How to build an Earthen Oven and Use it the Same Day! 

Build Your Own Earthen Oven www.townsends.us/products/build-your-earth-oven-bk576-p-1212

Your channel is such high quality. Whoever does your cinematography, editing, etc does an amazing job. It's so cool to see such production value in something so niche and particular

PBS wishes they could make series this good! The content, the presentation and the whole attitude is so professional that it draws you in even if the episode does not align with your particular interests. Kudos!!

I did it! I built one, on the ground. I named it Lumpy. It looks great I can't wait to use it, I did not have cotton fabric to use, so instead I used some large zucchini leaves for the top and it worked just fine. Also, once the leaves burned away, they left a cool imprint on the inner part of the oven.

It brings me joy to know that there are people like you out in the world making the world a better place. Thank you for all your work and I hope you continue your journey for a long time coming.

*Casually tells the time by the location of the sun* = Life goals!

What a great project for our Scouts! Can't wait to try this one out.

During the great trek by the boers from Cape to johannesburg they simply used the anthills. Just dig out the cave in the side of the termite mound and bake bread

You put those Naked and Afraid contestants to shame.

I've wanted one of these ovens for years! Seeing how simple you made this one, it may be a possibility for me after all! Thank you! ❤

I can't find the words to describe how utterly fascinating all of this is! I've recently been introduced to your channel, and I'm enjoying it immensely. Thank you so much for producing such interesting high-quality content!!!

That does it, this is now my spring project.

This is really terribly fascinating. It prompts one to think about how things we take for granted-like a hot oven at the ready..would take so much effort. Also, it’s fascinating that you can deconstruct the oven and pry the mud off and leave barely a trace. Just wonderful!

Here in Asheville, NC we've got a guy who built one on a trailer that he tows around. He makes the best thin crust pizza in town.

Whenever I watch bread being made like this.. it always looks more delicious than bread made in modern ovens.. i dont know why.

I always enjoy your stuff, great to see these traditional skills and techniques being kept going. Well done! you're doing a grand job. I also enjoy the pragmatism of using what you got. ( in your head and on your hands, so to speak)

Well done It took me two weeks B4 my clay oven was ready to cook in, building a wooden frame is a very good idea i used sand to get the shape then the clay over it n waited for days B4 it was dry enough to open it out get the sand out n slow fire it to dry, thanks for posting

Thank you so much Mr. Townsend. Your instructional video is so encouraging to build one myself after you. Thanks again!!

" I started this at 11 o'clock... It's now about... (looks at the sun) 3 o'clock. " Our friend has some mad skills. So glad I found your channel!

Love Tha't Oven💝When I, Was Ten Year's Old My Grandpa Made An Oven Just Like It But Bigger We Could Go Inside Cook & keep Warm In The Winter.

This will be a blessing to have in the wilderness. Quick and easy to build and you can bake bread and other bakeries. An essential tool in the wild.

Love your videos always find myself coming back to them with shared interest. Please keep up the great work and channel. The world needs more scholars like you good sir.

I love this channel so much, coming from RI and now living in Fl and looking for treasure for new 1715 Fleet. And setting up fort on an island. This is just makes it so much more interesting

Love your country ideas and Irish folk music! Me from Kolkata, India - the city of Mother Teresa.

this guys energy is just amazing i love it

Fantastic video and a great project!!! I belong to a medieval re-enactment group and our local branch puts on a weekend event over Columbus Day weekend each year; I think I'm gonna give this a go.

this is amazing. well shot, well explained and very HQ video + you both seem very nice and symphatic. awesome

I've watched many of your videos, but this was the first time that I'd seen you at a re-enactment event. I got a kick out of watching the kids craning their necks to watch you at work. Great to see their interest in history. Judging from their dark hair and complexions, some of the children were Native Americans.

love love love that you came .. keep up the good work . im in Indiana and glad i didnt have to go out of state . please come back

Once again John.. great video.. Thanks for all you guys do there. (double thumbs up)

Been going back through and watching the season playlists. So many great videos that i havent seen.

Loved it! Great job. You guys are creating incredible content.

Exactly what I have been looking for!! Thank you for the wonderful demonstrations!!!

this is awesome! i would love to see more videos at reenactments like this.

I love this video. We are building one at our house in preparation to one that we're building at our church with our kid's club - Finer Things and Tougher Things - I think the kids (and the adults!) will love the process!

Amazing. Thanks so much for responding. I appreciate your videos.

You inspired me and my friend. That are taking over a small island. In the Indian River Lagoon. To make an oven. We are so excited about building one of these oven. I can't wait

Your daughter is so beautiful and delightful. Thank you so much for sharing. She is your glory.

That was a very impressive build video.

I have used bran and water to seal my cracks on cook events. It seals up and acts like cement. Give it a shot some time, works well in a pinch.

It's so hard to wrap my mind around the idea that this was actually LIFE back then. If you wanted to bake bread, pie, etc, this is how you did it. It just seems like a quirky novel idea now. I've said this before, but I am SO glad I was born when I was.

Cool!!

I recently found your page. I love your cooking videos, but this one bakes the cake! Cheers to your camera man!

Awesome! I have got to try building an earth oven. Thanks for the tutorials.

Great as always! I haven’t seen a single bad episode!

That bread couldn't have looked better! I can't even master homemade bread with all the modern amenities! Great job!

