AUSTRALIA'S ORIGINAL AND BEST CAMP OVEN AND OUTDOOR COOKING AND CAMPING FORUM

Dec 16^th, 2007 at 4:31pm

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Have had this gadget in the shed for nigh on 30yrs., just now and then stuff a few twigs in and cook ourselves a rough meal.
Because we have quite a few good cuts of venison at the moment thought a bit of a slow cook on a haunch could be the go.
Marinated the venison in red wine for a few days, bit of garlic'n'rosemary where the cracks were appearing then without further ado into the CO for a nice slow cooking treatment.
Hope the pics turnout, the eating was in one word "bloody good" Sorry, thats two!
cheers mikel

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Reply #1 - Dec 16^th, 2007 at 4:32pm

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Reply #2 - Dec 16^th, 2007 at 4:34pm

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And the final one before the repast!
cheers mikel
PS well washed down with copious red wine then port!!

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Reply #3 - Dec 16^th, 2007 at 6:04pm

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Never seen one of those before mikel. I use a "Camp Oven Mate" on the patio which does basically the same job as it encloses a camp oven and stops heat loss, use a quarter the amount of heat beads too.
Aaaahh it's all good fun.
pd

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #4 - Dec 17^th, 2007 at 6:45am

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Mikel
As PD said can't say I have seen one of those.
Must cook cool being next to a timber fence, does it have a ceramic insert?
The venison and the veges look spot on.
Muzz

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Reply #5 - Dec 17^th, 2007 at 7:48am

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PD & Muzz.
It is actually terracotta, about 3cm. thick so once up to heat is not that different to coals directly on top of a CO. It does radiate quite a lot of heat so works best out of the breeze.
They are a tradition Japanese form of cooking. I use a fuel mix of chunks of gidgea and heat beads to get the heat up, then as the cooking progresses the heat tapers off somewhat giving the result most delectable!
It also works very well as a Tandoori oven, marinated and tandoori spice coated chicken, lamb, etc. straight on the metal rack. A hand full of sawdust thrown over the coals give a great smokey addition.
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Reply #6 - Dec 17^th, 2007 at 11:39am

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Hey mikel, when are you having a garage sale and getting rid of all this stuff you've accumulated ? I'll bring my tandem axle trailer..... oh, and cash.

pd

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #7 - Dec 20^th, 2007 at 5:28pm

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I use a Big Green Egg for smoking meat. It is a komado style cooker.

http://biggreenegg.com/

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Reply #8 - Dec 20^th, 2007 at 8:05pm

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camp_cookie wrote on Dec 20^th, 2007 at 5:28pm:

I use a Big Green Egg for smoking meat. It is a komado style cooker.

http://biggreenegg.com/

Do you live in the U.S. or is there an Aussie distributor?

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Reply #9 - Dec 21^st, 2007 at 3:44am

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Little_Kopit wrote on Dec 20^th, 2007 at 8:05pm:

camp_cookie wrote on Dec 20^th, 2007 at 5:28pm:

I use a Big Green Egg for smoking meat. It is a komado style cooker.

http://biggreenegg.com/

Do you live in the U.S. or is there an Aussie distributor?

Cool

I live in America.

I don't know if there is an Aussie distributor or not.

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