I have a friend going camping shortly who wants to try a Damper or two and has their eye on my camp ovens. Realizing that if you lend your axe your camp ovens or your dog, they are never the same "if" you get em back, I would like to be able to offer him an alternative method to try so he can Damper away till his heart is content. Apart from chucking the whole lot straight in the coals, has anyone got another method of cooking them, I know the old miners used to cook em on their shovels, turning them when the bottom was done. I thought of foil, but wondered if they may stick. It will be interesting for me to hear the different methods one can use.
Cheers Gemmybob.
Izabarack said
08:51 AM Mar 13, 2015
Many a drover carried a cake tin and used that for their camp oven. Hell of a lot lighter than a cast iron model. Any old saucepan and lid from a Lifeline store can be used as a camp oven. Sheets of foil over the top to keep ash out is a good move. Don't forget to tell your friend that putting a camp oven in the fire is a recipe for disaster. A shovel full of coals on the ground about a metre from the main fire, camp oven on top, then a shovel full of coals on top is a good way to start learning about cooking in a camp oven.
Iza
elliemike said
10:24 AM Mar 13, 2015
Wonder if you could cook a Damper in a Webber or similar BBQ type unit. Just using a cake tin ?
brickies said
11:00 AM Mar 13, 2015
I have cook scone on a Baby Q but you must have the control has Low has you can, May have to cook for longer, If even on the trivet you will burn the bottom
-- Edited by brickies on Friday 13th of March 2015 11:36:56 AM
bobldoo said
11:26 AM Mar 13, 2015
I have used a cake tray/tin in the Webber Q for damper and works a treat, say 30 - 40 mins depending on outside temps/wind. Lid down.
Cover it with alfoil, open it last 10mins to brown.
cheers, Bob
TropicalRose said
03:24 PM Mar 13, 2015
Frypans work ok too. Stainless steel and oil the bottom. Watch out for the handle if it's not fire proof.
Hi All,
I have a friend going camping shortly who wants to try a Damper or two and has their eye on my camp ovens. Realizing that if you lend your axe your camp ovens or your dog, they are never the same "if" you get em back, I would like to be able to offer him an alternative method to try so he can Damper away till his heart is content. Apart from chucking the whole lot straight in the coals, has anyone got another method of cooking them, I know the old miners used to cook em on their shovels, turning them when the bottom was done. I thought of foil, but wondered if they may stick. It will be interesting for me to hear the different methods one can use.
Cheers Gemmybob.
Iza
Wonder if you could cook a Damper in a Webber or similar BBQ type unit. Just using a cake tin ?
I have cook scone on a Baby Q but you must have the control has Low has you can, May have to cook for longer, If even on the trivet you will burn the bottom
-- Edited by brickies on Friday 13th of March 2015 11:36:56 AM
Cover it with alfoil, open it last 10mins to brown.
cheers, Bob