Primitive Cooking: Clay Baked Sweet Potato (episode s2.05)

Before teflon, before stainless steel cookware, and before microwaves primitive people used much different techniques to prepare their favorite foods to eat. In this video I share my favorite method to bake sweet potatoes in the wilderness.
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[@ladyofthemasque]

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[@XaLoiVlog]

With this method of baking, the potatoes are both cooked according to the baking method and also cooked according to the cooking method. Potatoes will be delicious in both ways combined. Chad Zuber's style has influenced me positively. I adore you. Don't make fun of me. Always support Chad. added: a lot of people in my area know Chad, I showed them a video and got to know a legendary Chad Zuber.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I hope it’s been a positive influence. Thank you so much.

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[@purge2--u--nite342]

Much ❤️ brother. Took a hike this morning 🌄 and it was so calming the being in solitude. Now it's noisy 😑

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Nothing like solitude and silence

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

Happy Turkey Day @Chad Zuber Even if it is in the dirt a Man can be happy on a Holiday. If he is true at heart and loves the Earth. God Bless

[@ameeruddinsyed3858]

When I am small, in my beautiful village,we used to keep sweet potatoes in hot coals directly. Although some of it burnt it used to be with smooth texture with soothing aroma... Good Old ❤️Days❤️... Gracias to Almighty Allah for showing me your video. It's been a pleasure to be grateful for... May Almighty Allah bless you with all good and guidance...

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I used to cook them in ashes too but this method in clay works better for me.

[@alberto.mascetti]

Well, i have to say, i'll try this next time i'm out in the woods! where i live we do not have sweet potatoes but we have the white and yellow ones! i'll try to put carrots with potatoes in the clay soil, maybe some salt... this video sparked my immagination! thank you kind sir!

[@tribemaster101]

italiano?

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yeah, just start experimenting. You'll like it.

[@markgibsons_SWpottery]

I like watching Zube Tube, this guy makes all kinds of great things. Beer, Tea, Food, and most importantly life! Thanks for the culinary lesson. I will most likely use this some day! Good video, man!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Do some wild cooking and enjoy!

[@annetteP._]

That‘s right! I try catch a little bit of freedom with cooking in my loved dutch oven. ❤️

[@OFFICERMMviewsyearsago]

You can also cook it in hot ash,I cook it like this on my farm, first cook it well in ash then clean the ash with a cloth in the end you will get delicious sweet potato which will be soft from inside outside It will be crunchy.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yes, I've done it that way too but I found it easier to get it right if I cover it in mud.

[@jamesdurstine8892]

One of the few that gets back to many Comments. THAN-Q CHAD MORE CROWMAN PEACE EVERYONE ✌️

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Peace to you

[@kellyreilly7782]

Thank you so much for this video! Enjoy watching you make tools, cook food and enjoy the outdoors Your Way!!! Happy Thanksgiving!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Happy Thanksgiving to you too

[@missindu5388]

iam from India... big fan .. 🥰🥰🥰💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@IllumTheMessage]

Great idea. I may try wrapping a fish in banana leaf, then mud, then coal bake it.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

That would be great!

[@gracecastilloarroyo2340]

Ese método de cocinar el camote me gustó he comido pescado envuelto en hojas y en un hueco en la arena yo no lo hice pero un señor lo cosino para nosotros Es bueno porque lo saca de apuros a uno si le gusta ir a acampar gracias Chad por compartir saludos cordiales y cuide de tu salud Pura Vida 🇨🇷🌎🌴

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Sí, la verdad, da un sabor rico a la comida. Y es una técnica muy práctica.

[@gracecastilloarroyo2340]

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[@TaterFarmer]

Happy thanksgiving Chad and everyone.

[@Alehyn666]

been saving this one before bed, love all of your video, best "survival" channel on youtube, our ancestor would be proud, thank you a thousand times for everything you accomplish on camera for us the homeviewers, all of the best wishes, good health and years of freedom *wink* *wink*

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thank you so much! Sleep well.

[@davidstevenrioslara348]

Ese hombre es un genio!!!

[@markgibsons_SWpottery]

yes this guy is a genius!

[@WildLastFrontier]

I always enjoy your pottery! Thanks for another great video.

[@koeungbuilding]

me too i really like

[@TimmyVision]

It must be sooo carm being out there! Being in woodland would be beautiful but where you are, it's so open and quiet that it must feel great just standing in the open

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I love the silence out here.

[@slimshadyshady510]

Thank you for the excellent content

[@misanthropik6070]

I thought the movie was the end. This man is a legit caveman now. Cheers

[@emesereti7424]

I wish you a good appetite for the delicious baked sweet potatoes. I also really like sweet potatoes baked in their skins.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

So good

[@FrozenHawkHunter]

There is something about cooking over an open fire I will never get tired of. Making T-bones later over the fire if the wet wood catches. Possibly potatoes as well though at the rate the fire is burning it would be midnight before they are cooked. Anyways HAPPY THANKSGIVING .

