[Sca-cooks] Dutch oven question

[Kirrily Robert]

In lists.sca.sca-cooks, you wrote:
>
>The biggest ultra super problem I've ever encountered with dutch ovens
>(or any fire cooking) is convincing people that you can't have a camp
>bonfire if you want to cook on it.  If you have ridiculous quantities of
>wood, bonfires are wonderful warm things to sit and watch.  But you
>cannot cook on them, and you cannot even cook very efficiently near
>them.  Last Pennsic, Mike had to dig out an extra fire pit and take
>coals from the camp bonfire so as to cook with the dutch oven.

Yeah.  *sigh*.  It's frustrating, especially here where campfire cooking
seems to be very uncommon.  Back home in Lochac, even the most
inauthentic campsites did *some* of their cooking on the fire, even if
it was only boiling rice or pasta or ramen noodles in water.

Yours,

Katherine

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