Patent ID: 8578927

Claim:
A method of baking bread, including pizza, in a high temperature bake oven, comprising the following steps: initiating a heating element in a lower portion of the bake oven; locating the bread to be baked on a first pizza stone located above the heating element in the oven, such that the heating element heats the first pizza stone and the bread; directing circulating heated air in the oven with a baffle from the heating element around the first pizza stone to between the first pizza stone and a second pizza stone located above and generally parallel to the first pizza stone, heating the bread on the first pizza stone, and the second pizza stone, then directing heated air downwardly with a downwardly angled baffle onto the bread on the first pizza stone heating the bread; and directing the circulating heated air in the oven from between the first and second pizza stones over the bread and out of the high temperature bake oven through an opening between the first and second pizza stones.