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....hey...Cobby experiment.....fab fab fab.....the 'cobblestones' from Home Bargains £1.99 for 5 seem to work fine ...ignited at a touch of a lighter and were ready to cook in only a few minutes...still plenty of heat after 2+hours..

i cooked gammon hock(as it was the only meat i had in the fridge) with 2x jacket pots next to meat(lovely and crispy skin) and a further jacket wrapped in foil next to the cobblestone, and some new pots and carrots in the moat...

trouble is i now have all this food and no-one to eat it..lol...

i used it in the well ventilated outside in back porch area but it set off my carbon monoxide alarm two rooms and 3 closed doors away...crikey...either it gives off a LOT of fumes or my detector is super sensitive(it has never gone off before)

edit...it's now 3 hours and its still cooking (even though i have been peeking regularly) it's still very hot

Steve C

How long do you cook your crown for in the cobb?

I'm Thinking of doing a medium Turkey crown in the cobb ( with some stuffing balls in the moat) for about 2 hours

I'm going to add some oak dust/chips after about an hour to get a nice mild smoke flavour going on.

Im using heat beads and intend to use about 6-8 (plus a few part used)

sound ok?

Hi West Mallling, cooked a crown of turkey in the wonderful cobb, yesterday for 2 and a half hours beautiful !!!

Hi from Snowy Trosley