SC - a grid?

[Jeff Gedney]

Vika, I understand your problem, and if you like, I'll make you a cooking
grill like I made and gave to Ras- I can pretty well make it to any size you
need. An average one would be about 2 feet by 2 feet, and cost about $50
plus postage. It's completely collapsible, almost indestructible, and it can
hold a pot or grill your food. All you gotta do is keep coals under it- the
easiest way, if you're using firewood, is to have a firepit to burn the
wood, and a keyhole off the firepit, under the grill, to rake the coals
into. It's from a design which was carried by the Civil War cavalry, and
I'll even include a case for it. Ask Ras and Margali about it- it's a lot
more compact to carry than a grill or fastened grid.

Corrugated sheeting would work as either a shelter or a windbreak, and since
it's not flammable, Pennsic security wouldn't say a thing.

Rather than trying to dig a firepit at home, get a 50 gallon steel drum, saw
it in half the long way, and set it up on bricks or cinderblocks and make
your fire in that. Old oven shelves wiill make a functional cooking surface-
you can put your pots or whatever on them, and you can have your fire at one
end and rake the coals up as needed to heat under your grid. If the drum is
too wide, a couple of steel bars will hold the oven shelves- you can get
steel bar stock at any welding or fabrication shop, or you can use steel
rebar.

As far as seasoning your cast iron, you may not be aware that you aren't
supposed to cook wet foods in it until it is well seasoned. Just do fried
foods for a while- later, when the seasoning takes, just scrape it out, heat
it up, and reseason a bit- dealing with cast iron takes a while for the
surface to develop- if you need help, come see us at Pennsic, and we'll show
you.

Instead of an oven thermometer, get and use one of those instant temp
thermometers, and poke and check the food as necessary.


Phlip

Nolo disputare, volo somniare et contendere, et iterum somniare.

phlip at morganco.net

Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

"All things are poisons.  It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a
poison and a remedy." -Paracelsus

"Oats -- a grain which in England sustains the horses, and in
Scotland, the men." -- Johnson

"It was pleasant to me to find that 'oats,' the 'food of horses,' were
so much used as the food of the people in Johnson's own town." --
Boswell

"And where will you find such horses, and such men?" -- Anonymous


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