Earth oven potatoes, milcao chapaleles, and vegetables traditionally prepared in an earth oven. It has spread to the southern areas of Chile. Earth oven cooking is sometimes used for celebratory cooking in North Africa, particularly Morocco: a whole lamb is cooked in an earth oven (called a "tandir", etymologically related to the Central- and South-Asian tandoor and possibly descended from an Akkadian word "tinuru") in a manner similar to the Hawaiian kalua. Among Bedouin and Tuareg nomads, a simple earth oven is used – often when men travel without family or kitchen equipment in the desert. The oven is mostly used to
Oven probe to automatically shut the oven off when the food is completely cooked to the desired degree. Some ovens provide various aids to cleaning. "Continuous cleaning" ovens have the oven chamber coated with a catalytic surface that helps break down (oxidize) food splatters and spills over time. "Self-cleaning" ovens use pyrolytic decomposition (extreme heat) to oxidize dirt. Steam ovens may provide a wet-soak cycle to loosen dirt, allowing easier manual removal. In the absence of any special methods, chemical "oven cleaners" are sometimes used or just scrubbing. Outside the culinary world, ovens are used for a number of purposes. Oven