How To Use A Camp Oven - TIPS For Beginners - [ Watch This ]
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2020
- In this video i show you how to use a camp oven for the first time. Simple cooking tips for beginners that are using a camp oven for the first time.
I learnt the art of how to use a camp oven after many years camping in the bush during my scouting days.
I have always used a cast iron camp oven. One day i might try a spun steel camp oven.
You can cook so many meals inside a camp oven. All you need to get started, is a few simple tips that show you how to cook in a camp oven, and your meal will turn out tasting fantastic and not burning.
When you are first learning to how to use a camp oven, it is a good idea to keep your camp oven back from the campfire for the first few camp oven cook ups. Just until you gain some confidence with cooking times and heat required.
Attached are links to camp oven meals that i have cooked.
These videos will give you some tips about how to use a camp oven.
Camp Oven Slow Cooked Roast Lamb.
• Slow Cooked Roast Lamb...
Camp Oven Roast Chicken.
• How To Cook Camp Oven ...
Camp Oven Scones
• "omg, I Can't Believe ...
Camp Oven Roast Pork
• Crunchy Crackling Camp...
Camp Oven Damper
• How To Cook Camp Oven ...
If you are also wanting to know how to season a new camp oven. This video will help you out.
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@Aryan Eugene sounds good mate.
Works well.
Cheers Tim.
I also use the lid up side down as a frying pan
Yeah thats a top idea mate.
I have seen a few people do that.
Cheers Tim.
You just can't beat the flavours you can create with a camp oven. I've got 3 cast iron ones various sizes and love them I got rid of a spun steel one it cooked to quick for my liking it wasn't compatible to my beer timer and didn't produce the flavours of the cast iron ones. Great clip thanks Tim!!
G'day John,
Yeah mate, you cant beat the flavours from a meal thats cooked in a camp oven.
I've not tried a spun steel camp oven, i"ve only ever used the cast iron oven and it works a treat.
Thanks a lot for your reply and feedback mate.
Cheers Tim.
Good advice Tim. From my experience the trick is not to rush things. Take the time to get a good coal base in your fire, get the oven up to temp before starting to bake/roast and keep the oven at temp by regularly replacing coals top and bottom. You’re right, the results are amazing and certainly worth waiting for. Looking forward to your next vid.
Thanks Steve,
Yeah mate, a camp oven cook up shouldnt be rushed.
Kick back around the fire and just enjoy the smells that are coming from inside the camp oven.
So much you can do with them.
Thanks for your reply mate.
Cheers Tim.
G'day Tim. Just did a lamb roast in my camp oven at home on my 30 acre block just like camping but I get to sleep in my bed,1st time slow cooked just like your video turned out great a little bit of tweeking on the vegies in a bit too long. Thanks for the videos I like your simple style and of course the Aussie lingo fair dinkum good show.
Gday Trevor
That’s ace mate your slow camp oven cook up turned out well.
It’s the best way to cook in the camp oven if you have time.
Thanks a lot for your feedback.
Cheers Tim
Great video mate I love watching your adventures out in the bush. Makes me want to get out there more.
Ethan03_
Thanks mate for your reply and feedback.
M glad enjoyed the video.
It was a top trip.
Cheers Tim.
That was some great advice Tim. Big thumbs up 👍
Wicked Phillip, thanks a lot mate for your feedback.
Cheers Tim.
handy tips in all your videos mate, great stuff, cheers
Thanks Ben for your feedback.
Thats great you are finding the videos helpful.
Cheers Tim.
Very nice video Tim! You are absolutely right, once you learn how to cook in a camp oven you'll understand that nothing gets close to it.
I totally agree with you on the firewood size, as a matter of fact I hardly collect all my firewood bigger than the one you are sitting on.
I've never used the aluminium foil but I do use baking paper to bake dampers.
I've got an Aussie custom made one from the Billmans Foundry from Castelemaine, definitely not cheap but so proud of it, and it lives permanently in the Cruzer.
Yeah mate, you cant beat what comes out of a camp oven compared to the home oven,. The food tastes amazing.
The baking paper is another good idea mate when cooking a damper.
My camp oven would be easy 15yr old, i just love cooking in it.
Thanks a lot mate for your reply and feedback.
Cheers Tim.
Great advice for the one's that don't know I struggle the first time now I'm a ace on it it's only the way I cook my roast that's if I have a enough wood if I don't the it's the spit I go to. Top work
G'day Chris,
The camp oven is a great way to cook when out camping, thats for sure.
Thanks heaps mate for your reply and feedback.
Cheers Tim.
Great Video!!!!!
Gday mate,
Thanks very much.
Glad you found the video helpful.
Cheers Tim
Cheers Tim i love your channel! you make me want to do some bushcraft in Australia but Quebec will do for now!
G'day Felix,
Thanks mate, i appreciate your feedback on my channel.
Canada is an amazing place. I would love to get over some. day and see the mountains and river systems. It would be fantastic.
Hope you can get down here some day.
Cheers Tim.
Great advice bates
Thanks mate.
Cheers Tim.
Great information ty Tim
Thanks mate.
I’m glad you found the video helpful.
