Cooking Outdoors Grilling, Camp and Dutch oven Cooking!

New Grilling Tools from the National Hardware Show

Just returned from the National Hardware Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, a three day home and garden show for the business trade. With manufacturers, innovators, and wholesalers massed into the Las Vegas convention center at the old Hilton, thousands of retailers from around the globe visiting a few thousand booths, well, it was massively impressive. I was invited to attend by one of my clients, Best of the West products and cook for them in the Tailgate section of the show where they had their booth set up to display all of the charcoal products they sell. I cooked Tri-Tip, stuffed smoked jalapenos, twice baked potatoes, shrimp and watermelon and half chickens on the grill with their charcoals and chips. The food was a big hit with all of the visitors stopping by the booth. There was some down time for me where I was able to quickly walk the show several times (Which is an understatement if you knew the size of this event) and discover some pretty cool new stuff to share.

Kettle Pizza

My friends over at Kettle Pizza introduced a new insert for the Weber Q 200 and 220 series gas grill users. The Kettle Pizza metal sleeve fits between the grill bottom and top creating a pizza oven chamber that retains the heat. A 15 inch cordierite stone and wood peel complete the kit.

They have also updated the original Kettle Pizza and stone insert, I think they did a great job!

Made in the USA!

www.KettlePizza.com

Best of the West

My good friends at Best of the West introduced their new Jim Beam charcoal and Oak Barrel smoking chips.

Having used this during the National Hardware Show myself – I can tell you it is a sure winner!

www.TwoTreesProducts.com

My Camp Kitchen

Outdoor camp kitchens that act as a storage unit and work station. High quality wood craftsmanship perfect for the Camp cook, RV’r, Backyard griller and Dutch oven cook.

Four different configurations that will satisfy all of your cooking needs.

Made in the USA!

www.MyCampKitchen.com

BBQ Dragon

The BBQ Dragon is a fire-starting tool so simple and yet revolutionary that it is literally changing the entire barbecue industry. It reduces the start time of charcoal grills to less than ten minutes and supercharges the starting of all kinds of other fires. It works by blowing large amounts of low-velocity, cool air at the fire. It’s battery-powered, hands-free, micro-USB rechargeable, and looks fantastic. It works on anything: charcoal grills, fire pits, fireplaces, wood stoves, smokers, even campfires.

The BBQ Dragon is a KickStarter Campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1025864883/bbq-dragon-the-barbecue-and-fire-supercharger

www.BBQDragon.com

Grilla Pellet Smoker

See the picture? Enough said – go check them out!

www.MyGrilla.com

Bon-Fire Kitchen

A multipurpose tri-pod cooking unit from Bon-fire, it is a Danish design and well thought through, just being introduced to the USA.

www.Bon-fire.com

Grillbot

An automatic grill brush! $99.99 and available for pre-order.

Pretty darn cool!

www.GrillBots.com

Evapo-Rust

For my Cast Iron friends!

A product of extensive research, EVAPO-RUST® rust remover is an environmentally-safe water-based product that removes rust in minutes, without scrubbing. It’s so easy to use, anyone can restore their rusted tools, auto parts, even firearms to like-new condition. One gallon de-rusts up to 300 lbs. of steel.

Removes even heavy rust completely
Non-toxic, non-corrosive, safe on skin
No fumes or bad odors, non-flammable, no VOC’s
Biodegradable, water soluble
Requires no special equipment
Will not harm unrusted steel, safe on other metals
Will not affect plastic, PVC, Viton and most paints

www.Evapo-Rust.com

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Grizzly Spit Portable Campfire Rotisserie Kit

Can you smell it? Rotisserie campfire chicken or perhaps a big hunk of Prime Rib Roast slowly cooking over the fire like the old days, except you don’t need to sit there and spin the rod as the meat cooks. It is a pretty picture and not a common sight around the campfire or at home, sad but true.

Rotisserie cooking or grilling has become a small use statistic, like the side burner on a grill over the years, the numbers are in the single percent digits for usage of those that have one. Rotisserie grilling numbers fall in those low numbers as well, we all get so excited to have all of those bells and whistles attached to our new grills at first, then the excitement fades and well, they just don’t get used. But, let me throw out a particular fact about cooking outdoors: It’s a pain in the backside to haul a grill around anywhere and use those neat toys, right! So your stuck with just that shiny new toy in your backyard when you want to do some good old fashion rotisserie cooking, until now. Now you can go camping, to a park or your backyard and have rotisserie grilled meats, vegetable, fish without the big grill or 1000 foot extension cord.

The people at Tool Wizard, the makers of the “Grizzly Spit Portable Campfire Rotisserie” can help you up your grilling recipe game anywhere at anytime with their battery operated rotisserie the Grizzly spit. They sent me a unit to try out for review and I am so excited to use this rotisserie in my fire pit this season. So excited that I set it up right away but haven’t cooked anything … yet but that is coming!

