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Bertha Cowboy Cooking Stove Tips
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Aug 23, 2023
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Hey, thank y'all for stopping by camp and when we're talking about camp, we're talking about the most versatile and unique piece of cowboy cooking equipment you've ever seen in your life
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But I'm going to walk you through here and show you what's the best features, how to use them, what is it made for? It's made for cooking and having a good time
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Now one of the best features I really like about this is, what are these
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They like wheelbarrow handles. Now I know some of you might be just cooking in a stationary position, but with these and
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them good rolling wheels they got on here, you can take it anywhere you want
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So handy it is, and ooh does it roll good on concrete, and if you want to get the thrill
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of your life, put it on and he'll get inside and away you go. Woo, fun is going to happen
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Now, these wheels are solid rubber. You can put the brake on or off on this front set over here and it ain't going to go nowhere
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So, it is really handy, nice to move up off the ground so you ain't burning nothing up
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Now, you might notice that this brand new Bertha got three eyes on here at wheel
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Now a 12 inch oven will fit in that hole, a 14 or a 16 will fit in that hole
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and a 10 here. But they come with a little tool to where you can reach in there, pull them out
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You got more of a direct source of heat. Set that coffee pot on there, you wanna get that water to boil it in a hurry
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it'll do it. But also the reason I really like this stove too as it comes with a versatile grill as you can see we got these plates in here to where that grill will sit It comes with them and if you don want a grill on the whole thing
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just stick that in there and you got frying, you got keeping the coffee warm, and you got grilling
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Now there is another grill that goes here and comes to this end, covers it plumb up one solid grill
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I have got 32 16-ounce New York strips on there at one time and that's a lot of beef and it will keep them warm and keep them cooking
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You know, when we're cooking on ranches and we got all kinds of Dutch ovens and everything and we need some place to set them to serve off of it
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especially when they can stay warm. So what do we got here? A folding warming tray
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Got two rods that hook under both ends and folks you can load this thing down with some 16 inch ovens
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It will stay in place. It ain't gonna come off now That's what I'm thinking is really nice. But guess what
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You come over here you get through and you have a great big party
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This one also two folds up and latches the same way and you can even still reach this if you're grilling
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Put your steaks here where you can get to them got a pan on the other side to take them off
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So handy it is. Now any good wood stove, anything that you're cooking with
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it needs to have a draw to where you're going to keep that flame burning
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Now you'll see as Shan zooms right down in here, these got two little vents, one on each end
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Now you shut them plumb off on both sides this has got a piece of channel iron that sets in here to keep that flame from just licking straight out the top It has to come around both sides here slows that fire down and
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the smoke content. Shut this one, shut that one. Hey, you can make a fire last a long time and it'll
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keep you warm them cold nights. Now this thing acts as a coal reservoir too and when I'm talking
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coal I'm talking hardwood lump or firewood. You got to get it out with a dutch oven and so many
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times with the old model, I just had one door reaching plumb back here, burn all the hair
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off your arm. But folks, this one's got a door on each end. And it makes it so handy to get in
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there with a shovel to get coals from one end or the other, but also it sure helps when you come
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time to clean it out. Well, we got a hole here, but we ain't got nothing coming out of it. When
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we're cooking without just this, I just like to slip this little old bitty piece, a six inch stove
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pipe in there. I get my sheep middle man to roll them for me and crease them. These are coming with
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a three foot piece of pipe and a rain cap when you first get them. But also people be asking me
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hey I'm afraid to put it under my tent. You know I got a place where the flue piping all can go
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plumb through. Folks I ain't burned a tent up in 27 years so you ain't going to have that problem
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as you run this through because when it goes through that hole up there in the top of that
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tarp it's got a fireproof retardant on both sides. Folks, we do a lot of cooking on this and like I say it's very versatile whether you're baking or grilling or cooking something in a Dutch oven, but you've got to have fuel
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Now when I talking about fuel I either talking about a hardwood lump charcoal or I talking about real wood Now some of you will be wondering I know how to start a fire but do you start your fire in Old Bertha Well I going to give you the number one thing not to do when you in Old Bertha
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Get you some of that lighter fluid and squirt all over that wood through there and then shut the door light to match
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You'll blow the doors off the end. Them thing's got some fumes and it ain't meant to be used on wood
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Leave that stuff alone. I use a propane torch most of the time
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Now, if you're using real wood to start this fire, and a lot of folks, They just go to piling that wood in there, something like that
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It's really hard to get that started real well. Now, I'd be loving to take me some wood, put it in Olbertha lengthwise like that
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and then come back across with the crisscross method. Go again, go again
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It's like building a log cabin. You've got air circulation to go through there to get that fire started
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It ain't going to take no time. And a lot of you be thinking, well, you've got to fill that thing plumb full before you can do any cooking
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No. If you're just gonna cook with that little grill down here on one end, leave this door shut, get you all your firewood
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pile up down here on this end or your hardwood lump, and you're good as gold
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You need more than that, scoot it over. But folks, I'll give you a tip that I've always done and keep you a
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warm side and a really hot side of this fire. That way you've got more regulation
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The thing I love to do in Obertha, especially if I'm grilling steak, is I'll get me a good bed of coals in there
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rake them down to where I'm really about this much on this end. This end's not as hot. It's going to help me out because when you're flipping stakes here
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one may need to scoop plumb over here like the indirect side of it to where he can cool off
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just a little before you come back. It's sort of like ping pong. You've got to keep going
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