OT - Firewire came to the rescue - Tandoor oven test inaugural cook

Canugghead

Picked up this almost new toy recently. Home sized authentic Indian clay tandoor oven, probably over 100 pounds heavy:

Rubbed the clay with several coats of spinach-molasses cure and burned a small fire for over 48 hours. 

Due to been busy and poor planning, I didn't have any naan dough nor skewered meat to try when the oven was still moderately hot after curing.  Then I remembered there was some leftover tandoori chicken marinade, also found some raw chicken breast slices but they were too small to be skewed by the heavy cooking rods ... that's when my brand new dust collecting Firewires came to mind!

 

Quite pleased with the result, the flavour profile is very authentic.  Now I know why I could never get the same taste with tandoori cooked in the BGE, even though it's the same marinade.  Next cook: naan and skewered meat.  Slapping naan to the clay wall is going to be fun for sure!

Ragtop99

very interesting.  I had no idea that a tandoori oven was seasoned was seasoned that way. 

Sammi

Nicely done, lots of good ideas coming out of Vaughan.

paqman

That's cool! I wish I had the space for something like that. There's nothing like freshly baked naan!

Canugghead

@Ragtop99 - indeed, google on 'tandoor curing' for some interesting read.

@Sammi - thanks, it's Christmas come eary!

@paqman - this is a small unit, fooprint is only 20"x20".  The full size commercial units are typically 34"x34".