Topic: Homemade Tandoori oven construction photos and blog

[Unclebuck]

There you go Jerry, space problem solved. ;D ;D More seriously, if you only have a choice of one, it has to be a Tandoor surely.

yeah has to be a tandoor, you can get away with oven cooked pizza but not naan go for it jerry

[mak]

Wow! absolutely awesome. I'm just looking where mine could go
Is there any chance of a few pics of tikka cooking? How and where did you position it in the oven ?
Cheers

[tempest63]

I don;t know if anyone has posted this link before. If they have feel free to remove but it is a website showing how to build a tandoor in the garden

http://piers.thompson.users.btopenworld.com/background.html

[tempest63]

It would seem that Traditional Tandoor recipes are few and far between so if you manage to own your own tandoor can I suggest the book "Tandoor" by Ranjit Rai if you are hunting for recipes.

[haldi]

It would seem that Traditional Tandoor recipes are few and far between so if you manage to own your own tandoor can I suggest the book "Tandoor" by Ranjit Rai if you are hunting for recipes.

That's a very good, glossy, high quality book
But I think it's the only book
The problem is that the recipes aren't BIR
They use tenderisers like papaya juice
There are items that you certainly won't be able to buy at Tescos
And if you could get them, they would not be cheap
The book is fantastic though, it gives an illustrated history of the tandoor.
There are pictures of them being made.
If you are a tandoor fan, you will get much enjoyment from this book!!!
As for recipe though, we have the best ones, already on this site

[Unclebuck]

Hi Chaps Haven't forgot about this thread  .
Been having fun cooking in the tandoor also had a little disaster as i tryed to cook a whole tandoori chicken and it fell into the ashes DOH!! and Ive just deleted a load tikka pics  :-[

ill be doing some more soon so ill get em posted.


I marinaded this chicken for 24 hrs in the fridge
before i threaded onto skewer i put half a lemon inside chicken.


thought if i wedge a couple of onions at the end it would stop it from moving...about 30 Min's in the oven it fell off, Whoops. Smelt lovely when it was cooking tho!

Ive made a skewer with a clamp for next time.
UB.

[martinr1000]

Hi,

i would have had a good go at salvaging that chicken from the ashes 

it sounds like you have probably solved your slippage problem but i have cooked whole chicken before and stuck about 4-5 skewers through it. this has two benefits because if you spread out the skewers around the top of the tandoor the bottom creates a sort of support frame and will not allow slippage. secondly you get more heat transmission through the meat which will cook it quicker. (you still need to try and protect the meat at the bottom though as it can burn)

cheers

[Unclebuck]

Hi,

i would have had a good go at salvaging that chicken from the ashes 

I did try but its so hot in there just couldnt get it out till the temp dropped, i was gutted. next time, next time.

Thanks for your tip martin. UB.

[martinr1000]

my weber bbq mitt has saved much lamb tikka in it's time (along with my arm hairs which were regularly singed off at one stage)

http://www.godfreys.com/product/Barbecue_Mitt_WS-8401

got mine from b&q but they aren't advertising them at the moment

[JerryM]

i had a 2nd go at cooking tikka on my chiminea yesterday.

i'm finding it's working a treat. i'm sure it's not a good a UB's real deal but for those who already have a chiminea then it's the next best thing.

u do have to work at keeping the flames "heat" right (there's no insulation so embers are not hot enough alone). u need to have good embers and then a little wood to keep a sort of trickle flame going.

the skewer of tikka coming off looked real good. i did not actually taste it but those who had the CTM did not complain.

the only downside is that the existing smell of the chiminea seems to mask out the smell of the tikka cooking. u can't have everything.