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Baking in the Bush

November 1, 2009 - 1:37am -- mimmo_gsr

Hi All,

Just got back from a camping trip and decided to try my hand at baking a fresh loaf of bread in the camp oven.

The oven is a Bedourie Camp oven and is made from spun steel as opposed to cast iron like most are made from. This oven was developed in Australia as the cast iron ovens used to weigh too much when the cattlemen were in the outback.

I have modified a 330mm pizza stone to fit into this oven with the help of a turbo style 105mm Diamond Blade.

The bread itself was made as follows.

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First Mega-Bake Attempt

October 4, 2009 - 6:58pm -- sourdough greg

I always tend to get a little too ambitious when devoting a whole day to baking bread. It's always been an indoor effort before, where I try to make enough breads so that my wife and two teenageers don't finish it all by, oh, Tuesday morning. So I figured I can REALLY crank out a lot of bread when I can bake numerous loaves at once. So I pulled out The Jewish Baker and Old World Breads. Had a sourdough starter and rye sour starter going Saturday so I'd be ready Sunday. 

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Italian 00 flour-Chicago sources

September 26, 2009 - 3:49pm -- sourdough greg

I thought I remembered someone looking for a source in the Chicago area. Caputo's (Italian) grocery stores carry it, and inexpensive, too. Only $2.59 a kilo, (2.2 lbs). Sure beats $4.00 and up plus shipping (never cheap for heavier things like many pounds of flour). They also carry about a gazillion (estimate only) types of canned tomato products, from the San Marzano ($4.59 a can. Yikes!) to reasonably priced options. I bought the 6 in 1 brand for $1.79, and used it to make one of Reinhart's sauce recipes. Excellente! There are several Caputo's locations, too. 

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meat cooking

September 6, 2009 - 8:47pm -- yozzause

The wood fired oven has worked wonderfully well for both pizza and bread to date with great results, but it is now time  to some serious meat cooking i would be pleased to hear from some of the woodies on their exploits with meats.

Some of the students here at TAFE are interested in cooking  / baking a whole piglet in the near future for their graduation.

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