Cheers Tim.
Great advice as always Batesy...almost mouth watering even with out any food !! Thanks mate and trust you are safe and well !!
Hahah :-)
Thanks Craig.
Going well over here mate, i hope it's the same for you mate.
Cheers Batesy.
@@timbates4wdadventures All well here and more rain coming it appears
Craig Willis yeah, might be some white stuff amongst it as well.
Great video mate can’t wait to implement those tips on the next camping adventure!!
Thanks a lot!
G'day Nick,
No worries mate.
Thats great you found the video helpful.
Have fun cooking with your camp oven.
Cheers Tim
Mate, cheers for the tips.
No worries Herb
Glad you found the video helpful.
Cheers Tim
Thanks Tim I have owned my camp oven for a long time but all I have cooked in it is damper keen to try a roast now.
G'day Ian,
Cant beat a good damper mate.
I'd be keen to hear how your roast goes when you get one going.
Thanks mate for your reply mate.
Cheers Tim.
nice one tim.cant wait to get back up there to be able to use it. cheers
Thanks mate.
Hope it’s not long for all of us to get back out in the bush.
Thanks for your reply mate.
Cheers Tim.
Great vid mate.
Thanks mate.
I appreciate your feedback.
Cheers Tim
Spot on 👍
HuntinginAust.
Thanks mate.
Few simple tips, but they work.
Cheers Tim.
I love my camp ovens I use them at least once a week . Cakes . Dampers fruit cakes . Scones roasts stews curries you name it . I even made a special fire pit that drops hot coals into a brick oven I made . I bought a oven with cast legs so I can pile coals under the oven to get even heat without needing a rack
Jim Mulholland
Gday Jim,
Mate, that’s unreal you are using your camp oven as often as you do.
Sounds like a great purpose built setup you have at home for your camp oven cooking.
Thanks for your reply mate.
Cheers Tim.
Best vid yet 👍👍👍
Thanks Matt.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Cheers Tim.
Thank,s Tim.
Thanks mate.
Cheers Tim
Really enjoying your vids and how to cook over an open fire 🔥 👍👍👍
G'day Bill,
Thanks mate, im glad you enjoy the videos on my channel.
Cheers Tim.
If it's breezy we often dig a hole about the same depth as the oven and wider to allow for coals around the sides as well as the usual on top and underneath. Wind causes the sides of the oven too cool creating different temperatures around the oven....
Yeah thats a good idea mate.
I have seen a few people dig their camp ovens in the ground a bit.
Thanks for your reply mate.
Cheers Tim.
Great video. Thanks!
Thanks mate.
I greatly appreciate your feedback.
Cheers Tim
@@timbates4wdadventures I’ve been binge watching your videos. Packed with loads of practical info and advice. I just subscribed, can’t wait for the next one.
Good advise young felah,l have tried many times to master camp ovens and failed many times,l love cooking so when it doesn't turn out it can getting annoying. Looks like i will invest in a bigger oven and give it a crack now with good meat.
Thats great mate you found some helpful tips in the video.
I hope your next cook up turns out ok.
Thanks for your feedback mate.
Cheers Tim.
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Gday mate,
Thanks for dropping in from Brazil, i greatly appreciate your reply and feedback.
Im glad that you are enjoying my adventures.
Cheers Tim.
thanks tim
No worries mate.
Cheers Tim.
G'day Tim.
It might be worth reminding those who have a new oven that they need to season it before use. Your video from a few years ago is good instruction. There is also a good one from Snowys Outdoors.
G'day Garry,
Yeah spot on mate. The oven does need to be seasoned before using it.
Thanks heaps mate for your reply.
Cheers Tim.
Garry, do you have a link for the video about seasoning? Was going to ask about that (never cooked with one but would like to!)
@@MynameisGeoff82 Check this one out if you like mate.
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Hi Tim good advice just cant beat one for most good camp meals, i always have a big back log with small timber to create coals amazing how little coals it takes to cook a good
Bush roast trivet is just the ducks guts to stop burning you can cook any thing you can cook in a normal oven evan a cake
Cheers
G'day Des,
Yeah mate they are great to do a tasty camping meal in.
Thats not a bad tip with the big back log,
Thanks mate for your reply and feedback.
Cheers Tim.
Hi I had a spun steel one from kings it cooked to quick for me it did not produce the flavours and I washed it dried it thoroughly sprayed it with oil but when I got it out next to use it the whole thing was severely rusted I threw it in the bin!! I'll stick with cast cheers
@@johnpye134
Gday John,
Interesting feedback mate.
I always wondered if the spun steel camp ovens would cook differently from the cast iron oven.
I'll try a spun steel one day, but for now i love my cast iron camp oven.
Thanks for your reply mate.
Cheers Tim.
Got to check the pot in case the Koala's have nicked it! I lift the lid too often... Great advice.
Thanks mate for your feedback.
Cheers Tim
great advice, i have an oval camp oven and trying to find a trivet for it is a nighmare
G'day mate,
Yeah i dont know anywhere you would find an oval shaped trivet.
Cheers Tim
Great video mate just got my first camp oven spun steel not cast iron trying to keep the weight down
G'day Brad,
Thanks for your feedback, im glad you found the video helpful.
