Making a Primitive Burn Bowl | Bushcraft Essentials

Knowing how to make a burn bowl is an excellent primitive skill to have under your belt, and best of all, it's fun and easy to practice making one!

What would you do if you found yourself in a survival situation and had no way of carrying or boiling water? Well, making a burn bowl is just one solution and it's easy enough so long as you're able to start a fire. Choose a suitable piece of wood, place hot coals on its surface and blow gently to keep the coals aglow until you find that they've burned deep enough to make a bowl. Depending on the dept you're seeking, this process can take several hours. Scrape out as much soot as you can, but don't be alarmed with the blackened edges... charcoal can actually be a great tool for helping clear toxins from your gut, so ingesting some won't hurt (unless you're experiencing constipation, in which case it could make the problem worse.) To boil water in a true survival situation, you'd simply throw some rocks in your fire, wait until they're burning hot, then place them into the water in your burn bowl to heat up the water. Once the rocks cool down, swap them out for the next bunch that are heating up in the fire. Repeat until your water has a reached a boil.

For this burn bowl, I used a chainsaw to help get the process started, then my Fiskars hatchet to knock out some more wood. I know, not very primitive, but it was just to get the process started. Perhaps in a future video, I'll do the whole thing using only primitive tools and primitive skills. But since this cedar log will be serving dual purposes – to demonstrate how to make a burn bowl, but then to also be carved into an actual wooden bowl that I hope to give to my wife as a Christmas present – I didn't want to bang up the edges of the bowl too much, so when I thought I'd chainsawed and chopped enough, I stopped and waited for the hot coals. That's when the true burn bowl experience began. All in all, this took me about 3 hours to make.

I hope you'll join along as I bushcraft this piece of cedar into a fine burn bowl (and in a future episode, continue to carve it into a wooden bowl fit for a kitchen!)

Eric ‪@GreybeardAdventures‬

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