What is the biggest difference between a "horno" and a wood burning Pizza Oven?!


Question: What is the biggest difference between a "horno" and a wood burning Pizza Oven!?
A primitive wood burning Pizza oven!? They are both basically the same, aren't they!? Is it firebricks or what!? The vents!? I'm doing research on outdoor wood burning ovens; I don't have either at this point!.Www@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
Not much difference for regular baking!. They both can be made out of similar materials!.
A wood burning oven can be drier - hornos were also be used by native Americans as steam ovens to cook corn in a way the wood burners could not!.

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Horno is a mud adobe built outdoor oven used by Native Americans and early settlers of North America!. It was used to cook corn and bread!. The procedure still used in parts of New Mexico and Arizona is to build a fire inside the Horno and when the proper amount of time has passed, remove the embers and ashes and insert the bread to be cooked!. After the right amount of time the cooked loaf of bread can be removed!. In the case of corn the embers are doused with water and the corn is then inserted into the horno to be "steam" cooked!.
Horno is the normal Spanish word for "oven" or "furnace", and derives from the Latin furnus!.

where as the ultimate gourmet appliance for both the indoor kitchen and outdoor patio is the wood burning pizza oven!. Discover a multitude of baking, barbeque and roasting dishes that you can create!. Learn the simple age old techniques and methods of cooking in a traditional wood burning oven!.


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"Horno" sounds dirty LOL ;-)Www@FoodAQ@Com

make sure when pronounicing "horno", u dont pronoune the h!. Its silent in spanish!. Www@FoodAQ@Com





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