Have fun cooking in your new camp oven mate, they are fantastic.
Cheers Tim
@@timbates4wdadventures I'm looking forward to it was just having a bowpeep at your video on seasoning camp ovens you do it a little different to most but still full of good tips thanks again 👍👍
Before I put the meat in the oven to roast, I sear the meat on a skillet at high temp. No oil in the skillet, just oil and salt on the meat. Gives it great colour and more importantly, in my opinion anyway, greater flavour. I do this for my roasts at home as well. Don't forget the garlic!
Some good cooking tips mate.
I never forget the garlic Lol I love it.
Cheers Tim.
Yep I also do that but with a drizzle of oil in the camp oven that I’m using. Extra flavour 👌🏼
Grant Hugo
Might have to give it a go.
Tim Bates 4wd Adventures let us know what you think of you do mate. 👍🏼
@@granthugo8472 No worries mate.
Hi Tim, great clip. What size oven do you use mostly?
G'day Scott,
Thanks mate.
My camp oven is a 12in. Good size camp oven.
Cheers Tim.
Great tips Tim, i love how easy they are to clean aswell. I'm wanting to try a steel spun oven. Have you got any feedback experience with them?
Thanks Renae,
No I've not tried a spun steel camp oven.
Im keen to get hold of one and do a side by side cook up and see how it goes.
Thanks for your feedback.
Cheers Tim.
Don't bother about the spun steel ones they are a glorified saucepan
@@johnpye134 Yeah mate, im very happy with my cast iron camp oven.
Cheers Tim.
@@johnpye134 if you don't know how to use one...
@@timbates4wdadventures You need way less coals underneath a spun steel - that's the secret with them. To me the lid (classic style - none of this lipped modern shape) is the big bonus used as a frypan. Transport it with a small billy inside and you have a complete kitchen. They both have pro's and cons. I've used both for decades.
Don’t ever wash them with soap, just boil water in them and brush off anything lurking around, this way it retains flavour!
G'day Kristine,
I will do a video on that as well.
But, until then.
Dont ever wash your cast iron camp oven out with soap. Your next meal will taste like dish water, and you dont want that. Lol
Just boil it up once or twice if needed.
Thanks for your reply.
Cheers Tim.
I wash with a scourer then put back in the fire to sanitize it
Jim Mulholland
Yeah righto mate.
I generally just boil mine a couple of times, seems to do the job.
Thanks for your reply.
Cheers Tim.
Don’t use aluminium get yourself a high sided silicone baking pan (like for cakes) they don’t stick to the sides and you can scrape the bottom wile cooking and not tear the bottom releasing your liquids to hit the bottom of your camp oven to burn and stick
G'day mate,
Great feedback. I will look into that.
Thanks a lot for your feedback.
Cheers Tim
Constructive criticism, All hot tips bar the alfoil for casseroles or stews. It will leak through and you'll be fishing it all out. Ok for sugar based marinades though however best to not use sugar marinades in a camp oven in the first place. Only bad things happen with that pre marinated stuff. All else is spot on !
Ahh righto.
I have cooked a lot of marinaded meals in the camp oven and a few stew meals, and they have worked out really well, thats why i passed on that tip with the tin foil.
Appreciate your reply and feed back mate.
Cheers Tim.
where did you get you cooking stands from?
It's hand made mate by an ol black smith.
Cheers Tim.
I use cast iron to stay away from foil and aluminium in my cooking.
Why cant you just tip the juices out without useing the foil?
Great video btw. 👍
Maybe you could do that mate.
Cheers Tim
@@timbates4wdadventures you forgot the rolling eyes emojie... 🤣👍🇦🇺
I just bought the spinefex 10pc pack from anaconda today for $129 so was looking up vids.
Watched your chook one too👍
All the best.
@@McRcFly the roast chook in the camp oven is a great cook up.
See how you go.
Cheers Tim
Do you all ways use a trivet in your camp oven
G'day Kyle,
Yes, i use a trivet all the time with the meals that i make.
Cheers Tim.
Hi Tim whats that Iron camp oven holder that you use for cooking called ...looks nifty:)
Tony Alba
Gday mate,
It’s hand made by an ol black smith.
You can buy something similar.
But it won’t have the detail and quality that my set has.
Cheers Tim.
@@timbates4wdadventures Hi Tim Tony from Brisbane...notice you have after maker rear lights on the rear bar...are they just stop lights or inicators also , do you only have indicator on side's?
@@boofy081965
Ahh righto mate.
Hope all is ok up in Brisbane.
Those rear lights are unreal.
3 lights in 1
Brake lights
Indicators
Reverse
They all work really well and bright at night.
I really want to get one and cook on fire. Is it too big meal for one person? How about cleaning or do you soak it, when do you do it? how long does it take? and what to do with too much food. Do you need to dry with tea towel or fire - what’s your routine...
nick wells
Gday Nick,
They are perfect for one person or more people.
I only boil water in mine to clean it.
I should get a video done on how to clean a camp oven.
Well worth having mate.
Thanks for your reply.
Cheers Tim.