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yummy! Open fire cooking embarks a wonderful aroma to the food.

[@igamer7380]

Chad, looking at that feathers you've collected there. Have you ever though about making an bow and arrows? I mean, using stone shards as the tip, feathers as the tail, all glued in with ambar or something like sap. It could be useful for hunting rabbits, little rodents or even wild pigs, something meaty.

[@kuyaemil2494]

Always watching your videos.. From Philippines 🤗

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thank youuuuuu

[@mukhtiarsingh2152]

Very nice video and healthy food

[@3rgoflix]

Thank you for enabling subtitles. That helps me alot. I wish you a nice Advent season.

[@nathanclark3575]

Fun tip... Once thing you cook in mud like that is cooked- especially if its in clay and fully sealed you can store it for a good while and it won't go bad as there is no oxygen and no microorganisms that can rot or ferment anything. Chad I think you would appreciate the cooking of Francis Malman. He's from Argentina and focuses on all the various ways you can cook using fire.

[@lindaseel9986]

If you are always digging in the mud, that is the little kid in you coming out! All kids love to make mud pies, but yours are actually edible. Fuiyoh! 😄😄😄

[@ranndomundead9112]

you know, id bet theres a way to make a somewhat reliable hourglass of sorts out of clay to track time

[@valentine_puppy]

Happy Thanksgiving Chad!! 🦃🦃🦃

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Happy Thanksgiving to you too

[@rahabwachira5979]

Now plant grass and flowers to make your hut beautiful and somewhere for you to relax after a long day... like a bench made of clay☺️👌

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I will do that but not yet. Winter is here and flowers will not grow now.

[@anfieldReginaSports]

perfect life.. Real life is to enjoy it..😍😍👍👍

[@CrazyJay888]

Happy Thanksgiving Chad one of my fav KZbinrs Thanks for sharing with us your adventures man,cant wait to see what's next in the future

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thanks a lot. Happy Thanksgiving.

[@gridinnozmu4358]

Acá en Chile le llamamos camotes,Se hacen unos dulces,Me encanta este tubérculo. Muy buen método de cocción Chad 😋💪💪🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Sí, son camotes en español. Deliciosos.

[@BlackFlowBR]

Have you ever tried making traps to capture birds? I think it would be great content for the channel.🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@Nerathul1]

Unfortunately that's most likely illegal

[@BlackFlowBR]

@@Nerathul1 In some places the killing of certain animals is illegal, but capturing is not illegal. I don't know if capture is illegal where he is, even if he releases the bird.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I doubt it would work but I could try.

[@BlackFlowBR]

@@ChadZuberAdventures There is an extremely easy to make used in Brazil called Arapuca.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yes, the same kind was made here as well.

[@henryziegler6405]

cant wait to see what those mysterious round clay things are for

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

You all will know in the near future.

[@gillessellier9314]

Buen provecho! Y gracias por la receta

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Gracias

[@4wdboss230]

Looks delicious. Happy Thanksgiving Sir. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Happy Thanksgiving

[@aidasoto2936]

The feathers 🪶 beautiful treasure

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

They really are.

[@moranmike36]

Excellent! Many thanks!

[@dooarslifewithkunal3404]

Oh I was missing your videos sir, ❤️

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Welcome back!

[@3xjavier108]

you can cook sweet potate and use brown sugar to give it a nice and sweet flavour! in México we call it "Camote enmileado"

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Too sweet for me. Sugar messes me up.

[@jorgegallegomoreno5929]

Muy buen vídeo!!, por cierto, estoy deseando saber que trabajos realizarás con las plumas!!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Estoy pensando....

[@diydarkmatter]

happy thanks giving brother

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Happy Thanksgiving to you too

[@gogetta3386]

Sweet potato is my fav....ur technique seems taste enhancer

[@deannawongst2032]

We always do that after we're done cooking our meals.actually,we just bury the sweet potato under the remaining coal and ember and they cook perfectly fine.the smoky flavor taste gives additional texture

[@devinmcgroot7560]

yep thats what u do with ptoatoes

[@coryrouse969]

Bloody good cook as well eh!. Thank you!

[@yazabdel2203]

Best example of how to live a healthy life yet not cut ties with technology

[@TheOnlyKirby90210]

We're still rooting for you to capture those fish, Chad!

