Volcano vs Cobb

Thanks Betsey, I would've never guessed it was that simple.

 

I love my Cobb! I've used it every camping trip. Here a few of the many successes:
Peri Peri chicken.
Salmon smoked with alder chips.
Grilled shrimp and scallops.
Roasted pork tenderloin.
Cookies? Yes! a little burnt on the bottom, but so what.

Oh boy, what a great versatile asset to my galley!
And I stow it in the truck...

 

We have been practicing with our Cobb at home on the deck. It has been wonderful. Had the best corn on the cobb ever (hickory chips). We have done chicken, pork chops, steak, and hambergers plus vegs.

We find the kitchen sink great for clean up at home but I think someone mentioned a foaming soap which seems like that would be good when camping.

 

Cobb_Cook_Book_SM.pdf

This is a great little online cookbook for the Cobb. I store it in my Ipad Adobe app as a PDF so I can retrieve it offline.
Ken and Peggy - Looking forward to hearing how it went this weekend.
And that's a great tip Pat about using a baster. Thanks!

 

Monica, thanks for the tip on the cookbook. I read through it and found some good tips and the receipes look good.

Jenn, in our tests at home we are trying different numbers of coals - from 8-10 of our Kingston seem to work well.
So far we found less coals and cook longer equal tenderer meat. We are also getting faster at cleanup and finally conquered packing in the bags tight fit.
Since it does not fit in the tear sink do you use a tub of some kind to clean it?

 

Jenn thanks - we have not done a full chicken yet but that looks good.

 

Jenn, is everyone bringing their Cobbs to campinn-campoutt?

tina

 

Tina,

My COBB has been with me on every camping trip. Used it just about nightly on the Michigan trip.

Mine stays in the tear.

Jean

 

We hope to be able to come to the camp out - if so we will bring our Cobb.

Jenn, The cook book idea sounds great. If I would ever get around to retiring I would have some time to do that type of thing but right now school has me absorbed.

 

ok, I'll put ours in and plan on cooking with it....

I too, like the cookbook idea, maybe it would get me to use it more.

I'd like to try making your cookies...

 

Good information from all of you who have posted regarding the Cobb cooker. I would be interested to know if most of you have purchased the full set (kitchen in box or bag) or are you happy with the lesser kits and if so which one.

Also is there any recommended places to purchase I see no place to look at any in Oregon.

Thanks, Dave

“Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government
that requires every citizen to prove
they are insured... but not everyone
must prove they are a citizen.”

 

I have the COBB for at least 4 years. Don't remember how I learned of the product. At the time purchased the bundle similiar to Cobb Premier Kitchen-In-A-Box Grill Bundle.

Initially used while tent camping, so the extra cooking pieces were useful. Now all I use is the grill grid and roasting rack.
The other pieces sit at home unused. The dome extender and chicken rack were not available when purchased.

My experience: the light teflon coating on the grill grid is indeed light, in fact, it is flaking off, and not a useable cooking surface by itself. I always use the grill grid and roasting rack to grill meat.

My experience: using the grill grid provides too much direct heat to meat, becomes burned/scorched. Cooking meat on the roasting rack allows slow cooked meat that has great flavor and is moist.

I use 9 charcoal lumps. Provides adequate heat to slowly cook and flavor meat. I also will cook canned vegetables at the same time.

Will have to dig out the telfon coated frying pan to experiement baking cookies.

My suggesstion: if interested in product, invest in the basic package and add the Cobb Fenced Roasting Rack.

Overall I am satisfied with the product, like the compact package, portability, cool touch sides, and excellant flavor.
For me easier to store and use compared to a small weber grill.
Works great for one to two people.

Jean

 

Hey Jenn

I saw the Cobb on the shelf at an REI store last weekend. Also has been spotted about 6 months ago at a Camping World. There is also a local dealer map on the Cobb web page. Worst case try Amazon.

What would be do without Google search .....

 

Thank you Jean, Jenn & Gary and others for your advise on this subject. Ours will not be done till October so I am trying to think ahead and this forumn is a great resourse.


Dave

 

Dave we have been trying our Cobb out at home to get comfortable with it. We got the same set as Jenn after reading a post she made. We really like the meals we have made and usually add some mesquite or hickory chips that we soak in water and put on the coals when they turn gray.

Jenn we are trying hard - hate to see winter come without some more outings.

 

Well, my wife is the cook. I am still learning to boil water but you never know. Dave

 

Jenn,

This weekend I am planning on cooking Cobb cookies and have a few questions.

1-Baking usually requires temps 350. Each charcoal briquette is caple of producing 25 degrees for dutch oven cooking. Requires 14 briquettes, this is not pratical in the Cobb.

How many briquettes do you use for baking?

2-Besides using prepackaged Nestle cookies, Rochester also has a U-Bake store, which sells various types of frozen cookies, have you used other prepackaged frozen cookies? If so, what works and what doesn't?

3-I was also wondering about cookie flavor. Meat has a great smokey flavor, do the cookies develop the same smoke enchanced flavor?

Thanks,
jean

 

LOL You made my day Jenn.

My wife says you have me figured out.

Dave