The Cajun Microwave is a wooden charcoal-heated box used for cooking meats outdoors.
The Cajun Microwave is normally made of thick plywood, one-half inch brick insulation and 26-gauge metal.
The inside of the box should be lined with the metal. The top of the box is constructed with a metal tray 'hot box' in its center to hold the hot charcoal. The hot charcoal radiates heat throughout the box and cooks the meat inside.
The box sits on legs to keep it off the ground. You place the lid on top of the box, and place your choice of heat inside of the lid's steel lined insert. You can use charcoal or your choice of sticks/branches/wood for those who want a nice roaring fire.
The entire box heats up, and the meat is cooked evenly for delicious, open fire quality roasting.
What can you cook in the Cajun Microwave?
You can cook just about anything such as
a venison hindquarter, lamb or pig. If you can cook it in a barbecue or oven, you can cook it in a Cajun Microwave.Most folks love the Cajun Microwave for the ultimate Cajun cookout, the roast pig or 'couchon du lait' (as they call it) which literally means ' young suckling pig'.
When you think about what you can cook in a Cajun Microwave or la caja china remember it is a giant oven. My favorite description is "the Caja China, a Dutch oven on steroids"
You can cook almost anything so lets throw in some corn as a side dish with your fabulous meat.
Corn Recipe ...
Step one: Fresh Corn
Step two: 1/4 to 1/3 inch slab of butter
Step 3: Wrap in tinfoil
Step 4: Toss in La Caja China
You just place the foil wrapped corn into the Cajun Microwave the last 30 minutes of cooking time and instant delicious side dish. Want some Squash?
CAJUN MICROWAVE HONORS
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Lonesome Fiddle Blues
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Cajun Microwave Bruce Weeks Family Band
Cajun Microwave Bruce Weeks Family Band
This is my first attempt at building this and cooking in it. I put just a little too much charcoal from the start and scorched some wood. But tomorrow I'll put in some more flashing and a little less charcoal. This Pork Butt Roast sure smells fine here in the driveway.
Advantages Of The Cajun Microwave
over the traditional open pit method of cooking
* Cooks Food 25-40% faster than open pit method (A 50lb pig can be roasted in 4-5 hours instead of 6-8 hours)* Cooks more efficiently - you use 1-2 bags of charcoal vs. 1/2 chord of wood for in-ground pit method
* Can be used in the city and suburbs since it uses charcoal like a bar-be-que pit
* No need to worry should the weather turn bad - just move the Cajun Microwave under your patio or shed, or even under a tree
* Taste of the cooked meat is as close as you can get to meat roasted in an open pit.
* the weather is not an issue (can't have a fire in the rain)
* legal in cities where fires are prohibited (cook on your porch or courtyard)
* options such as grills mounted on top of lid and lets you cook "double duty" ---large pieces of meat inside the box, burgers, hot dogs, bbq chicken and other items on top-at the same time!
* It is also a wonderful conversation piece - center of attention for your party!
Cajun Men Cook
My number one choice for cajun cookbooks
They cook because they love good food, but also because they love the camaraderie, the good times, and the story telling that inevitably accompany meals.
Whether preparing blackened redfish, crawfish, shrimp, gumbo, jambalaya, boudin, etouffee, crabs, oysters, sausage on the bayou, or barbecuing a suckling pig on the patio (where cooking time is often gauged by the amount of beer in the cooler), Cajun men have an innate talent for creating taste treats that frequently evolve into legendary culinary delights.
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This Cookbook is full of novel food combinations and lore, this cookbook is just like gumbo--spicy, rich, and memorable. Winner of a 1995 Tabasco Community Cookbook Award. Benefits the Beaver Club of Lafayette.
Inside look at La Caja China in use
Check out these pictures of folks using the Cajun Microwave or Caja China.
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Accessories to Enhance your Cooking Experience
Cooking is no different than any other things in life - Tools enhance the craftsman.
Take a look at some of the cooking tools available
Bradley Digital Thermometer
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Steven Raichlen Best of Barbecue SR8038 Extra Long Suede Gloves, Pair
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Smokin': Recipes for Smoking Ribs, Salmon, Chicken, Mozzarella, and More with Your Stovetop Smoker
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Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing
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The Cajun Microwave - Real People - Real Good
More folks immortalized in photo enjoying the Cajun Microwave experience.
This......is a cajun microwave as Beki would say.
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Cajun Microwave - firing it up
Cajun Microwave in cooking process
The Best of Cajun Cooking
Fire up the Taste Buds with these great Cajun Recipes
Do you want to be a great cook or expand on your skill? Here is a fantastic selection of cookbooks to expand your library.
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Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen - Volume 2: Cajun & Creole Classics [VHS]
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Emeril's TV Dinners: Kickin' It Up a Notch with Recipes from Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril
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Cajun Cuisine: Authentic Cajun Recipes from Louisiana's Bayou Country
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The Top 100 Cajun Recipes of All Time
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Chef Paul Prudhomme's Fork in the Road
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Cooking in Cajun Style
You can wear Cajun and prepare for the conversations!
