Primitive Food Storage under a Rock - will it survive until Winter? (episode 3.5)
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- In the primitive world acquiring food is difficult enough but protecting it from wild creatures and the elements it is also challenging. The natural world is the playing field of a fierce competition for the most important survival resource - food. In this video I explore one possible technique to keep this valuable commodity safe from the wilderness.
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Key moments:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Collecting clay
01:46 Hail storm
02:06 Mixing clay and water
02:56 Forming walls of pot at night
03:21 Continuing to form the walls in the day
04:05 Breaking firewood
05:42 Polishing the pot
06:19 Drying the pot in the sun
06:47 Firing the pot in fireplace
10:06 Lying in the hammock at night
11:15 Filling the pot with food items
14:15 A creature ate my pemmican
15:20 Sealing the pot
19:20 Finding a cave to stash the pot
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The mischievous giggle when the log broke got me. 😂
Hahahah
only the OG's remembers when Chad used to not speak in his videos, but i'm still glad theres narrations for people to understand it further
First I spoke all the time, then I stopped speaking, then I spoke and nobody liked it, then I stopped, then I spoke just a little.
Es correcto,muy agradecido❤con Chad por eso🫡.
Cuando hablaba en sus videos igual me gustaba,y cuando andaba por acá en Algunos estados de México ,habla muy bien el español👍❤.
@@Ralf-pi6zqQuiero hablar mejor el español
@@ChadZuberAdventures you just have found the perfect ratio of voice and silence😅
That chuckle of pure satisfaction as that juniper log finally broke... so good!
It's just so cool to break wood this way. It is so satisfying in some strange way.
Thank you for posting the best videos on UA-cam!! I could watch them all day!!!! They are perfect.
🙏🙏
I really appreciate that. Thanks so much buddy.
Thank you for another wonderful video. That's too bad about the pemmican. I'm sure the critter who got it was quite pleased.
I've started a three sisters garden this year because of your videos, and I'm collecting and storing chanterelles. Can't wait for the next video!
Yeah, I think it was a badger that stole my food. One night I saw a badger in the hollow trunk of the big dead juniper tree. I believe he also built a shelter inside my hut when I was gone recently. I wish you the best with your garden. I'm waiting for the rains to start before I plant. It's just too hot and dry right now and I don't have access to enough water.
I missed the Primal Tendencies series. Thanks Chad. It is a good episode.
Many more coming. Thank you.
Чад, молодец 👍 твои видео 🔥 первый раз вижу как нужно работать с глиной ❤ посуда прекрасна ❤
Действительно? Раньше я работал с глиной в других видео. Снимать видео изготовления глиняной посуды очень сложно, потому что мне приходится мыть руки после каждого кадра.
I really enter a state of contemplation and psychological comfort when I watch Chad Zuber’s channel . It’s very entertaining thanks Chad for your time , efforts and dedication 🙏
It happens the same to me, and a feeling of peace
I enter into a wonderful state of peace always when I’m out here. Thank you.
@@ChadZuberAdventures 🙏
Amazing video! You really highlighted the challenge of storing food in the primitive world and protecting it from wild creatures and the elements. Using rocks as a means to protect food is a smart and innovative idea. Thank you for sharing these valuable and useful survival techniques, as they open our eyes to creativity in facing nature!
Yeah, I was actually quite upset about the pemmican. I guess I was just so busy that I overlooked the fact that I left the food accessible to wildlife. I usually put the food in my burden basket and hang it from the tree outside or hang it inside the hut at night. So far that has worked every time.
@@ChadZuberAdventures
Thank you for sharing your experience, Chad. It's always a challenge to balance all the tasks in a primitive setting, and it's understandable that sometimes things get overlooked. Your method of hanging the food from a tree or inside the hut sounds very effective. It's great to hear that it has worked well for you in the past. Keep up the amazing work, and thank you for continually sharing your valuable survival techniques with us!
Best channel ever! No bullshit just real adventure and living. Thx and I got earth runners because of you.
