The results of these experiments show, in a striking manner, how important it is to the saving of fuel in baking bread, to keep the oven continually going, without ever letting it cool: for in the first experiment when the oven was cold, when it was begun to be heated, the quantity of wood required to heat it was 366 1/2 lbs.; but in the sixth experiment, after the oven had been well warmed in the preceding experiments, the quantity of fuel required was only 74 1/2 lbs.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
It is obvious that the above explanation covers the baker's oven mystery as well. In the case of the oven, however, the inmate is concealed from start to finish, and this gives him much greater latitude for his actions. Chabert made the oven the big feature of his programme and succeeded in puzzling many of the best informed scientists of his day.英文原著 · 《The Miracle Mongers》
The Saturday's baking was a great event, the brick oven being heated to receive the flour bread, the flour-and-Indian, and the rye-and-Indian bread, the traditional pot of beans, the Indian pudding, and the pies; for no further cooking was to be done until Monday. We smaller girls thought it a great privilege to be allowed to watch the oven till the roof of it should be "white- hot," so that the coals could be shoveled out.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
In nesting time, at evening, a very few have heard the "luxurious nuptial song" of the ovenbird; but it is a song to haunt the memory forever afterward. Burroughs appears to be the first writer to record this "rare bit of bird melody." "Mounting by easy flight to the top of the tallest tree," says the author of "Wake-Robin," "the ovenbird launches into the air with a sort of suspended, hovering flight, like certain of the finches, and bursts into a perfect ecstasy of song -- clear, ringing, copious, rivalling the goldfinch's in vivacity and the linnet's in melody."英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
Of this mass 1102 loaves of bread were formed, each of which, before it was baked, weighed 2 1/2 lbs.; consequently, these 1102 loaves, before they were put into the oven, weighed 2755 lbs.: but the ingredients used in making them weighed 2812 lbs. 5 loths. Hence it appears, that the loss of weight in these six experiments, in preparing the leaven,--from evaporation, before the bread was put into the oven,--from waste, etc.--amounted to no less than 57 lbs. 5 loths.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
Dry pine-wood. loths. In heating the oven first time, -- -- 366 16 second time,-- -- 134 16 third time, -- -- 100 0 fourth time,-- -- 90 0 fifth time, -- -- 80 0 sixth time, -- -- 74 16 ------------ Total, 845 16 Employed in keeping up a small fire near the mouth of the oven while the bread was putting into it, -- -- -- 34 16英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》