When the Witch orders Gretel to peer into the hot oven, Gretel plays dumb and asks for a demonstration.
She first sears the steak in a very hot pan, then perches it on a rack set on a baking sheet and pops it into a hot oven to finish cooking.
It works by heating the moisture in a person's skin to the point where it feels, according to Kelley Hughes, an official at the directorate who volunteered to act as a guinea pig, like opening a hot oven.
Also of note: an ambitious onsite bakery (complete with a Twitter feed about what's hot from the oven) and gourmet shop stocking Prestat chocolates, Neal's Yard Dairy cheeses, and fruit and vegetables from the kitchen garden at Conran's country home.
As for technique, make sure your oven is hot and the roasting tray is set on the uppermost rack.
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Taking its cue from the age-old Neapolitan tradition, pizzas are made from slowly proofed sourdough, San Marzano tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella singed in an extremely hot wood-fired oven.
London loves its railway arches, and one of the best conversions lies between Maltby Street and Druid Street in Bermondsey, where artisan food seekers come to pick up oven-hot loaves, preserves, free-range meats and wines from small-scale producers.
When it gets too hot to turn on the oven and it seems as if there is more produce than there are family members to eat it, many home cooks turn to canning and pickling to preserve vegetables at their peak.
Chicago Deep Dish Pizza: New York or Neapolitan style pizza does not ship well, but deep dish travels magnificently, losing very little in translation, and since the best deep dish pizza, unlike the best thin crust pizza, does not require a special ultra-hot coal or wood burning oven, it lends itself to heating at home.
On the corner Forno di Campo de'Fiori sells crispy, hot-from-the-oven pizza rossa (topped with tomato and oregano).
While Mr. Schwartz prefers quail grilled, cooks who are disinclined to barbecue in the cold can first crisp the birds in a hot pan before finishing them in the oven.
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It took two years, 284 pounds of flour and all the ingenuity of her husband, Paul, who lined her stove with quarry tiles and, to produce the necessary burst of steam, dropped a brick into a pan of hot water at the bottom of the oven.
ECONOMIST: Julia Child, cookery teacher, died on August 13th, aged 91
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