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Quote: Originally posted by madelinew on 01/6/2008

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I love camping at sites that allow fires and have just come back from one such place. I have managed to cook once over a fire in the past with my cast iron pot but the bottom got very burnt as it cooked very quickly. I noticed that Ray Mears (all bow before the God Mears) used a mesh on legs device over the top of a fire recently. Where can I get such a thing and what else can anyone recommend for cooking over a fire.    

Definitely need a toasting fork - the kids were desperate to do toast but the marshmallow skewers weren't up to the job.

Oh and I'm very chuffed with myself. I managed to light damp firewood without firelighters because the firelighters had got too damp to light. My arms still ache from fanning the resulting smoke with a metal plate for hours on end but we had a fabulous blaze by the time I'd finished. We were the subject of 'fire envy' from others....

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a mesh on legs device over the top of a fire You weld them up yourself if you have the skill or take a pic of it to local fabricator. They should be able to make one in a couple of hours.

what else can anyone recommend for cooking over a fire.    Have a read of the various Bushcraft forums. These people are pretty sound CLICKY

desperate to do toast but the marshmallow skewers weren't up to the job Toast is always difficult. Were you car camping or backpacking? Car camping and you have got room for a toasting fork: Backpacking and you wouldn't want the extra weight.

Oh and I'm very chuffed with myself. I managed to light damp firewood without firelighters because the firelighters had got too damp to light. Well done. There is a Fire lighter product that will light even when wet but I'm sorry I cannot fidn the name of it at the moment. It comes as little waxed paper bits and you break a bit off to use it. - Some Silver Birch will also do the trick as will the old fail-safe of vaseline rubbed into a piece of cotton wool

Quote: Originally posted by CaravanSkier on 01/6/2008

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Years ago we used to find several large, evenish stones and build a kind of wall with huge gaps in it around the fire then put a piece of chicken wire over the top to stand pans on. It worked!

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Yes, that works but if you do go off to places that are less frequented you'll find that everyone has made their own fire-pit and it looks terrible; apart from being terribly destructive.

Its a bit like the Numpties who throw their aluminium cans and wrappers into the fire rather than take them home. There is a litter of little silver flakes that take tens of years to decay.

ex wd swedish trangia £5-£10 0n the net  add a little water to the meths then it doesn't smoke so much worth buying a pucker trangia meths fuel bottle. used mine on and off for the past 5 years works every time (no jets to block) for a brew consider a Kelly Kettle, use barberque fire lights and it will boil up in about 5-6 mins with twigs about 10-12.

Kelly kettles and the like are clever bits of kit. its just a shame that they a) cost so much and b) are so damn heavy

There's always wood gas stoves if fancy something different...

Quote: Originally posted by happybonzo on 01/6/2008

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Quote: Originally posted by CaravanSkier on 01/6/2008

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Years ago we used to find several large, evenish stones and build a kind of wall with huge gaps in it around the fire then put a piece of chicken wire over the top to stand pans on. It worked!

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Yes, that works but if you do go off to places that are less frequented you'll find that everyone has made their own fire-pit and it looks terrible; apart from being terribly destructive.

Its a bit like the Numpties who throw their aluminium cans and wrappers into the fire rather than take them home. There is a litter of little silver flakes that take tens of years to decay.

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