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Бро ты лучший 👍 смотрю тебя 2 года, и всегда с нетерпением жду твоих прекрасных видео 😌 продолжай в том же духе, я верю в тебя брат✊🏼

[@rinokrui2758]

Ya saya suka dengan cara kamu memasak ubi jalar 😍

[@Mimirai]

Great video, I love your content so much. The only primitive channel that feels so authentic... Makes me wanna do the same, but sadly there aren't really any places in my country where there is so much straight up wildlife, or where I can post up a camp like this... Also, if not for the fact that you've made a water filter already, I'd have thought you'd be using those two pots with holes for a water filter. They do look a bit like they might be plant pots though... Can't wait to see what you're gonna make with them in a future video, no doubt will I be surprised!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yeah, you might be surprised.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

This was another awesome video. I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving. Cheers, Chad! 👍👍✌️

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Happy Thanksgiving to you too

[@hugosofyan]

🤤🤤It looks so delicious, sweet potato is one of my favorite foods

[@3rgoflix]

Süßkartoffel Pommes. 😋

[@Righteous1ist]

Sweet potatoes are so good

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yes they are!

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

If you have a shallow pottery bowl or large pot shards, or cast iron Dutch oven to cover the potatoes with, it will cook faster and more evenly. At least, regular potatoes will. I assume sweet potatoes would be the same. Btw… I know you’re not using cast iron in your camp, but just for future reference, it works great!🐝❤️🤗

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I've used cast iron in the past and honestly, I prefer my clay cookware. Cast iron is difficult to clean and requires special care while my cookware is easier to clean and requires no special care.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

@@ChadZuberAdventures true, cast iron takes looking after. The pottery bowl or pieces would work just as well. Just put your potatoes covered in mud on the coals and invert a bowl over them. It makes a little oven and things cook faster. You can use the shards if you’re worried about your bowl…. Just a thought🐝❤️🤗

[@valereleray2903]

Nice man, sweet potatoe is the best thing

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

It's pretty good. Quite satisfying.

[@valereleray2903]

@@ChadZuberAdventures You also can eat it raw when you're in a rush

[@theidahotraveler]

had to watch buddy. just starting it

[@wanbushcraft]

Amazing

[@Tekmirion]

Buenos Dias, Buenos Zeus Chad! Well done!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Buenas noches!

[@panicpills1777]

You should dry the skins in the sun and carry them around as a vitamin rich snack, used to do something similar with the left over skins in the Dutch oven on Hiking camp outs

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I don't eat the skins when prepared this way because they inevitably get tiny stones stuck on them from the mud and I don't want to chip any more teeth.

[@brutpenta]

Mmm. Bellissimo

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Chad 🧡

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

You are first!!

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[@MrBottlecapBill]

Awesome and a great way to cook if you have little else available. I would only add that in a survival situation........eating the skins of your root vegetables and fruits is important as that's where the majority of the vitamins and minerals are usually located. Not a big deal if you're not in a real survival situation however so bake away!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I normally eat the skins when steamed in a pot but when prepared this way they inevitably get sand stuck in them and that can be a problem and cause chipped teeth. Peeling the skin off ensures that there is no sand on your food.

[@jamesdurstine8892]

Just had sweet potatoe gobs at my sister's. And in the pan with brown sugar Chad don't need aluminum foil.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

It’s better with dirt! Hahaha

[@purplemonkeycrazy]

Sorry for a super late post but I’ve been thinking of your door and I thought and it’s just a suggestion If you make your front door where it opens up and down instead of like a regular door then when u open it you can prop it up to open for air flow in the summer you’ll have a front roof/door that can be angled in different positions to regulate the air flow but when it’s down then gravity will hold it closed

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

That's how I made the first door on my first hut. It worked good enough. I think I'm going to need a winter door and a summer door. The current door is great for the summer but doesn't provide enough insulation for the winter. I need a pretty heavy door for the winter.

[@denishrovat3464]

I like this video

[@catia42]

Parabéns vídeo maravilhoso!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Obrigado

[@kaeyasimp3918]

only just found ur channel and i LOVE that you add text, the other primitive youtubers i find just build stuff, dont talk dont interact with the viewer and thats it but i love how you actually interact with the viewer and omg the feather treasure box makes my magpie brain want it

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thanks a lot! I'm glad you appreciate the effort I put into these videos. Yeah, if you watch the beginning of this series that little treasure box started out as my travel food box. After the food was gone I started collecting things in it.

[@kaeyasimp3918]

@@ChadZuberAdventures I'll probably binge all your videos 😁

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If anyone see my comment..I think you like calmness..bcs these mans video's gaves some undescribable positive. feelings..so say a hai to me if this seems someone 😊

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Hi

[@sebastianprasad3836]

@@ChadZuberAdventures I am greatfull for your reply ..thankyou..god bless you and see you.in. another time.. .... .. Sebastian

[@HRavenfolks]

never clicked so fast in my life

[@Bruno-Lefty]

Good 👍

[@oolioreki2063]

I want to see Chad cooking a chicken with This Method ... Clay and Chicken

[@Blessed_Sound]

In the future if it’s apart of your plan, it would be cool to see a duo with your primitive significant other.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I don’t have a primitive significant other

[@Blessed_Sound]

@@ChadZuberAdventures if it’s something you desire, I pray someone with your same passion for the outdoors will come along.

