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The Hungry Sailors – ITV episode 6
The Kotlich produces a great goat curry with Dick and James Strawbridge at the helm.
Dick and James Strawbridge are sailing around the coast of Britain looking for local producers and growers. They visit a goat farm and then proceed to use the Kotlich, tripod and firepit with great flare. They prepare and cook a goat curry which was really appreciated by the crew and those who they invited to supper.
See Dick's recipe for Goat Curry
The best outdoor cookers
Rose Prince samples alternative outdoor cookers for you to move beyond the barbecue
Throughout summer we live in permanent conflict with bricks and mortar, and the instinct to bring the indoors outdoors infects all of us. Eating, sleeping, working – if it can be done in the open air, do it.
I pass gardens and see patio heaters, sofas and coffee tables outside – it would not surprise me if the neighbours took advantage of the good weather and moved the bathtub out to the centre of the lawn.
Outdoor Cooking in Winter
Trish MacCurrach extols the virtues of cooking alfresco, even in the depths of winter.
My experience of living in Serbia for 7 years tells me that we all need an outdoor kitchen. At the moment mine consists only of a tripod, a hanging enamel Kotlich/cooking pot, a grill with three chains to hang from the tripod and miscellaneous enamel bowls and utensils. An outdoor kitchen can be anything from, what I have described, in a corner of the terrace, to a covered area, with maybe two walled sides to keep out the prevailing weather, maybe a partial roof covering, sink with running water, work surfaces and chimney.
Alfresco Festival Kotlich
Campfire cooking: An alfresco festival for the senses
There’ll be more than just sausages and marshmallows sizzling on the fire this year, says camping convert Rose Prince in the Telegraph.
I took up camping last year. I never had a gap year and delayed doing much travelling until recently, by which time I had decided that beaches should have furniture and loos.Until my first night out under canvas, the longest I had survived in an al fresco bedroom was half a night. I was 10 and on holiday with a school friend in Holland. When she and Iannounced we wanted to camp out, her highly strung mother – enduring a nasty divorce and suffering abandonment phobia – warned we’d never last the night without her. We’dbe too frightened.
Product Review-the Kotlich-from Green Shopping
Article from Green Shopping - From Serbia With Love
Q is always coming up with high-tech gadgets for 007, and I rather like some of the clever devices that cross my desk, but sometimes it’s the really simple things that turn out to be the most impressive. One such item is the Serbian Kotlich & Tripod that we used for our summer solstice supper here at the Sustainability Centre. It consists of an 8 litre double dipped enamelled cooking pot called a Kotlich and a twisted metal tripod with hanging chain.
It came with enticing recipes for moule mariniere, venison paprikas and nettle soup but you can use it for a wide range of meals from traditional Serbian stews (paprikas), to stir frys, corn on the cob, sausage and beans – pretty much anything you can cook in a pot over an open fire.