Tashoven Fırın Nasıl Kullanılır?
Your oven consists of two main parts: the dome and the base. The base is the key element of the cooking process, providing heat distribution and facilitating cooking. The dome retains the heat inside the oven and also reflects the heat from the dome ceiling onto the surface of the food being cooked.
To make a delicious meal, using quality ingredients is just as important as the cooking technique. To cook any food to its fullest potential, you need high heat. Cooking at high heat ensures that the flavors within the food are preserved. The Tashoven Oven provides the high heat necessary for excellent cooking, and by distributing the heat evenly throughout the dish, it allows you to prepare delicious meals quickly.
How does Tashoven work?
Cold air entering through the mouth of the Tashoven furnace heats up as the flame burns inside, then circulates around the dome and exits through the chimney. This is a physical cycle. The cold air entering through the furnace mouth tends to cool the furnace base.
If the oven door is not closed and the fire is not fed, cold air entering through the oven opening will begin to cool the oven base. It should be remembered that the oven base is the main element of cooking. To maintain a constant base temperature without closing the oven door, the oven should be replenished with wood at regular intervals.
Keeping the oven door half-closed can reduce the escape of hot air from the chimney. This will ensure that the fire inside the oven is fed less frequently, maintaining a constant temperature.
Positioning the Tashoven Kiln
The placement of your Tashoven according to the weather conditions is crucial for successful cooking. Placing it in a sheltered, windless area means that cold air enters the oven evenly through the opening, heats up, and exits through the chimney. This ensures even heating of the Tashoven. If placement in a sheltered, windless area is not possible, the following methods should be used for positioning.
1. In calm, windless weather conditions;
Your Tashoven's mouth can point in either direction.
2. In moderate to strong wind conditions;
• Position your Tashoven so that the opening faces the opposite direction of the wind. If harsh, cold air enters the oven under pressure, it will disrupt the oven's forced ventilation balance and prevent even combustion. Even if combustion occurs, the cold air will cause the base plate, the most important element in cooking, to cool rapidly, while causing the heat to increase excessively at the points where the flame is burning. This will also subject the Tashoven's base plate to shocks and create cracks on the surface. Hairline cracks that occur in the oven base and dome due to shocks do not pose a problem in the functioning of your oven. Hairline cracks can also be caused by expansion. These types of localized hairline cracks become invisible when your oven cools down.)
• If you cannot position the opening of the Tashoven correctly in windy weather, you can prevent strong air from entering the oven by using the oven's removable door (keeping it half-open).
• Because the opening of your oven is larger than the diameter of the exhaust flue, not all of the fresh air entering the oven can escape through the flue; some will escape through the oven opening. This will cause soot to form at the oven opening. In many cases, it may be impossible to prevent soot formation. After you have finished all your cooking tasks and the TASHOVEN has completely cooled, you can clean the oven opening by wiping it with a soapy cloth. Never clean with a wet cloth while the oven is hot.
Burning Tashoven®
1. Placement of the Logs
Inside the entrance of your oven, as shown in Figure 1, create a pyramidal, hollow structure by placing two rows of oak wood at the bottom, and then thin branches or soft slats such as fir on top. Place oak wood on top and to the sides. Place a charcoal igniter tablet in the center of the pyramid structure.
2. Ignition
Light the charcoal ignition tablet with a long match or a stove lighter.
3. Combustion
Thin branches or fir slats will be the first to start burning. Wait a while for thicker oak wood to catch fire as well.
4. Carrying Fire
Once the fire starts burning brightly, gently push the flame toward the center of your oven, ensuring the base of the oven is heated precisely. Be careful not to disrupt the pyramidal structure.
5. Feeding the Fire
Observe that the fire in the center of the furnace is burning strongly and that the thick logs are igniting. Don't rush to add more wood. Adding extra wood will choke the furnace, delay combustion, and create more smoke.
Once all the wood has started burning efficiently, place one or two pieces of thin oak wood at a right angle to the edges of the fire. Remember, if the new wood you add is placed completely on the ground, there will not be enough oxygen to reach it, the combustion will not be sufficient, and it will produce a lot of smoke.
If you encounter such a situation, don't panic; light a piece of a charcoal lighter and place it next to the wood that is producing smoke. The smoke will stop as the wood catches fire.
