Thread: Al's feral outback camp oven cooking

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Al's nasty bread.

Take some self raising flour, knock the top off a stubby, drink some, but not all of it, tip the rest into the flour and make a dough, if the dough is too dry repeat until the dough is doughy.

Stick in the camp oven, bury in the ashes, go away for the day, return to some beeaaauuutiful bread, eat with butter and some beer.

Al

Sounds graet Al, Reckon its going to hav to be a camp oven then. Hve you ever done pork in one as that would be the go? Closest i have come is the weber, but a camp oven this time of year sounds the way to go.

Originally Posted by Bluegum

Hve you ever done pork in one as that would be the go?

I usually take lamb and chicken but pork would just be the best, maybe next time.

Al

Originally Posted by ozwinner

I usually take lamb and chicken but pork would just be the best, maybe next time.

Al

Pork is the best.

My method is to dig a hole slightly bigger than the oven an place a layer of hot coals in the bottom (1-1.5 shovel full for 14" oven).

Pork in oven on a wire cake rack, rub olive oil all over pork and rub some coarse salt (I use sea salt) into crackle. Bit more oil in bottom of oven.

To start also place a layer of hot coals on the top as this will drive a lot of heat quickly into the top and makes the crackle crisp up beautifully.

DO NOT OPEN LID for about 1.5 hrs and brush of coals off top after about 1 hr. (this depends on size of oven and size of meat, you eventually get the hang of it).

More coals can be added to bottom of hole if cooking starting to slow down, only needs a shovel full.

Pork generally done after 2.5 - 3 hrs, once again you get the hang of it after a few tries.

Very important to crack a few cans during the above process, I find Jim Beam works best...and you have to hang around and make sure that all the amateur camp oven cookers (the ones that have never seen it done but know everything about it) don't keep opening the lid to check, or keep adding coals as they don't think you could possibly cook anything with only that much coals.

I prefer a hand full of good size stones to throw their way..they get the idea after a while.

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