Yippee, I now have fuel for my Cobb! What shall I cook first?

[sethstarkaddersmackerel]

Managed to get to Lakeland and get a pack of Cobblestones. (Got Cobb for Xmas but nowhere sells bbq briquettes at this time of year apparently.)

I haven't got a chicken. Some bread perhaps?

oh bugger, I just left it in the oven too long and now it's dried out but the pink bits are still pink so it wasn't the Cobb's fault.

so chicken is a qualified success.

I will just have to do another, another day with a better chicken.

Bugger indeed.

How are the rolls?

Wrinkly

there was not enough fuel to cook them so I had to finish them off in the oven.

Rome wasn't built in a day. It will just take me practice to get a feel for how much cooking you get out of one Cobblestone.

It was so lovely having the thing cooking away neatly in the garden.

Cobb effort one v good. Holds up a 7 :)

You have now given me the urge to knock up a load of bread. Not only so that I can watch the artisan at work, you understand.

If I was marking my effort I would say it was an ambitious attempt (rolls and chicken!) but I let myself down by losing my nerve over the pink chicken.

Oh I missed the live Cobb Thread! sounds like you did well for a first attempt :)

I'm going to have to get practicing if I'm going to be on contention for the most poncific Cobb menu this year!

I wonder if it would be over-obsessive to put an oven thermometer inside my Cobb and see what temp it gets up to. Or even if I could get the lid on with the probe in there

[ old style figure skating out of 6 scoring]

I'm sure your chicken and wrinkly rolls will be delicious.

I'd be interested to hear what temp a mid point burning cobblestone generates, and an end stage one too

Seth, I hope to join you soon with being a cob owner
Let us know if you experiment with any veg, I'm interested in knowing how to cook different types of veg...!

Oh, and if anyone starts doing any sweet things....yum! Would love to hear about it!
Wish I didn't miss the live cobb thread today!

dh has just been pointing out that variations in air temp will affect the result.

so if we record any oven temps we will also have to record the air temperature and how windy it is....

There will be another live Cobb thread very soon

poppy our fave hot pudding cobb recipe invented by dd1 (6) last summer and cunningly called Eleanor's Hot delight. Shoddy ingredients to be found in most campsite shops.

Pack of chololate muffins or cake.
Tin or carton of instant custard.
Tin of peaches or pears or fruitsalad or whatever.

Roughly manhandle muffins until partially disintergrated and put in saucepan.
Slodge custard on the top.
Add some milk until the whole thing is a gruesome mess.

Go to swings and slides for half an hour.

Drain tinned fruit and bung that in.

Put on cobb (just the inner ring thing that holds the fuel) after you have cooked the main course so you have a gentle rather than roasting heat.

Allow child to stir while simultaneously achieving parental-peril-hover and nonchalant face of fire/child interface.

Give children and people who don't care what their food looks like spoons. Eat hot chocolatey, fruity sludge direct from saucepan.

It's very good, especially if the weather is piss poor.

lolol @ cobb temperature variation charts.

tee hee, I'm quite tempted to copy out that recipe very solemnly and get dd to help me make it.

You have to eat it directly from the saucepan. If you try and serve it nicely into bowls the terrible reality of the brown slop you have created comes crashing down.

It does taste really good though.

what if I piped a little rosette of whipped cream on the top?

Well that would be very pretty (although I would have SERIOUS concerns about someone who took a piping bag and nozzle camping).

I fear you could adorn the surface with swarovski jewels and tiny little cut outs of Daniel Craig coming out of the sea in those swimming trunks and it would still look like a saucepan of poo.

I stand by it tasting good and that's all that counts when eating outside.

you could make a very pretty pavlova if you took your piping bag camping....

Snort

That is a step into glamperdom I'm not prepared to make.

No if I have enough elbow grease to get my egg whites to glossy stiff peaks they'll just be blobbed on the baking sheet haphazardly.

Eyes slubber's fearsome right arm with womanly respect.

dh has noted that the chicken was a Devonshire Red which probably explains pinkness.