Drum tandoor

To start, let's define tandoori. This term refers to a specific style of cooking in which food has been grilled inside a tandoor (clay oven). If you've never come across a tandoor oven before, imagine a hollow drum standing upright with a small fire heating from the bottom Essentially, they are a cylindrical, vertical clay pot designed to withstand extremely high temperatures. Unlike the horizontal ovens one can find in virtually any Western kitchen, tandoors do not have a vertical door to open and insert food for cooking.