SC - Eternal soup pots

[Lurking Girl]

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