Baking in firewood oven – found broken glass pieces in the Oven
Broken glasses often have an association with “danger, waste”.
Kids who were working on it wanted to remove these glass pieces, wondering why this dangerous waste in the oven?
This brought a discussion – what are these broken glasses doing in the oven?
Is it to store heat? Then why only glass
What else can we replaced with
Any other place we observed this phenomenon (like peanut roasting with sand)
What is glass made up of?
What is sand?
And then moved on with “let’s try this time with broken glasses, and next time we can replace it with sand. And also next time observe the peanut seller closely how he is using sand to retain the heat and the peanuts are not burning”.
And rest of the story of baking continued with mixing, measuring, fighting, guessing, firing the oven, designing the marble cake, engaging in dicussion on baking soda/powder, the music, the movies, the b’days, the brownies, the cats, the friends and the baking