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Old 08-11-2010, 08:35 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Grilled corn works great too!
Since I am still experimenting with the rocket stove, I am trying as many cooking techniques as I can.

I hadn't boiled anything yet, and that's how we usually cook corn in the kitchen, so I thought I would give it a shot!

I also grilled stuffed chicken breasts tonight, so grilling was covered for the evening as well.

The only issue is that the rocket stove seems to do a really good job of cooking at high temperatures and fast, but that's really not what you want for extra-thick pieces of poultry.

The stove "pulses" very well, but I haven't figured out the "glide" part yet.

The best I could come up with was to put a piece of flat steel plate across the bottom of the grill as a "heat spreader" so that the stove was now INDIRECTLY heating the chicken.

I then put the lid back on the stove and also tried using an upside-down cast-iron frying pan as a tighter lid over the chicken.

Whether the rocket stove lid is on or not seems to make a pretty big difference.
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