Dreampot

Jim,

I wish I could get your glorified set of _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx for $40. Your in the business to make money and so are they. Their system works and so does yours.

PS: I love to cook the cobb is simply brilliant, The hillbilly camp oven is just as good but you need more heat beads I have 3 of them great product. I also own one of the glorified thermos as you would put it & as far as I'm concerned it has it purpose. I also own a custom boatloader the electric model not much change from $4000 or was it more it certainly has its purpose no more sore backs. If you would oblige me by giving me a set of _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx for my Nissan patrol for $40 as that what i think is is a good price for a glorified set of _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx it would be appreciated. Dian & Bill from custom boatloaders will verify I love to cook I have pasted my link below from ozymaccas photo stream.

Cheers Tommy

oops sorry Jim,

To many VBs I forgot to place the link. Its pasted below

Tommys Cooking

Cheers Tommy

PS: I have my $40 when your ready

Sorry Tommy I can't offer you a set of _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx for $40, but what I can offer you is a set for $900 that is equally well built and will do the same job a a set that will cost you over $2000.

That is to say that there are $2000 _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx available which are a glorified version of $900 ones :-).

Jim.

Jim,

No worries as soon as I stop spending all my money on cooking gear I will give you a ring for a set of _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx.

Cheers tommy

"Cobb has limited success"

Says who???
The are a fantastic invention and not only cook a great roast, but bake a fantastic loaf of bread, or a decent damper.
You can also whip up a hot dessert, cook a pot of soup, or stew.
And that is hardly even trying.

Anyone who has limited success, doesn't know how to cook.
Maybe they are using cheap heatbeads, rather than the Heatbead©
brand.

Now, lesson number two. (again using Heatbead© brand beads)
Fire up the heatbeads and wait until they have a light brown coating covering them. (about 15 20 mins unless you cheat, but that is another lesson)

You will need 2 beads less than the diameter of your camp oven for underneath and two more beads than the diameter for the top.
e.g. for a 12 diameter camp oven you place 10 beads underneath and fourteen on top.

I sit everything on a old frypan, then place the heatbeads on a cake rack and sit the oven on top. Alternatively, you can place the cake rack in the frypan with the coals underneath, then place the camp oven on the rack.
In either case the air circulation underneath will ensure the heatbeads are not smothered.

Two hours maximum for a great roast leg of lamb, pork, or beef and veggies as well.

Give it a try.
Both the Camp Oven (HillBilly) and the Cobb cooker are integral parts of our camping adventures and almost all cooking is done on them.

Bill

Don't take this the wrong way Bill, but I reckon the Cobb is a glorified mini "Weber" which can be bought (generic brand) for about $40.

The mini "Weber" has a much larger cooking area, but will of course use more heat beads.

The cost of the Cobb and the essential accessories are prohibitive IMHO.

Cheers,

Jim.

Jim,

No argument there!
They are rather expensive to purchase initially.

But the flexibility and compactness cause us to justify the expenditure and we are not disappointed in any way.

Also, the stainless steel construction (one reason for the higher cost) gives them an indefinite "lifespan", at least for the Premier model and they are easy to clean and pack away.

I guess we all pick different solutions and somehow justify the purchase cost of the "essential " pieces of camping equipment:-))

Bill

Settle Bill, lol

touched a nerve there.

I was going on a good few posts on here where people say success limited, please dont ask me for post numbers I was just browsing.

If it works for you thats good.

I have tried beads on camp oven, no joy, and did it as per the site which is meant to be the dux nuts on camp ovens , and they were branded beads.. just not my cup of tea, I like my camp oven mate or the fire, but as we head out on camps at sometimes short notice after work, thought a joint of silverside with 20mins cook and throw in might be good to get there, be set up and its ready.

Thanks to some replies on here, I'm gonna seriously look at the shuttle chef.

FWIW I have sooo many pieces of 'essential' equipment.... been the brunt of a few jokes, but hey... we are ALWAYS dry warm comfy and well fed regardless of conditions...

gotta love it...

didnt mean to stir up the cobbie brigade... sorry

I think Cobb are way overpriced & don't they have problems maintaining heat unless you buy a 'bra' for them, this must be purely due to poor design.

Shaker,

Perhaps a little bit of history may help.

The original Cobb cooker was designed as a cheap & portable method of cooking for the folk over in Africa. So popular was this device that is was marketed throughout the world.
The original Cobb I purchased was not THE original, but the Mark II model with a black plastic base. This cooker served me well for a couple of years until I "squashed" it and broke the base.

So I bought a new base, this time the stainless steel mesh "premium" model which is more robust.
The flow through design of this model is not a problem in protected positions but there is a problem in wind.

So, along comes Klaus, from In front camping and produces an ingenious canvas bra that improves the function of the Cobb in windy conditions.

I like the stainless steel Cobb and the cheap canvas bra that sits permanently inside it and reckon its a good bit of camping gear.

Some people will class it as overpriced and put up with an inferior or less practical product and cast aspersions on those owners who sprout the wonders of this ingenious cooking product:-))

So be it, that is the result of free expression.

I'm not conected with the manufacturer in any way, but I will carry my portable Cobb cooker on every camping trip I take and experiment with its wonderful capabilities.
In some situations I may "replace" the Cobb with the camp oven on a well established bed of coals from the camp fire, but that is not always possible or practical and that is where the Cobb comes into its own.

Bill