[@comesee6076]

Eat how many fruits a day?😀

[@user-kr3ek7rx9m]

잘보고 갑니다.

[@Shadow-lk3di]

Nice

[@calicocat6571]

I was happy to watch you cook one of my favourite vegetables in this ancient way, Chad. One of my friends say it is actually not a potato but a root vegetable. Can you grow it out there?

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

A potato is a root vegetable too….. I don’t think it will grow out here. The winner is too cold.

[@christopherconaway3549]

chad. do you ever plan on doing any primitive metallurgy like making a copper tools and such?

[@Nerathul1]

The chances of him finding any native copper deposit would be near zero, and it would sort of defeat the point to just buy ingots and bring them in.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Have to find the material first

[@christopherconaway3549]

@@ChadZuberAdventures that is fair. i figured you could "trade with some neighbors for a hunk of copper" but i do like how you only work with what you have around you too. either way keep up the great work :)

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thanks

[@imgroot595]

When you said you cook the gish before with mud ifeel like i seen it before on your video hahahaha

[@kekipark77]

very nice

[@joehaefeker1755]

Happy Thanksgiving Chad Zuber!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

[@sleepyfrank6359]

Hm.. I'm curious, I wonder what one can make using the feathers you've collected.

[@acadacad1]

Happy Thanksgiving, Chad.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Happy Thanksgiving

[@worldwarwitt2760]

Can you make a clay convection oven? Like make a pot in a pot, and put the fire on the outside. He air gap between the two pots should allow it not to burn, right?

[@orangerightgold7512]

hey cool content man.

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Heeeyyy👏👏👏

[@me_caveman2540]

You should consider making an stone or bone Adze it will help you a lot with digging and woodwork.

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🔥🔥🔥

[@malikshakeel6739]

You Genius

[@aidasoto2936]

Buen provecho!!! Your videos are very important right now that's for share. There is "bien poquito petroleo" no oil no gas no gasoline no power no electric power. SUPER THANK YOU FOR SHARE Distinguish

[@aidasoto2936]

I want to see the video to cook fish 🐟

[@aidasoto2936]

Superliked 👍

[@aidasoto2936]

Superliked 👍 ⭐️

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thanks. I will make more cooking vidoes.

[@weirdboy6821]

at my place we call sweet potatoes is UBI STELO:)

[@aangtbrkulibangunan4762]

Greetings from Indonesia, there are sweet potatoes too

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Greetings to you too

[@jejak_anak_camping]

Halo i come from Indonesia 👋🇲🇨

[@malarapollus8127]

This is actually much better than those Gordon Ramsey videos lmao

[@MKTJ03]

Hi Chad! I have been your subscriber since 2021. Watching you trying to reignite fires by blowing, I always wanted to suggest using some sort of a pipe with an internal diameter of about 1 cm. I use this method at home when I cook in the fireplace. It is so much easier this way.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yes, it is much easier. I have a piece of giant cane that I use for that purpose.

[@MKTJ03]

@@ChadZuberAdventures oh, okay. My grandfather showed me this, and I've been showing this to others too 😄

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thanks

[@baldieman64]

Sweet potatoes from the tropical Americas, alongside African bottle gourds. Even if we disregard the centuries of selective breeding required to get tubers of this size, there are a lot of benefits of modernity in this "primitive" video.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Name one

[@baldieman64]

@@ChadZuberAdventures Seriously dude? I already pointed out that you are reaping the benefits of "The Columbian Exchange" and generations of selective breeding. You presumably bought the sweet potatoes in a shop, rather than growing them yourself, so they will have benefitted from fertilizers created using "The Haber-Bosch process", as well as modern organophosphate pesticides, mechanical harvesting technology, road transport and temperature controlled storage. Just because the technology is hidden, doesn't mean it's not there.

[@deivalifestyle]

Olá amigo, seus vídeos são muito bons. Gosto assistir 📺 Abraços aqui do Brasil 🙂🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@streetscienceofficial8675]

Obrigado senorita

[@cjschoenclark5132]

I do this when I catch fish, I like to add hemlock tips and licorice fern into the cavity of the fish. The fish absorbs the flavors of both! hemlock - conifer tree not nightshade

[@EpanChannel]

I Usually Burn It On top of a fire without clay. it will appear slight charred on the outside. but its easier to determine its already cooked or not. or you can just boil it. i think you can do it with the equipment you have right now chad. anyway Nice Video And Thanks I Really Enjoy it every time :D 😁😁