Reflector Oven R&D Tests #2 & #3 Firebox HEX Stove / 66 FORD Shorty 4x4 / Pack Goat & Dogs Hike.

I'm right here at home and what I'm going to do is I have a new idea for the hex reflector oven and there are also some Offroad paths that I've taken all my other off-road vehicles on so I'm excited to compare the old Ford with how my other trucks have done on some of these Trails this hill is one of them [Music] [Music] [Music] light [Music] [Music] than [Music] come on come on I do have some ideas I'm going to set things up just a little bit differently and I'm hoping I'll have better success so here's my wind screen and here's my freestyle hex I had some ideas I kind of mocked it up at the shop and let's just see how it works now I'm not going to use this as a fire pan tin I'm going to do this I'm going to set the stove up directly on the [Music] ground one side and the next just like that and our Fire Sticks now I'm actually only going to use two of the Fire Sticks CU I want to keep one so I can use it as a tool once again these are locking Fire Sticks see how they won't go backwards so this end is locked in meaning you can put weight on this end and can lever your grill out next to the fire instead of having it right over the hot coals you can use the radiant heat what I'm going to do with the wind screen is I'm going to divide it up into two sections pull that pin out so I've got a section of six that will go just like this and then I'm going to take one section off let's see and then I'm going to do a section of four to go around this way just like that so I'm going to take another section off okay so I've got one panel separated by itself now and then this will go back here like that pins that have the handles I'm going to go into the second hinge curl rather than at the top and that will allow me to push this pin in down through and then into the ground so you can see how low that went and I'm going to put it in the second one so that this one can also go into the ground I'm going to tighten things up get everything where I want it and then push that into the ground I was burning the edges of my biscuits and so I want to put in a little little bit of a of a block so what I'm going to do is I actually brought some tools here cut that I'm just going to cut right through that hinge curl try to straighten my cut out a little bit I'm going to cut these Corners off because they'll uh they'll be sharp figure out where I want it the hinge curls are right up against the grill plate so now I'm going to make a mark under on the inside of the stove so I know where to cut this so that it will fit try to get it straight what am I doing huh all right so now I have this little airplane looking part that I can put right here underneath the grill just like that that will block the main heat that's inside of the stove if you put the fire pan tin on right here it can kind of hang there's kind of a a rolled Edge that can kind of hang right on this back panel in fact it hangs well enough that you can use this hinge and it'll actually stay open for you like that so how cool is that we got our little oven lid door so let's give this a try I'm just going to make a quick little fatwood feather stick to get this going going little bit of a breeze there we got it lit and away we go fatwood to the rescue got some Sage Brush and then I brought some fruit wood so I think this is pear really nice good Hardwood I'm going to open my lid here look how nice that is see if I can get it yeah just like that it's a beautiful thing this time I'm not going to put my milk on right away I'm going to kind of focus on these biscuits and focus on this oven experiment and then uh make the milk gravy right at the end beautiful I think this is good going it work there's a lot of heat right there that is I can't leave my hand on that that is so hot but the back is very well insulated the sides are well insulated I think this is going to work a lot better maybe I need this to have a bend in it and have it come up a little ways just really protect that front edge and see if we can't get the back Edge hotter to where you don't have to turn these things I don't want to have to turn them oh they're firm enough I can turn them yeah they are cooking much faster than before this is so far it's a whole different experience okay so here's something else I can see the bottoms are getting quite dark too dark in fact wow so that aluminum isn't quite enough it's still getting too hot on that front edge you see how it's dark it's not quite burned I just barely saved it just in time yeah this one's still good too a few moments later so it wasn't very long ago that I stopped the camera and the bottoms are just dark enough that I'm going to have to turn these over they're they're baking very quickly but yeah the bottoms are nice and brown everything's moving much more quickly than it did that first go around I've got to get my milk going and I could have gotten my milk going right from the beginning with how fast this is moving this is interesting so much different than last time so even with just the two Fire Sticks I'm able to balance that milk that'll be a good spot too let's take a look at these biscuits oh yeah they're nice and brown those biscuits are probably done and put them on top just keep them warm and then I can make my fire a little bigger to get this milk done here I have my sausage R [Applause] mixture just going to put that in there and let it melt now that that flame is gone I'm going to move my biscuits back into the oven cuz while they are nice and brown they uh they cooked so fast that I'm just worried they might be a little rare on the [Music] inside so we just put them back down in the oven try to get this gravy done the wind's blowing it all away oh yeah that gravy is ready to go looks good they turned out good cooked a little too fast it's funny how everything wents kind of the opposite as the first test so that's not quite black yeah I don't think it's really going to taste burnt it's like almost black but not quite that might taste burnt get rid of that all right look at these beautiful biscuits they are definitely cooked all the way through look at that so yeah I'm going to do this again we're going to try for version three come here come over here behind me good good sit down oh good dog good girl I'll give you some biscuit yeah this is nice and secure since I have everything pinned to the ground makes it nice it's good here Maggie oh oh you got it stuck to my fingers that was a good catch I made a little prototype for another heat shield I'm going to set this up very similarly to how I had it set up last time I do have a couple of new parts um the grill plate is actually slightly smaller than the last one the last one was very close but depending upon how