Backyard wood fire cooking

[knoefz]

Had some fun in the backyard tonight preparing dinner on a little wood fire.
Needed an excuse to play with knives and fire... so practised my primitive cooking skills.
Fire starting... knife handling... but mainly practice portioning my wood, my water and my food.
Try to pick just enough of everything, cook it as efficient as possible... wasting as little as possible.

The ingredients

Preparing for the fire

Start with bringing my water to boil

Once it boiled I transferred it to a pan to cook the rice while chopping the veggies and chicken. Maybe a little too much water to boil the rice.

Smells good already

All ingredients in there

Stacking my pans to keep it all going

Rice is done

Not much wood left in the stove... dinner's ready (sorry for the out of focus)

Had some fun, it tasted great ... hope you enjoyed the pics

 

[Mistwalker]

Very cool man, looks like a great day

 

[mete]

With all those concrete squares you could have made a very nice stove !!! It would have cooked all your food and kept you warm through the night ! LOL

 

[the lone gunman]

Cool!

 

[mete]

Rice ? I just read that the Chinese have been growing domesticated rice for 9,000 years ! The latest "dug up" info

 

[knoefz]

Very cool man, looks like a great day

Thanks man. I was a great day for sure!

With all those concrete squares you could have made a very nice stove !!! It would have cooked all your food and kept you warm through the night ! LOL

lol... too much effort putting the back afterwards

Cool!

Thanks buddy.

Rice ? I just read that the Chinese have been growing domesticated rice for 9,000 years ! The latest "dug up" info

I just bought mine at the supermarket

 

[JV3]

awesome! that looks tasty...a classic spyderco too i enjoyed using mine, such a great slicer/food prep knife...but haven't used it in awhile so a friend owns it now.

 

[knoefz]

awesome! that looks tasty...a classic spyderco too i enjoyed using mine, such a great slicer/food prep knife...but haven't used it in awhile so a friend owns it now.

Thanks man. I remember seeing the orange Milly often in your older adventure pics.
Do you still have the matching orange PM2 though? The Military is hard to beat for outdoor foodprep.

 

[JV3]

Thanks man. I remember seeing the orange Milly often in your older adventure pics.
Do you still have the matching orange PM2 though? The Military is hard to beat for outdoor foodprep.

yes i most likely will not get rid of that orange pm2 since it's the perfect size for edc. this bark river kephart 3v (in what else, orange ) is the one that replaced the military since it's just as great at food prep but easier for me to keep clean because it's a fixed blade.

for old times' sake my agreement with my friend is i can always buy it back whenever i want so that made it easier to let it go.

 

[Herlock]

Hi! That's cool :thumbup:. In spite of having some friends making fun of me about this, I also often use my backyard/small garden to test my new gear and stuff. It's a good way of finding strengths and weaknesses in a piece of equipment in a "protected" environment, before going out in "the wild". Nice! .

 

[Phixt]

How do you like your stove? I like my Ti-Tri but I'm already envying your ability to feed those long sticks from the pics alone.

 

[knoefz]

Hi! That's cool :thumbup:. In spite of having some friends making fun of me about this, I also often use my backyard/small garden to test my new gear and stuff. It's a good way of finding strengths and weaknesses in a piece of equipment in a "protected" environment, before going out in "the wild". Nice! .

Thanks man. I also find this a good way to get the hang of using your new gear before taking it out in the wild. Or in my case... practicing your old gear

How do you like your stove? I like my Ti-Tri but I'm already envying your ability to feed those long sticks from the pics alone.

I totally LOVE this stove. I's very versatile, many different ways to set it up and use it, many fuel options to choose from (wood, esbit, trangia alcohol burner).
And most of all, it's big fun to use it!
Here's a GREAT thread about it showing many different video's and pictures of the stove in use by different people if you want to see more and read some different opinions about it.
The many parts can look overwhelming at first, but it's really not that hard, you'll get the hang of setting it up quickly.
And you can always choose for a simple setup using less parts at first.

 

[BillyJoeBobJim]

That's a cool idea to use the grill that way to stack the pots. The grill is one of several Core pieces I do not carry. I'll think about adding it back. :thumbup: