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Bidgee
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My cooking area
      #269806 - 31/08/15 09:27 AM

I was cooking a potjie last night and thought that I would post some photos of my cooking area and hopefully we might get some others to post some photos of theirs as well.

I have a couple of old disk plough blades to barbecue on as well as using the pot for cooking. I have run water to the area and have sink to install and a shower. The area is 80 m from the house and next to a shipping container that I am converting to a 'man cave'. We spend some lovely evenings out here.

It's starting to come together nicely.

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Bidgee
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Re: My cooking area [Re: Bidgee]
      #269807 - 31/08/15 09:30 AM

A moment of reflection



Cheers

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CHAPUISARMES
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Re: My cooking area [Re: Bidgee]
      #269809 - 31/08/15 09:52 AM

Very nice Bidgee, you must have a lot of family fun there but I can't see any beer cans around That terrain looks alot like out on the Minore Road way



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Re: My cooking area [Re: CHAPUISARMES]
      #269815 - 31/08/15 02:55 PM

A tidy camp.

I was going to take potjie and a camp oven up for the hunt. Rejected the potjie as I had too much stuff already. Didn't use the camp oven either. The plan was to get some buffalo meat early and cook up a buffalo sri lankan curry or similar. As it was we only got the first bull well into the week and not a young enough animal to bother with meat for it. Actually never even made a camp fire which in hindsight was a pity.

Like your second photo, a campfire is nature's bush TV and adds to the atmosphere and ejoyment of a camp.

The whole idea you outline has merit to copy! I have a couple of containers to "covert" and was toying with the idea of not locating near the sheds for storage but putting, one, maybe too near the creek. The whole "away from it" mancave idea, campfire etc etc really is proving attractive now.

I have the house to myself most weekdays and weeknights, so not really needed. My whole house is a "mancave". But I think it is a great idea. My container "mancave" can have creek and "water" views. Water when the creek actually flows, and somedays can be an island in a flood.

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Re: My cooking area [Re: NitroX]
      #269816 - 31/08/15 02:57 PM

Damn that is a neat and tidy fire place as well !!!

The old disk plough blades is cool too. But I think I am still using all of mine.

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Bidgee
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Re: My cooking area [Re: CHAPUISARMES]
      #269844 - 01/09/15 06:04 AM

Quote:

Very nice Bidgee, you must have a lot of family fun there but I can't see any beer cans around That terrain looks alot like out on the Minore Road way





the good looking high quality agricultural land gives it away every time. We can run 2-3 goannas per 20 hectares here!

Oh, on that night we had a red that the young bloke had won in a trivial pursuit competition on the weekend! Couldn't complain for the price.

Cheers

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Cazadero
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Re: My cooking area [Re: Bidgee]
      #269854 - 01/09/15 11:39 AM

Is this at home or at camp?

Either way it looks like a place I'd enjoy a cold one or two...

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Re: My cooking area [Re: Cazadero]
      #270030 - 06/09/15 08:22 AM

This is my backyard.

Lots of briskets, ribs,and steaks cooked on this pit.

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Re: My cooking area [Re: Cazadero]
      #270039 - 06/09/15 05:05 PM

Flip now that is a serious looking cooker!!

Did you make it yourself?

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Re: My cooking area [Re: Cazadero]
      #270040 - 06/09/15 05:08 PM

Quote:

Is this at home or at camp?

Either way it looks like a place I'd enjoy a cold one or two...



It is at home, it is nice to place to sit and chill out.

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Re: My cooking area [Re: Bidgee]
      #270043 - 06/09/15 05:31 PM

Quote:

Quote:

Is this at home or at camp?

Either way it looks like a place I'd enjoy a cold one or two...



It is at home, it is nice to place to sit and chill out.



and tell tall stories of their hunts I know we all do that, it's like telling stories about size of certain things No not that, the size of the horns you dirty beast.

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Re: My cooking area [Re: Bidgee]
      #270097 - 07/09/15 01:22 PM

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Did you make it yourself?



I can weld, but not like this. These smokers are made in Uvalde, about 80 miles southwest of San Antonio.

When our friends from Zimbabwe stayed with us, they marveled at what they named the "Texas offset cooker."

Funny how things are done differently throughout the world.

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Re: My cooking area [Re: Cazadero]
      #287752 - 13/09/16 01:54 AM

I know this is an older thread but I like the idea of sharing cooking area photos. I built this cooking shack this summer to house my grill and smoker. Built a fire pit out front with benches
[image]http://s1102.photobucket.com/user/cordite_lee1/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160912_094428_zpslykqfoiq.jpg.html][/URL][/image]

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Re: My cooking area [Re: cordite]
      #287753 - 13/09/16 02:00 AM

I connected it with a walkway to the deck off my house.
[image]http://s1102.photobucket.com/user/cordite_lee1/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160521_082822_zpsxpidgonw.jpg.html][/URL][/image]

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Re: My cooking area [Re: cordite]
      #287763 - 13/09/16 06:22 AM

Looks great, very nice looking forest surrounding your property as well.

Waidmannsheil.

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Re: My cooking area [Re: Waidmannsheil]
      #287772 - 13/09/16 08:33 AM

Incredible layout with the gazebo and fire pits, guys. Well done!

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Re: My cooking area [Re: DarylS]
      #287790 - 13/09/16 01:07 PM

I love the wasp traps,they spell trouble is around!

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Re: My cooking area [Re: gryphon]
      #287791 - 13/09/16 01:24 PM

We have a delightful brook running alongside of the house with lots of ferns etc.Its a very cool place on a hot day and we get a fire going on the cooler days. Its a mess atm as we had more a river than a brook recently.



Same spot,diff angle.



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Re: My cooking area [Re: cordite]
      #287797 - 13/09/16 03:43 PM

Very civilised.

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Re: My cooking area [Re: gryphon]
      #287798 - 13/09/16 03:45 PM

Quote:

Same spot,diff angle.





STOP !!!

BTW what's a stop sign doing down there, debris?

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Re: My cooking area [Re: NitroX]
      #287799 - 13/09/16 03:53 PM

Ha ha stop drinking !

It is just part of the former decor.

Anyway I grilled these wings on a wire frame over coals in the flooded zone foreground,the black bits are Oregano leaves used in the marinade.




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Re: My cooking area [Re: gryphon]
      #287801 - 13/09/16 04:08 PM

Quote:

I love the wasp traps,they spell trouble is around!



Are you talking about the hummingbird feeding stations?

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Re: My cooking area [Re: DarylS]
      #287871 - 15/09/16 07:37 AM

ha ha ha is that what they are...

I thought they were wasp traps D..

We dont do H birds downunder ha ha.


Heres another pic of the BBQ brook area,with most of the gear removed.



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Re: My cooking area [Re: gryphon]
      #288398 - 27/09/16 11:29 AM

That's an impressive waterfront view!!!

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Re: My cooking area [Re: Bidgee]
      #288400 - 27/09/16 12:27 PM

800 mm of rain in less than four months got the brook foaming,the main creek over the other side has been going hard for months too,it is clear water though.

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