Cobb Cooker

Hey Roachie,
do you know if there is a place out there where i can find out how to use one? From what i have hard they sure r great.
cheers Angelo

Angelo,
Not sure about demo's etc, but the Cobb comes with an instruction book, recipes etc. We started off doing the roast chicken thingo and then went on to open grill BBQ bangers etc. We haven't tried baking a cake or anything quite that fancy yet; or maybe we (missus) did and I fell asleep or something. After a few special "Dilmah Teas" at night, I can't remember what happened the night before. LOLOLOL.

You'd be welcome to come camping over here in SA sometime with us and we'll crank her up and see what she'll do.....so to speak.

Cheers,

Roachie

Provided you ensure that the heat beads have gone past the 'burning stage' and have that almost white powdered coating on (which takes between 20 and 30 mins) and you use the Bostik "Fire-Up" firelighters which are made of natural pine wood rather than the kerosene based Jiffy fireligters you will have no taste what so ever.
I have had my unit for over 12 months now and cook roast lamb, chook veges, damper, rum raisin scones etc...both out in the bush and on the boat....all yummmmy :-)
Highly recommended

Thanks for the info KA, do you use any particular type of heat beads, or are they all pretty much the same?

Cheers

Just the small 4kg bag that you get from Coles with "Heat Beads" on the front. I dont think the actual heat beads are as important as the firelighters as far as smell is concerned.

I know when I first startted I used the kerosene based firelighters and was not waiting for the beads to get that brown powdery look to them (takes at least 20-30minutes) and started cooking too soon.

This does 2 things:
1) You dont get the heat you need
2) risk getting a smell.

By waiting for that 20-30minutes and using the Fire Up pine based startres...no probs

I use it to cook every second weekend, just to get the practice of what you CAN cook and how long it takes etc

Its all fun :-)

Good luck

I've been cooking with a camp oven for many years, there's no better way to cook a duck (and a lot of other stuff) that's for sure! What interests me about the Cobb is that you can do oven style cooking without a fire, or even inside a tent in the rain! Although I bet they'd produce a fair bit of carbon monoxide or something, so you'd want to keep the ventilation up.

Cheers