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Earth oven. A Samoan 'umu at the early stage of heating the rocks. An earth oven, ground oven or cooking pit is one of the simplest and most ancient cooking structures. The earliest known earth oven was discovered in Central Europe and dated to 29,000 BC. [1] At its most basic, an earth oven is a pit in the ground used to trap heat and bake ...
Clay oven. The primitive clay oven, or earthen oven / cob oven, has been used since ancient times by diverse cultures and societies, primarily for, but not exclusive to, baking before the invention of cast-iron stoves, and gas and electric ovens. The general build and shape of clay ovens were, mostly, common to all peoples, with only slight ...
Burying the pibipollos, in Campeche. Pib (in Spanish) or píib (in Yucatec Mayan; in both cases pronounced as peeb ), is a typical earth oven of the Yucatán peninsula, in Mexico. This technique probably has a pre-Hispanic origin. [ 1] It consists of digging a hole, lighting a stove with firewood and stones, and cooking the food (traditionally ...
An oven is a tool which is used to expose materials to a hot environment. Ovens contain a hollow chamber and provide a means of heating the chamber in a controlled way. [1] In use since antiquity, they have been used to accomplish a wide variety of tasks requiring controlled heating. [2] Because they are used for a variety of purposes, there ...
Hāngī. Hāngī (Māori: [ˈhaːŋiː]) is a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven, called an umu. [1] It is still used for large groups on special occasions, as it allows large quantities of food to be cooked without the need for commercial cooking appliances. [2]
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Pascuense cuisine, otherwise known as Easter Island cuisine or Rapa Nui cuisine incorporates the influences of the indigenous Rapa Nui people and Latin America. Notable ingredients include seafood such as fish, octopus (heke), eel, sea snails (pipi) and crustaceans (), as well as sweet potato, taro, banana, pineapple, coconut, pumpkin, and poultry, pork and lamb meat.
Pit barbecue is a method and/or apparatus for barbecue cooking meat and root vegetables buried below ground. Indigenous peoples around the world used earth ovens for thousands of years. In modern times the term and activity is often associated with the Eastern Seaboard, the "barbecue belt", colonial California in the United States and Mexico.