How to Make a Traditional Tibetan Cooker

In this video you will see how the Tibetan nomads build a clay oven from locally dug earth mixed with yak dung. The stove is built anew at each site that the nomads settle. While some may call this primitive technology, it is actually a sophisticated design perfectly adapted to burn their only fuel, yak dung, with minimal smoke. Very ecological and sustainable, for when the nomads leave the site the cooker gradually dissolves back into the earth leaving nothing behind.

The traditional Tibetan stove's name is (སྒྱིད་པུ) Gyelphu or Sagyel. The food cooking in the video are fried bread sticks. called (གོ་རེ)Ghorii in Tibet.
It is just made from wheat flour and water.

These stoves are as beautiful as they are functional, and become a beautiful sculpture inside every nomad tent. They can be made anywhere that natural clay can be found, and each region has its own clay pit. If you want to make one but don't want to use dung, use finely chopped grass.

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