[Sca-cooks] Dutch oven question

[Kirrily Robert]

In lists.sca.sca-cooks, you wrote:
>The cook needs to be able to specify whether they need a hot fire to
>roast meat, or a cooler one for simmering a stew or a lot of coals
>for baking in a dutch oven.
>
>There should be no expectation that you can get the fire you want
>for baking your own independant experiment in the dutch oven if the
>camp cook has already specified that they need a hot fire for that
>evenings meal.

The issue is not so much with other cooks as with non-cooks who want a
roaring bonfire for "atmosphere".  Most people around here seem to cook
on coleman stoves rather than on the fire, and the fire is seem as
primarily decorative.

K.

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