To cook even faster and more conveniently: the most useful accessories for tandoor and instructions for their assembly

Tandoor is used to prepare dishes with high taste and aroma. Eastern oven acquire at the masters or do with your own hands.

To make it easier to prepare dishes in a tandoor, you need to use various accessories. Complete set accessories for the stove allows you to prepare a variety of dishes.

A set of tools for working with a tandoor

The tandoor is equipped with accessories, including:

• case to protect against moisture;
• apron and gloves made of heat-resistant materials for your own protection from burns;
• lattice in several tiers for preparing food;
• skewers and a Christmas tree made of them for stringing meat and vegetables and cooking them at the same time.

List of accessories for convenient cooking

The following will help you prepare a variety of dishes:

1. "Christmas tree" — is a great alternative to skewers. You can cook meat, fish, mushrooms, vegetables and much more on it. The main thing is that you can cook all this at the same time.
2. Steak grill — with the help of this grill you can cook a juicy steak in a tandoor. Cast iron quickly heats up to high temperatures — the juice stays in the steak, making the meat juicy and tender.
3. Ceramic cocotte It is specially designed for baking appetizers with sauces and julienne.
4. Grill grate - used for baking meat and game in a tandoor on both sides.

1. Two-tier plate — a convenient option for game carcasses, large pieces of meat. Can be used as a frying pan in a tandoor for flatbreads, pizza, samsa.
2. Skewers with clips - are designed to prevent the shashlik from slipping off the skewer during cooking.
3. Ceramic cast iron — you can cook meat, fish, vegetables in such dishes.
4. Universal shelf — allows you to cook meat, vegetable and fish dishes with convenience and in larger quantities. With this rack, you can bake a whole chicken, duck, goose, rabbit, knuckle, leg of lamb and much more, not limited to just classic kebabs

Making DIY Accessories

Among the craftsmen there are those who made the necessary tools for cooking dishes with their own hands. For this, they use stainless steel, reinforcement, and a welding machine.

Suspensions

Hangers are needed for cooking fatty meat and fish. It is made at home from the frying pan. Four stainless steel rods are attached to it, and corners are attached to the rods. Everything is screwed together with nuts or secured with a welding machine. When frying meat, water is poured into the pan so that the fat does not burn. Vegetables can also be put there.

Skewers and "Christmas tree"

The skewers are used in the oven on their own or are welded into a “Christmas tree”.

They are made from stainless steel sheet, thickness 3 mm. They cut it with a grinder strips 1.5 cm width. The length of the future product depends on the size of the oven, but on average, the working end will be 50 cm.

The edges of the strips are cleaned of burrs. On one side, ring, by which the skewer will be attached in the tandoor. The working end of the skewer is sharpened.

For "Christmas trees" will be needed saucepan or another suitable one deep frying pan.

The size of the "tree" is determined by the diameter of the tandoor. The handles and ears are cut off from the saucepan. The skewers are connected to the stainless steel rod by welding or bolts. The design fasten in the center pots, cutting the threads.

Shelf

They are making a rack for a tandoor made of steel. A filled shelf is heavy, so it is important to use strong fasteningsTo make the device at home, you need steel reinforcement, grinder and welding machineThe product should be slightly smaller in height than the inner part of the oven.

First, the reinforcement is welded round or triangular frames, weld them to two rods. Next, assemble the gratings for the resulting frames and fasten the parts. Place the lower tier fat collection container, the rest are used for cooking.

Lattice and "sun"

Reinforcement bars are used as independent devices on hangers.

A structure is made for convenient placement of skewers "Sun". Rebar rod bend into a circle shape, make fasteners and weld everything. Skewers are hung on the structure during shashlik preparation.

Photo 1. A “sun”-type structure installed in the tandoor, on which it is convenient to place skewers.

Thermometer

For an oriental stove, a thermometer is used that works in its operating temperature rangeThere are two options for their production - 0-250°C and 0-500°C. The device is mounted in the lid and is needed to control the heat inside the tandoor. Knowing the temperature indicator allows you to determine the timeliness of laying products, the possibility of simultaneously preparing another dish. Chefs empirically determine in which mode the food turns out tastier.

Dishes

The dishes in the oven come into contact with fire and are exposed to high temperatures. Recommended to use:

• cast iron cauldron for cooking porridge, soup, pilaf;
• cast iron skillet with or without a cast handle for frying meat and fish;
• red clay pots, glazed on the inside, for roasts and potatoes;
• red clay pottery for dishes that are simmered over a fire.

Useful video

A video demonstrating homemade accessories for cooking in a tandoor, showing their sizes and design.

Recommendations for the use of additional equipment

The equipment and utensils must be made made of high-quality heat-resistant materials, which do not release harmful substances into products when in contact with them. For this purpose, they use steel, clay, cast iron. They select or make devices suitable for the tandoor by diameter and height. Utensils and dishes keep clean, after use, clean, wash and dry.