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What comes to mind when you think of cooking around a camp fire? Steaks, sausages, grilled vegetables, Dutch oven stews, corn on the cob, or maybe marshmallows? Waffles are almost certainly not amongst the top ten favourites—if they get a mention at all. I have to admit, I hadn’t considered them before either. But why not? After all, I’ve baked bread and pizza, and experimented with a few other recipes you might not expect to see in camp. After I saw the waffle iron on the Petromax website, I quickly cut to the chase and was soon unpacking my new culinary implement.
First impression? Heavy. More accurately, it weighs 2.8 kg. But that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has ever used a Dutch oven—cast iron is heavy. The upside: once it is up to temperature, it takes a while to cool down again, which is ideal if you want a steady temperature for baking or cooking.
With the fire kindled and the dough mixed, it’s time to give it a whirl. The first lesson was to ignore everything I thought I knew about how long it would take for the waffles cook. This waffle iron takes its job seriously and really keeps the heat! Opening the iron to see my first pair of waffles revealed…absolutely nothing. I thought they had evaporated. Set against the black iron, I could hardly distinguish them in the light of my head lamp. Prying the charred remains out of the form caused them to explode into a cloud of dark dust. But, with a little more practice I got the knack of it, and I was soon producing aromatic, crispy waffles. (TIP NO. 1 Make use of the residual heat! TIP NO. 2 Setting the iron down on a wooden board will result in a mirrored Petromax logo branded into its surface…)
Cleaning the iron afterwards was easy. Taking the two halves apart simplifies things enormously.
In short, a waffle iron you can use on a camp fire is a nice luxury to have when travelling, or for a get together around the barbecue at home. There are two lengths of handle—I chose the longer version at just over 70 cm, but its shorter sibling (approx. 49 cm) might be better if space is limited in your vehicle. They both cost the same.
€40 | petromax.de
