The ancient Greeks used wood-fired enclosed ovens to bake. They were communal.
Cookies and cakes, By the fifth and sixth centuries BCE, the ancient Greeks used enclosed ovens heated by wood fires
I love baking, I am thinking about taking baking lessons from a baker. Oh, by baker, you mean someone who bakes things in an oven, right? Yes, that's right. Someone who works in a bakery. Yes, bakers work in bakeries. Yeah. Do you know anything about the history of baking? Yes, I do. Baking has been around pretty much since grains became a staple food, so thousands of years. Wow! What else do you know about baking history?
By the fifth and sixth centuries BCE, the ancient Greeks used enclosed ovens heated by wood fires; communities usually baked bread in a large communal oven.