very detailed instructions from start to finish. Fantastic tips and techniques I have not found anywhere else. Not only covers breads and pizza but roasting, baking pies, making jerky, and more. Great photographs of the process and detailed instructions on getting the most use out of a single firing of the wood oven for multiple bakes. This is really a top notch book. Add it to your collection.
By DanD
This is the best book I have seen dealing with the mechanics of using a wood-fired oven. From starting a fire to drying herbs as the heat drains from the masonry, this book shows how to take maximum advantage of the oven. I have not tried any of the recipes but there are thousands of sources for good recipes. A wood-fired oven can be used for anything that can be made in a conventional oven plus so much more. When is the last time you grilled in your oven or used it to give that turkey a smoky flavor. The missing ingredient, until now, has been the information allowing the conversion of times and temperatures given in other sources to be used in a wood-fired oven without blindly experimenting endlessly. Reading this book is the best alternative I know to standing beside a master baker while he works. I f you have a wood-fired oven or dream of getting one, this is the place to start.
By D. Meece
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