underground pit

Mezcal, on the other hand, is made by cooking the piña inside an underground pit that's lined with a combination of volcanic rocks, wood, and charcoal, says Chiklis.

It’s not an underground pit, which isn’t convenient for most cooks, and definitely isn’t portable.

Waste from live pigs will fall through the grated floor of a barn larger than two football fields and into an underground pit.

Juan Remigio Licona remembered a day at the Bronx location that he was told to clean out the underground pit where sludge and chemicals collect.

Traditionally, the agaves used for mezcal are roasted in an underground pit, wild-fermented in open vats, and distilled to proof, yielding a punchy, petroly, funky spirit that is thought to be a uniquely eloquent expression of terroir.