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| The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens | 
 enlarge | Authors: Daniel Wing, Alan Scott
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 14953
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 250
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 0.8
ISBN: 1890132055
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.815
EAN: 9781890132057
ASIN: 1890132055
Publication Date: July 1, 1999
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| Customer Reviews:
 Missing Plans? July 3, 2003
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
The authors make several references to a set of plans and list of materials that are included with this book but these appear to be missing. I would not try to build a masonry oven with this book but it is a good start.
 Where's the dough! December 2, 2002
13 out of 27 found this review helpful
I was expecting something more like a SUNSET magazine type presentation...this book is not a "how to" manual on building an oven. In fact, the directions given were so poorly presented that it felt like I needed to hire these guys to do the job. Outlines, guidelines, drawings or anything else one would expect for buildiing a brick oven were completely lacking. The bread portion of the book is well...okay, but it has been better written and done elsewhere. I would pass on this book and keep looking
 Bread Builders: Hearth Loves and Masonry Ovens February 16, 2002
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
All you need to know to build your own brick oven. Wonderful bread recipes are included.
Build it and they will come! December 29, 2000
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
My Dad an I built a wood burning oven in the fall of 1999 using this book. It would be impossible for any book to answer all the questions but this one comes close. Danniels attention to detail and Alans experience combine to get you more than started. Before we started I wanted answers to all my questions. Now that were done I realize that discovering some of the answers on our own made the journey worth it. This book provides an excellent compass heading for the trip. Good job guys.
A must-own book for any serious baker June 10, 2000
95 out of 100 found this review helpful
This book is not a bread recipe (or formula) book, it is not a learn-to-bake book and it is not a baking reference book. It is a treatise on hearth bread and it is not one you want before you have already become very serious about bread baking and have become a full and fanatical convert to baking with natural leaven ("sourdough"). If you are not already there, then I recommend Peter Reinhart's "Crust and Crumb" and Paul Bertolli's "Chez Panisse Cooking" (it has a single great chapter about baking naturally leavened bread). Once you have arrived at good, satisfying, naturally leavened bread and bake it as a matter of routine, "The Bread Builders" will give you a very good understanding of what is really going on or what should be going on and what you can do to make sure it is. Even though I currently bake in a bottom-of-the-line, electric Jenn-Air oven, the book gave me enough knowledge, science, technique, hints, tricks and understanding that I could take my bread one or two steps further towards perfection, and for that it was worth buying. You also get to understand that the ultimate step towards perfection is baking in a brick oven. When I get around to taking that step and building my oven, this is the book that will guide me.
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