An oven-peel was a pole with a broad flat end for thrusting loaves, pies, etc into a baker's oven and withdrawing them from it. Not knowing any bakers I don't know if the word is still in use.
I have been racking my brain for the corresponding German word and am a little ashamed to say that I can't remember what it is called in my mother tongue, although I know exactly what the thing looks like and can smell freshly baked bread and wood fire picturing the scene! Those pizza makers who make pizza in restaurants in a wooden stove still use them.
@ Librarian - In German it is a Backofen Schale - made from Beechwood. I had to Google it. Left Germany when I was 10 - but I did see it used at our neighborhood bakery over there.
@Karin: thank you for looking it up - but are you entirely sure? A Schale would mean an object deep enough to put something IN, but the oven peel is entirely flat, isn't it? Now you've made me curious, and I have googled for pictures and come across this: http://lh4.ggpht.com/_0eyOrFPVoSo/S4AKnGVjv4I/AAAAAAAAAWc/0bg_zy2OELk/Ofenschieber01.JPG They call it Ofenschieber.
I've seen the neighborhood pizza place still use them!
ReplyDeleteI have been racking my brain for the corresponding German word and am a little ashamed to say that I can't remember what it is called in my mother tongue, although I know exactly what the thing looks like and can smell freshly baked bread and wood fire picturing the scene!
ReplyDeleteThose pizza makers who make pizza in restaurants in a wooden stove still use them.
@ Librarian - In German it is a Backofen Schale - made from Beechwood. I had to Google it. Left Germany when I was 10 - but I did see it used at our neighborhood bakery over there.
ReplyDeleteThanks Karin! I only know about two words of German so I was hoping someone else could help Librarian out!
ReplyDelete@Karin: thank you for looking it up - but are you entirely sure? A Schale would mean an object deep enough to put something IN, but the oven peel is entirely flat, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteNow you've made me curious, and I have googled for pictures and come across this: http://lh4.ggpht.com/_0eyOrFPVoSo/S4AKnGVjv4I/AAAAAAAAAWc/0bg_zy2OELk/Ofenschieber01.JPG
They call it Ofenschieber.