Question for Cobb owners?

Hi Troy35, Firstly you do need to experiment with your cobb to discover it's methods. however there are somethings you MUST do. 1) Only use GOOD QUALITY heat beads, I have tried the selflighting ones they are not all that successful. 2) do not try and cook too large a roast . 3) Keep the cobb out of the breeze 4) I don't think it matters what sort of fire lighters you use.

Happy cooking
Graham

Gooday Troy
I have had a Cobb for a while now. You are right you need to get your bread or pudding up off the internal plate ir it burns. I got a peice of fine meshy sort of stuff and cut it to shapoe witha set of little legs. This helps to distribute the heat around the bottom a bit better. I use it to make a damper.

Good luck withthe cobb, I have used camp ovens for years and while I cant go past them the Cobb is as good and insome respects better. If my partner and I head to the river for a quiet weekend that is all we take to cook. Wecook the bacon and eggs the roast dinner and the damper and so on in it is it fantastic little device. I tried smoking some fish in it while the fish was great I hada bit of trouble getting the smell out.

Hi Troy
I own a Cobb Cooker and they are great. To more evenly spread the heat I use a camp oven trivot

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I usually cook the roast first and then put the dessert or the bread in second, your camping no worry that the meal takes a few hours, more time for a beer or a wine while you wait
Ray

Have had a Cobb for only a couple of months and have been using it regularly. One of the first things we pack to go away.

Fantastic as a smoker.

As already said, the heat beads are very important. Self igniters are not as good as the normal heat beads. Use genuine only!

We've used several different types of fire lighters and had no problems from that point of view.

Do practice before leaving home. Our first attempt was a roast and we must have fluked it - it was perfect. But after that we had a few not so successful meals initially.

We always lift any bread or cake off the plate with a wire stand to keep it away from the direct heat, but it still cooks a little crispier on the bottom.

Happy cooking.

Sucker.
Ours is now stored in the garden shed, tried lots of different ways to cook stuf but the wood fired camp oven is still king.
We have seen a cooker made from 9kg gas bottle used with the standard camp oven and works like a treat.
We have found the cob to be a hit & miss afair.
Had it nearly 1 year.

Hi yah Troy
I' had my Cobb for almost 18mths now and its one of the first things in the truck when we go bush. It takes a little getting used to always add red wine or ~ 3/4 can beer to the moat when cookingadds to flavour (good excuse to pack an extra bottle or tinies)
When using the Cobb cook your main meal first, then your bread or desert afterwards but make sure you raise the baking dish about 10-15mm off the grill plate. I use 4 flat sones I scored them from some where and have kept them with the Cobb ever since
Mike

Thank you to everyone for the replies.
Micheal when you say that you use four flat stones to raise the cake pan off the grill do you mean the grill that you would cook your meat on or the wire grill that holds the heat beads?
I assumed that to cook a cake you took out the grill plate and sat the cake tin or pot directly on the three upturned legs of the basket that holds the heat beads.

Can I simply leave the grill plate on the cobb and then sit the cake tin on top of that using stones etc to make a small gap?

Thanks,

Troy.

A good hint someone else put in is to raise your dish/tin using egg rings, simple most people carry a few. Someone else suggested a small teapot stand or cake cooler(look at garage sales). I made the receipe in the cobb book for bread and butter pudding and it came out fine, there is a photo I think somewhere in here, if you search for COBB.

Carolyn