Add one or two pieces of wood to the fire burning in the center of the furnace every 10-15 minutes to make the fire bigger and allow the flames to reach the dome. From the moment you first light your furnace, the soot produced by the wood will stick to the dome ceiling and cause the dome to appear black.
A strong fire lit for 45-60 minutes will raise the temperature of your oven to 400-450ºC. You can tell that these temperatures have been reached when the black, sooty ceiling of the dome turns white.
6. Ready to Cook
Once the dome of your oven turns white, you can begin cooking by moving the fire to the right or left side of the oven. You can wipe away the ashes on the oven floor with a brush or a damp cloth wrapped around a stick. Do not wipe with a completely wet cloth, as this will shock the oven floor and cause deep cracks.
Rules to Follow When Using a Tashoven Oven
Tashoven® is tempered during the production process. For Tashoven kiln use, the kiln should first be heated by lighting a small fire and maintaining a temperature of 150-200ºC for a minimum of 3-4 hours. The moisture within the kiln must be removed.
Only dry wood (oak wood or similar hardwoods), charcoal, or charcoal briquettes should be used as fuel.
Petroleum-based liquid fuels (such as gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, kerosene, thinner, and gaseous substances) should absolutely not be used.
Solid fuels, such as lignite or coal, should absolutely not be used. When the interior is heated (450-500ºC), the temperature outside the dome is 80-100ºC. It should not be touched with bare skin as it can cause serious burns.
Keep your children away from the oven.
Do not pour water or any other liquid onto or inside your oven while it is hot.
Do not throw compressed gas cylinders, plastic chemicals, or other flammable materials into the oven. Keep highly combustible materials away from the oven.
TASHOVEN® is suitable for outdoor use; absolutely do not use it indoors.
To protect it from weather conditions such as rain, snow, or freezing, it should be covered with a waterproof cover when not in use.
You can wipe TASHOVEN® with a damp cloth. Do not use chemical cleaning products for cleaning. Chemical substances can be absorbed into the refractory concrete and leave harmful residues.
Once the furnace has completely cooled, sweep the inside with a brush. Sprinkle the resulting ashes onto the soil of your plants. Ash is an excellent source of potassium and will meet your plants' potassium needs.
If there are stains, such as meat grease, on the bottom of the oven, don't bother trying to clean them. The high heat generated the next time you light the TASHOVEN® will burn off all the grease residue and the stains will disappear.
We absolutely do not move the oven while it is on or hot.
Do not boil water inside TASHOVEN® ovens .
Liquid dishes should be cooked in cast iron pots or earthenware casseroles, and the lids should be kept closed. Do not use any cookware with bakelite, wooden, or plastic handles (or any flammable materials).
Never put your hands inside the oven; use appropriate heat-protective gloves.
Make sure that the solid fuels you use, such as wood, charcoal, and charcoal briquettes, are dry.
Do not light your oven if it has been exposed to rain or is completely wet. Allow it to dry in a sunny and breezy place. Then, light a small fire inside to allow any remaining water to evaporate. Once you are sure it is completely dry, you can proceed with the normal firing process.
Tashoven Installation Manual
Tashoven® Parts
1. Dome 2. Oven Plate 3. Supporting Sheet Metal Body 4. Legs 5. Shelf 6. Ceramic Fiber Insulation 7. Chimney
8. Wheels 9. TASHOVEN® Insulated Removable Cover
1. Mount the stand legs to the supporting sheet metal frame.
2. Secure the shelf between the legs using bolts and nuts.
3. Mount the wheels to the rear legs.
4. Place the ceramic fiber insulation material onto the carrier sheet metal body.
5. Lay the TASHOVEN® coffee table flat on the floor.
6. Place the TASHOVEN® oven plate vertically into the carrier sheet metal housing and push the oven plate from the front so that it fits inside the carrier sheet metal housing.
WARNING!!! Do not trap your hand between the tray and the refractory material!
7. TASHOVEN® oven plate, including the supporting sheet metal body section.
Holding them together, raise the stand to an upright position as shown in the diagram.
8. Place the round stick included in the box onto the TASHOVEN® oven plate, positioned so that it aligns with the circular part of the plate where it begins.
9. WARNING!!! THIS PROCEDURE REQUIRES EXTRAORDINARY CARE. CARELESSNESS MAY LEAD TO INJURIES.
Carefully place the dome onto the round stick, ensuring it aligns with the baking tray.
