A baking stone is a portable cooking surface used in baking. It may be made of ceramic, stone or, more recently, salt. Food is put on the stone, which is then placed in an oven, though sometimes the s
Baking is a method of preparing food or clay that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most commonly baked food is bread. Heat is gradually transferred from the surfac
Freshly baked bread
Anders Zorn – Bread baking (1889)
A Palestinian woman baking markook bread on tava or Saj oven in Artas, Bethlehem, Palestine
A terracotta baking mould for pastry or bread, representing goats and a lion attacking a cow. Early 2nd millennium BC, Royal palace at Mari, Syria