Fascinating exploration. That oven was quite the structure - maybe a commercial one making bread Seemed too advanced to be a regular household oven. On my ancestral island, Ithaca, there are many house ruins. Usually caught up in tangled family estate issues that are never resolved, so the structures sit there forever.
It's an interesting mountain village. Some very large buildings and upstairs from that oven the building had quite elaborate decor. It's hard to imagine it was a restaurant because the village is way out in the mountains on it's own, far away from any major town. Maybe some kind of communal oven for people who didn't have their own ovens? Or maybe it made more sense for a lot of people to use one big oven and one person could keep an eye on the baking while everyone else was out at work?
@@NotLostExploring Thanks for the info. It was fairly common in small Greek villages, in the days of and before the earthquake, that there was a central bakery that, for a few drachmas, you could take your meals or dough and have the baker take care of it in the oven. Cooking at home usually involved arduous lighting of fires (often just an open fire/simple brick stove, in a corner of the kitchen) So it was a relief to have your cooking done by the baker now and again. Am enjoying your channel - should have more viewers. Like my channel it sits for weeks or months with a few scattered views.
Fascinating exploration. That oven was quite the structure - maybe a commercial one making bread Seemed too advanced to be a regular household oven. On my ancestral island, Ithaca, there are many house ruins. Usually caught up in tangled family estate issues that are never resolved, so the structures sit there forever.
It's an interesting mountain village. Some very large buildings and upstairs from that oven the building had quite elaborate decor. It's hard to imagine it was a restaurant because the village is way out in the mountains on it's own, far away from any major town. Maybe some kind of communal oven for people who didn't have their own ovens? Or maybe it made more sense for a lot of people to use one big oven and one person could keep an eye on the baking while everyone else was out at work?
@@NotLostExploring Thanks for the info. It was fairly common in small Greek villages, in the days of and before the earthquake, that there was a central bakery that, for a few drachmas, you could take your meals or dough and have the baker take care of it in the oven. Cooking at home usually involved arduous lighting of fires (often just an open fire/simple brick stove, in a corner of the kitchen) So it was a relief to have your cooking done by the baker now and again.
Am enjoying your channel - should have more viewers. Like my channel it sits for weeks or months with a few scattered views.