The oven seems to be in working order so we have committed to putting it to use. Here at the "Boomer" gathering there is a bulletin board where daily activities can be posted. We have posted that each Saturday and Wednesday, we will fire up the earth oven and anyone who wants can come and bake a pizza. Marlene makes up a batch of dough and those who want to participate need only to bring the sauce and ingredients they want on their pizza. I started a fire in the oven and kept it going from noon to 5:30 pm.
Marlene was ready with the dough and by 5:15 people began to arrive.
To establish some kind of order, we gave out a playing card to people as they arrived with their
makings. The first person would get the Ace of hearts, the second the two of hearts and so on. They would take a ready made crust and present it to me by the oven along with the playing card. When the pizza was ready, I would call out the next number and a new pizza would go in.
Things were going pretty well. The first few pizzas came out a little dark on the bottom, but the toppings looked deliciously melted together.
Soon, more pizzas were ready for the oven than the oven could handle. It would take between 3 to 5 minutes of 600 degree oven to bake the pizzas. As time went on it became difficult to get the raw pizza to slide from the plate to the peel used to insert it into the oven. Some pizzas did not turn out "pretty", but I guess they tasted alright because no one complained.
Marlene came down to check on progress and between the two of us we figured out that by delaying the preparation slightly it kept the dough from sticking to the plate while waiting for an opening to the oven.
Here are a couple of the pizzas ready for the oven.
This is Kaz. He seems to be enjoying the finsihed product.
By the end of the evening we had made and baked over 25 pizzas. Marlene and I made three more for ourselves and shared them with Kris and Dean, our neighbors, who had helped us keep things moving.
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