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
The Big Oven to keep the oven going, until eventually he is left with nothing but the oven itself and has to go away and live with strangers. The story is a hypothetical fable decrying the folly of stubbornness and ignorance. Danny Kaye recorded a dramatic reading of "The Big Oven" for Little Golden Records in the early 1960s, based on a translation by Nathan Haskell Dole. This recording has been used in English as a second language education. The Big Oven The Big Oven is an 1899 Russian short story attributed to Leo Tolstoy about a man (in other tellings of the