[Sca-cooks] Cooking Tripods, Supports, Pompeii Brazier, fire height

[Mike C. Baker]

> > For places that don't allow ground fires, what is the 
> minimum height that the firepan needs to be above the ground?
> 
> Usually 12 inches, but from what I'm hearing it varies from 
> place to place. I'm in the process of making one for Brighid, 
> using a variant of the Roman design held over an above ground 
> fire pit. Delay has been the sheet metal, which Dragon has 
> been supposed to bend for me, now, for a couple years. Not 
> having a brake, I'm about to take after it with a hammer and 
> copious cussing- the usual way to accomplish an annoying 
> smithing project ;-)
> 
> >
> > Sharon
> > gordonse at one.net
> 
> 
> --
> Saint Phlip
> 
> Heat it up
> Hit it hard
> Repent as necessary.
> 
> Has anyone seen my temper?
> I seem to have misplaced it at Stalag XXXV....

Height-above-ground:  I've seen 18 inches as often as 12, and
occassionally as much as 24.

My personal preference is higher than that:  whatever puts the grill /
cooking surface at a height that reduces the amount of time that I have
to bend over to reach the pan / griddle / pot.

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