The best soil type is clay and clay with sand.
Check if soil is suitable:
Avoid making in soil with parts of plants, wood or fossil. Fire might continue to burn silently for a long time causing conflagration!
Dig the soil in such way:
Put a stick to in here:
(Make sure the stick meets the wall of your pit in place marked with red arrow)
Cover the stick with soil (clay)
Pull the stick out:
Now you have a hole that will let air fan fire.
Cover your roaster with sticks, whan with grass and soil
Almost no smoke should come out
To be ready your survival dinner will need 40min for meat or 20min for fish.
Add aspen pieces for curing by smoking(копчение).
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