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Tandoor oven for the home

January 2011

Here is a bit of a twist on the Aussie BBQ. I bought my husband a home tandoor oven for Christmas and he has turned into a bit of a foodie! His gas BBQ has started to gather some dust, and we are now being treated to some authentic Indian food cooked in the tandoor. I must say the naan bread he has been making is better than anything we have cooked in our kitchen oven!! It pains me to say, but he even cooked a rack of pork a few weeks ago in the tandoor that had better crackling than I have been able to cook after years of trying in my kitchen oven.

The tandoor oven cooks the food using charcoal and not gas so the food has this yummy chargrilled flavour.

I have not seen many of these home tandoor ovens before, but I bought mine from a company called Tandoor Living based in Melbourne ( www.tandoorliving.com.au ). If my husbands interest in the tandoor is anything to go by, I can recommend one of these for the man who has all the BBQ toys!

Tandoor oven for the home

January 2011

I would love a Tandoor but as it cooks at 600 degrees (if used properly) I would think it would be way too hot for a pork roast?
At the moment I'm living in a 14th floor apartment, so even my beloved Webers aren't being used and seeing Food Safari a couple of days ago with Tandoori chicken all nicely blackened at the edges, made me very hungry.
I used to have great success with the Weber cooking Tandoori though, as it reaches temperatures of 500 degrees, not quite Tandoor temps but close enough to get the sear and if I used woodchips, would also have the smoky flavour.
If I had a backyard again, I would seriously consider it.

Tandoor oven for the home

January 2011

Hi Jeff,
Your right, the tandoor can get real hot! However, you don't have to cook at these high temperatures all the time. When cooking the pork roast my husband simply did not heat the tandoor up as much. In fact you can pretty much cook anything in the tandoor, if you want it hot (e.g. to cook tandoori chicken and naan etc) then you use more charcoal, if you want it cooler (e.g. to cook a pork or lamb roast) then you just use less charcoal.

Tandoor oven for the home

January 2011

I had a look around the web site, certainly very tempting! :-)