Thread: Camp fire cook plates and grills

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

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.

Those Braai baskets are the ducks nuts I bought several back home from Mozambique a couple of decades ago, as I hadn't seen anything like them here.
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