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.
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!!
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.
not too hard, actually. at arm's length, the average person's hand width is approx an hour of movement up from the horizon. (each finger width is /about/ 15 minutes) once you get used to measuring it that way, you'll learn to guesstimate it pretty quickly with just a glance. google 'old ways of telling time' and you'll see some interesting methods.
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
What does he charge for his pizzas? Each? I saw this done a few months ago, and have concedered doing this too with my food truck... I'm just not sure how much to charge for a pizza ... Thank you for your help.
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!!!
Platzhallter bread is proto civilizational. When early man stumbled into the fertile crescent and found fields of the major grains we know today stretching from Cairo to the black sea, use and preservation of those seeds was what allowed settlement and ultimately civilization. Pulverized seeds, mixed with water and cooked on a rock in a camp fire. It's ubiquitous in humanity. Refined over 15,000 thousand years.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Takes time, patience and trial and error. And there's is nothing to be ashamed of using a bread mix in a bread machine. My sister makes her own bread and that's how she learnt, getting used to the process in the bread machine, experimenting with recipoes and finding ones that worked for her.. She still prefers using it to knead & rise the dough as she has joint problems so kneading gets painful.
As America implodes, economically and politically, socially and culturally, I watch this and think there is something good and wholesome left over. Live simply. Enjoy the basics. As these guys do.
Grand Solar Minimum, too. Those who prep up in ALL ways/ items now and can live off-grid will be 99% ahead of the world's population. Choose your GSM location wisely. All the best.
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!
If I said it once I've said it a hundred times. Les Straud has met his match. Fantastic . While Les is out looking for wild berries Jon has an oven made and is baking bread. Thanks for sharing.
That's because Jon already has easy access to flour and water because this video has nothing to do with wilderness survival. Making a statement like this once is stupid enough, I wouldn't go around bragging about making it a hundred times.
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
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)
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.
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!
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
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.
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 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.
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!
That's great Jon. I have wondered about doing something similar at our civil war reenactments. What better than preparation of food. After all live in the army was more than muskets and cannon. Just maybe it might slow down the nay sayers who will ask " your not really going to eat that are you?". Yes we are. lol
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.
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.
Your comment about it being a bit too cold for proper proofing of the bread got me thinking. Adding a narrow 'addition' to the outside of the oven that would stay warm from the oven's prep fire heat, but not too warm, would be ideal for dough to rise. Now I want to build one to test my theory.
I want to give my first reaction at 0:40 with the idea of building an oven and baking in it the same day! At first, it seemed ludicrous however as I paused to write this I thought to myself - well it depends on the criteria for the oven, right?! Remember, I stopped at 0:40! First I thought - ok, well how long does it need to last, how permanent? And how much stuff are we going to cook in it, and WHAT stuff? Just loaves? Tall/thick loaves - or flats/rounds? And what do we have available to generate the heat?! It was then that I realized how interested I was in the subject, and that none of -MY- answers mattered! :-) LOL I've done my own share of mountain-side cooking and bread was a favorite, but obviously I am nowhere near as knowledgeable about the HISTORICAL aspect of this topic as YOU good people are! I will say this - I am l very much looking forward to the next 10:30 of this video - and want to give a big THANK YOU. These are the kind of videos that lift a person up and that remind me about the things I have learned in life that are of value to me, contrasted to those things that clutter my brain which are of lesser value (I will add only that I have spent far too many waking hours of the last 35yrs of my life developing software, and looking back over that time realize that the time I have spent learning how to live in harmony with nature is the most valuable - so videos like these that you create, obviously hit a very deep loud note for me ;-) thank you)
I WONDER, ABOUT SEALING THE CRACKS ON TOP WITH THE FLOUR/WATER DOUGH? VERY CLEVER. YOUR VIDEOS ARE VERY EDUCATIONAL AND A LOT OF FUN. GREAT FOR DEN MOTHERS OF CUB SCOUTS AND GIRL SCOUTS . THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I think I prefer the idea (being a total novice)....at least of the idea of a wooden core rather than sand. I suppose it depends upon the availability of both materials a the time. With a pile of sand on hand I would probably use it....but wood being combustible, seems like an advantage in the process. I suppose the drying characteristics would vary some, so that might also play a part in the decision to use one over the other. Excellent video[s] !!
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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.
Im going to do it next week too such an amazing channel to learn things like this
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
Jiggy Wiggy ASMR wait this guy has so many suvs
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!!
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!
not too hard, actually. at arm's length, the average person's hand width is approx an hour of movement up from the horizon. (each finger width is /about/ 15 minutes) once you get used to measuring it that way, you'll learn to guesstimate it pretty quickly with just a glance.
google 'old ways of telling time' and you'll see some interesting methods.
