Eat Cake & Have Camping Too! Overland Expo So-Cal / 66 Ford 4X4 Firebox Brand Camp Stove Show & Tell

I made it! I'm finally here at the Overland Expo. I woke up at 3 30 in the morning and I've been driving all day. I'm going to keep this one side of the truck open so people can kind of see in and see the wood burning stove and whatever else. But Harry from Fire to Fork YouTube channel just came by so I got out all my gear because I was showing him. I thought I might just kind of walk around and look at some of this different gear that's out here. There's some amazing rigs when you're off-roading and you're in some remote areas. Sometimes you're more than one day in you know you've got to spend two or three days to make the loop or whatever else. So you need to have something that's capable but also comfortable. You've got to be able to sleep in it. So lots of stuff here. Very cool. And then stuff like this big old monster. Look at this thing. Holy smokes. Look at that beast. Anyway I got up early and drove all day and didn't stop to get any lunch so I'm going to walk back to my truck and cook up some chili and rice. What I'm going to do is layer this up and then I'm going to slow cook it with the nano. I can't have any fires here so I'm going to do the nano with gas. Pile of cheese in there. Add my Hormel beef chili. I'm going to crack an egg in there. Pre-cooked minute rice. I'm going to put that on top. Throw a lid on that. I'm going to set up the nano as a slow cooker. So let's get that lit. I want that turned down about as low as I can get it and then we'll put the diffuser plate on and then I'm going to put the grill on. I think I can do this without the tongs. Put the grill on and then I'm going to put the pizza stone or the cooking stone on there for thermal mass and then I'm going to go ahead and put my pot on and I'm going to go ahead and close these handles and we'll just wrap this windscreen all the way around. My plate's not going to cover it all. Yeah it comes pretty darn close. Yeah let's just go with that. I think that'll work just fine. I'm going to set up my table. Let's see my prop stick is down here and then I can just put my feet down in here and that's where I'll eat my dinner. Smells like cheese. We better take a look. Let's see what we got here. I'm just going to open it up so you can see what's going on. Let's see we're only at about 140. Put the lid back on. I'm going to give it another 20 minutes. You probably noticed I didn't bring Irsa or Maggie. Maggie's a little too nervous for this kind of thing and Irsa is just a little bit too crazy. This is a pretty innovative shell. It's got the pop-top tent but it's all hard-sided. Looks like aluminum up there so that looks pretty nice and then the same company makes this trailer that's a fairly narrow trailer so you should be able to take it on some pretty narrow trails but then the top pops way up in that a-frame give you all kinds of head space all these fancy rigs and then you've got my old truck that just kind of stands out as being very different. I hope my dinner is done. This has been going for about an hour now so let's see what's going on. Okay the chili is bubbling up. It looks like the egg is cooked. The egg is right there and it looks like it's tender but it looks like it's cooked so I think this is done. Yeah we're at like 200 degrees almost 190 so it's getting close to 200 degrees that should be plenty hot. Last time I didn't have the stone under it from the beginning I just tried to do a really low temp but this time I kept that stone under it the whole time and so that's why it took so much longer to cook but I'm hoping that it's not burned. I'm gonna go ahead and turn my gas off so this is the big moment that did take a while to cook but if it turned out good I think it's worth it because you can you could set this up and just let it run while you go do other things you know so let's see what happened with that cheese is the big moment looks like it's stuck up in there oh yeah I'm gonna have to scrape it out it's browned really nicely let's go ahead and just dump that out all right you can see pretty much all of it came out so it's not stretchy melty cheese I mean some of it probably is but mostly it's a little bit of sour cream fresh cracked salt and pepper oh dinner is served oh I'm so hungry I'll tell you what it turned out nice gotta get my fuel in for tomorrow and everybody's saying it's gonna be real busy good morning overland expo and a beautiful morning it is boy I'll tell you what I slept like a baby last night oh so nice man I felt good I was tired long drive and just a lot of work getting ready for this so anyway I'm gonna make some breakfast I forgot I had my insulated mug started with that kosher salt coffee time it's nice and strong good thanks good morning nice how long you been around about 15 years where have you uh where are you out of utah oh okay we actually got invited because of the truck yeah nice come on you're more than just a truck cool this bacon looks perfect coming along very nicely look at that beautifulness a little bit of salt a lot of pepper oh they look perfect oh look at that hello baby come to papa oh this looks so good oh yeah that bacon is steak cut bacon and it's just thick as can be oh man I'll tell you what you ever get a chance to pick up some of this steak cut bacon oh it's so good wow that plate is almost too hot to hold very nice wow now that's delicious hey everybody I've got harry from fire to fork yeah youtube channel longtime watcher