Hey all,
Long time lurker, I don't post often but I do read a lot. Thought I'd share some wood fired goodness that's not the normal run of the mill grilling.
I've traveled many times to India, and also love anything Indian that comes out of a tandoor oven. I've always wanted to build a tandoor, and was on my project list for the spring... but I saw this at a local restaurant supply auction and couldn't pass it up.
I've fired it twice now, just learning how big of a fire I need to get it up to temperature, where to put it in there, etc... I got it up to about 750-775 degrees with ~15 pounds of coals, which is close to where I want to be. I've tried both RO lump and stubb's natural briquettes, even some logs. Seems to respond well to all.
Here it is, all ~600 pounds of it.
Fits well into the arsenal.
Not too bad inside. I have to read if I'm supposed to fill these cracks or not.
Hot enough?
My favorite dishes are chicken tikka, and garlic naan. Here are my attempts.
I ran out of potatoes as a heat shield, so, some makeshift foil ones in there as well.
Official powder, typo and all, grabbed last time I was in India
Skewers loaded up
Cooking/cooked
First go at naan. Only made one naan donation to the fire
I like a lot of garlic... so.. there's garlic both in the dough and on it.
Long time lurker, I don't post often but I do read a lot. Thought I'd share some wood fired goodness that's not the normal run of the mill grilling.
I've traveled many times to India, and also love anything Indian that comes out of a tandoor oven. I've always wanted to build a tandoor, and was on my project list for the spring... but I saw this at a local restaurant supply auction and couldn't pass it up.
I've fired it twice now, just learning how big of a fire I need to get it up to temperature, where to put it in there, etc... I got it up to about 750-775 degrees with ~15 pounds of coals, which is close to where I want to be. I've tried both RO lump and stubb's natural briquettes, even some logs. Seems to respond well to all.
Here it is, all ~600 pounds of it.
Fits well into the arsenal.
Not too bad inside. I have to read if I'm supposed to fill these cracks or not.
Hot enough?
My favorite dishes are chicken tikka, and garlic naan. Here are my attempts.
I ran out of potatoes as a heat shield, so, some makeshift foil ones in there as well.
Official powder, typo and all, grabbed last time I was in India
Skewers loaded up
Cooking/cooked
First go at naan. Only made one naan donation to the fire
I like a lot of garlic... so.. there's garlic both in the dough and on it.