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Operating your Outdoor 1200 Braai is simple and you will quickly learn how
to get the best from it. First take a minute to familiarise yourself with your
new Outdoor 1200 Braai and the cooking accessories supplied with it.
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Ensure that all packaging material is removed from inside and outside
the firebox assembly prior to lighting
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Ensure that all internal components that were removed during
installation are put back into the firebox and located correctly.
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Prior to lighting, setup your Outdoor 1200 for cooking or using as a
fireplace only, as detailed below:
Start up - Fireplace only
1. Remove the stainless steel door. If you have the trolley base, the door
can be slid (face up) under the trolley onto the door storage runners.
2. Ensure the wood stops are fitted to the front edge of the burn tray.
3. Stack around 20-30 pieces of kindling in 2-3 piles across the burn
tray, placing firelighters under the kindling and light the fire.
4. Add large size logs gradually and keep building the fire. When loading
logs, place them end-on, ‘front to back’; air spaces should be left
between the logs to enable oxygen to get to as much of the surface of
the fuel as possible.
5. Ensure the burn tray is not overloaded during operation to prevent any
fuel spilling out. Do not load firewood above the top of the wood stops.
Initial burns will create a bed of ash in the burn tray. Always maintain a
20mm thick bed of ash for subsequent burns.
Start up - Cooking operation
The Outdoor 1200 Braai comes standard with 2x stainless steel side racks
and cast iron cooking plate for using the ember maker in the centre of the
firebox. Ensure the ember maker is located correctly prior to use.
You can also place the ember maker to the left or right hand side of the
firebox if using the optional large stainless steel grill and support bracket.
See cooking setup options detailed opposite.
1. Using hard wood (Pohutakawa, Puriri etc) cut dry kindling pieces
200-300 mm long and place vertically in the ember pot. To help start
the hardwood place 2-3 pieces of pine cut into a similar size and
place in the ember maker with the hardwood.
2. Using a few fire lighters placed onto a piece of fuel slide this into the
burn tray under the ember maker and light. Within 10 minutes the
fuel in the ember pot should be entirely ablaze.
3. After 30 minutes, embers will start falling through the bottom of the
ember maker into the burn tray.
4. The fuel and embers can be broken up and spread around the burn
tray using the ember tool provided. Moving the burning fuel within the
ember maker will help the embers fall.
5. Keep loading fuel into the ember maker until you reach the desired
ember level in the burn tray for your cooking. You can continue to run
the ember maker throughout the cooking process to continually top
up the ember base.
Operating your Outdoor 1200 Braai
Cooking setup (standard)
The ember maker is located in
the centre of the Outdoor 1200 to
allow the stainless steel cooking
grills and cast iron cookplate to be
placed on each side.
The side racks and ember maker
offer a range of grill heights so
you can cook a variety of different
foods at the same time.
Cooking setup (optional)
The ember maker can be easily
located to either side of the
Outdoor 1200 for the optional
large grill to be used.
An additional support bracket
is included with this grill which
simply locates between the two
centre firebricks on the rear wall
of the firebox (see below).
Outdoor fireplace
The side racks, ember maker and
cooking grills are easily removed
to use as an outdoor fireplace.
Wood stops are fitted to the front
of the burn tray to contain the fuel
load during operation.
Ensure you take care when
removing the hot cooking grills
from the fire and place them onto
a non combustible surface well
out of harms way.
Support bracket placement
To use the optional large grill,
you will need to fit the additional
support bracket supplied.
Spread the two central rear
firebricks enough to access the
slots in the firebox rear wall and
insert the grill support into these.
Push the firebricks back against
each side of the bracket and lift
the optional large grill into place.