A secondary perk to lining your door with extra dough, when the dough around the door is done, so is your bread inside.

I love all your videos but I especially love the ones about the cob ovens. Thanks alot!

dang a bunch of roughin it, this guy is livin it up old school!! I love this channel!

This I will build, beautiful guide . Will bake bread for my kids😀 Thanks for this simple guide.

a wet towel on the door makes a good seal and adds moisture for the early part of the bake. It took me half a summer to make mine and moved several years later. The new owners weren't into it and the oven went back into the field it (mostly) came out of.

Great project for a family to do on a weekend! Kids love making handmade things!!!!!!!!

This is a great video I'm saving this one...

Wonderful tips, would never have thought of sealing the door with bread dough.

Oh, yum! My mouth is watering! I had no idea building a simple oven like that could be so easy! You least you make it look easy!

That was REALLY cool!

That looks like SO much fun!

Thanks! So glad I discovered you!

I love this channel...real basics...and we'll presented. Thanks

Love your channel, really into 18 th century stuff, love those earthen ovens

Man.... I love this. I'll be making my own earthen oven. Thanks!

Amazing! My mouth was watering!!!

Best thing about this channel is the hats

This is so cool. Would be awesome to build one of these on a camping trip!

Seeing you go from bare hands earth and fire to bread out in the middle of nowhere makes me think I should stop being lazy and make some in my modern oven

Great quality content! Thank you!

You guys are just awesome! Yeah so he made an oven, then he made an extra one, you know, just because. How cool are these people? Very Cool!

We are going to do it this spring! Great video

An earthen oven is one of those things I've always meant to make but have never gotten around to. I've cooked meat (usually freshly caught fish) wrapped in clay and buried in embers while camping but I'd love an earthen oven in my yard to bake in, because, well... I think anyone who's a fan of this channel would know why and understand! I think I'll make this my Spring or Summer (depending on when the weather is amenable) project for this year. I'm looking forward to squelching the mix to make it, to be honest - I know my grandson and I would both love that part!

Just did my this weekend at old fort de la chartres came out good thanks jas townsend and sons

Now we need your bread recipe 😋

blooming brilliant gentlemen..!!! Robert. from England UK

Excellent, I want to try making one in my backyard.

Great info! Love it,thank you.

Your video entitled, "How to build an Earthen Oven and Use it the Same Day!" showed up in my feed so I gave it a go as it was inline with what I normally watch. I found your video to be well presented and free of the stammering, wild tangents and repetitive drivel that many other folks post. You presented great material in a manner consistent with everyday conversation and I appreciate both you and your instruction. So much, in fact, that I Liked and Subscribed immediately following your presentation. I'll be watching your other videos, and look forward to new material in the future. Great job!

I love your channel. There is an old cavalry fort from the 1860's named Fort Churchill. Re-enactors show what life was like for the old troopers. Many of the original buildings are somewhat intact. The setting would be perfect for you. Fort Churchill, Nevada. Thank you for the history.

Really good work! Keep it up, thanks for sharing!!!!

Beautiful! I have had intentions to build a cob oven for years. You make this look so simple! I wish it wasn't so close to winter. :( I am doing this next spring for sure. I loved the table and the list of materials. Thanks for a great video, like always! Oh....the bread looked incredible.

This man is a builder.

Excellent. Love the bread dough gasket.

Thanks for that. Great information.

My mouth is watering looking at that bread.

Another great video!

In the early 1980s, my family was invited to a family home for the inaugural baking of a meal in a newly built outdoor mud oven. This took place in Northern Argentina in the province of Salta. The oven was a fairly large. I drew out a diagram of how it was done so my husband could build one for me. I still don't have one... yet. I still have the diagram. They did not seal the door. Instead, they had a large piece of flat metal, probably something taken off an old vehicle and flattened. They place that in front of the opening. My guess is that it reflected the heat back into the oven. That day they baked bread, a large fish whole with the cleaned out cavity filled with onions, peppers, tomatoes and other stuff, a head of what I thought was a horse, but later learned it was a cow's head. (The idea of a horse head shocked me since I am from Kentucky, land of beautiful horses and fast women.) I don't like fish so I ate enough to be polite. The cow head was delicious. The bread was heavy and dry, but I like it. It was a very wonderful day and your post reminded me that I need to get my diagram out and get my husband busy. Thank you. PS: My first daughter was born in Goshen in 1971.

Can't like this video enough!!

Seeing the kids watching has me thinking how much my youngest would love to see something like this. She is a history buff like me.

pretty darn cool!

Rocking a sweet gyuto when sharing the butter!

Kudos to the guy who made the bread, too!!!!

wow! I'm impressed! you nailed it

Watching in March 2021. Amazing ! I will do in my house ! (from Fio de janeiro- Brazil). Congrats !

A very cool and informative video, Loved it !! Subscribing now.

Amazing! :O

wow! you guys just really made me hungry!

I really favor this look on you (the outfit you're wearing in the intro). It suits you well.

great job! now I'll have to try it

That's just awesome.

Great job. Excellent

1. I think facial hair on Kevin shows a more becoming character on him. 2. I really love this video. I would very much enjoy more like this. Thank you!

Love the vid. I was plannin on makin myself a cooking oven at home, now I think im gonna make it with some clay instead of metal