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
Earth oven Dorset. Examples from these periods vary in form but are generally bowl-shaped and shallow in depth (30–45 cm) with diameters between 0.5 and 2 metres. Exceptions do exist, such as the Irish Fulacht fiadh in common use up to the Middle Ages. In Greek cuisine, there is also a tradition of "kleftiko" ("thief style") dishes, ascribed to anti-Turkish partisans during the Greek War of Independence, which involve wrapping the food in clay and cooking it in a covered pit, allegedly at first to avoid detection by Turkish forces. Earth oven An earth oven, ground oven or cooking pit is one