you positioned the wind screen there was one direction that it was still slightly too big so that's been sized down literally like a 16th of an I mean just barely so that's why that's new and then this is a new folding fire grate and the reason that this is new is because we adjusted this angle you can see how it still doesn't go all the way flat and that's intentional because as you use it it does flatten out a little bit you know with a couple of burns it stabilizes and stays the same uh but you want it to always be peaked up just a little bit and I'll show you why here in a second so let's get the stove out set this to the side the reason that you want to have that up just a little bit is because of just how low this fire grate sits you can see these position points are right at the very bottom and so if this sits flat you know all the way down then and it will actually come out so having it uh just a little bit High here in the center just keeps it within the the walls of the stove let's get our Fire Sticks into position you put the Locking end into the hole then rotate into the slot I am going to use a center uh fire stick I just missed it too much last time so I've got to get it put on this time let's get this end and then the way you put this into position is slide it over the ends here so we'll slide these ends in and we'll put that Center one through and as this slides this direction once it reaches that corner then it can everything can fall back down into their slots and the grill plate sits right here so you can see there's over a qu of an inch of air space between the heat shield and the bottom of the grill let's get our windscreen out and I'm going to set this up exactly the same way I did last time set of four I'm going to put that in place use these pins to hold it nice and tight in this spot pin it down to the ground just just like that so just like that I am going to pin these sides down into the ground get some Sage Brush going first because it lights up so easy and we'll put on some of this pear wood give our fire some staying power all right my gravy is nice and hot now we just need to get it to thicken up now I did have a commenter recommend sorry I don't remember the the name but a commenter recommended I use self-rising flour so I got myself some self-rising flour and I'm hope hoping that the fat in the cream will work with this self-rising flow to make Rue basically but in the gravy itself instead of making the roof separately we're just going to do it a little bit of a different way it is a little bit more difficult because this flower wants to kind of Clump up and create lumps but it looks like it's working itself out the gravy's pretty darn hot let's pull it off let it work a little more slowly so far it's looking pretty good let's put a little more wood on our fire keep our biscuits baking okay my gravy did thicken up nicely and I think I'm going to go ahead and keep it off the heat and a little bit away from the heat keep it warm but not too hot I'm going to put my lid on my gravy so that it stays nice and let's take a look at the biscuits see what they're doing oo they have raised quite a bit and they're actually looking quite beautiful see if I can get an edge up this Edge is golden brown so it is just a little warmer on the bottom on this very front edge but not to the point to where they're burning um at some point I might want to turn them but for now I think I'm going to go ahead and leave them how they are take a closer look at our biscuits I can smell something it smells like it's maybe getting a little dark so let's take a look and see if that front edge is maybe getting a little too too Brown let's see if I can lift this up oh just golden brown but I will turn them since I have a hold of it now and let's get this one these are cooking at just the right pace not too fast not too slow I'm really liking this system you know that first one was too slow the second one was too fast and this one seems to be just right right I figured after we do this test I would take the pat goats for a walk a lot of people have been asking to see the pat goats or asking where are the pat goats let's open up our oven and see how these are looking they've risen quite a bit uh but let let's go ahead and take a look at the bottoms golden brown on the bottom so the heat is really nice From Below let's just turn them over and the top has firmed up they're not soft so even turning them over is not going to smash them but it will help us Brown the other side nicely can you believe how beautiful those biscuits are back there let's let some light in so you can see him a little better hooo golden Perfection got to love that let's see how our gravy looks maybe put it up here and freshen it up a bit it's still plenty warm a little thicker than my last two batches which is nice that self-rising flower seems to be the ticket for making gravy but I'm not going to leave it on there very long I don't want it to get too thick I think it's time to Plate this up let me get my plate and I'm going to this plate is icy cold just want to warm it up before I put my biscuits on there but it'll probably warm up pretty fast and take a look at these look at that wooo Perfection oh I'm very happy with those results I think for a camping oven that is very good they are cooked perfectly inside oh yeah beautiful biscuits our beautiful milk gravy look at that let's get that chunk of sausage out there this definitely turned out the best of all three tests very happy with this we just need to figure out how to produce that part and uh I'll show you that as soon as we get it done wow I love it when you get good results I had to work for this one man three times is a charm I guess not three strikes but uh three chances good thing I didn't strike out you know that last time worked so it wasn't three strikes it was two strikes and then one home run so turned out [Music] awesome what a beautiful day too just amazing the mountains still have a lot of snow on them and it was just yesterday it was snowing you know but today it feels like a spring day it's beautiful it'll be a great day to take those Pat goats for a walk [Applause] Ursa hey come here what do you guys think about that name Ursa that's kind of where we're Landing I think we could call her uraro I guess she's a good little pup Ursa is Latin for little bear I guess so she is kind of a little bear there's no doubt about that let's go let's go [Applause] Bill's not liking having the camera on his horn he kind of throwing his head around good girl good [Music] girlo herse is getting big she's about 6 months old now sh good what you doing bill let's go let's go [Music] we lost Bill's horn Mount his camera mount so we can't do the bill cam I'm still looking for it though hoping to get lucky