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How to Build a Smoker or Smokehouse
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Eddie Le Jeune & DL Menard
Now its time to sit back - put your feet up - and listen to some great down home music.
Cajun Music : Eddie LeJeune DL Menard & Ken Smith
Duralde Waltz: Cajun clip from the Shetland Sessions. Not the whole tune, as found on the CD though.(Retitled to give Ken Smith recognition, as I had previously neglected to do this.)
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Beauty is not only skin deep
AL's Cajun Microwaves are charcoal heated dutch ovens used for cooking outdoors. Each microwave is hand crafted from furniture-grade Louisiana cypress, and durable stainless steel. The cover is a coal bed, which radiates heat throughout the interior of the microwave, where your food cooks slowly & evenly. A removable thermometer allows monitoring of the interior temperature. Optimal cooking is achieved between 250 and 350 degrees.These beautiful units are available with custom laser etching on cypress panels to personalize your microwave with your name or company logo. And there are several accessories to choose from to make your Cajun Microwave as functional as it is beautiful.
Learn more about Al Simons Cajun Microwaves today!
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Interesting lens. But talking about cajun food, chech this out! See the recipes, videos and lots of infos!
Posted April 07, 2009
squider wrote
Looks very dangerous, how safe is this with all the wood.
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very interesting way to eat chicken! i wouldnt mind trying it sometime!
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i never knew cajun food could taste so good out of a microwave!
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Ron I would love to see your oven. Never seen one you could cook a hundred pound hog in.
You can add a smoke unit to these as well
Posted July 25, 2008
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Stupid. The point of barbecue is the smoke. You can do this in any oven.
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The StoveTop smoker is for all seasons and reasons
The idea of smoking your own foods might be appealing yet for many reasons, you do not feel its for you.Perhaps you never fix enough food at once to make buying or building a smoker practical.
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Cajun Fiddle
Performed by miss Emily
darn near boring thats what.
I just want to set the mood while you browse my lens, so I present this little bit of Fiddle just for you.
Cajun Fiddle
"Cajun Fiddle," as played by Miss Emily. Visit me at www.banjophil.com and learn how to get Emily's CD.
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Naughty Salmon dip
Ingredients:12 ounces canned salmon
3/4 cup Miracle Whip (may substitute with mayonnaise)
3 oz. of cream cheese
1/4 cup horseradish sauce
1/2 cup diced red bell pepper
1/2 cup diced green onions
1/4 cup diced red onions
2 Jalapeno peppers diced
2 tablespoons Lime Juice
1 teaspoon grated lime
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Throw everything in a food processor and mix in low speed for about five minutes till all the ingredients are nicely mixed.
Cover with wrap and refrigerate for a few hours or overnight for best results.
Serve with Crackers
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My Favorite Cajun Microwave Sites
- The Cajun Microwave
- The Cajun Microwave is a cypress roasting box designed to cook large pieces of meat and other items, including whole roast pigs (the famous Cajun dish known as "conchon du' lait"), turkeys, lamb, chickens, deer, beef, vegetables and other items
- Al Simon's Cajun Microwaves: Hand-made from premium cypress & stainless steel
- Cajun Microwaves are charcoal heated dutch ovens used for cooking outdoors. Each microwave is hand crafted from furniture-grade Louisiana cypress, and durable stainless steel.
- A Redneck Pig Roast
- Anthropologists see events such as fish fries and pig roasts as ways for a culture to redistribute wealth/energy/food resources. Rednecks, my culture, see pig roasts as a way to relieve wintertime blahs and, for some rednecks, an excuse to start drinking whiskey at daybreak.
- Cajun & Creole: Planning a pig roast? You need the cajun microwave recipe cher
- If you are planning a barbeque party around a pig roast, you need the cajun microwave recipe cher.
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- What can you cook in the Cajun Microwave?
- CAJUN MICROWAVE HONORS
- Lonesome Fiddle Blues
- Cajun Microwave Bruce Weeks Family Band
- Advantages Of The Cajun Microwave
- Cajun Men Cook
- Cuban Microwave
- Inside look at La Caja China in use
- Accessories to Enhance your Cooking Experience
- The Cajun Microwave - Real People - Real Good
- The Best of Cajun Cooking
- Cooking in Cajun Style
- Shameless Self Promotion
- View of the Cajun Microwave
- How to Build a Smoker or Smokehouse
- Your opinion counts
- Eddie Le Jeune & DL Menard
- Beauty is not only skin deep
- Learn How to Make your Own Sausage
- Visit the Smoke House
- Welcome To The Cook Shack
- The StoveTop smoker is for all seasons and reasons
- Cajun Fiddle
- Naughty Salmon dip
- My Favorite Cajun Microwave Sites
- A lesson in speaking Cajun
- Insight into Smoked Food and Cooking
- The Cajun Opinion Poll
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