Apart from working on the development of the new Goanna V2 Firebowl base, I also found some time to create a new design that has no base at all.
I wanted to create a firebowl that was a low profile as possible, so I simply took a standard firebowl and cut a large circle in it and reversed the pieces and welded them back together.
This simple modification (simple but somewhat time consuming) created a very elegant and modern form for a Firebowl.
The intention is that this firebowl is used straight on the ground or a pebbled area as shown in this pic.

At the moment I only have one and seems that a friend has already pegged it as his own. This one is only 80cm in diameter, but I think the next one will be a 100cm.

That will make a much more dramatic effect.

The Goanna V2 base is here!

I have been getting a steady flow of questions from customers who like me want to take their BBQs back to wood fire basics. That was the whole premise behind the design of the Barramundi BBQ.

Those that had already bought a Barramundi BBQ from Yagoona now had the tool they had been searching for, to cook truly great BBQs over natural wood fire and achieve that elusive classic smokey BBQ flavour. No chemically enhanced smokey marinades using MSG required!

Until now though there has not been a base made by Yagoona that held the firebowl and the Barramundi BBQ and a height that was comfortable for cooking.
Well it is here now. The Goanna V2 base.

As with all Yagoona products, looking cool was the most important part of the design.
After all the bowl and the base usually stay in your garden as decorative objects.

The assembly method also took some attention to get it to be as simple and hassle free as possible. I have had to sacrifice for this product one of my adversions which is the use of nuts and bolts. The 4 panels of the Goanna base are held together internally with M4 hex head bolts.
I toyed with the idea of making clips from laser cut steel plate, but the expense of this together with the fact that assembly would not be any easier and could even be more difficult!
This finally pushed me to use nuts and bolts.
The dissasembled transportable size is 1/4 the footprint of the assembled unit which makes transport and logistics lighter on the environment.


To see some more pics of the Goanna V2M and V2L,... check out this gallery...


Being simply a hollow box means that if you use this base on a nice lawn of grass, there is still a danger of some hot ash falling on the ground and burning the grass.
Not yet available for sale but on the drawing board is a protection plate that inserts into the Goanna base. It will catch any ash that falls through the water drain hole, while allowing any water that falls through to run off safely. A set and forget solution. The was everything should be designed!

Camping BBQ

Just got back from a week camping in the Vallemaggia. A true natual beauty of the Alps.
The clear fresh waters snaking between the huge rock formations of the valley make for an idillic destination.

Some deep pools with large rocks and cliffs are perfect for a bit of cliff diving!

And no camping trip is complete without a good wood fired BBQ with friends and beer.
Here the Barramundi BBQ came into its own.
Easy and compact to transport and cooked like a pro.
This time I wanted to try spare ribs. I wanted to recreate the delicious juicy taste that you get from a closed BBQ system. So to achieve this I simply wrapped the ribs in aluminium foil and cooked them on the BBQ for 30 min each side.

This is what they looked like after opening up the foil.

Then I grilled the outside to get the cruchy crackling skin as well. I cooked the other stuff at this time as well. Here is a pic of what the Barramundi BBQ looked like fully stacked with food for 8...

Those ribs tasted every bit as good as they looked!  yummmmmmy

Vacation time!

Its time to find some sun!
From tomorrow till the end of next week, Yagoona will be closed.
It's time to drive south and find our place in the sun on the banks of a lake where we can put up our tent, sit back and relax.
You can still reach me by telephone though.
have fun
Alex

first pics of the new Goanna v2 base

Hi everyone,
I have the first of the Goanna v2 bases now.
This one is a large version meant for large Feuerschale (100+ cm)
Here it is shown with an XL Feuerschale (100cm)

And here I am cooking with an L Zen (90cm) Feuerschale and an M Barramundi BBQ on top of the Goanna Lv2 base.

Google +1

Hi Everyone,
I guess if you are using Google at all for your searching, then you have noticed this little icon that is next to search results.
Google calls it +1
It is the blue button to the right of the results and looks like this:

It is Googles idea to let people rate results in their searches.
You can see at the bottom that 2 people have +1'd my search result in google.
Me and my friend Howard. Thanks Howard

If you like my stuff and would like to show your support, I would be really happy if you put 'feuerschale' into google, and next to the Yagoona entry in the search results, you +1'd me!

Thanks
Alex

New Goanna v2 Base almost ready!

As some of you may know, I have been working on a new Firebowl base (Feuerschale Sockel)
This one is for those that want to BBQ.

The Yabbi base was designed for decorative fires. Its low profile design is perfect for sitting around with friends on cool evenings. I wanted it to be at the right height from the ground so you can tuck your feet under the bowl and keep your toes warm as well. For this it works well.
The downside is that the Yabbi Base is too low to cook comfortably.
Those of you who are using the Yabbi / Feuerschale / Barramundi BBQ combination will find that there is a lot of bending over while cooking. Not ideal.

I had developed the Goanna base some time ago addressing this issue and produced 6 units in total. These have all been sold to customers

Goanna v1 Sockel mit M Feuerschale und M Barramundi BBQ

The reason I discontinued this base is because its production was more complicated than I would have liked. Additionally I had not considered properly the shipping logistics behind this product and it became quite expensive to send to customers all over Switzerland.

On the Yagoona open day on 11.6.2011 where the last 2 Goanna v1 Sockels were sold, I was inundated with interest in this base. I vowed to myself to redouble my efforts to create a the successor to the Goanna Base (v2) just as soon as the dust following the open day settles.

Well the first prototype product unit is being laser cut as I write this post.
Tomorrow I will be collecting and testing it.

Stand by for the next post where the first glimps of the Goanna v2 will be shown.