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A clay oven that cooks at 900°F and forgives nothing, including your naan.
means A cylindrical clay or mud oven, traditionally fired with charcoal or wood, used to bake breads like naan and roast meats and vegetables at very high heat.
from English borrowed 'tandoor' from Hindi-Urdu 'tandūr', which traces back through Persian to an ancient root shared across the Middle East and Central Asia — Akkadian 'tinūru' is one of the oldest known ancestors, referring to a similar fire-pit oven. The device itself is one of humanity's oldest cooking technologies, with clay oven remains found in archaeological sites thousands of years old, long before the word followed trade and migration routes into South Asia and eventually into English.
- origin
- Clay cylinder heated by charcoal or wood, not gas
- heat trick
- Dough slaps onto walls, cooks in under 2 minutes
- etymology
- Word traces back to Akkadian tinuru, thousands of years old
- not just bread
- Also roasts meat skewered vertically near the coals