This is a story that has a happy ending.
(See above.)
What happened before that ending, however, was not quite so happy.
There was the steady stream of smoke spewing from the oven; there was the coughing. And then there was the glowering from Mike (who was doing the coughing).
But there was a lesson learned while making focaccia for the Bread Baker’s Apprentice challenge this week:
Don’t be so greedy — use less olive oil.