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Tembo tusk cooking1/17/2024 Banana Bread on the riverĪs if it was not versatile enough as a cooking device with the addition of the lightweight table top it makes a great spot to make a cup of coffee Aeropress and Jetboil in the California desert The Skottle is even good at the simple things like warming up banana bread when you just don’t want to wake up enough to cook. Skottle Popcorn – Photo courtesy of Jerry L’Ecuyer How about some popcorn for a snack while you sit around the campfire in the evening? Yep, the skottle will do that, a bit of oil, popcorn kernels and a lid is all it takes. Rip the bag open, dump it in and dinner is served. If you want a simple quick dinner, I carry the frozen Skillet Meals in the truck fridge. You will have to wait for the recipe this one, but don’t worry it is coming along soon. One of my favorite things to make for dinner on the Skottle is Ribeye with Potatoes and Carrots. Pre-dinner appetizers, how about some pot stickers? Jerry L’Ecuyer making potstickers on the Skottle at Homestake Dry Camp in Death Valley When the chicken is done scoop it onto the tortilla and you have quesadillas. Bacon Eggs and Tortillas on the Skottle in the Eastern Sierras of Californiaįor lunch, you can grill up some chicken and bell peppers, warm tortillas on the side with some cheese so it starts to melt. Easy as that you have Bacon Eggs and Hashbrowns all in one “pan” and everything has stayed hot while you are cooking the rest of the meal. Slide the hash browns to the side to stay hot, and crack a couple of eggs on the side of the disc and drop them in the middle. Start frying some bacon, once you get a little grease in the bottom, slide the bacon to the outside to finish slow and stay hot while you put some hash browns in the middle to start cooking in the grease. The answer is simple, just about anything you would cook on your stove top at home. So now that you know what a Skottle is, what exactly can you cook with it? Couple of quick turns of the thumbscrews and the legs are secure The thumbscrews make a great spot for hanging the lid and cooking utensils and keeps them in easy reach. I do recommend the optional windscreen as well, but it is certainly not necessary. There is also no need to take the burner back off, you can leave it attached and just unscrew the propane when you are done and it will be ready for next time. Pretty much any of the single burner propane stoves will work, but I prefer the Century brand as it has the piezo ignitor so there’s no need for matches or lighters, and the burner goes in just as easy, with just a couple turns of the thumb screws. The legs attach quickly to the bottom of the skottle with a just a few thumbscrews (one in each leg). Packed up in the bags from Blue Ridge Overland Gear. In the photo below the bag is holding the Skottle (with burner and windscreen attached), the lid, the table top, cherry wood spatula, and two 1 pound canisters of propane. We feel it was an excellent investment and fits the Skottle itself, plus room for any extra components that we might use in cooking a meal. It feels virtually indestructible, and even though we have used and abused it for over a year, it shows no signs of wear at all. Tembo Tusk, along with Blue Ridge Overland Gear, has created a storage bag for the Skottle, made from the same type of vinyl that bounce houses are made of. This allows it to be used anywhere, using a standard single burner propane stove and it does this while still quickly breaking down for easy storage. Tembo Tusk has taken the shallow wok-like bowl of the harrow disc and made it more versatile than what was used in the farms by adding legs and a burner supported by a simple framework. In an effort to simplify our loadout, we picked up a Skottle last year, and it has easily replaced all of that. All of that adds up pretty quickly both in weight and in the amount of real estate it takes up in the truck. These are the discs that are pulled behind a tractor or mule to till the ground and prepare it for planting.īefore the skottle, we traveled with a 3 burner Coleman white gas stove, along with a cast iron skillet, cast iron griddle, and an assortment of pots and pans, and don’t forget the jug of white gas. The Skottle (Pronunciation: Skō Til or Skaw-Til) originated from the farms of South Africa, where harrow discs were put to use as cooking tools in the fields. Ribeye Steak with onions, potatoes carrots and peppers High in the San Bernardino National Forest It is not often that I find a piece of camping gear that actually changes the way I camp, but the Skottle Grill from Tembo Tusk has done just that.
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