[SideburnsOfDoom]

> Baking at least you can open the oven to take a quick look,

I find that baking falls into two categories:

1) Pie or roast - No closed cast-iron pot in use, so you don't need to open the oven, you can see in through the glass.

2) Baking bread in the closed cast-iron pot with the lid on, do not open the oven or raise the lid during this phase!

In neither case do you "open the oven and take a quick look"