SC - Eternal soup pots
Lurking Girl
tori at panix.com
Wed Feb 2 09:29:09 PST 2000
Liam Fisher wrote:
> >Well now, here's the question. This is something I had in mind to do
> >as soon as I got the idea of having a cooking fire, but the way the fire
> >safety rules seem to wave, someone would have to be awake at all times
> >to keep an eye on it.
>
> Vika, you can't cook with an open flame unless you're using a reflector
> arrangement of some kind (rocks, foil, heralds) to deflect
> and redirect the heat of the fire to cook your food. Very little control of
> the heat with that method. You want to cook OVER coals of a burnt down
> fire instead of flames or you'll be scraping carbon from the inside and
> outside of your pan and warp it to boot.
Right, I grokked that, but I had thought someone had to be on guard
for as long as there was some form of heat going, see. (Which made me
cranky because, last year, I had to douse the coals each night and then
restart the fire from scratch in the morning. Bleah.)
Vika
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