Campfire dinner Photo by Daniel Ottman |
There are several methods of doing this the simplest is just
sticking your food onto the end of a sharpened stick and holding it to the
flames. This is okay if you are only
cooking small pieces of food, but anything bigger you will have to discover
other means. The handheld broilers made
out of green twigs that are held above the flames are another method that we
have described in another article is another.
A lot of camp cooking consists of various soups and stews
that require an entirely different approach to the cooking style. They are made by boiling the meal in a
pot. Putting a pot over a campfire is
another proposition.
The first thing you don’t want to happen is for your food to
accidentally spill into the campfire which is apt to happen by placing the pot
directly on top of the burning logs.
There are several ways to accomplish this. The simplest is to build a cooking crane.
The simplest way to build one is using two sticks one of
which is two armspans in length (12’) and a shorter one about 4’ long that is
forked. Both of these sticks are
sharpened on the larger end. The Y
shaped stick is driven about a foot into the ground, and the longer stick is
laid across it with its sharpened end driven into the ground. This is the crane after you have driven it
into the ground place a heavy flat stone over the end.
On the other end place several turns of a stout cord this is
to suspend your pot over the fire. The
pot can be raised or lowered depending on how hot you want it to become in the
process of cooking.
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