Topic: Trials and Tribulations of a Steel Tandoor

[Gav Iscon]

I've always fancied a tandoor and when Stu-Pot joined the forum with some great opening posts and along with the summer approaching coupled with one of my bbqs needing replacing, I thought I would do something about it. One of the problems was that I would be taking it to France for a week and I thought a clay one might not stand the bashing about so after seeing CBM

[Peripatetic Phil]

Oy vey !  I don't think I would stand something that gets that hot on wooden decking !
** Phil.

[Naga]

Good review, Gav! Looking forward to your naan experiments. I'm still toying with the idea of either a tandoor or a pizza oven, but I won't be doing anything about it until next year, so it'll be useful to hear how your tandoor adventures go over time.

[Gav Iscon]

Don't worry Phil, no damage done apart from a few food dribbles and I'm very experienced in such matters. 

I've actually even put jubilee clips on the gas hose for a change  ;D

[chewytikka]

Whoa, Joined the home Tandoori Gang.

Very different looking, and handy piece of kit Gav
Loads of fun, looking forward to your road test.

cheers Chewy

[JerryM]

A real cute size too.

Naan is on my mind at mo and looking fwd to how it performs. The warm up is tantalising.

[Unclefrank]

Will be getting my Tandoor up and running sometime this week too, just waiting for it's "home" to be delivered.

[George]

I've always fancied a tandoor

Ah - boys with their toys, a bit like I always wanted a Scalextric set but it turned out to be a five minute wonder and was hardly used over the long term.

Your new tandoor certainly looks good and, if it can produce an oven temperature of 500C, it will be interesting to hear if there are any taste advantages compared to the grill on a domestic oven for chicken tikka (I'm sceptical) and the method of inverting the pan over an open flame for naan bread (more likely, I'd guess). Perhaps charcoal would introduce new flavours but I doubt it with a gas-fired tandoor.

I wonder what the cost of the propane is, to bring it up to anywhere near 500C for each cooking session.

[Madrasandy]

Looks fantastic Gav, I want one 
Im sure after a couple of sessions you will learn how to cook to perfection, reckon the naans should be interesting to cook !! 

[jb]

I wouldn't be without my tandoor.To be honest there's no comparison when I cook chicken in it verses my own domestic oven.Naan breads are perfect,sure it takes a bit of practice but after a while it becomes easy.

The first tandoor is indeed gas fired but it does have a layer of charcoal at the bottom.This is how I've witnessed BIR's run theirs as well on my various lessons.