hey fellers, i stayed up til about 1 a.m. last night watching you tube videos on cooking in the great out doors, and was curious what some of your gear is for your over the fire cooking? I have a stove in my cabin and a grill but i want to get heavy into the open fire cooking, or even the little $50 fire stoves and for example see below, or maybe the alcohol cookers? mostly i want to use a camp fire but i also am not declined to use this little backpacking canister to heat up some water too or do some cooking.

http://www.amazon.com/Vargo-Titanium-Hex...+titanium+stove

http://www.amazon.com/Ultralight-Backpac...r+pocket+rocket

do most of you use the cast iron skillets? the old military canteen can type things?

Most of my cooking over an open fire is either as a grill, or whatever I am cooking wrapped in foil, placed accordingly around the heat.

I do have a big cast iron dutch oven that I use from time to time for stews/etc. It takes a little practice to learn what to / not to do, or just learning from someone that knows that they are doing. I had to learn by trial and error.

Look up Adjust-A-Grill on Cabela's WEB site. A friend of mine made me one that is 18" sq. That is what we use over the fire and all stove cooking is done in a cast iron skillet.

nice! thanks

my buddy got a grill the other day before we went to ozona... $17 and was worth every penny... we even put the cast iron skillet on the grill with good coals under to cook brekfest

I have a TEC Cherokee Infrared grill that runs off 1 lb propane or 20 lb
tank

portable, 1600F Hot, grates ready in 5 min for grilling & searing

check it out on eBay

I use cast iron skillet or cast iron wok for any braising,
browning

dont see myself spending 500-800 on a grill LOL its nice but much too nice for me Cabos

I will second the use of a Dutch Oven. If you have a fire, or can heat briquets there is nothing better. And if you look up Dutch Oven Cooking on the internet you will open up a whole world of opportunities. You can cook everything from Stew to Cinnamon rolls and if you have every worked with the Scouts you will know that Coobler rules the weekend campouts!

jollyrancher, the one you posted for
50 some-odd dollars can be substituted
with the pocket cooker from sportsmans
guide for about 12.00
i have 2 and they work great with twigs
or charcoal, etc.
the other one, the gas stove says " does
not include gas base "
what is that? i'll bet it's more than 5.00
i've cooked with rocks to prop up the pan,
logs, dug a trench for coals and scooped
them out of a campfire, etc. really no
wrong way to do it.
(f.y.i. , old refrigerator grills have a
coating that is poisonous when heated, and
don't use galvanized things to cook with)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In0MMZdBoZ0

This set-up is almost identical to what I carry in my elk hunting pack and my get home bag. I ditched the cups and can store dry food, some coffee, and other goodies in the pot. I bought a padded lens case of some kind that the whole assembly fits in nicely, with room left for a can of sterno. It has MOLLE attachment too. All together I might have $25 in the whole thing, and can heat it with anything that will burn.


At camp it's either on the grate over the mesquite fire, or wrapped in tinfoil and put on the coals.

Thanks Fellas!

I make foil packs.I layer from top to bottom- lemon slice, sweet potatoes, green Bernstein and the a meat cubed. Everything is cut very thin. Tames about 30 to cook. Very good