Non-iron Camp Ovens

With all due respect, I've heard of aluminium supposedly leaching from cooking pots but not iron.

Maybe chelation therapy could help

Hillbilly camping make spun steel camp ovens..

Kev,

Found these ones :)

The myth about Aluminium leaching into food has been Busted as well ;)


Cheers Kev

Hillbilly Camping Gear is terrific and may be the answer to your problem. I have quite a lot of their products and have been very happy with all of it. Good blokes to deal with as well.

Hope this is useful.

Jack

Hi Kevin,

Assuming you are talking about cast iron or spun carbon steel, is your wife able to eat food prepared in stainless steel?

The ferrite or iron is far more stable in stainless and she would have to be extremely sensitive to be effected by it.

If she can tolerate stainless, any old large saucepan and lid without a plastic or wooden handle could be used.

Cheers,
Paul

Have you looked at the stainless steel ones? Bedourie makes one, I bought mine from Rays though I am sure you will also find them online

There is a bloke in victoria that sells alloy camp ovens, we have two a 12" one for the whole family and now there are only two of us a 10" one.
MM me and I'll try to find his contact details. From memory they were actually made in NZ.

The advantage of iron cooking pots has always been the even solid heat , ideal for stewing meat at lower temperatures or baking and bread making at higher temperatures. Hence the great results of a properly used iron camp oven or Grandma's old cast iron wood stove oven. I don't know how the alloy pots would go but I know nothing beats my cast iron skillet I use at home and I have some pretty flash stainless steel etc pans. I also have an enamelled iron grill pan which is terrific.

The French solved the problem of high maintenance iron pots by enamelling them! These are expensive to buy although they last for ever and cook beautifully. Cook shops often have them at half price on sale. You could look for one of a suitable size in secondhand shops etc. Your campfire might look a bit flash at first but the outside would soon blacken and no one would know your guilty secret!

Your best quick solution might be a Cobb Cooker or a Weber for outdoor cooking. Lynne

The small 12v electric camp ovens we use are plated aluminium as in post 39429

Thank you one and all for your input. This gives me lots of leads to follow up.

The warning about not eating food prepared in iron cookware comes from no lesser person than my wife's specialist. She has great confidence in him so for us an iron camp oven is not on the agenda.

I was not aware of spun steel pots so will investigate them and also the lead on alloy. We have a small electric oven and a small BBQ but we have heard so much about the pleasure so many folk get from cooking in the embers of their open fire that we want to join them.

Thanks again for all the input.

Kevin

Hillbilly also make excellent spun steel camp ovens.