Tidbits

From top: brick diamonds from side of recent heater, blue Italian ram's head tile from my back yard oven, and bake oven arch and PBR from local heater project.

Bake Day Visit to Elmore Mtn Bread

Here's a picture of the Elmore oven with a load of bread mid-bake. The oven is performing quite well, with terrific heat saturation and very even bakes. The loaves come out of the oven equally colored and with few deformities. The baking day starts with an evenly saturated oven with surface temps around 600 F. After 400 loaves and several hours of baking, the temperature at the surface will be about 540 F after a short period with no load in the oven. What this means is that a 600 loaf baking day is not out of the question. The baking capacity of the oven exceeds it's current use- which is a good problem to have. The bakery could choose to accept more accounts, or could keep their current production schedule and enjoy the 2 hour shorter bake day over their old oven, made possible by the bigger hearth and more efficient design.