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 for them to be ready for use. 

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

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

The following link displays the number of beads required for a specific camp oven size.
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 in use, 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 used 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