How is baking done during the earlier years in the absense of electricity?

Question

Materials used and type of fuel used to bake the food?

Answer 1

People used to build stone ovens... some classic Pizzeria's still use them. Fuel? They burned wood... different woods give you different flavors, like Mesquite and Hickory.

If I could have one wish it would be to live before electricity... what a fulfilling life!

Answer 2

Cast iron stoves, brick ovens were the appliances. They used coal, or wood as the primary fuel sources.
Some bakeries and restaurants still use these today for a more authentic flavor to what is baked.

Answer 3

well, yes, fire and bricks in a hole is true... But also Coal burning stoves needed no electricity... as do most gas stoves now-a-days, but most of them anymore have electronic igniters...

Just remember, electricity is a fairly new concept, at least, harnessed electricity is. As for human use, it's just an alternative to fire in many ways... from light to heat and cooking. Think about going camping for an extended period of time... we bake on our camp stove with a 'camp oven', which is basically a metal box that sits over the propane stove. we also cook with fire, and use light from the camp fire or lanterns to see... all of which are just harnessed fire... ;)

Good luck!!

Answer 4

Yes, obviously fire was used. But there are other methods such as sun drying. I found this site that has a lot of history of food and how it was prepared even in BC times. Just scroll down a little and you'll see the history part.

http://www.foodtimeline.org/food1.html

Answer 5

It was usual to cook using fire, nothing more nothing less.
Of course there were other means, as using sun and reflective materials, and other ways, but until recently(Even now many people use fire(As they cook using gas)) So not such a change, right?:)

Answer 6

Brick or stone ovens, wood and/or coal used for the fuel.

That was the tradional method for several thousand years. Still many people in Europe who have traditional ovens and can cook like that too.

Answer 7

Wood in a little box in the stove, right next to the oven. And on top of that little box, there was a metal cover. On top of that, was the place where people cooked things.

Answer 8

Stones were heated in a fire, then put into a hole, food on top, more stones, cover with leaves, dirt, then bake then uncover and dinner was ready.

Answer 9

first there was the campfire, and then the wood stove with all it's permutations, and then coal, and then natural and manufactured gases. there were so many and i have seen and used most of them. where were you raised that you are unaware of all this.

Answer 10

Either solar ovens or wood burning fires. Or coal.