Tandoor oven

[pete]

I'd like to have a go at a small diy tandoor oven next summer, I suppose a large clay pot from the garden centre with some lit charcoals in the bottom would do a good enough job for chicken tikka, maybe.

(Pete your nans look great btw!).

Thanks Nessa
They are far more tasty than ones from the supermarket
Those ones seem to almost taste the same as ordinairy bread!
There is that DIY site for making a tandoor (I think it's already been mentioned)
I'm not sure if a garden centre pot could take the heat
The tandoor is made of a dull grey clay
I don't know what it is

[tonyh]

Hi all
        It is possible to build a tandoor from a flowerpot, try www.poptastic.com/build.php?tt_page=article&article=3. Worth a try for not a lot of money!

            Cheers Tony

[George]

Tony

Good find but it looks so ugly, like having a piece of junk in your back yard. Also, I wonder how long a thin flower pot will last before further cracks develop.

I didn't relealise that tandoors have an air vent at the bottom. Do they all have that?

Regards
George

[tonyh]

Hi again
           If building is too much, have a look at www.tandooriq.co.uk , prices seem very reasonable-now how do I convince the other half !!!

                               Cheers Tony       

[pete]

Hi again
? ? ? ? ? ?If building is too much, have a look at www.tandooriq.co.uk , prices seem very reasonable-now how do I convince the other half !!!

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Cheers Tony? ? ? ?

Hi Tony
            I looked at this tandoor before I bought mine from Shaan tandoors.
There is nothing wrong with the tandooriq and it is cheaper
The misgivings I had about the tandooriq were all mis founded
I ased a chef about it and I think , as he was unfamiliar with the apparatus, it put me off.

I thought you might not be able to do naans  (but you apparantly can)
I was worried that you cooked with the lid off   (you don't have to with mine)
I didn't like the use of charcoal, as restaurants don't use that anymore (you can get a gas baffle if you want)

[George]

My hope is to build one in the garden, like the Thompson one, and fuel it with charcoal.

More recently Chilli Prawn said:  "...I think George...has also made his own out of bits & pieces but not the proper pot."

Yes, thats' still the intention - to cobble something together for about ?10 (I'm not joking) and try it out this summer. If it produces good tikkas and naan bread, I'll be pleased to report back here and may even prepare a web page showing how it was done. If it doesn't work, at least I'll have tried.

Regards
George

[Yousef]

I would be very interested to hear about that George.

You could always post a report here including pictures....

Stew

[George]

You could always post a report here including pictures....

Yes,  of course I will, if it works, that is!. Any separate web page (in addition) would only be if I feel it's worth going into the same sort of construction detail as a couple of other DIY tandoor builders have done.

Objectives:
- very cheap
- gets up to 500C ++ (or whatever proves optimal)
- produces tikka and naan bread to match or surpass the best BIRs
- can also double-up as a bread oven. e.g for making French baguettes
- located outdoors and is reasonably attractive to look at, like a high-quality barbecue might be seen as.

Regards
George

PS Is there any way of customising the spell check dictionary? It flagged up non-recognition on tikka, naan and BIRs!