SOS - ROAST IN THE CAMP OVEN - ODAY

Campfire with lots of hot ashes is the way to go - second best is the oven, mod heat, put trivet into camp oven, salt and herbs on the roast, veges in if u want, lid on, and enjoy it about 1 1/2 or 2 hours later depending on size of the roast. Wouldn't advise the stove top tho.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=dutch+oven+cooking&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

Will give you more information than you can poke a stick at :)

Hi Bron,
Using a camp oven you need hot coals, sit roast in camp oven on a spacer (to keep meat off bottom) with a small amount of water or wine in bottom of camp oven. Flatten coals out so temp is not too hot and also put some on lid of camp oven, if camp oven on edge of coals, rotate camp oven 180 deg so both sides get done, time taken depends on size of roast, approx 2 kilos takes around 3 hours depending on temp, meat could possibly be blacker in colour than normally done in oven but tastes yummy, ps dont forget the veges. we have done this several times. Best time was at Home Valley station on Gibb River Rd, where we met some lovely people and invited them to a roast, they provided tablecloth serviettes and silver service, and being from the SW of WA we also provided the wine. Good Luck and have a go.

Just another thought - have you used the camp oven before or is it its first use. If it is its first use you must season it correctly or the roast wont taste very nice.
If you havent seasoned it you may have a fair bit of work to do before you put your roast in to cook.

We stuck to the advice given in here some time ago, and we had excellent results cooking in the open fire place:

cook for 1 hour per kilo
throw veges in 1/2 hour b4 time
no coals under the camp oven (to stop bottom burning)
spade full of coals on top
rest packed all round the outside surface.

Hello viewers,
Following up from my post below, if you wish to use your camp oven for the roast, place the chicken in the camp oven and shovel "cool" ash up around sides to lid level then shovel glowing coals on the lid only covering it completely. Of course some are going to spill over the sides but the cool ash insulation will keep them away form the sides of the camp oven.
*** Remember place the camp oven/ Aluminium tray on cool ground or your roast will burn, definitely no coals underneath.**

Nightjar

I'd go along with wverything that has been said above.

However, I was born far too close to the scottish border to be wasting money on fancy "do-dahs" like a trivet. I use a sacrificial vegie. Carrots are good cut into big chunks and scattered about the bottom of the oven. Roast on top and then add theotehr vegies later as others have suggested.

Oh and I like to add whole onions fairly early in the piece 'cause I like how they flavour the roast.

Duncs

KFC....cant beat it