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 temperatures Oven temperatures Common oven temperatures (such as terms: cool oven, normal oven, slow oven, moderate oven, hot oven, etc.) are set to control the effects of baking in an oven, for various lengths of time. The various standard phrases to describe oven temperatures include words such as "cool" to "hot" or "very slow" to "fast". For example, a "cool oven" has temperature set to 90°C (200°F), and a "slow oven" has a temperature range from 150°C. A "moderate oven" has a range of 180–190°C and a "hot oven" has temperature set to 195–225°C. A "fast oven" has a range of