That's right!
Чад,как же я соскучился.Чем больше тебя смотрю тем больше хочется.
Ах, спасибо! Скоро появятся новые видео.
...Also, I just realized this is the inevitable "recap episode" that so many popular shows have...and we've already seen Chad do more than one "beach episode," too! This channel has *everything!* XDDDD
I'm going to try and mix up the locations more.
what a lovely place, I love the desert!!!
This place really is beautiful..
I like that series.
Regards from Poland
Thank you!
If the environmental conditions are right, food can be stored for a very long time. Hopefully, for the next time you make pemmican, you can get some caul fat. Pemmican is the ultimate survival food. This was awesome. Cheers, Chad! ✌️
Pemmican definitely is the ultimate survival food. The conditions here are quite dry so I'm not too worried about the results.
Hey there Chad! Watching you make pottery in your hut while it was as hailing outside, was so cozy. The finished piece was amazing and pleasing to the eye.
Yeah, inside the hut is a great place to work on pottery.
If you made an elongated trough-like bowl for melting the glue, you could roll/rotale the lid easily in the trough to apply the glue top and bottom to the lid.
You're thinking creatively there for sure. Yeah, that's a great idea.
I think for the next storage pot, you could put a small burning ember in the pot(maybe covered with another clay cover with holes in it) to act as a oxygen absorber right before you seal it. It should extinguish itself once it's sealed and that should take care of in case some pests stowaway.
Big fan, live your vids!
That’s an interesting idea. I like that.
It's truly amazing to see how much you've managed to build up from practically nothing. Kinda makes me want to visit the old episodes again where you had just started out setting-up the current hut. Have to say, I never would have thought I'd be so excited about seeing new bricks being made. Good times.
Thanks a lot! I love making bricks. Even when I don’t know how I will use them, just having them ready to go is a great feeling.
Great video! Thanks
For those who don't know the benefit of polishing, or "burnishing," a mostly-dry unfired clay pot, what happens is that certain small sizes of fragments of clay, which look like little hexagonal plates, get aligned so that they lie flat along the surface when it is burnished. This aligning requires some effort when the clay is a normal mixed aggregate, like what Chad is using. But when you know how to make *terra sigillata* which is that reddish glaze-like stuff the ancient Romans used, it basically speeds up the process, and you can burnish the surface--which is almost entirely coated in those fine little plates--with just a light touch from your fingers, rather than needing a polished rock or bone, a lot of effort, and a lot of time.
Terra sig (nickname) is made by suspending those tiny particles of clay in water, usually by using a bit of alkaline substance, such as lye water or ashwater. You mix up the clay-rich material, let it settle until it forms 3 layers in the liquid, then you remove the clear water at the top, and pour the cloudy middle stuff into a fresh pot. Just don't allow any of the grittier stuff from the bottom third layer to join it. Then, when the suspension is thickened enough (evaporation helps, also simmering), you can dip your dry greenware (unfired) pottery into it or apply it with a brush in a very thin coat. This is similar to dipping a pot in slip (soup-thin clay goop), but you've pre-separated out the specific sizes that work best with burnishing.
(By the way, you can also burnish dry greenware, but it's much easier at the leather-hard stage because there's enough give that the particles align much more easily; at the hard-dried stage, it's more like you're grinding away the non-smooth-plate bits as much as you are realigning them.)
It needs to be understood that burnishing is *not* the same thing as glazing. It does provide a smoother and less likely to leak surface. However, there will still be microscopic holes that liquids can seep through. Low-fired pottery (primitive firing, earthenware, etc, the stuff that benefits the most from burnishing), only sinters. "Sintering" means it binds together, but still has tiny holes and channels between the pieces. It does not vitrify, which means to turn glass-like and seal up all the microscopic holes. (High-five clay bodies, such as stoneware and porcelain, can vitrify after the second firing, but you need high kiln temperatures, and the pottery must first be tempered by going through an initial firing, or bisqueware firing, which is what earthenware primitive firing goes through.)
