Primitive Clay Mud Oven | The Forest Kitchen | Off Grid Log Cabin Build, Ep.10 S1

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In this episode of the forest kitchen, I make a primitive earthen oven for pizza and bread baking using mud, a adobe mixture of clay, sand and grass knows as cobb or cob - primitive technology. The outdoor kitchen at the off grid log cabin is just about ready to start using for all of my meals, from grilling on the barbecue and frying on the rocket stove to baking in the oven, I can cook full meals, process wild game and fish and wild edibles that I harvest from the surrounding wilderness. In episode 11 next week, I build the roof over the primitive oven and shingle it with cedar shingles, and start hollowing out the earthen oven, removing the sand form.

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Video Transcription

(crunching)

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(rain pouring)

(hammering)

(hammering)

(grass ripping)

(roots tearing)

(bugs chirping)

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(birds chirping)

- What was that, grouse? So those were ruffed grouse that Cali just put up. They're a family of young ones, just barely started flying by the looks of it, so I think I saw six of them take off, which means that come this fall, there'll be a few birds that we can harvest, that's basically a chicken from the woods, that's what I'll be harvesting instead of raising chickens around here. So I can shoot five of those a day, but there just wouldn't be that many around here, and I wouldn't want to harvest all of the grouse off of this property, so what I'll typically do is take a couple from here, and then I'll walk half a mile, find some other ones, and shoot them there as well, so I can get enough protein and fat if I wait till later in the season when they have some fat on them, and it's a great meal or two that I can from one bird, and Cali is fanatical about bird hunting, which is what she's bred for, and what I've been training her for, so we will definitely be harvesting some grouse this fall. (scraping)

(rocks tumbling)

So we're in the mid 20's, so like 70 ish, 75? But it's so humid, it's like 100% humidity out here, and it feels like 35 Celsius, which is close to 100 in Fahrenheit, so we're kinda feeling the heat today with no breeze yet. With no wind yet, it's just you sweat, and it just doesn't evaporate, it's brutal, but it's one of those weeks where we're getting some cool weather, well not cool weather, we're getting cloudy weather instead of intense heat, but we have these forest fires burning all over the province clear to the west and east of here that could really use the rain to dose. Problem with this kind of weather, you get these thunder storms and not enough rain, so the lightning actually ignites new fires, yet there's not enough rain to put them out. So a bit of a crisis here. Now it's supposed to rain enough to lift the fire ban, and it has in a lot of areas, so that's good news. (scraping)

(water splashing)

What are you doing? Silly dog

(grass ripping)

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So you want to make sure that this is consistently mixed. So you shouldn't see pockets of sand or pockets of clay, the sand and clay are slightly different colors, so you can tell. This is a little loose, a little wet, so we need to add a little bit more sand and clay to stiffen this batch up a little bit. This humidity's building up and it's starting to thunder, so should be interesting to see how severe this storm we get, but I'm gonna try to collect the water, so I don't have to keep going back down to the stream to replenish. (wind blowing)

(scraping)

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(cardboard ripping)

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(paper ripping)

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(door creaking)

(liquid pouring)

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(sizzling)

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(sizzling)

(scraping)

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(grass crunching)

(squishing)

(rain pouring)

Come in?

Come on in. Come on in. Come out of the rain, pup. (rain pouring)

I'm gonna wrap this video up, I'm just having too much of a hard time dealing with the weather. Every time I get back outside and start up again, it starts raining. And if I was doing something different I wouldn't mind so much, but because I'm trying to finish off the second layer of cob on the oven, the cob keeps getting too saturated with water, and it doesn't, it just keeps sagging, and it'll crack actually. So I need it to be a little bit dryer. So what I'll do is I think I'll tarp this over, let it rest for a couple of days, we got showers again tomorrow, and maybe a couple days from now, once the sun comes back out, dries that out, I can finish that second layer. I'm actually gonna take a couple days away from the cabin, Oh Cali, you have to drink right now? (dog lapping up water) So last night I found out that my great aunt passed away a couple of days ago, so my mother's father's sister, and she was a pretty special woman, family was very close to her. She only lived about half an hour away from where I raised my kids, so got to see her relatively often, but not often enough. I think she was 95 or 98 when she passed away, so she had a good, long life, and she just one of those people that was so joyous, so full of energy and right up until the end, she was just the life of the party. Just one of those people that would do just about anything for a good time, so she was a very special person. We're all gonna miss her. So probably going to go and visit my parents and console my mother, I'm sure she's feeling the impact. I know that's going to be another chapter in my mother's life coming to a close. You know, it's a reminder to spend as much time with the people you love as you can, because even though she lived fairly close, I only saw her basically when my mother got the family together. You know, I was really fond of Gloria, and she was one of those people I wish I'd spent more time with, and ironically, when I posted that video last week, I show a bunch of clips of Georgian Bay, and some clips of Killbear Provincial Park, which is on the eastern shoreline of Georgian Bay, just north of Parry Sound, and I said it's one of my favorite places in the world, and ironically it was one of hers as well. In fact, her husband's ashes were spread there about 15 years ago, because that was their favorite place to spend time together, and I always meant to bring Gloria there, we actually kept her boat up nearby Killbear Marina for a couple years, eight or nine years ago, and never had her up to the boat, never went to Killbear. I've never been to the park with her, and it's one of those things I always meant to do, and now I don't have the opportunity, so. So I do regret that. And like I said, it's just a reminder to spend more time with your family, your loved ones, so I'm gonna take this opportunity to go down and spend some time with my parents. So thanks for watching this, everybody. I really appreciate it, look forward to seeing you here at the cabin next week when I finish off the cob oven and put a roof over top of it. (soft music)

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