At a Moroccan communal oven, or ferran, households bring bread shaped at home and wait for it to be baked and returned. A 2011 report in Le Matin records a resident's memory of children carrying bread trays on their heads to the neighbourhood oven. Because the oven keeper prevented children from retrieving loaves themselves and leaving without payment, customers had to queue and wait—seemingly forever—for their bread. With many households using one fire, loaves are distinguished by shape, marks, cloths, trays, or the keeper's familiarity, while the baker coordinates heat and timing. Home ovens have reduced the clientele, but the ferran functioned as both cooking equipment and neighbourhood service. The distinctive feature is that the order is not for buying a finished product: each household's own bread waits its turn to enter a shared fire.