(WARNING!!! This task must be performed by 2 adults.)
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10. Once the dome is aligned with the outer contour, (while standing on the wooden stick), one of the two people holds the mouth of the oven and pushes the dome forward, balancing it on the wooden stick.
WARNING!!! Ensure your hands or fingers are not subjected to any weight during this process. Use protective work gloves during this operation.
11. WARNING!!! THIS PROCEDURE REQUIRES EXTRAORDINARY CARE. CARELESSNESS MAY LEAD TO INJURIES.
The person holding the dome balanced from the front should gently lift it, allowing the rear of the dome to rest against the oven tray's latch. Once the rear of the dome is in place, lift the dome slightly further from the front, and the second person should remove the round stick from between the tray. After removing the round stick, the dome should be slowly lowered onto the lower tray.
12. Install the TASHOVEN® chimney. Place the removable cover over the oven opening.
Tashoven Cooking Techniques
Thin-Crust Baked Goods
Once your oven dome turns white (after the oven dome temperature reaches 400-450ºC), move the flame to the right or left. It's helpful to have an infrared thermometer to check the oven temperature. As mentioned before, the oven base temperature is the most important factor for baking. Once the dome has turned white, the base temperature will likely be around 400ºC. Initially, your oven is used to bake thin-crust products like pizza, pita bread, lahmacun, and flatbread. For these types of thin-crust products, a base temperature of 300-360ºC is ideal. If the base temperature is too high, it should be allowed to cool down to the specified temperature. An excessively hot base will cause the dough to burn. The base temperature should be checked with an infrared thermometer. If you don't have such a thermometer, sprinkle a small amount of flour on the oven base. If the flour quickly turns brown, the base temperature is too high. If the flour browns in 1-2 minutes, the base temperature is suitable. You can also test the base temperature by spreading a small amount of prepared thin dough on the oven base.
The first time you use your oven, you'll probably make some unsuccessful attempts at baking. Don't panic; with time, you'll get to know your oven and achieve perfect results.
The ideal baking time for thin-crust products like pizza, pita bread, and lahmacun is 1.5-2 minutes. Therefore, it's beneficial to bake these products one at a time. It's difficult to manage two or more products simultaneously in the oven. The oven base temperature will begin to drop as the surfaces of the thin-crust products you bake one after the other cool down, and as cold air enters. You can prevent the base temperature from dropping by briefly closing the portable door, or you can add small amounts of wood to the fire to raise it again. Alternatively, you can achieve the desired base temperature by simply adjusting the direction of the flame.
Baking in Heat-Resistant Containers in the Tashoven Oven
Cooking in heat-resistant containers can be done at temperatures between 300-250°C. Earthenware or cast iron pots are recommended for this purpose. Place the raw, prepared food in the pot into the oven, which should be preheated. Keep the lid closed so the food cooks in its own steam. If the cooking pot doesn't have a lid, cover it with parchment paper and then wrap the paper in aluminum foil. Cooking time will vary from 20-35 minutes depending on the type of food being cooked. Once the food in the pot is fully cooked, remove the lid or aluminum foil and let the top brown for another 5-10 minutes.
Tashoven Oven Barbecue
To barbecue in a Tashoven oven , spread some of the glowing embers from the wood inside the oven onto the oven floor. Place the special grill with a handle, manufactured by TASHOVEN, on top of the embers. Wait for the grill to heat up for a while. Then, place the meat, fish, or vegetables on the grill. Barbecuing with a Tashoven will be faster and more delicious than cooking on a classic grill. While the food cooks with the heat of the embers at the base, it will also be seared from the outside by the heat reflected from the dome. This way, your meat will retain its juices and acquire an incredible flavor along with the aroma of the wood.
Tashoven Oven Bread Making
For baking, plump loaves of bread, the temperature should be between 200-150°C. Completely remove all embers and ashes from your oven and sweep the interior. Place the bread dough onto the bottom of the oven using a baking peel. Spray some water into the oven and push the oven door all the way down to disconnect the chimney. Your bread will then be perfectly baked in 25-45 minutes.
The information provided above is general, and you can create many different types of cooking using your own creativity. You can always visit our Yapı Bahçe website to purchase a Tashoven oven . A Tashoven oven will always allow you to prepare delicious and healthy meals. The best prices for Tashoven ovens are waiting for you now.