Glazes don't necessarily need extremely high temperatures. They genuinely help seal pottery against moisture leakage, but you need to have access to certain things, such as powdered silica, or salt for salt-glazing (and high enough temperatures and a kiln). It's harder to do a glaze firing in a primitive firing setting. Burnishing is a good single-firing compromise, even if it's not a perfect seal. However, you can also take burnished pottery and boil things like milk in it, which will fill up the microscopic holes in the pottery with casein proteins, whcih can then be charred in a slightly hotter fire to set them permanently in place, sort of like "seasoning" a cast iron pan.
Terra sig speeds up the burnishing process. Even just using slip (a really fine clay that's made into a liquidy paste) can help. And burnishing the surface can create really good moisture barriers. They aren't quite as good as a (non-crazed or crackled) glaze, nor as good as vitrifying temperatures...but the latter require very specific types of clay, rather than just common earthenware types. Regardless, what Chad is doing with his earthenware clay, rock-burnishing the clay at the leather-hard stage, will go quite a long ways toward preventing spoilage in whatever he seals into that pot.
I don't know when burnishing was first invented, but it was genuinely a major innovation in early storage ceramics.
Thank you so much for your information. I have been fascinated with pottery for a long time. Your explanation of different terms was wonderful! Even at 66 years young, I learned something new. 🤗
Thank you soooooo much for sharing this detailed information. Making a slip as you described is something I'm going to have to experiment with. I never heard of that technique before so I really thank you again.
The feeling of significantly progressing indoors even though it heavily rains while most creatures around freeze in silence waiting for the rain to stop is remarkable, not to mention the light, sound, smell and warmth of the fire while pottery making!
Great survival skills I like it that you’re learned enough pretty quick after all these years
Quick? I think I learned slow.
Oh ok that’s great 😁
Down to Earth 🌎❤❤
Literally
I rarely post comments on UA-cam…your videos are very informative,interesting and amazingly relaxing…I can meditate while watching your videos. Thank you for this beautiful moment.
You should try adding an inner ring to the lid that’s the size of the inside of the opening. And to make the lid and opening lip as flat and smooth as possible
I wasn’t concerned about the design of the lid because I used glue to seal it. I also want it to be easy to open by exposing it to the fire.
You are living my dream! I wish i could do this in the uk
It was necessary to level the neck of the pot and the bottom of the lid with a rough stone, then everything would be airtight.
The glue fills in the gap.
Bạn rất có kỹ năng sinh tồn một mình ngoài thiên nhiên ,rồi xa văn hóa hiện đại mà vẫn rất ổn ❤️👍.
Cảm ơn. Tôi đang học hỏi nhiều hơn và nhiều hơn nữa.
Sua cerâmica é muito boa parabéns
Obrigado
Чад Зубер,Грег Овенс,Эд Стеффорд,Коди Лундин и Лес Страуд мои кумиры. The Best of the Best from the West. Да и ещё все сезоны Naked and Afraid.
Ух ты! Спасибо! Ты обалденный!
Making mistakes only galvanizes your determination to never make them again.
Yeah, that’s the truth
Nice to see you back at the hut! Looks like it is holding up well.
Yeah the hut is good.
Lovely video and great at showing problems with long term storage. I wonder if a more lipped storage pot would make the glueing process easier. Thanks for your time and work as always.
Perhaps a different design could make the gluing easier. This glue is just messy. I need an applicator.
@@ChadZuberAdventures The pine resin is very sticky. I actually collect it here and mix it with alcohol to make flux for soldering. I adjust the alcohol to create a more sticky flux for very small modern components, it really works well. They dissuade you from using it as it's deemed a breathing iratent but I suffer with asthma but in 40 years never had a problem.
@@barrymayson2492That’s very interesting. Very cool.
9:06 ancient drums!
This is awesome. The pemmican you made the previous video made me open up some of my vacuum sealed pemmican I had made 2 years ago. It is still edible and delicious as ever. I put dried shallots and salt in mine. Dehydrated top side steak and mixed it with beef fat. It really is one of the nicest foods out there and the rush of energy you get 5 minutes after eating it is like some powerful drug.
