camp oven ruining trip to fraser island

spun steel or cast iron?

Peter.
I will let the club know tomorrow night about your little problem.

Cheers.
Vince

May I ask are you cooking on coals? If you've prepared coals and then put the camp oven atop some coals set aside from the main fire then it seems amazing that so much heat could be generated as to distort the seal. Could it be that it got damaged by putting it directly into flames?

If all else fails forget using it as a casserole - cook without the lid and use it as a saucepan/wok etc and strip the chicken off the bone, chop up the vegies and make a stir-fry. You'll obviously need to put the camp oven base over hot coals/fire to do this and stir frequently as you would a normal stir-fry.

Hope this helps - don't let it get you down, camping (and especially camp cooking) is meant to challenge you!! ha ha take it in your stride and make an adventure out of it. You knows you may end up inventing something unique!


MM

When cooking on coals you can seal the camp oven with a crust around the lid to seal the pot. Use a simple mix of flour, salt and water. This of course will be broken if you check the contents so is best used when cooking items where you have a fair idea of the cooking time.
The second solution is to use a foil collar running around the top of the pot (this also a good method if you are smoking items in the camp oven), this will depend on how big the gap between the lid and the pot has become.

cheers :)

Are you using the oven in a fire built on sand.

I once cooked a damper on Fraser and it jsut burnt to a solid mass of charcoal in the time it would normally have take to cook.

I figured it was because the sand was retaining so much heat and reflecting it back to the oven. This could be what is distorting your oven and letting out the heat.

Try a smaller fire.

Just my 2c hope it helps.

Duncs

worst case boil the chicken and vegies and have chicken soup? I gather you should still be able to cook with it, and that it's just the lid that' buggered.

Hey Peter, your lucky the QLD Gov, in its infinite wisdom, even allow you to have a fire! the last, well many times we have been no fires permitted, I assume that has changed?

Hi Peter
Thanks for letting us pour unfortunate formites at work know by modern technology that your gourmet lunch on Fraser Island
could be ruined.
I am sure last time i was there in April the Orchid beach shop had camp ovens for sale if all else fails.

Rob.

Rob, that gave me a laugh. After your comment I was thinking he could just order one on line! Lol but I suppose delivery would be a problem.