Cooking

[diamond lil]

How many of us have, right now, a pot that can cook a proper meal on an open fire ?

[Red Doe]

Me...got a couple of heavy cast iron pans, plus an old ex army affair that`ll cook for about a dozen, with a nice fitting lid.
Also got a cast iron griddle for making scones. (the guid Scots drop scones that is )

[jansman]

Me...got a couple of heavy cast iron pans, plus an old ex army affair that`ll cook for about a dozen, with a nice fitting lid.
Also got a cast iron griddle for making scones. (the guid Scots drop scones that is )

Me too. Do we have fuel to build that fire-Now!Do we have matches?Do we know how to build a fire?
Some years ago I read a saying that went"the last man on Earth will cook his last meal on a wood fire."

[Red Doe]

Me...got a couple of heavy cast iron pans, plus an old ex army affair that`ll cook for about a dozen, with a nice fitting lid.
Also got a cast iron griddle for making scones. (the guid Scots drop scones that is )

Me too. Do we have fuel to build that fire-Now!Do we have matches?Do we know how to build a fire?
Some years ago I read a saying that went"the last man on Earth will cook his last meal on a wood fire."

Also got a good flint and steel set. We burn peat though, trees are scarce on the ground in our part of the Highlands.

[diamond lil]

I've made girdle scones on a shovel before

[metatron]

I can knock up a stove from stuff laying about to cook just about anything, but its no harder cooking on a fire then it is in the house, well besides needing to collect raw materials for the fire. If you're just using a pot, its no different then using an oven hob.

Bread tastes better when baked in a wood fired oven, and its easy enough to get suitable clay around here.

I have a ZEBRA stainless loop handle pot, in my bag. I use it on a tripod, I make when I need one.

[Carrot Cruncher]

No big cast iron pots or dutch ovens. I do have a couple of billy cans though (and one of Lidl's tripods) and plenty of camping pans, pots etc. Must get a dutch oven at some point. Someone else mentioned Jamie Oliver using one in his series about American Food which I also watched and it appears to be quite a versatile bit of kit

[diamond lil]

Metatron - we've sometimes had to cook on the fire when we had powercuts, before we got the gas cooker, and I find a real fire knocks hell out of cheap pots & pans. They don't last long

[metatron]

Metatron - we've sometimes had to cook on the fire when we had powercuts, before we got the gas cooker, and I find a real fire knocks hell out of cheap pots & pans. They don't last long

How are you using the fire? I've found if you build a long fire and let one side of it burn down, you can knock up a tripod and cook over the ambers on one end while you keep the other going and keeping you supplied with more hot coals and you warm. It keeps the pot relatively clean of the black build up that happens.

[diamond lil]

Ah I see. This was in our fireplace int he house, no room to do that lol