Oh yeah, pemmican is the most energizing food I’ve ever eaten.
I love this
*GREAT CONTENT!*
Thank you!
Great video and teachings, Chad, you are a master of survival, all the food is very healthy, thank you for sharing a lot of success.¡¡¡¡¡
Thanks for watching and joining me on the adventure.
It will be interesting to see how that fared in that place in the Winter.
That Cacao hmmm, Chocolate perhaps? Perhaps Montezuma's Chocolate
Drink mix? I still wonder if the floor of the hut will be one day covered in clay
tiles. As well as the roof. I dunno, but it is always interesting to watch Mr. Zuber here.
Great Video!
Did you see the chocolate video I made two years ago? By the way, I shot a video of making a tile/stone floor.
Que interesante experimento,veremos que pasa,siempre es grato y relajante ver tus vídeos amigo,gracias🙌💪🔥🔥
Veremos qué pasa en diciembre
Pottery is one of my favorite contents by Chad
Your innovative approach to primitive food storage under a rock is truly inspiring! It's fascinating to see ancient techniques in action and to wonder if they will withstand the test of time.
Và Tôi Là Floating Village Life
I love experimenting and finding primitive ways to improve life.
I'm storing all my food under a rock this winter. No one looks which rock I stuff everything under because I'll know!
That’s right!
Chỗ ở huyền thoại, thức ăn thì tuyệt vời, chad bạn thật sự rất giỏi trong việc sinh tồn ❤🎉🎉
Thank you so much
i love this content creator,very real video,watching from philippines
Greetings to you
AR:
ليتك لم تضع التمر البري في الوعاء أخشى الثمار تحتوى على كمية من الماء وهذا قد يفسد كل شيء.
على كل حال أنت تقوم بعمل رائع العادة يا تشاد
نتابعك من سوريا ..كل التوفيق لك 🌷👍
EN:
I wish you hadn't put the wild dates in a container. I'm afraid the fruits contain a certain amount of water and this might spoil everything.
Anyway, you're doing a great job as usual, Chad
Following you from Syria.. All the best to you 🌷👍
The wild dates are very dry. Don't worry. I think they will be fine.
@@ChadZuberAdventures
Hope so.
Chad is back 🙏
Great video, beautiful nature. I am looking forward to the test result. Greet from Slovakia 😀🖖👍
Thank you so much 👍
17:18 maybe a pot with a bigger lip (as in, upward) would be easier to seal with pine glue?
Great job tarzan and its akways important to have food stored for the winter incase of an emergency
Thanks Amauri.
@@ChadZuberAdventures you're welcome keep on making these great vids and I'll continue to give my support
Man, I envy your life. Seems so peaceful.
❤
Who's watching and lying on bed!😁🛌💞💎
Me too 😩💋
@@deadpopcorn8523 opps!🥂🛌😁
Yes
Lol.me too..thanx Chad
@@pavelusa3423 😔😁
hahaha at 5:12 i totally feel that satisfactory "hahah!"
You feel me? 🤣
take yucca fiber and dip it in the sap charcoal mix and put it on as a rope seal around the lid
That is an excellent idea. Thanks for sharing.
Nice video chad zuber next longer video 🤙🎷
Um verdadeiro homem faz o seu próprio lugar deixa um paraíso ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Obrigado Luciane!
Một video hay quá bạn xem rất thú vị
Cảm ơn
Have you considered making the hammock a bit larger? It doesn’t seem that big or very comfortable, and if you’re going to be sleeping on it then it should roughly cover the waist a go a bit around it as well. Also do you use any pillows or anything for neck support and comfort?
Btw love your videos, huge fan of your content. My fav video was you making that mollusks and veg soup from a few years back.
🩷✨️video 🩷significativo para nossa realidade. Gostei demais. Abracos querido CHAD❤🇧🇷
Jeu bro ! Wonderfull pot . So i recently reserching about " adiabatic "natural système air cooling , i just share this idea to you , for the potentialy future needed in your Primal tendenties.