Get good, learn to tell time by looking at the moon (it is possible!)
used to blow my friend's mind by telling time by my shadow.
And the night sky is a big 24 hour clock, the big dipper acts as a hand.
Boy Scouts 101
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
What a great project for our Scouts! Can't wait to try this one out.
how did it go?
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! ❤
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.
I've had a pizza just like that somewhere west of Raleigh, wonder if it was the same guy
What does he charge for his pizzas? Each?
I saw this done a few months ago, and have concedered doing this too with my food truck... I'm just not sure how much to charge for a pizza ...
Thank you for your help.
About how many pizzas does he do per baking?
STFDOOR! Can you please send him to Colorado Springs?! And I miss OBX. Camp Lejeune vet family here 👋🤩🥰
Really? I'm from Greensboro but if someone knows his business name id totally grab some next time im out there
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!!!
Whenever I watch bread being made like this.. it always looks more delicious than bread made in modern ovens.. i dont know why.
imagine cooking a rice in a pot vs rice in a modern utensil
Platzhallter Yes, the bread is wonderful in Deutschland. Though I was told that the Germans learned to make bread from the French.
Platzhallter bread is proto civilizational. When early man stumbled into the fertile crescent and found fields of the major grains we know today stretching from Cairo to the black sea, use and preservation of those seeds was what allowed settlement and ultimately civilization. Pulverized seeds, mixed with water and cooked on a rock in a camp fire. It's ubiquitous in humanity. Refined over 15,000 thousand years.
Yep, bread with beer not too far behind it. Not what would be the modern idea of beer or even the ancient Mesopotamian idea, but the beginnings of it.
Bread & beer, the two staples that fed the pyramid builders.
That does it, this is now my spring project.
Did you make it?
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!
" 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!
You put those Naked and Afraid contestants to shame.
Cherpy LaTina Sometimes their buns get baked by the sun.
EXACTLY I fail to find a reason they can't use this simple ingenious technology!
Where would they find processed flour ?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where is chimney?
Your daughter is so beautiful and delightful. Thank you so much for sharing. She is your glory.
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.
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.
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
That bread couldn't have looked better! I can't even master homemade bread with all the modern amenities! Great job!
Takes time, patience and trial and error. And there's is nothing to be ashamed of using a bread mix in a bread machine. My sister makes her own bread and that's how she learnt, getting used to the process in the bread machine, experimenting with recipoes and finding ones that worked for her.. She still prefers using it to knead & rise the dough as she has joint problems so kneading gets painful.
As America implodes, economically and politically, socially and culturally, I watch this and think there is something good and wholesome left over. Live simply. Enjoy the basics. As these guys do.
Grand Solar Minimum, too. Those who prep up in ALL ways/ items now and can live off-grid will be 99% ahead of the world's population. Choose your GSM location wisely. All the best.
Love your country ideas and Irish folk music! Me from Kolkata, India - the city of Mother Teresa.
A secondary perk to lining your door with extra dough, when the dough around the door is done, so is your bread inside.
Thank you so much Mr. Townsend. Your instructional video is so encouraging to build one myself after you. Thanks again!!
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!
If I said it once I've said it a hundred times. Les Straud has met his match. Fantastic . While Les is out looking for wild berries Jon has an oven made and is baking bread. Thanks for sharing.
That's because Jon already has easy access to flour and water because this video has nothing to do with wilderness survival. Making a statement like this once is stupid enough, I wouldn't go around bragging about making it a hundred times.
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
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)
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.
Cool!!
I almost thought I saw you throw it away at the end.
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!
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
This I will build, beautiful guide .
Will bake bread for my kids😀
Thanks for this simple guide.
Great project for a family to do on a weekend! Kids love making handmade things!!!!!!!!
Been going back through and watching the season playlists.
So many great videos that i havent seen.
I love this channel...real basics...and we'll presented. Thanks
this guys energy is just amazing i love it
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.
+Russell Franke Thanks for the encouraging comment and thanks for watching!
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.
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 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.
Rocking a sweet gyuto when sharing the butter!
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!
haha, your driveling and you didnt even realise. must be hard being soooo perfect.
Best thing about this channel is the hats
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!
Wonderful tips, would never have thought of sealing the door with bread dough.
Exactly what I have been looking for!! Thank you for the wonderful demonstrations!!!
dang a bunch of roughin it, this guy is livin it up old school!! I love this channel!
My mouth is watering looking at that bread.
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
This man is a builder.
