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The Tandoor Clay Oven Limited 8
Charcoal briquettes / Heat beads added to charcoal embers to minimise flames during
cooking (optional)
6.Using
the
skewers
with
your
Tandoor
The SS1 and SS2 Deluxe Tandoor models each come with 8 stainless steel skewers having turned
wooden handles. The SS1 and SS2 ultima Tandoor models each come with an extra 2 skewers
making for a total of 10. All models also come with two naan rods. The skewers enable the unique
option to cook food vertically in the oven. As noted for grill cooking, when using the skewers you also
get the advantage of cooking at much hotter temperature in the Tandoor compared with a
conventional oven or BBQ, and the food is cooked over a bed of charcoal. Cooking food over
charcoal provides for that great char-grilled flavour.
Use of the skewers is quite straight forward. Simply slide what you want to cook up the rod leaving a
gap at the top (about 10-15 cm - so that the food does not poke out the top of the Tandoor) and
bottom (about 15-20 cm - so that the food is not too close to the coals).
As a guide only, you can easily fit 5-6 chicken drum sticks on an SS2 model skewer (72 cm long) and
3-4 chicken drum sticks on an SS1 model skewer (65 cm long).
Provided you can get the food to stay on the skewers, there is no limitation on the type of food you
can cook, meat, fish, vegetables etc.
A useful tip to prevent the food closest to the coals from charring to quickly is to use a heat shield
such as a piece of potato (see pictures below) or aluminium foil.
Don’t be afraid to use more than 1 skewer to secure your food. For example, see in the picture below
where a double skewer technique has been used to secure an American style rack of marinated pork
ribs.
When cooking with the skewers you will generally put the lid on so that it is adjacent the protruding
skewers to help maintain the temperature in the oven and also allow cooking smoke out (see picture
below). If the Tandoor is too hot, just take the lid off for a while.
The skewers will be much easier to clean when they are still warm.
A great advantage of Tandoor cooking is that your food is cooked without lying in any fat whatsoever!