You an expert cooking, terra cotta !
Yeah, cooling is challenging in this environment.
I know where that rock is!!! Might find a mountain man came and got it for the acorn pancakes!!!! Lol.
Great video! Shame about the pemmican, sound like there’s a fat critter roaming round. Might be time for some fall traps lol.
Haha, I think it was a badger
@@ChadZuberAdventures haha, your on your own, even I don’t mess with badgers… making one angry is painful! 😂
@@BushcraftTexasThat’s what I’ve heard. I was close to one before here and it was very calm and relaxed.
Muito interessante esse modo de armazenamento de alimentos. Muito obrigada! Brasília/Brasil
Obrigado María
Yo amó éstos vídeos 🌎🍄☘️🪶 un mundo 🌎 mágico 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
20:45 if this place stay dry all the year long you can make big natural fridge with mud bricks. And also you can use two non fired dry clay bowls and seal it with clay or leaves after seal fully dry you can store it. Dry hay between pots in fridge can be added to. I think these things are worth to try. I got this idea from ancient grapes preservation technique.
I think it stays dry. I will be experimenting with refrigeration eventually. That will be awesome.
Bro I aways be waiting for a video! This video is awesome
I’m glad you like it
This is a cool experiment 👍😆 I loved the time lapse, awesome editing 😄 thanks so much for your hard work it makes these videos a high point of the week and inspires ideas too. It's winter here in southern New Zealand 🥶 and my darn fire went out, I'd run out of kindling because I had too restart the fire from coals late last night and it's soaking and freezing outside and while watching you break juniper branches it sparked an idea how I could restart the fire without having too get miserable in the process by using a piece of macrocarpa and my Chisel 😂 it worked 😂 fires lit and roaring 👍
Hahahahah, that's awesome! Stay warm my friend. Keep your kindling dry. It's summer here and I only use the fire for cooking now.
Thank you from northeast Arizona. Helping me add skills to my quiver. Also liked the vids you did with potter Andy Woods.
Thanks a lot. Andy is so good at pottery. His videos are excellent as well.
Como siempre, genial maestro, sembrando conciencia y haciéndonos presentes de que vivimos en abundancia porque sé la humanidad abrió un camino y si así fue, no nos destruiremos porque queda humanos consientes, que seguiremos creando caminos.
Gracias, Chad.
🤠Tabona
Gracias amigo por tus palabras. Hay que seguir viviendo con consciencia.
Chad,
As someone who likes to make my own cordage alot i need to ask if you've ever heard of a turkish drop spinner.
Ive recently discovered, after making one to spin a shed sheep fleece i found into yarn, that it also works for making plyed cordage.
If on the off chance you havent heard of or looked into them i would highly recommend doing so as it reduces cordage making time and effort massively.
Yes, I’m aware of that technique but I don’t think it is effective for yucca cordage. It works well for animal hair. Perhaps I’m wrong but maybe I’ll try.
@@ChadZuberAdventures fair enough, i havent tried with yucca yet but it worked alright with not fully processed stinging nettle fibres eg. some green matter left on for added friction.
@@a.i.a3949I think that cordage made that way have less tensile strength.
😮 Excelente 👌
I get my first pair of sandals, some earth runner’s!
Nice! I also like Luna Sandals.
You also need to store sources of protein for keeping those muscle gains. 💪
Greetings Chad your videos are awesome... I enjoy them so much the level of your primitive skills is fantastic...
Never leave UA-cam❤
I’ll try
Amazing
Allahumma sholli wa sallim wa baarikh ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa'ala ali Sayyidina Muhammadin fil awwalin wal aakhirin wa fil mala'il a'laa ilaa Yaumiddin
Hi chad. I am sending you another hug.
I love that kind of dishes. Is it very good for health to cook in this kind of dishes from the mat? That is the best thing I wish I have one of that ha ha ha ha
love your videos
Thank you
Muito bom seus vídeos e aventuras parabéns
Muito obrigado!
