[capozzoli]

I fish some out, I leave the ones that have meat on them. The ones with the meat on them are the best part.

You can do it on a fire with out getting a hanging pot. Just use a regular pot and find a way to stand it over the fire. Like on bricks or something. Just regulate the heat by moving coals under the pot or away from the pot as needed.

Flames are not really necessary. I just did that for the dramatic effect.

I have to find a way to edit the videos together than I can make a step by step cooking type video. It would be like living my dream.

[nicneufeld]

Plain old Windows Movie Maker does the trick...ships with every XP, Vista, 7 copy.

Already have the hanging pot and tripod stand, so I'll be good to go...not a traditional goulash pot, but an enameled pot that should do fine, and has worked for other live fire cooks.

[bluesman]

Very nice work on the Hungarian Kotlik Goulash Capp.

What kind of consistency do you achieve when all is done. Is it more soupy or closer to a stew-like consistency?

[capozzoli]

In Hungary there is 'regular goulash' (stew) served plated with potatoes or dumplings, or there is 'goulash levesh' levesh (im sure not spelled right) means literally 'soup'. The version we made was Goulash Levesh served in a bowl. with bread on the side.

It does get a little thick with the reduction that takes place and the starch from the potatoes as they cook.

[Pawtucket Patriot]

Very nice work on the Hungarian Kotlik Goulash Capp.

+1  I'm always impressed when you cook in that outdoor kettle.  And now I want to try making some sort of goulash.  Yum!!!

[capozzoli]

Ill tel ya what my dream is.

I want to build a "landscape BBQ" set up. But with my idea there is a curved organic "Santa Fe" look.  I want to build a re-bar and wire mesh frame as an armature coated with cement and hay. Then incorporate from bottom to top a fire pit for the tripod brewing, or open spit roast, a tandoori oven, a counter top, sink, 'Argentinian' grill which is just a flat grill for coals but with a grid and rack that has adjustable height using a recycled bicycle gear and chain). Above that a hearth for bread / pizza,  a smoking / drying chamber.

I can do it pretty cheap. I figured it all out. The biggest cost is concrete but still manageable. The rest would be found stuff. Bricks from a fireplace demo, scrap rebar. or even new,  some other found steel. The other things that will cost money: plumbing supplies, the stones for the ovens and the fire clay for the tandor. Then finish the counter with tile. maybe finish the whole thing with crushed up glass and tiles, make a mosaic of a primitive hunter chasing dear or something. I was even thinking of forming a little curved alcove bench around the fire pit for cozying up to the fire during winter cooks.

I was going to do it here but because it is on footers/ permanent install and im try to sell this house, not doing it here, definitely the next house.

Maybe I could sell them? Maybe I could be a landscape fire pit artist.

[tygo]

make a mosaic of a primitive hunter chasing dear or something.

Something like this would be good:

[beerocd]

I want to build a "landscape BBQ" set up. But with my idea there is a curved organic "Santa Fe" look.  I want to build a re-bar and wire mesh frame as an armature coated with cement and hay. Then incorporate from bottom to top a fire pit for the tripod brewing, or open spit roast, a tandoori oven, a counter top, sink, 'Argentinian' grill which is just a flat grill for coals but with a grid and rack that has adjustable height using a recycled bicycle gear and chain). Above that a hearth for bread / pizza,  a smoking / drying chamber.

I can do it pretty cheap.

I had it figured at 6k for materials only to do a stone oven, with a fireplace underneath to double as a smoke chamber and a bbq to one side. Now that's with lining the insides with firebrick and using refractory cement. Outside would have been finished with brick. Then the world fell apart...

[capozzoli]

6K?

What was so much money? How much is refractory cement and fire bricks?

Oh you mean kast -o- lite. I put that in forges.

Do you think that is necessary?

[beerocd]

6K?

What was so much money? How much is refractory cement and fire bricks?

Oh you mean kast -o- lite. I put that in forges.

Do you think that is necessary?

You'll be around 1000 degrees when initially firing the oven. Regular bricks will eventually start to crumble, but depends how often you use it and how well you manage your fire. You can do it, but you will be RE-doing it eventually. 6K is build it once and your great-grandkids will be using it. Oh and it was going to be a barrel shape big enough to slide a whole pig into.

I was going for ...

just not those colors.

[capozzoli]

My idea is a little more third world.

More like these.





















http://hubpages.com/hub/Make_a_backyard_mud_oven_Cheap__fun__and_makes_a_professional_qualtity_pizza

http://www.killdawabbit.com/ebay/tandoorOven.htm


Imagine something like this spread out with more than one cooking surface.

[nicneufeld]

If/when I move to flagstaff AZ where the summers are cool, winters are mild and the air is rarely humid, I will/would invest in a serious outdoor kitchen setup like some of those.

[beerocd]

Sure, sounds simple doesn't it? lay some bricks, dig up some mud and bam! you got an oven. You'll still likely need to pay for the mud (the proper mud), those look cool too, bit rustic. You can use metal on the outside too, the outside wouldn't get too hot because you would have some kind of insulation going on. So you can show off your welding skills, and still have a proper brick oven on the inside where it counts.

[bluesman]

It looks like one big crock pot....

[maxieboy]

It looks like one big crock pot....