Camp Oven Cooker

Last year while we were camped at Longreach Waterhole we met a couple whose son makes these stainless steel camp oven cookers.

For the past thirty odd years we have always used coals for roasting and baking, but now prefer using heat beads. 
We use the easy-lite Heat Bead brand. Once they're lit it only takes thirty minutes until they are ready to be used. 

You place the required number into the cooker and light them. The initial flame only lasts for several minutes before it dies down.

Once the beads have turned into grey ash you transfer the required number of beads to the camp oven lid and place your camp oven onto the cooker with the remainder of the beads underneath the oven. 

The following link shows how many beads are required for a particular size camp oven.
Required number of heat beads

There are two reasons for providing your camp oven size when ordering. Firstly so that your oven will sit perfectly over the cooker

 and when not being used the cooker fits neatly inside your camp oven for storage. 

The holes in the base allow the beads to breathe while cooking.

We purchased an old electric fry-pan from a recycling centre and use that as our base.

Wade who makes the cookers can be contacted on 0417 605 o49 or wade76.ws@gmail.com. You can also search camp oven cooker on Facebook