With lots of love from Nagaland, India
That's great Jon. I have wondered about doing something similar at our civil war reenactments. What better than preparation of food. After all live in the army was more than muskets and cannon. Just maybe it might slow down the nay sayers who will ask " your not really going to eat that are you?". Yes we are. lol
According to the testimony of both sides in Bell Wileys dual history, soft bread in camp was a HUGE morale boost.
Now we need your bread recipe 😋
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.
That was a very impressive build video.
blooming brilliant gentlemen..!!! Robert. from England UK
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.
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's just awesome.
+felixthecrazy It was a great event and we had a great time. Thanks for watching!
Kudos to the guy who made the bread, too!!!!
Man.... I love this.
I'll be making my own earthen oven.
Thanks!
Amazing! My mouth was watering!!!
Doing this as a homeschool project this year!
Amazing. Thanks so much for responding. I appreciate your videos.
Absolutely amazing~
Social distancing got me so curious 😂
Watching in March 2021. Amazing ! I will do in my house ! (from Fio de janeiro- Brazil). Congrats !
1 day = get up at 3am and start work. Finish cooking meal in oven at 2am the next day.
*NOW YOU CAN GO TO BED :D*
Once again John.. great video.. Thanks for all you guys do there. (double thumbs up)
Subscribed the moment I saw that Hat.
so miss Goshen.
Your comment about it being a bit too cold for proper proofing of the bread got me thinking. Adding a narrow 'addition' to the outside of the oven that would stay warm from the oven's prep fire heat, but not too warm, would be ideal for dough to rise. Now I want to build one to test my theory.
I really favor this look on you (the outfit you're wearing in the intro). It suits you well.
I've found the wholesome part of TH-cam.
I recently found your page. I love your cooking videos, but this one bakes the cake! Cheers to your camera man!
Mr. Townsend is one in a million
Beauty in every detail. Bravo! for such a project well done.
+NobleDesignMedia It was a great event with lot of wonderful people. We interviewed a natural dyer - I am sure you will like that one.
+Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. I bet my 18th Century bippy I will
Great quality content! Thank you!
I love all your videos but I especially love the ones about the cob ovens. Thanks alot!
You fellows look like you're having fun.
Can't like this video enough!!
Lovely work
My heart lept out of my chest when he said Goshen, Indiana. That's the city I was born in :D
Loved it! Great job. You guys are creating incredible content.
Excellent, I want to try making one in my backyard.
On using bread dough to seal the door, if I remember correctly a dough or flour paste was used on Irish pot stills to seal the gaps like this.
I want to give my first reaction at 0:40 with the idea of building an oven and baking in it the same day! At first, it seemed ludicrous however as I paused to write this I thought to myself - well it depends on the criteria for the oven, right?! Remember, I stopped at 0:40! First I thought - ok, well how long does it need to last, how permanent? And how much stuff are we going to cook in it, and WHAT stuff? Just loaves? Tall/thick loaves - or flats/rounds? And what do we have available to generate the heat?! It was then that I realized how interested I was in the subject, and that none of -MY- answers mattered! :-) LOL I've done my own share of mountain-side cooking and bread was a favorite, but obviously I am nowhere near as knowledgeable about the HISTORICAL aspect of this topic as YOU good people are!
I will say this - I am l very much looking forward to the next 10:30 of this video - and want to give a big THANK YOU. These are the kind of videos that lift a person up and that remind me about the things I have learned in life that are of value to me, contrasted to those things that clutter my brain which are of lesser value (I will add only that I have spent far too many waking hours of the last 35yrs of my life developing software, and looking back over that time realize that the time I have spent learning how to live in harmony with nature is the most valuable - so videos like these that you create, obviously hit a very deep loud note for me ;-) thank you)
Excellent. Love the bread dough gasket.
So going to try this.
This is a great video I'm saving this one...
Thanks for that. Great information.
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
I WONDER, ABOUT SEALING THE CRACKS ON TOP WITH THE FLOUR/WATER DOUGH?
VERY CLEVER. YOUR VIDEOS ARE VERY EDUCATIONAL AND A LOT OF FUN. GREAT FOR DEN MOTHERS OF CUB SCOUTS AND GIRL SCOUTS . THANK YOU SO MUCH.
You could add some wet clay to fill.
I think I prefer the idea (being a total novice)....at least of the idea of a wooden core rather than sand. I suppose it depends upon the availability of both materials a the time. With a pile of sand on hand I would probably use it....but wood being combustible, seems like an advantage in the process. I suppose the drying characteristics would vary some, so that might also play a part in the decision to use one over the other.
Excellent video[s] !!