Cob:: earthen oven --Lorena

[Charmaine R Taylor]

Ianto Evans worked on a book called Lorena Stoves, and I have an old 
copy. It is now out of print, and shows the table-like stoves wherein  
the pots sat into the holes, where the fire was underneath,  the problem 
I have heard is they smoked like crazy around the pots, and later rocket 
stoves replaced them.  although I hear many  people still like them. 
 they are a more modern invention.

the only aspect is that they were a CLAY  hand made table and oven in 
one..so it made it easier to cook on the surface by dropping the pot 
into the hole.

These may have been used in CHina and Korea as I recall, in another shape.