| If you decide to buy a pizza oven for the home it will | | | | recognise the Cobb they feature regularly. These two |
| probably be electric and only capable of cooking pizza, | | | | British Chefs have travelled the world cooking many |
| nothing else. Since these ovens have such restricted | | | | different cuisines using the Cobb as their cooker of |
| use they tend to be used a couple of times, and then | | | | choice. |
| forgotten. | | | | Whether at home or away the Cobb will cook |
| Instead of wasting money this way you may wish to | | | | everything from a full family breakfast to a roast |
| consider a viable and inexpensive alternative, the Cobb | | | | dinner with all the trimmings. We've already mentioned |
| Grill. | | | | its capabilities as a pizza oven, but it will do so much |
| For those who are not familiar with the Cobb it is a | | | | more. You can bake bread in it, smoke meat or fish, |
| compact multifunction cooker that makes an excellent | | | | use it as a wok, cook stew and dumplings and it |
| pizza oven, but does much more as well. The fuel of | | | | makes an excellent BBQ. |
| choice for the Cobb is the humble charcoal briquette. 6 | | | | When we think of BBQ we're bound to think of the |
| - 9 briquettes is sufficient for up to 3 hours cooking | | | | smoke and occasional flare ups. With the Cobb its not |
| time. | | | | a problem. Meat juices are directed into a moat |
| For use in the home the Cobb is ideally sited close to | | | | arrangement in the bottom, so never come into direct |
| the main kitchen cookers extraction hood. Unless your | | | | contact with the heat source and hence produces little |
| extraction can cope the Cobb should be lit outside and | | | | or no smoke. For this same reason the Cobb doesn't |
| left for 15 minutes for the coals to turn grey. The | | | | flare up. |
| design of the Cobb is such that the sides of the | | | | The moat serves several purposes. As well as |
| cooker remain cool, so when the Cobb is ready it can | | | | collecting meat juices it can be part filled with water or |
| be picked up and brought inside. You are now ready | | | | wine etc. As the stove heats, the steam from the |
| to to use the Cobb as a pizza oven. | | | | moat keeps the cooking meat above moist and helps |
| You will soon realise that the Cobb makes an | | | | prevent shrinkage. In addition, if you wrap vegetables in |
| excellent emergency cooker for the home in times of | | | | foil they can be cooked in the moat and not absorb |
| power cuts. It comes with its own carrying bag and is | | | | the meat juices. The liquor left at the end of cooking |
| compact enough to take camping or use on a boat. | | | | makes an excellent base for gravy or a sauce. |
| If you've ever watched the 'Hairy Bikers' on TV you'll | | | | |