I Have A Dream
Today I'd like to talk about something that has been in my mind and I'd like to make it happen, to help me improve my skills.
Those of you who read my posts know that I cook, bake and always ready to try out new things. I have some experience that I have accumulated trying to always create something better and have no intention to stop, but there are some limitations.
My baking experience consists in using gas and electric oven as well. Both are good, perfect for the job, however, my dream is to have access to a traditional oven that works with wood. I'm not sure if it's called oven, maybe it's called furnace. If you know thee answer, let me know so I don't die dumb.
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Pizza and bread made in traditional, wood heated oven taste very different from what you can make in the gas or electric oven. This is why people like to order pizza or go to pizza restaurants, when they serve such pizza. You can't really compare the two as the crust tastes differently.
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My grandmother had a traditional oven, which is still where it used to be decades ago. She used to make bread every single week as times were tough and there was no possibility of buying bread from the bakery as there were no bakeries. Back in those days every housewife made bread at home, using sourdough as there was no yeast. That was something you learnt as a young girl and you needed to master it well as the well being of the family depended on your skills.
This was the story I've been told several times over the years, when I visited my grandmother. She made sure to make me feel guilty, for having a better life (because we got to buy the bread, instead of baking it at home). When she made bread, she did not let me help, but made sure to make me feel like sh*t, for not knowing how to make bread.
This was their way of blaming others for the hardship they went through during and after the war. Others would have been happy to know their children, grandchildren have an easier life, but not her. It's the classical If I didn't have a better life, you shouldn't either mentality. This is the worst thing you can do to a kid and her effort of painting herself as the best, by making me the worst got burnt in my memory and has thought me to never do anything similar, ever. I'm always saying that everyone is an example, you just have to decide if the person is a good example or a bad one. She was a bad example on so many levels.
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I could use her oven to make bread or pizza or whatever I like, but will never do that as she made sure to tie the memory of her heroic deeds to that oven. So there's not enough money in the world to pay me to do that.
However, if I will have the chance to move to my dream house in the Alps, would make sure to have a small oven in the kitchen, or outside.
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Nothing beats the smell of freshly baked bread. A slice of buttered bread with a nice, golden brown crust for breakfast can work miracles. Now we have various types of flours, from all purpose to wholegrain and you can add other ingredients like olive or herbs, you name it. Obviously baking in such an oven is not exactly easy at first, you need to get used to get the temperature right, but it's not rocket science either. If others have been able to learn it, I will be too. Would be a lot of fun for sure. Imagine baking a different type of bread each time.
So this is my dream. What's yours?
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It's looks very delicious bro I wish you progress more in cooking
I think you're confusing me with someone else.
Indirectly I like your skill ...
My dream house must have enough space for a home studio and a garage to work on my vehicles. I almost had it for 9 years but now it's gone. The one I stay in at the moment is a little further away from the dream than the previous one though it has some pros compared to it. The one(s) I own are spacious enough but don't have a garage and are not located at places I would like to live (for my special reasons - they're fine houses but hope I'll sell them someday).
Pity about your grandma but I am glad that you (like me) can be 100% objective about a family member in public. I often say that if you want to learn what happens in a family don't ask its members :)
The house I sited last summer has a wood oven and a garage and a garden and...yeah it's kinda a dream house for either of us :) And it's not even the fanciest around there (if you remember my summer posts you know what I am talking about).
Good luck with your dreams!
I hope you can sell them and get the one you like. Living in a place you don't like can be a nightmare.
You're right about family members. Looking back, this is how you make your kids lie about their feelings. We had to like her, despite all the bad things she'd done. After growing up, I confronted her once when she wanted to manipulate me, then she realized not everyone is so stupid as she though.
I remember that house. Fancy is not what I'm looking for as showing off is not my style, would be ok with a normal one too :) I hope we can both get our dream house before we grow old.
A pizza oven can be used for so many types of dishes and not only bread as it is a wood burning oven. The heat is easy to gauge and why many place the wood on one side and cook on the other in order to control the cooking temperature as you move whatever you are cooking and balking closer to the firs if you require more heat. You are right in nothing beats the smell of freshly baked bread and If I had a choice and the time would bake my own. The shops sell the pre made bread dough here in their bakery so one can take it home and bake their own bread or do some bread rolls. I have done this a number of times already and is very simple as it is cheating of sorts.
I know that very well, but I'm only interested in bread and pizza, for the rest I have the other oven, which is perfect for the job.
