Artist Seeking Oven To Bake Bread Bed

Brooklyn-based artist Glenda Reed contacted us this morning explaining that she's embarking on an art project and working with a new medium: bread. There's just one giant problem; she explains:

The sculpture, Bread Bed, is a wooden twin bed frame with a mattress of freshly baked bread that is meant to be eaten at the opening. The tricky part is that I'd like to bake the bread mattress in one piece, roughly 6' x 3' x 5-8". I'm having the darndest time finding an oven big enough... Do you have any suggestions where I might be able to find an oven large enough for this project? I’d appreciate any advice regarding baking a loaf of bread this size in terms of recipes, cooking temperature, time, etc.

So, anyone know where to find a mattress-sized oven? The piece will be shown, and eaten, at the Last Supper Festival next month—the egg timer is ticking!

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on August 26, 2010 3:09 PM

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ceeg

Ever been to Frank Pepe's pizza in New Haven? That oven is enormous!

Phil

The Octomom's vagina could probably handle that. (so retro)

Tony

you can't eat food that's baked in toxic ovens.

you should build a solar oven with cardboard and tin foil. wiki it. it just takes twice as long to bake, but it bakes.

DarkGemini

Action Powdercoating has a curing oven that can accommodate large pieces.

Like an entire car chassis.

I don't quite know the logistics behind baking a ginormous loaf of bread (what do you bake it in, for instance), but I do know that their oven would be large enough to accommodate it.

Couldn't hurt to give them a ring.

FranklinBluth

Tony Wonder might know.

VanessaNYC

I have a friend who makes giant clay sculptures and she fires the clay in massive kilns designed for firing underground pipes. She's out in California, but I wonder if there are similar facilities in the North East.

The kiln would of course need to burn at a much lower temperature or the bread bed would be toast. (ha).