an outdoor, domed adobe oven

a dome-shaped oven built on the outside of the house. It is used for baking bread.

The traditional oven used to cook agave piñas.

A traditional oven used to bake the agave piñas.

outdoor, beehive-shaped ovens.

Horno is a mud adobe built outdoor oven used by Native Americans and early settlers of North America. It was used to cook corn and bread. The procedure still used in parts of New Mexico and Arizona is to build a fire inside the Horno and when the proper amount of time has passed, remove the embers and ashes and insert the bread to be cooked.