The dough wouldn't budge. It wasn't merely sticky or sticking, but fully, completely stuck, as though I'd mixed flour and yeast with BondCrete and dumped it in the oven. The fire in the far corner ...

Chef Christian Petroni has the ultimate chef appliance, which is, counter-intuitively, about as primitive as you can get. Except for a snazzy ventilation system (and perhaps some high-tech insulation) ...