With a little sand, mud and kitty litter, you can make your own oven and start cooking in it in less than 24 hours. Check out the step by step instructions on how to use an earthen oven below:

The essential lessons involved in this video can be applied to make your oven as small or as large as you'd like. Our favorite quality of having an earthen oven on hand is that there will be far less smoke in your eyes as you cook your meal; that by itself makes this a worthwhile use of your time.

We'd like to thank Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. for this extremely useful lesson in lost skills.