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

Mar 15^th, 2016 at 7:21am

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Is this the oldest camp oven pic out there? It was from a collection of over 130 photos I was browsing they were dated as taken between 1870 and 1875. Looks like she had the pic taken before she got the washing up done

The other one of the shop has a nice shiny boiler or two out the front.

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Reply #1 - Mar 15^th, 2016 at 7:23pm

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Great photos Ron. That looks like a big old Carron or Etna in the first photo. Thanks for posting them up.

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Reply #2 - Mar 15^th, 2016 at 8:02pm

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Looks like they kept canaries. I see two cages.
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That looks like a big old Carron or Etna

Yeah maybe an 18 inch I think. 16 at least

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Reply #3 - Mar 29^th, 2016 at 6:22pm

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Ron.
In 1949 when we came out from the old dart Dad built a shack like the first pic.
A 2400acre bush block in E. Gippsland.
We lived in it for 5 yrs. until the house was built in 1958.

Mum was a great cook in our old CO's which started me off on the love of that simple but full of flavour style of cooking.

Much as I try, I cant get my CO cooking down slow enough. Mum would have a roast leg on all day, just a few coals under it, but the result I can still taste.

They were hard work years, but good ones. I often wish I could go back in time to them.

Great pics there kingbrown

mikel

life is a bed of gidgee coals and a camp oven

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Reply #4 - Mar 29^th, 2016 at 11:59pm

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I found a couple more pics. I will post soon.

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Reply #5 - Mar 30^th, 2016 at 6:21pm

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First pic is of a fossickers camp and it looks like he is doing the washing up. Camp oven next to the barrel. The second is a picture of some sort of camp with a very professional looking cook lifting the lid on a buried oven. Some damper to go with the tea no doubt.

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Much as I try, I cant get my CO cooking down slow enough. Mum would have a roast leg on all day, just a few coals under it, but the result I can still taste.

Well I am now going to give that a try Mikel. Im usually pretty happy with a 3 hour roast but can only imagine how good one is that has been slow cooked all day. Challenge accepted I might give this a go on Sunday. I am glad you enjoyed the pics I love seeing these snap shots of a life long past. I will keep searching for more. I am intending on blowing some of them up in size and framing and hanging on the wall of my camp oven room. You never know one of my ovens may be in one of the pictures

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Reply #7 - Mar 30^th, 2016 at 7:35pm

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Like you Ron, I look at some of my older ovens and wonder just where they've been. I have an old (over 100 years) 14" Sheldon that has never been used, I wish it could tell me where it came from. I enjoy your pics, in the back blocks cooking in a long sleeved white shirt and vest.........very formal lol.
Rob

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 #8 - Mar 30^th, 2016 at 8:26pm

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That is one hell of a saucepan he has there too! And I wonder if that is a frying pan or a fossicking pan on the drum on the far right of the pic. Mikel what do you think?
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in the back blocks cooking in a long sleeved white shirt and vest.........very formal lol.

I wonder if he dressed like that to pose for the pic or if he took his job serious enough to follow a set of standards he has set for himself? I would like to think the latter. His sleeves are not just rolled up but have some sort of white cloth holding them clear of his hands. He reminds me of old "Sam Knott" of "I allus have one at eleven" fame.

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Reply #9 - Mar 30^th, 2016 at 8:52pm

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Love the photos Ron. So much to see when you study the photos for awhile.

I think the photo you posted in this thread belongs here also. Very special for Bungy, now Bungee. http://www.aussiecampovenforum.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1436128653/3#3

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