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

Jan 5^th, 2008 at 6:49am

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Hi all- I'd like to introduce myself,real name Ian and hail from the Sunshine Coast in Qld.I have been mooching about in your forum for a while now and have decided to join your merry selves.
I run an Agricultural Diesel repair business and enjoy anything outdoors.
My time included 12 years ('79-'91) with the Aust. Navy and lived in Seattle USA for 3 years. (loved that)
I am a keen hunter,fisherman,camper etc (the same as a lot of you it seems).
I have watched for a while and have noted this to be a friendly & sometimes funny forum unlike some of the other places that I am a member.
Oh by the way I looooove a nice drop of red.Anything for that matter & enjoy the comraderie that usually is associated with spots like this.

I can see that you often tag up at camp spots or the like & hope to be able to catch up with as many of you as possible when possible.
I now travel to camgrounds and the like with my GU Patrol & Kimberley Camper (and wife) always had a tent until last year & was given a choice by the finance minister (comfy bed or I'm not going). After a session on the box monster it doesn't really matter as I get to sleep outside on the ground anyway!!

I am really only a novice to this CO bit but am really keen to learn from everyone and pacify the natives & rellies by the way of a good feed & I figure when a bit proficient I can cook 'em all a good xmas feed at some nice camp spot and when finished they can then wander to their own home and not lounge at my place for a week

All the best to everyone
regards
Ian

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Reply #1 - Jan 5^th, 2008 at 7:19am

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You've come to the right spot Ian and it sounds like you have the right qualifications for membership, a SOH and a love of all things to do with the outdoors.
I got into camp oven cooking a few years ago after seeing a bloke do a demo in a caravan park in Alice and since then have taken over most of the cooking duties at home. We do a bit of touring and enjoy nothing more than a camp oven meal in the bush, "Washed down with copious quantities of red", as mikel would say.
Enough for now, welcome. 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 #2 - Jan 5^th, 2008 at 7:32am

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Welcome Ian
I go along with PD's post.
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Reply #3 - Jan 5^th, 2008 at 7:53am

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Red!!!! Just happens to be my favourite colour, in wine also, there seems to be a shortage of female cooks in here, I think you experienced guys are just too good, but I am always up for a challenge.

Upon retiring we decided to venture into the camping/4wd world. We have not that long graduated to a camper/trailer from a tent. We were looking but baulked at a pop up due to storage restrictions and felt we could manourver the camper/trailer and were still fit enough to put it up and down occasionally Roll Eyes

The DH is slowling starting to realise that a lot of the males do the camp cooking and cleaning up Kiss

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Reply #4 - Jan 5^th, 2008 at 8:00am

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G'day Ian, and a welcome from me too.
What I enjoy about this forum is that we all have the one thing in common but so often achieve it by some diametrically opposite approach. (geeez, I knew what I wanted to say, but it came out as a mouthful!) Huh

Nothing better than a good quiet camp spot and the evening meal slowly ticking over in the CO, but interesting too, eh, that many of the forum members here enjoy CO cooking in the backyard as well. We often get an inquisitive nose twitching over the back fence!
(actually, its my wife who loves the flavour of CO tucker. I hate it, the only way I can get rid of the taste is by "copious quantities of red"!) Roll Eyes

Now looking forward to your postings.

mikel

life is a bed of gidgee coals and a camp oven

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Reply #5 - Jan 5^th, 2008 at 8:07am

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Carolyn
I hope that DH stands for dear husband and not the other.
The camper / trailer sounds good. I tented for years then a cub camper now a 4.45 Coromel
pop top.
Muzz

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Reply #6 - Jan 5^th, 2008 at 8:22am

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You can interpret it any way you like , it does vary from time to time. I have been sorry a couple of times regarding not getting the poptop especially as the storage problem (illegal back yard entrance) was not blocked as threatened by Council, well not yet anyway.

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Reply #7 - Jan 5^th, 2008 at 9:36am

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Hi Ian and welcome to COCIA. Yep a real friendly bunch in here.

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Reply #8 - Jan 5^th, 2008 at 7:28pm

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Morning Ian/skiproosel, I'm from 1/2 way around the world, across one big pond and one continent. It's warmed up to -5 this morning. Snowing of course. Too much snow to go cook with the 'dutch oven'. But next year when I've moved the weather won't keep me from that, 'cause I'll have

Don't you think that could be neat for using an oven? A great CO cooking season extender. That's in my 'new-to-me' house' that I move to in May.

I too camp in a camper. The advantage is less set up and easier to camp with dogs. But I love to cook outdoors, just to be out. & to be with the pups.

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Reply #9 - Jan 6^th, 2008 at 5:00am

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Hot sticky and raining here in Sydney today. We have retired to a bayside home but previously lived where it got a bit colder and had a wood burning fireplace. As well we had a preloved fuel stove attached to part of our BBQ and thats where I first made Sour Dough Rye Bread in a camp oven inside the oven. We occasionally in winter sat around it for a drink or two with the neighbours.

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