Wondering what you are using for cook plates and grills over a camp fire. Ideally something easily portable.
A few options available from Aussie but keen to see what others are using.
Pics welcome and description of effectiveness.
Thanks
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Wondering what you are using for cook plates and grills over a camp fire. Ideally something easily portable.
A few options available from Aussie but keen to see what others are using.
Pics welcome and description of effectiveness.
Thanks
I've got a flat cast plate off an old BBQ which can be set up on some rocks with fire underneath. Plate is about 600 x 400.
You can get cheap bbq plates and grills at Warehouse or Bunnings reasonably cheap. In the past have used stainless steel grate shelves from an old fridge or freezer.
Have used old electric fry-pan and a cast iron fry-pan for many years.
That old electric fry-pan has a steel handle fitted and also sits nicely on the Colman double gas cooker.
For cooking anything except eggs, use a 'braai basket'. It makes turning the meat over super easy and there is no risk of losing anything into the fire off the edge of the grill.
The portable camp braai is pricy, but an excellent piece of kit as it comes with the support frame as well. Adjust the frame accordingly, and you can slide a cast iron plate or a 'black steel' frying pan in place of the basket.
Braai basket - https://www.foodoverfire.co.nz/products/camp-braai
I recommend black iron frying pans if you don't want the weight of cast iron - https://www.savebarn.co.nz/catering-...let-30cm-20985
They do aluminum if you prefer - https://www.savebarn.co.nz/frying-pa...ial-30cm-15259
The advantage of the above pans is that they typically have longer handles due to commercial kitchens being gas powered, so they are good over open fire (handles don't heat up like cast iron and nothing to get burnt off by the fire).
I use baskets like this at home on the open bbq, the black iron pans we use every day on the gas hob unless with are looking to simmer cook, at which point we will throw the cast iron pan on.
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Bacon wrapped wild duck breast, venison eye fillet, chicken nibbles.
Portable, but not backpackable.
https://www.marine-deals.co.nz/rv-an...ill-full-grill
Good old solid cake rack from the secondhand store as a grill, enamel plate or cup to cook the egg in.
I made up something similar to the link below from a warming rack out of a BBQ. Sits in the box on the quad bike for trips. Big enough for a couple of chops or the enamel cup to make a coffee etc.
https://www.selfrelianceoutfitters.c...bedroll-cooker
I brought a titanium grill a while back when Naki had them on sale, A cake rack would probably do the same but this grill works great, lite weight, low stick factor and slips in the backpack no problems for steak, bacon, chops, fish or freshly shot deer heart.. Also use it for side of the river cookups or up on the firewood block to cook a feed of sausages for lunch. Lives in my camp cooking kit.
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A quick search on google shows these guys selling them in NZ, cheaper on Aliexpress
https://altongoods.com/products/titanium-grill
I see they also do a titanium plate that can be used as a frying pan, 132 grams for $50
https://altongoods.com/collections/c...titanium-plate
If cooking out of the back of the ute I take a Webber baby Q and a cast iron fry pan, or the gas cooker and a fry pan, can cook almost anything on the weber and its pretty portable depending on gas bottle size
Lol that dog is desperately trying not to look at that bacon cooking :XD:
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I reckon keeping it simple billies chains and frying pans ! Have thought about carting in a hot plate but reckon it would just rust out.
I have a flat cast iron gridle here that Ive never used,saved it from rubbish hole many years back. the camp oven,pretty much does it all really
That’s got the creative juices flowing lads.
The titanium grills look bloody good but they only have miniature ones in stock. I do like the idea of the double sided option to sandwich the meat so it Cant fall out, is that a South African thing?
And the humble pots and pans are what I have been using but like the idea of camp fire smoke through a grill.
@Stag you have me thinking now. I might have to make something. My fireplace is pretty large. I might make something like the old ones you'd see in an ex nzfs hut. What material to use ? Mmmmmm off to the drawing board ....
Those Braai baskets are the ducks nuts:thumbsup: I bought several back home from Mozambique a couple of decades ago, as I hadn't seen anything like them here.Quote:
Originally Posted by hotbarrels
Used to drink at a pub called 'La Professores' in Maputo, and their speciality was flame roasted chicken. You'd go over to the kitchen counter, and there would be 20 odd butterflied chickens sitting in the braai baskets waiting their turn propped up alongside the coals trench for their 25 min roasting experience. They would have spent their day marinating in coconut cream, garlic and chillies:drool:
One of the most clever idea I E ever seen for open fire cooking was in private hit.steel wagon wheel mounted horizontal above fire.put Billy etc on wire hook at hearth front.rotate wheel and it goes deep back into fireplace above flames.when boiling.turn wheel n it comes back out.great for controlling heat too.
@Nathan F will need a good setup for May. Pressure is onQuote:
Originally Posted by Nathan F
Sounds like a good permanent setup, might be a bit heavy to drag around!Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Shall we just put a bbq on a trailer behind a bike ? LolQuote:
Originally Posted by Stag
I'm about to do a small, simple outside cooking area surrounded by rocks; like a cowboy western open fire. I've just grabbed some racks and plates from the ovens biffed out at the dump. Free :) Hopefully they'll work ok for sitting frying pans on etc supported by the rocks. But I am a cheapskate....
When we camped as a family the hot plate was a 10mm bit of plate about 500 square with 4 nuts welded on (on in each corner) and legs were long bolts
DO NOT use the posthole rammer with pipe handle that has been used handle down for tight post holes,across fire to support billy...it will heat up and the air inside handle expand then suddenly shoot the mud plug out with enough force to blow hole in ground right beside the heading dog!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by bumblefoot
nearly 40 years ago but I still remember it like it happened yesterday.
Dont use stainless plate either. Its shit. Everything sticks to it like mad even if you oil the bloody thing.
Not porous enough.
I wondered how youd lost your hair ,but was just too polite to ask ..your friend arse up!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Has anyone tried one of these?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClCa4...d=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
That’s cleverQuote:
Originally Posted by paremata
Most stainless grades are poor conductors of heat, which is another downside. Never cook a steak in a stainless frying pan.Quote:
Originally Posted by tac a1
Thermal Conductivity:
Copper - 380 W/m K
Aluminum - 150 to 240 depending on alloy content
Cast Iron - 52
Carbon steel - 54 (@0.5% carbon, ad drops off the higher the carbon and/or alloying content)
Stainless 304 - 14.4
The very high thermal conductivity of aluminum is also a contributor to why things burn easily in an aluminum pot/pan, but helps if you only have a low energy heat source.
