Ancient Israelite cuisine aside, and the loaves were baked on the heated surface. People also began placing a convex dome, initially earthenware and later metal, over the pit-oven and cooking the flatbreads on the dome instead of on the ash-covered surface; this type of oven is probably what was meant by the biblical "machabat", often translated as “griddle”. The Persians introduced a clay oven called a tanur (similar to the Indian tandoor), which had an opening at the bottom for the fire, and through which the bread was placed to be baked on the inner wall of the upper chamber from the heat
Wilfred von Oven asked if he could sum up his experience of the Third Reich in one word, what would it be, to which Oven responded: "Paradise". Wilfred von Oven:" Mit ruhig festem Schritt- Aus der Geschichte der SA", 1998. Wilfred von Oven Wilfred von Oven (born La Paz, Bolivia 4 May 1912 – died Buenos Aires, Argentina 13 June 2008) was between 1943 and the German capitulation in 1945 the personal Press adjutant of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. He was born of German parents, the father's side having a strong military tradition. His father fell in Flanders in 1917: two uncles held