If you're looking for fire-cooking recipe book inspiration, here's a selection we'd highly recommend — many of the recipes tested and tasted by us. Enjoy.
Lennox Hastie — Finding Fire: Cooking at its Most Elemental
One of the only books we've found that is built entirely around cooking over embers — every recipe starts from the ember up.
If you haven't seen Chef's Table: BBQ on Netflix, give it a watch. Episode 2 covers Lennox's restaurant Firedoor in Sydney.
Derek Wolf — Food X Fire: Grilling and BBQ with Over the Fire Cooking
Derek has spent the better part of a decade researching global fire-cooking techniques, travelling to learn about dishes like lamb al asador and brick-pressed chicken. He shares it all here. If you want to cook herb butter oysters straight on the coals, or picanha like a Brazilian steakhouse, this is the one.
His YouTube channel, Over the Fire Cooking, is also a great source of recipes and how-to videos.
Marcus Bawdon — Food and Fire: Create Bold Dishes with 65 Recipes to Cook Outdoors
Renowned fire-cooking whizz, author and general good bloke — his books are a great addition to any collection.
Food and Fire takes the best of the global artisanal techniques, from searing directly on the coals to rotisserie, wood-fired ovens and cast-iron grilling, and turns them into 65 dishes to cook outdoors and share in front of the fire.
Dan Toombs — The Curry Guy Bible
The master of all things curry, and a book that will change how you cook them. The Curry Guy Bible brings together 200 of Dan Toombs' classic dishes, developed over more than two decades of eating his way around Indian restaurants, takeaways and food stalls. His recipes are loved because they genuinely work — they taste like your curry house favourites.
Marcus Bawdon — Skewered: Recipes for Fire Food on Sticks from Around the World
If you're ordering one of our Kebab Racks, this is the book you need.
The recipes come from everywhere, and show just how universal this way of cooking is — from South America (chicken, pepper and chimichurri rojo skewers) to the Middle East (fig and halloumi), Oceania (prawn and pineapple) and Europe (grilled gnocchi).
Sam Evans and Shauna Guinn — The Hang Fire Cookbook
From the Hangfire pair, covering all things American barbecue. If you want to push your open-fire cooking further, this reveals how they make their recipes and the secrets behind the perfect smoke. They explain the basics of getting started with a home smoker, different types of wood, and which rubs, cures and brines work with which meat. Their approach is simple: get the best ingredients, cook them low and slow, and tuck in.
Genevieve Taylor — Charred: The Complete Guide to Vegetarian Grilling and Barbecue
If you want to cook vegetables over fire, this is the book. Some genuinely excellent recipes and a lot of good ideas.
So much more than a barbecue
Experience Argentinian-inspired fire cooking on your own versatile wood-fired grill. Quick, easy temperature control, a continual ember supply and multiple cooking zones — amazing steaks, slow roasts, fish and casseroles for family and friends, outdoors.
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