YAYYYYY 🎉🎉😊😊
I would have stacked some heavy rocks around the pot. Critters could paw at it and knock it over/down & break it open.
That’s what we are going to find out.
👌
That rock 🪨 gave me anxiety not gonna lie lmao looks like it could roll
Chad you have showed us how to do all these amazing things and I actually do some of them I’m interested in what state this is so I can live there
I'm pretty sure it's California in the Mohave desert region.
I can't say where but there are plenty of places you can find that are remote. It's just a lot of work and time to get to them.
@@ChadZuberAdventures I can understand why that is
Will you ever try to make copper tools or iron soon? I really like your videos
I haven’t found iron or copper yet
Hi Chad I enjoying watching your videos but I wonder if you don’t have the desire to go to the city and eat regular meals. Is not too hard for you to live in those conditions ? and have to work really hard to make those little things to eat and create your own pots . I admire your passion and patience to do everything. Your lifestyle is very unique . 👌👌👏👏
I go to the city at times but I rarely eat 'regular' meals. Even when in the city a portion of my food is foraged. And I also prepare foods from raw ingredients.
Hi Chad,
Thanks a lot for your videos and work you are applying to film all your discoveries.
Can you please tell us, why you don't try to create a primitive fridge ?
For example, a hole in the terrain where the temperature doesn't change so fast, or any additional ideas on the long storing food methods.
Once again, thanks for all your success and failures, keep pushing the limits💪
There are a thousand projects I wish I could just do in a minute. A primitive cooler is one of many projects that I intend to eventually do.
Achei ótimo esse vídeo, continue assim
pemmican bandits! Such a relaxing video. How do you get the pine sap off your skin? I cut down pine trees and had it on me for days. Pretty cool experiment, great content as always. I pm'd you a plant of the week idea with pics.
Often the sap is on my skin for a few days too. I try to avoid it by using sticks to collect it or handle it. I found that rubbing oil on it helps remove it easier.
👍
Buen video!
Gracias
Dont know if theres any in the desert where youre at, but garlic and cayenne pepper are great animal deterrents. Garlic works exceptionally well against insects. It could be quite possible to "season" your pottery with these.
No, those two ingredients don't occur here naturally. However I could bring them. I just made the mistake of leaving the pot of food accessible. I usually hang it in the basket in the tree or inside the hut. I just overlooked it this time.
Dried fruit usually lasts a long time, and the less moisture and more sugar it has, the longer. The palm fruit might even last a year, if stored properly. I also have a question, have you ever tried to make primitive wine out of any desert fruit, like the manzanita or palm? I can't remember seeing it in any of your past videos, and having a backup source of hydration in case the river or springs nearby dry up could be handy.
This palm fruit will last more than a year. One time a few years ago I made a tasty fermented drink with this palm fruit. It was really good. I didn't make a video of it though. There just isn't enough time to make videos of everything. It takes me at least 15 hours to make one video.... But don't worry, the river never dries up. The spring does though.
You could use antlers or your rib bones to move the pottery or hot stones. It makes me nervous watching you move the pottery with sticks
It makes me nervous too 🤣
Lol those raccoons!
A British doctor died recently on a Greek island from 42c heat. Take care of yourself and make a sombrero and umbrella.
It was hot, the first heat wave of the year. Over time I get more used to it.
@@ChadZuberAdventures Please cover your head with something. I don't want to sound like an old nanny.
@@mrsillywalkHaha thanks
After you do your daily survival chores typically how many hours do you have to yourself?
Zero. I work up to 15 hours a day doing chores and filming. If I'm not filming then I may have an hour or two to relax before going to sleep but it's really hard for me to relax because there is so much work to do all the time.
Sorry for the questions but, what material did you use in that candle that is shown towards the beginning of the vid? If it is animal grease, isn't it too smelly? 🤔
It’s made of beeswax. Beeswax burns cleaner than animal fat.