Here is the basic kit that comprises the Grizzly Portable Campfire Rotisserie Kit on the right ($49.99) and a couple of extra goodies Tool Wizard sent along for me to evaluate.

Opening the box you’ll find two support rods (vertical supports), one spit, one motor and two rotisserie prongs. Tool Wizard also sends along a very detailed users guide with set-up instructions, cooking tips and times, some additional tips and a 1-800 number if you have any questions.

First you will need to set up the rotisserie rod with the rotisserie bracket into the ground. Left or right side, doesn’t matter.

Next is the opposite rotisserie rod. Place this about 30 – 34 inches from the first rod.

Your spit is 36 inches long.

That is Almond wood for those that are curious.

Once the rotisserie support rods are in place, it is easy to slide the battery operated Grizzly rotisserie onto the mounting bracket.

Note that the rotisserie support rod should be slightly lower than the other support bracket to prevent the rod from walking out of the motor slot.

The Grizzly rotisserie only requires two “D” size batteries to cook up 20 – 30 hours and rotate up to 25lbs of meat!

Here are the Grizzly Spit Forks attached to the rotisserie rod. Just slide them on and tighten the thumb screws.

Double them up! You have plenty of rod length to do two big birds.

Grizzly Rotisserie Grilling Basket attachment – Nice!

Your Grizzly Spit Portable Campfire Rotisserie Kit comes with a nice storage bag to hold your new prized possession!

Now that I have gone through all of the set-up steps (super easy), rattled the pieces and such, I will say my first impression is awesome! Solid construction, easy, looks great and stores nicely.

Of course the next big question is how does it work? I can’t wait to find out! Grizzly Spit and a couple of Dutch ovens going and I will be in food paradise!!!

Now, what should I cook??

You can find more information about the Grizzly Spit at:

The BBQ Store

1540 Charles Drive, Suite B

Redding, Ca

96003

1-800-630-8665

www.ToolWizard.com

Note: Full disclosure, www.toolwizard.com provided the Grizzly Spit and accesories to Cooking-Outdoors.com at no charge and with no stipulations. All comments, opinions and reviews are my own. Gary House

Camp Chef Pizza Stone for the Outdoor Camp Oven

There is no doubt that my outdoor cooking game went up a few notches when my friends at Camp Chef and OutdoorCooking.com sent me their new All Purpose Pizza Stone for the Camp Chef Camp Oven. Anytime I bake a pizza outdoors is hero time for my boys, me being the hero of course. Pizza in a Dutch oven, pizza on the grill and now pizza in my Outdoor Camp Oven, making the Outdoor Camp Oven an indispensable camping item for me. With a two burner stove and oven combo, there is no limit to what I can cook outdoors with it, well … anything that fits in it I should say! I can just imagine someone suggesting I prepare a Moose shank or a full brisket – I can always try!

Camp Chefs new Pizza stone is cut to perfect dimensions to fit in the Outdoor Camp Oven 10.5″ x 14″ x 7/16″ and easily fitting the Professional Barbeque Grill Box for Camp Chef Three Burners stoves. Not only is it ready to cook with right out of the box, you can use it in your RV oven, kitchen oven and just about any charcoal or gas grill out there including the Camp Chef Smoke Vault!

Don’t let the name “Pizza Stone” limit your creativity, there are many more culinary creations that can go on a Pizza stone: bread, biscuits, pie crust deserts, and cookies for example.

First things first, you need to pre-heat your Outdoor Camp Oven and Pizza stone at the same time. Do not place a cold stone in a hot oven, it will crack or shatter. Pre-heat your pizza stone and oven for at least 30 minutes to get the Pizza stone fully heated.

I decided to try a new recipe for a Taco Pizza and of course, one of the boys favorites a Pepperoni Pizza.

This recipe was inspired from leftover tacos we had for dinner the other night. Not enough to feed the family again but plenty for a small pizza.

Taco Pizza Ingredients

Seasoned Taco meat

Diced onions

Diced tomatoes

Sharp Cheddar cheese

Shredded lettuce (after baking)

Next was the boys peperoni pizza. Pepperoni, cheese and sauce.

Cook time was 15 minutes for a 10″ pizza.

The overall results were fantastic! The Camp Chef Outdoor Camp Oven and the New All Purpose Pizza Stone did a great job. Each pizza had a crispy crust and the top ingredients were done, no mushy middle just a nice bubbly topping. The pizza stone is made of Cordierite Ceramic and will last a long time with proper care, which should only consist of an occasional warm water wash and a scraping of food bits from the surface. Over time your Pizza stone will darken with use and become increasingly nonstick.

So this was a big win for me and my family!