Saw a bakery in Paris that uses a wood fire oven from 1845

I was on vacation in Paris last month and walked past this little bakery in the 5th arrondissement. They had this huge old wood fire oven right in the window, still running and baking bread. The baker told me it's been in use since 1845, just gets rebuilt bricks every few decades. Has anyone here ever worked with a wood fire oven? How do you even control the temp on something that old?

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spencer_wood10d agoProlific Poster

Oh man, I tried using a wood fire oven once and nearly burned my eyebrows off. Honestly, mine was not from 1845, just a cheap backyard pizza one, but even that was impossible to keep consistent. Tbh I have no clue how they do it, probably magic and 180 years of practice.

ryan65310d ago

My buddy tried to save money by drying his own wood in the garage, ended up with a smoke bomb that stunk up the whole neighborhood for two days. Talk about trial and error, that was a rough summer block party.