Thread: Oven vs Slow Cooker

When you guys do a roast in camp oven do you sit it on a grate in the bottom on pot

Originally Posted by blip

When you guys do a roast in camp oven do you sit it on a grate in the bottom on pot

For my purposes (80% on the log burner) I sit the meat on the bottom, brown it, possibly turn it, then add water/veges etc, then get it going full bore for 20 min or so then turn the fire down low, and will often put THE CAMP OVEN on a grate on top of the log burner to reduce the heat for the next three hours or so.

Only time I have put in a grate was when baking stuff like bread or fruit cake in a separate baking tin inside the camp oven, where you have to keep the fire hot. If you don't the baking just gets burnt to a crisp on the underside, and if you keep the fire too low to keep it from burning, the baking never cooks.

You can see the type of grate I use in the pics on post#8

The grate also stops the kettle from boiling dry. Just keeps 6L of very hot water on hand all day.