They had come for cylinders of liquid propane gas, used to heat ovens and bake bread.
This fire will burn straight through the weekend, though not always in this oven: to bake bread, we'll need to remove the burning logs and embers to a fire pit nearby — a concrete ring of partly buried sewer pipe — and then transfer them back.
He also cannot use his backyard oven to bake bread he wants to sell, since the state law only applies to kitchens.
Guevara set up factories to make grenades, built ovens to bake bread, taught new recruits about tactics, and organized schools to teach illiterate campesinos to read and write.
A displaced Iraqi woman from Mosul use fire to heat a makeshift oven to bake bread for Iftar, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a refugee camp al-Khazir in the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq, June 10.
Mirrored sun ovens bake the bread, cook casseroles and boil water; they're supplemented by small earthenware stoves, made at the farm kiln, that use miserly amounts of wood.
To tame that fire, to master the tandoor — to cook meat to temperature (meats are cooked on metal skewers that stand in the middle of the oven), to bake breads without burning them (breads are stuck to the oven wall, where they go from dough to done in no time flat), and to expose your mitts to that infernal heat night in, night out — is no mean feat.
Or he might reduce the Lord Almighty to a humble supplier of leavened goods: "God in the wilderness his table spread, / And in his airy ovens baked their breads".
When pizza was introduced to New York in the early 1900's by Gennaro Lombardi, it was made in a coal-fired brick oven used to bake bread.
One of the cobalt capsules was found by American troops on Oct. 6 lying in the yard of a villager's house in Amiriya, less than 15 feet from the outdoor clay oven the family used to bake bread.
The joint was old enough to have ovens that were meant to bake bread for the prisoners.
