[deepsouth]

Great looking steaks and Q there DS. I was doing brisket sandwiches with coleslaw. No sauce needed. Got polenta instead of the cornbread though I'll be whipping a batch up fairly soon.

Brisket sandwiches everyday last week for lunch and forecast is the same for this week. Then chili and chopped out of the scraps.

awesome!  you mush have done a packer!?  i wanted to do one, but i didn't have room in the refrigerator for the leftovers from one!

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I actually did two. The first was 6.5# super-trimmed and already seasoned. Overcooked it but even so pretty tasty. Been eating on it  in various forms all week. Did a 10# untrimmed packer perfectly Saturday. I just can't eat it all. Some will get sliced and vac-packed for the old folks.

[bluesman]

Then chili and chopped out of the scraps.

Leftover brisket makes awesome chili!

[capozzoli]

Here is the cement mixer that I want to convert to a tandoor.







I cant seem to find any good info on the clay to use. From what I understand it is just pushed and built up on the inside and then fired by maintaining a fire in it for a few days.

MAybe just regular terracotta form the art store?

Funny that I heard a lot of people convert kegs into a tandoor.

[bluesman]

They can get quite hot from what I understand. I like how they cook the naan and roti on the side of the tandoor as Nic had mentioned defying gravity. Quite an art to cooking in a tandoor.



Cap...how about furnace brick in the bottom and then high temp refractory material formed and lined on the inside.

[capozzoli]

I was thinking refractory cement. Thats what we use to set up forges. But isn't it toxic?  

Yeah hot is the way for a of tandoori recipes, sometimes 400-500 degrees. but some recipes call for low and slow, like lamb roasts and stuff. some style tandoori are big enough to roast whole lambs.

At the Indian restaurant I go too they have taken me in the kitchen to see the tandoor, its wood fired and huge. I would say 50-75 gallons, if you will.  They build  a big fire in the AM to get the whole thing hot. Then they just maintain a small pile of coals in the bottom for the days cooking.

Oh yeah, they showed me the bread to. Didnt look that hard, just have to be good at getting your hand in and out quick with out hitting the sides of the opening with your arm. They reach in with the bread on a cushion covered in a dish towel. They press it on the sides. then when it is done they pull it out with their fingers. They do not flip it.

Here is someone doing it. they use a tool. I swear my guy used his hands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltADJfQRwtk

This guy has a nice set up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUdAdIkbXXo

This guy has a gas fired one. I think he is remveing it with his hand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejoVGxL7ySk

They make them this way in Urumqi for when it comes time to loose the wife. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdHqFMnIO-Y

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I was thinking refractory cement. Thats what we use to set up forges. But isn't it toxic?  
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Refractory cement is what they use to build the pizza ovens... 
Breathing the dust, refractory or not will give you cancer.
What are firebricks made of? That's what they use for the floor of the pizza ovens...

[capozzoli]

oh really. i thought the pizza ovens were stone ore some composite.

They lay the food right on refractory cement or is there another layer?  

Maybe that refractory cement will work. I might even have some.

I think it is just regular concrete with Aluminum something or other. Some people mix in fiberglass.

Ok, looks like there are a bunch of different things that fall under refractory. I think the one I am looking for is fire clay. I need to form it inside si it follows the tear drop small of the mixer, which is an ideal shape for a tandoor.

Indian BBQ Baby.

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I think the term you seek is "alumina" and it is used to line kilns and is also used in ceramic.

[capozzoli]

Oh yeah, alumina, thats what my tig cups are made of. They are pink.

But I think it is calcium aluminate. Which is I guess just alumina and calcium mixed? Im not sure.


BBQ style, Oh Yeah.

[nicneufeld]

I've seen several tandoor designs using a trash can (or keg) with an inverted terra cotta pot, bricks, and vermiculite.  Seems like something you could fashion pretty simply, cap.  The one guy had his design up to 419...celsius!!!!!!!! on the first burn.

[deepsouth]

after not getting burned last night, i cooked a few things.











thanks for looking!!!


and a quick note on flashbacks.....

i was going to put food on my Big Green Egg last night and i had the bottom draft door about 1/3rd open and the top was set to hold a temp of 350-400 degrees.

when i walked out to the egg, i noted the temp to be 350 degrees. i slowly lifted the top to "burp" the egg and noticed no smoke coming out. everything seemed fine.....

i then lifted the top of the egg and everything started happening in what seemed to be slow motion.

a fire started in the bottom and for some reason, i began backing up. the fire traveled up into the top of the egg and big long tongue of fire came toward me, head level, and i could actually feel the heat on my forehead and shoulder. fortunately, i had backed far enough away to avoid any burns whatsoever.

just a heads up.... your grill doesn't have to it's hottest possible to get a pretty decent flashback.

[bluesman]

Great looking Q deepsouth as usual! 

Hey Cap...here's a link for Tandoori Ovens. They use a special clay mixture for the liner of the oven.

http://www.goldentandoors.com/products/restaurant-tandoors.htm

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I've only seen a few hints of the "flashback"... I usually don't go over 350 but it's good to know it can happen that low.

DS Nice rock hens. Did cooking side by side with the fish affect the flavor any? And I gots to gets me some scallops. Big time.

[capozzoli]

Great looking Q deepsouth as usual!  

Hey Cap...here's a link for Tandoori Ovens. They use a special clay mixture for the liner of the oven.

http://www.goldentandoors.com/products/restaurant-tandoors.htm

I wonder what is "special" about their special clay. http://www.traditionaloven.com/articles/101/what-is-fire-clay-and-where-to-get-it

I think I have to mix up something like this. Thick enough to sculpt in and form the walls. I suppose shrinkage is the real problem.