What is Oven?
[[File:26-pies in oven.jpg|thumb|[[Pie]]s in an oven.]] '''Ovens''' are closed, heated [[container]]s which are used for heating, baking, and drying. It is used the most often in [[cooking]] and [[pottery]]. They provide even, dry heat to all surfaces of [[food]] inside them. An indoor oven can have an [[electric]] heating element, or be fired by [[natural gas]] or [[coal]]. Outdoor ovens are often made of [[brick]] or [[clay]] and are buried in hot coals. An oven which is used for making [[pottery]] is called a [[kiln]]. An oven used for heating or industrial processes is called a [[furnace]]. They are hot inside, and often things come out of them hot. == History == [[File:MuseAcrotiriItem160-6648-1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ancient Greek portable oven]] The people in the settlements of the [[Indus Valley Civilization]] were the first to have an oven inside of their mud-brick houses by 3200 B.C.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab73 |title=History of THE INDUS CIVILIZATION<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2009-03-27 |archive-date=2017-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215213349/http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab73 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=Dales>{{citation|last=Dales|first=George|title=Excavations at Balakot, Pakistan, 1973|journal=Journal of Field Archaeology|volume=1|issue=1–2|year=1974|pages=3–22 [10]}} </ref> People who study the history of food give credit to the [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]] for making the baking of [[bread]] into an [[art]]. A type of oven called Front-loaded bread ovens were created in [[ancient Greece]]. <center><gallery> File:Toaster oven.jpg File:Lehmbackofen.jpg File:Tatakua.jpg File:PompeiiOven.JPG </gallery></center> ==References== <references/> {{Commonscat|Furnaces}} {{stub}} {{Home appliances}} [[Category:Basic English 850 words]] [[Category:Cooking appliances]] [[Category:Home appliances]] [[Category:Commercial kitchen equipment]]