Delux Camping oven
This is more of a New Year project since we're going camping at a caravan park on the south coast of Western Australia that (very unusual for Australia at this time of the year) allows fires in an open drum even in the middle of summer . We call it camping but we go with 2 vehicles (large hired camper van complete with bathroom, plus our stationwagon) and all the mod cons we can carry.
For several years we used a Stainless Steel drum from a clothes drier as a fire place and it has been great. That part is the lower half of the contraption below. Place a steel plate on the top of the drum for BBQ - take top off steel plae for evening campfire ambience.
To aid ventilation when using BBQ plate on the original drum I drilled more holes in the bottom and cut and added a small doorway on the side to allow wood to be added The steel hinges on the small doorway finally rusted solid over winter so they needed to be replaced. I have two spare drums and was thinking about replacing the old drum. instead I decided to use a drum as a second story camp oven. And here is the final product.
I'm not that happy with the chimney adapter but it will do for now until I form a nice sheet metal cone.
The brushed SS strap and most of the other steel was chimnet left over from another project and all I had to buy was the top half of the chimney, and the SS hinges and rivets.
Extra wide oven doorway for easy getting stuff in and out.
Inside it has a 1mm thick flame deflector plate and a SS grate 30 mm above that for resting cookware on.
We're thinking baked whole fish, pizza and bread seeing as SWMBO has the appliance from heaven or is it hell that you throw stuff into and out comes bread dough ready to bake.
I have no idea if it will work, it has very little thermal mass so the wood will have to be kept up to it - I will report back soon.
Oh yeah - and it comes apart for easy transport.