instagram yeah so yeah how many years have you been doing fire to fork seven years now seven years yeah yeah I haven't had a proper job in seven years technically started in 2007 yeah so that is a proper job hey do you want a piece of bacon this is steak cut bacon yeah yeah do it in this one and I haven't broken yet there's not yeah kind of cooked it a little bit tell you what americans really know how to do bacon yeah you really do good bacon huh yeah they call it steak cut bacon in australia we get this other kind of bacon um and it's it's not the streaky bacon doesn't have all the fat in it it's basically got no fat it's just the meat it's just the lean part oh the fat's the most important part but it has to be like marbled together like when it's really separate fat and gleaned it's not that great but when it's all mixed together like intramuscular yeah yeah oh I love I love that isn't that good it's such a cool setup it's amazing what you can do on such a small thing yeah that nano is tiny but with the gas burner on it it's just as effective as any larger stove anyway and cook a surprisingly large yeah that nano hold it up will fit your shirt yeah yesterday when I saw it I was like where's the rest of it I thought that was just one part of it yeah it was the whole stove yeah I was trying to make it as minimal as possible my first prototypes didn't even have a fire grate they were just just and then the flame was supported by the sticks you put into the sides oh okay but we decided and surprisingly stable oh yeah it's the wires look real thin yeah and but they're actually they're spring steel so they're a lot stouter yeah stronger than you think they would be they're all yeah it's all it's been really cool to actually feel it yeah and see how much more stable it is in reality yeah anyway harry has three cookbooks two cookbooks two cookbooks yeah so check out yeah on instagram instagram youtube facebook i guess i'm not really on tiktok not on tiktok no yeah i waited a while before i got on tiktok but i am there yeah i probably should there's an account there but it's it basically inactive i haven't logged in in a couple of years but the best videos are on youtube so yeah check it out yeah yeah slightly bigger fire cooking slightly bigger sky yeah but i came to use one of these in the one soon yeah cool yeah awesome all right good to meet you well my hands are a little i'm used to it i've done this waxed canvas makes my hands kind of waxy nostalgic i love it yeah yeah it's fun thanks man cool take care i appreciate it thank you very much thank you yeah i'm so glad i love hearing that i'll check online as soon as you get that extended platform out i think that's that's the one i'm going to go okay cool yeah and we can always put a burner in it later right yeah we're working on a burner you mean for this one yeah the burner does work at that i want to do i want to learn the wood yeah that's fun yeah how's it going good how are you so this whole thing all the sides hey chris i'm steve oh thanks so far it's going really well i've had three groups of people who knew who i was so so far so good this is fun the show is going really well i'm very surprised how many people have been watching my videos and who recognize the truck so it's fun yeah tons of firebox fans have been stopping by i really expected maybe one or two but it's been non-stop it's been fun how's it going is that fun in there that's what i like about these bench seats yeah thank you for stopping your camera picked it up better too i'll give you a quick update uh things are winding down finally today it's been really fun meeting people and having them share their experiences of you know how they use their firebox stove and some people talking about using them with their grandchildren and it's just been very inspiring to me and great to hear it it really motivates me and keeps me excited about doing what i do so anyway thank you to everyone who came by to see me today i really appreciate it it has been such a busy day and i am tired the sun's starting to go down so i'm just going to grill a steak real fast because i just want some food and i've kind of got my nano set up here with gas and the world's smallest gas grill so i'm just going to grill up my steak i'm not going to do anything fancy and then maybe i'll get the deep fryer out and make some donuts for dessert i'm just going to coat this with the salt and i don't really want that much on there but i'm just putting it on there to start and we'll just roll it in this salt yeah cooking a steak and then let's go ahead and get some oil on it and we can use that oil that i kind of spilled there get this nice and coated i think i'm ready to fire up the grill there it goes all right so i'm going to turn this down then we'll go ahead and get our steak on and i'm just going to let it work nice and slow i think this is cooked enough so i'm going to go ahead and just turn the heat off but i'm going to wrap it up with this windscreen because i'm going to let it rest i can't wait any longer i've got to eat this thing i'm starving so there's my steak very nice all right dinner is served oh it looks good i'm starving let's start with this big piece beautiful steak and it's hitting the spot i'll tell you what i am starving awesome while i'm finishing up my steak i'm going to go ahead and get my oil heating up so let's get this burner going again i'm going to turn it down just a bit and get our box pot up here i'm going to do about that much i think that'll be enough so while