I've never seen dough sold at the bakery. I don't think there's such thing here, but even if there was, I doubt I would buy it. It is cheating indeed, but since I can make my own ...
I am very sorry for your grandmother's aptitude, leave that in the past and live happily in the present, with the satisfaction that if you could have better opportunities, you should be happy for your family because of that. I live in a country with a terrible situation, socially, politically, economically and of all kinds, I am happy for all my family that has had to emigrate and is having a better quality of life. Although it saddens me and makes me feel lonely not having them close and I continue to live with my daughter and husband and kitty not very well here, with failures in everything, light, internet, hospitals and a horrible economic situation, my light is hive, although I must gather and buy a pc. Most of them have left. Well excuse me this you are not asking me this is just a comparison of the situation.
Definitely a bread or a pizza in a wood oven is a divine pleasure, the taste is unsurpassed. I love it.
I hope you fulfill your dream of having your own home and having your own oven.
A pleasure to read you.
A hug and sorry for the length of my comment.
Have a nice day @erikah 💕
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My grandmother with all her doings is in the past, she's resting now 6ft under, so she can't hurt anyone now. She's not haunting me :)
I'm sorry to hear about situation and I hope it can improve soon, although that's only wishful thinking as I don't see how it's going to improve from one day to another. Still, I hope some steps will be made towards a better life and this can't continue for long. Take care and have a nice day 🤗
Thank you for your words. I hope he gets better soon. Although we have been waiting for years.
Take care of yourself too...
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It's unfortunate that your grandmother's negative approach to teaching you how to bake bread has left a lasting impact on your memories. However, your determination to never replicate that behavior is commendable, and I'm sure you will make a wonderful example for those around you.
As for me, my biggest dream now is to travel around the world with a loved one :)
That wasn't a negative approach to teaching me how to bake bread. She did not want to teach me in purpose, so she can tell me I can't bake, every single time. It doesn't matter as I'm better than that and get where I am today on my own. I've learnt to cook and bake because I like it, not because I want to prove anything to anyone.
I hope you can fulfill your dreams. Traveling is easy if you have the necessary funds.
That was a great dream @erikah. Hopefully you can have a traditional oven and could bake anything you like soon.
Well, I'm not sure when it's going to come true, if ever, but it's nice to have goals and dreams.
The bread I eat most times are the ones made with the wooden oven and as you said it's taste is the best although I haven't tasted the one made with a gas oven to actually know the difference. My dream house will definitely be the opposite of your😊😊 because I would love to have the gas oven in my house and would love to know how to use it also. Thank you for this eye opener 🥰🥰🥰
I want to have both as with traditional, wood oven you can't bake everything. The wood oven would be an extra for bread and pizza, the rest for cookies, cake and all the fine things.
From your post it shows that you're aware that it takes highly skilled one to detect the right temperature for each baking. What if the possibility of you getting the best temperature is hard what would you do at that moment with the traditional wooden oven.
The advantage of an oven like that is that you can move your bread or whatever you're baking closer or further from the ember and rotate it as many times as you like. So I'm not afraid of that. Obviously at first I may fail once or twice, but that is not a problem. As I said, if others were able to learn to use it, I will be too.
Yeah, we learn on a daily basis and I have been following up your post for sometime now and it really shows that you love learning new things on a daily aspect. Will never forget that your post concerning spending and keeping money in an envelope. I love that post and as I said in the comment section that I will try what your friend thought you, I would do that definitely. Your contents are too notch🥰🥰🥰
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I read your beautiful post about the house in the Alps, my wife and I also have this dream, we love the mountains!
For me the mountain is peace in all senses.
At home in the garden I built a small wood-burning oven, you can make one pizza at a time, but the result is incomparable... I recommend it to everyone!
In the future I would like to replace it with a bigger one but for now we are satisfied with what we have and we manage, maybe I have a photo...
Baking requires a lot of effort as to the preparation of the needed equipment and ingredients. I can sense that you are a great cook with determination. Hopefull you can try cooking in a traditional oven.
En de no creer pero concuerdo contigo, el método de cocción o tipo de leña afecta enormemente el sabor final no sabría explicar porque pero es un hecho. Uff y cuando mencionaste el pan casero, que cosa tan rica tristemente el pan de las tiendas o el propio pan de panadería es una copia desgastada y abaratada de lo que eran esos panes caseros.
Lol, we agree on that. I have the pleasure to buy fresh bread that has not been packaged in plastic and has that crunchy crust, but the others you buy from the supermarket are like rubber sometimes 😂