taboon bread: Tabun oven set against backdrop showing a straw-woven plate and dough-kneading bowl (from the Museum of the Palestine Institute, Jerusalem)
taboon bread: Tabun oven set against backdrop showing a straw-woven plate and dough-kneading bowl (from the Museum of the Palestine Institute, Jerusalem)Gustaf Dalman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Gustaf_Dalman) — The book, "Arbeit und Sitte in Palästina" (1935), vol. 4, by Gustaf Dalman via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATabun_-_2.jpg)Public domain
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taboon bread

Taboon bread is baked on hot stones inside a portable clay tabun oven, a truncated cone with a top opening and sometimes a bottom opening for stoking the fire; these ovens are common in Jordan and Palestine.

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While all were made with a top opening, which could be used as a small stove top, some were made with an opening at the bottom from which to stoke the fire. Built and used even before biblical times as the family, neighbourhood, or village oven, tabun ovens continue to be built and used in parts of the Middle East today. Tabun ovens are distinct from tandoors, but are often mistaken for tandoors. Unlike a tandoor, bread inside the oven is placed on a bed of hot stones, rather than being slapped into walls of the oven. In modern times, this form of oven is common in Jordan and Palestine.

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