 Kamado refers to a style. In India, you'd call it a tandoori. In Asia, you'd call it a kamado. And it references an oval-shaped vessel with a lid. In the early days, the vessel was made out of clay, and today the egg is ceramic. The charcoal-using barbecue gets part of its name from the shape, but the rest is a mystery that only its 90-year-old founder, Ed Fisher, can solve.