Baking over Dome–Help Needed

I’m sure there are some of you out there who can help me.  A large chunk of bread preparation that is almost unknown to me is the widespread practice of baking thin breads over a dome over a fire.  When I look it up in the most likely places, what I usually find are discussions of the saj made of metal.

But is it ever done over clay?  Today or in the past?  I seem to remember a thread about this kind of baking on Book of Rai, Ji-Young.

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5 thoughts on “Baking over Dome–Help Needed

    1. Rachel Laudan

      In much of North Africa and the Middle East, a dome-shaped piece of thin metal is put over the fire. Then thinly rolled dough is draped over the dome and cooks very quickly. The question is, are dome-shaped pieces of clay (upside down pots) ever used for this?

      I think the Indian griddle is more or less flat, right? More like the Mexican slightly concave comal.

  1. Ji-Young Park

    My North African informants tell me that dome shaped pieces of clay (upside down pots) are used for making bread. Much more of a rural thing these days.

    They also use something very similar to a comal.

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