Another Ikea special mate?

For the last six months or so I have been making quite a few single serve meat pies in muffin trays, usually savoury mince, beef chunky stew and steak and kidney.

I freeze then vacuum pack in lots of two and they sure are handy.  I usually make 18 at a time.  Reheat them @ 200 degrees in the air fryer for 12 minutes from frozen.

So, when I saw this little gadget that is for pushing the pastry into the muffin tray I just had to have it.  Cost me all of $4.50   

Going to make some little apple pies tomorrow. 

Got mine from Vevor last year two long shallow ones and four half length but double depth on special.

Handy for all preserving as well. Cheers

Maggie and I have a trip down to IKEA about twice a year.  It is around a 160 kilometre trip so we only get there twice a year or so.

As well as a feed of the obligatory Swedish meat balls I picked up a couple of nice stainless steel trays that will be very handy when making sausages/salami.

Well she went in the chamber this afternoon.

Currently weighs in at 990 grams and my target weight will be 643 grams.  That will be a loss of 35% if my calcs are right.

Interesting it is already showing good white mold growth on the ends.

Here is a video of Andrew Dwyer cooking a couple of chooks in an 18 inch Bedourie Camp Oven.  There are not many that size around.  You will note that the lid is quite warped on it.

After seeing the video many years ago I contacted Andrew to ask him where he got the oven from and he told me my old mate Bill Thompson at Southern Metal Spinners had made it for him.

I gave Bill a ring and he told me he only made a few to see how they would go as there was nothing they could do, due to the size, to stop the lids from warping.

I often wonder what happened to them all.

Has not been over 20c here for a couple of weeks. Cheers

Good day today, but the next week is a full mix of showers most days.

Chest infection again so noth being done for a while. Will try and make a list of things I need. Cheers

72 hours is up this afternoon however due to the coolness I am going to leave it an extra 24 hours before going in the chamber.