An enclosed brick or stone oven built adjacent to a hearth in early Dutch Colonial houses. As a bake oven’s walls are made of solid, insulating materials, it can maintain an even temperature for many hours.

Commonly called a dutch oven. An iron kettle for fireplace baking, with a rimmed cover to hold burning coals. Modern bake ovens have smooth covers, are often enameled and are used both on stove burner [..]