ApplePie User Manual

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temperatures and this will ne tune your wood-red
cooking skills.
Use a suitable implement (such as pizza paddle) as well
as heat resistant glove or mitt to place the food onto the
cook shelf.
For food such as raw meat, we suggest using a digital
meat-thermometer probe to ensure safe cooking.
Ekol can supply pizza paddles for example, correctly sized
for the Pie stove to make the perfect 8” pizza.
It is important to avoid excessively fatty foods such as
burgers and fatty meats as this will smoke and spit, leaving
deposits inside the stove and on the glass. Never use oil to
cook on the plate as this will create a lot of smoke at such
high temperatures.
Typically a pizza can be cooked in around 2 to 5 minutes
depending on internal rebox temperatures and dough
thickness. Go easy on the pizza toppings! Too much sauce
or moisture in the toppings will make your pizza dough
soggy in the middle.
If cooking for a lot of people or if cooking something which
takes a long time such as when using a Dutch oven inside
the stove, the temperature can be kept up by using small
stick wood or smaller pieces of well split logs, one or two
at a time. - It is important NOT to add large fuel loads once
the cook shelf is in place.
Once cooking is nished, if you intend to refuel the stove
for heating, you will need to rst carefully remove the cook-
shelf and place it somewhere safely - DO NOT quench the
hot cast iron plate straight into water as you risk cracking
it. First let it cool fully.
The top oven option although smaller (think portion
control!) will be more similar to a regular domestic oven
in terms of cooking temperatures. It also will not have the
‘smoky wood’ avour compared to cooking directly in the
rebox.
Being a heavy cast iron construction, the stove will need to
be on and well fuelled for at least an hour or so before the
top oven is up to around 200°C internally.
Light your re in the normal way and refuel as required.
Again, using a digital laser thermometer will help the
internal cooking temperatures.
Refuel the rebox as necessary to keep the top oven up to
temperature.
Using top oven on “Baked Apple”
When specied on an “Apple Core” or “Apple Stack”
(without top oven), the optional stainless steel plate will
under normal ring conditions get hot enough to boil a pot
of water or to cook on using for example a ‘Dutch-oven’.
To achieve full temperature on the plate, the stove would
normally have been in use for 1 hour +.
Cooking food directly onto the plate without pots/ pans is
NOT advised as it will make a mess and could damage
paintwork.
Pat dry (but DON’T RUB!) the stove top/ body immediately
if there are any liquid spills.
When cooking using the top plate, we recommend the use
of heavy cast iron pots/ pans or heavy copper based pans
for maximum heat absorption, retention and for even heat
distribution.
Cast iron Dutch ovens (cast iron pot with cast iron lid) are
great for slow-cooking roasts and casseroles).
When a top plate is specied with a top oven (“Baked
Apple” or “Baked Apple Stack”), then the plate is only
expected to be a warming plate and is unlikely to get hot
enough to boil a kettle or to cook on.
See www.applepiestove.com for recipe ideas - we will
keep adding to these constantly for your inspiration!
If you have your own recipes or beautiful images of
cooking with your ApplePie stove, please email them
to us for a chance to win prizes in our regular photo
competitions!
Using optional Top cook/warming plate