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Oct 1^st, 2006 at 5:58pm

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this is my first post on this forum so please do not laugh.
We have owned our camp oven for a while now and had some delicious meals out of it BUT
whenever we attempt to roast a leg of lamb and vegies we end up with very soft vegies and lamb which is more steamed than roasted.
we use our shed heater as the source of heat and just sit the camp oven on the lid.
how do we go about getting our vegies crunchy and our lamb roasted????
any help would be grateful
thanks

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Reply #1 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 6:03pm

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Hi Wolly and welcome to the site.

What you are experiencing is not uncommon with a camp oven. The way I overcome this is to use a trivet in the camp oven and keep the meat and vegetables out of the juices.

To get a good dry browning on the vegies you need a lot of heat on top of the oven. This is the joy of cooking on an open fire or by using heat beads as you can keep heaps of heat on top.

Another way is to use two camp ovens. Meat in one and vegies in the other. Wink

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Reply #2 - Oct 2^nd, 2006 at 2:20pm

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thank you derek for your advice.
off to buy some lamb now and a trivet , and a few beers to drink while it cooks
cheers

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Reply #3 - Oct 2^nd, 2006 at 6:18pm

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Here's one I've read before, that you Aussies like brown crisp veggie.

Which veggies do you brown?

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Reply #4 - Oct 7^th, 2006 at 9:12am

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Most root type vegies are used for baking and browning here spuds pumpkin sweet potato carrot choko etc
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Little_Kopit wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2006 at 6:18pm:

Here's one I've read before, that you Aussies like brown crisp veggie.

Which veggies do you brown?

Actually soft on the inside with a nice crisp and crunchy outside.

Come on Furph, stop telling fibs, chokos aren a root vegetable. http://www.formulaforlife.com.au/asp/vegetables.asp?cmd=show&vegetableid=21 ; Grin

But you can add parsnip to that list as well. Wink

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Reply #6 - Oct 7^th, 2006 at 11:08am

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OOPs Dereck you are correct they grow on a vine but Bluddy Bewdiful baked
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Reply #7 - Oct 8^th, 2006 at 3:16am

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The choko has several other names: chayote, mirliton, mango squash. What made sense to me is that it is a member of the cucumber family. I couldn't find any photos.

Now why have I never heard of it, well, it requires 12 hours of daylight for many days.

& Furphy isn't completely wrong. You plant the entire fruit as the seed. http://www.lsuagcenter.com/NR/rdonlyres/7A61D3C2-9717-4747-9107-49EE61A17E6B/282...

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Reply #8 - Oct 8^th, 2006 at 8:25pm

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Just stirring the soup so as the ingredients above rise to be visible.

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Reply #9 - Oct 10^th, 2006 at 6:23am

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