Photo Post: Norm's woodfired onion rolls
Today I made my first attempt at Norm's onion rolls and I also made P.R. Italian loaf. I have only baked a couple of loaves of bread in my woodfired oven and Im really still learning to start a fire "lol"..getting pretty good now! I don't smoke up the whole neighborhood anymore! I needed to let my oven heat up a little hotter and longer...since I wasn't doing pizza I was going for a shorter time frame. I still have a lot to learn about my oven's heating...I used my hand for a temperature gauge since mine is broke! I did a lot of multitasking today. Next time I will do only one bread recipe. It makes things a lot simpler and more successful for me.
The beginning. Next time I will make a larger onion mixture...recipe just covered these very large rolls.
Done...I sat the rolls on two pans...bottoms turned out browned just right.
Two batches done...I had no idea these rolls were so large!
P.R. Italian Bread...this bread didn't get the attention it needed...rushing around making dinner...it was supposed to be a batard! I want my oven to be hotter next time so it bakes a little faster. It was very dark out and I was using a flashlight during my baking..these photos are done with a flash...it was pitch black inside the oven..and I was trying to hold my flashlight!
P.R. French bread was poked in the side moving it around in the oven....I wasn't happy with the way it turned out...next time darker crust.
I woodfired a meatloaf with garlic roasted potatoes, peas for dinner...just before putting my bread in.
Comments
Beautiful rolls Sylvia. Your whole neighborhood must be salivating as those dinner odors roll out!
I was wondering about a wood fired oven - is it a whole lot of trouble just to do one bake? Do you schedule a bunch of things to justify firing the thing up, or do you just do it whenever the spirit moves you or what? Thanks for any info, those ovens are so intriguing.
:-Paul
No trouble at all...how much trouble is it to build a fire...hey they are self cleaning!! After everythings burned away you just sweep out a little ash...you can have the wood all ready placed and next time when your ready...just light the match! Right now mine is sitting temporary in the middle of the patio on an iron frame..it's going to be moved and hopefully some nice stone work done around it. They are growing very popular...you can even put a grill made for them in it and do steaks...anything you can cook indoors you do in the woodfired oven.
Check out some pictures on http://FornoBravo.com
Sylvia
Thanks for the link, too. I had assumed that they were always massive stone installations. This looks reasonable. Hummmm....
mroepke, Thank you for the nice compliment..I have so much fun with my w.f.oven..I will cook just about anything in it and still learning all the time!...my daughter has an over the top out door kitchen area in their newly built home and she did her first turkey ever...it came out gorgeous..I posted the picture on Floyds xmas bake blog...Iam just now getting into bread baking in my oven...
Your blog is great! Your oven is really nice and I can appreciate that you did it all yourself...I like your idea of freezing the dough...I've only froze pizza dough..my frig is stuffed full now that I have been keeping more and more bread supplies...I will have to break down and clean up an area in the garage for a freezer if all this baking keeps up!!
Happy Holidays to you and yours,
Sylvia