that heats up i'll finish off my steak all right let's get our first donut in you just take these little biscuits these canned biscuits you pinch the center until you make a hole in the middle and then drop them in you know kind of got hung up on the edge but we'll we'll help it there we go i think i can probably fit two of them in there so we'll do another one drop it in we're gonna have to move them around quite a bit though it looks like my oil is plenty hot we're nice and brown now let's drain off that oil a bit we'll put them right into the powdered sugar i think i want to go ahead and try to taste them i had to move out under these lights because i'm just running out of daylight but i've got my donuts here let's see if i can do this without making too much of a mess wow they're definitely cooked all the way through and they are delicious they turned out great they're delicious and i do love them with this powdered sugar very good wow very nice i'm gonna eat my last donut and then i'm gonna hit the sack so we'll see you still pretty early a lot of people are still like in their campers um so i'm trying to be a little bit quiet but i'm going to make a breakfast cake this morning and what's breakfast cake it's like a custard cake so lots of eggs and the cake i'm doing is a lemon cake so it should be really good so i've got my cake mix and this is like really nice lemon cake we'll just try it because i'm afraid i'm gonna have too many eggs i want to be able to have some cream in there let's make some fat let's mix this up and see what we get i agree with you all right my butter is very cold but i'm gonna try to butter this pan nicely buttered i'm gonna leave all that butter in the bottom and make a nice little crust so let's kick this around a little bit perfect i'm gonna put my diffuser plate on just to get out of my way oh i'm starting to start to come out all right gas burner with the titanium diffuser then i'm going to put the grill plate and the baking stone on top of that so we have a quite a bit of heat diffusion hopefully it'll be enough and the bottom won't get burned too bad but it's gonna be on there for a long time so you never know what you're gonna get so i'm gonna turn that way down and i think this is gonna have to cook for about an hour because i have to move so slowly because all that heat is down to the bottom flip this windscreen around put the lid on let's put the plate on and i'm gonna set the timer for a half hour and we'll take a look at it let's just walk around a little bit i don't remember exactly what i've shown you and what you haven't seen yet but this lexus is pretty darn nice this is a nice location for this it's very peaceful birds are singing this morning it's very enjoyable this tacoma with portal axles is pretty cool those are 41 inch tall tires on a tacoma look how much clearance it has here's a silverado like my truck but it's got the brush guard look at that big old beastie rush guard there's some big old campers here wow that's a beast of a truck holy smokes f-550 it has almost been a half hour and i can smell cake so i'm a little worried the bottom is gonna be pretty toasty but we won't know until we open her up let's just see how things are looking in here oh yes it's raising rising quite a bit in fact i might put some oil on this lid so it doesn't stick yeah lots of bubbles and then you can see this is actually cooked right here so it is cooking from the outside inward it's doing pretty good actually let's cover it back up a few moments later the show is about to open so i kind of need to wrap this up but oh look at that it's coming right up and over whoa oh yeah it's making a mess all right maybe i could take some out okay let's get this wrapped back up so that it can finish cooking i think my cake is done and this show is starting so people are going to start showing up soon so let's go ahead and i'll lift the windscreen off let's just run my knife around the edge let's see how we did oh that's really not too bad i kind of thought it would be more burnt than that so let's just go ahead and cut off a thin layer i might have to put this up on its side all right we'll just pull that away and we are left with our cake some of our cream cheese frosting look at that breakfast cake my favorite that is good there's my breakfast cake so delicious i'll tell you what i'm gonna eat every little bit of this really really good i should get a picture of this too that's a great breakfast oh my god oh that's our box pot i actually baked a lemon cake in a box pot this morning because i camped here oh so watch the videos there he's a video watcher anytime it comes out same day we're watching because they're not like demo videos they're adventure videos i'm going out the overland expo is now closed so everybody's breaking their rigs down and i'm closing everything up here and i'm going to load my truck up onto the trailer and make the 10-hour drive home but i wanted to say thank you to everybody who came out and i was able to shake hands with and hear their stories about how they use the firebox stove or who they enjoy watching my videos with some people talked about watching their videos with their parents or their in-laws or some people watch them with their kids and it was so nice for me to hear that and it really meant a lot to me so thank you everybody that i was able to meet here at the overland expo and i do appreciate everyone else who watched my videos and i appreciate you for watching this video thank you everyone take care goodbye