Cooking dinner with just a knife?

[dartanyon]

I think you got a flint joined to your blade. How are you going to cook your dinner?

I'm thinking of a spit ... I'd love to do a picture but fire restrictions are a bit rough at the moment ... not to mention the water restrictions.

 

[billym]

You can cook fish and game on a spit.

You can also cook it on a hot flat rock like a fry pan and in many cases you can cook directly on the hot coals / ash.

You can also make a digging stick to dig a cooking pit and wrap the food in large (non-poisonous) leaves and cook it in the covered pit with hot coals and rocks (not from the river).

You could hollow ouyt a log into a wood bowl and drop hot rocks into it to boil water and make a soup.

 

[2dogs]

Light your aprtment stove with a flint then use the microwave. I know, I know. Sometimes the intial post just sets me off. Maybe I've seen to much crocdile hunter stuff and think everyone from Oz is a bushman or should at least know how to roast a hotdog.

 

[DaleW]

I think you got a flint joined to your blade. How are you going to cook your dinner?

I'm thinking of a spit ... I'd love to do a picture but fire restrictions are a bit rough at the moment ... not to mention the water restrictions.

Check out the Native American methods for cooking and smoking salmon-- a large stick woven the length of a fillet and smaller ones woven through the meat and over/under the center stick to hold the meat out flat. For small critters, a stick parallel to the spine and propped on a rock or a forked branch would do. a small fire with a good bed of coals is preferred for cooking vs a big bonfire.

There is a good method descibed at http://grayssportingjournal.com/stories/022306/recipe.shtml for using split willow branches to cook fish (scroll down a ways). It is followed by a method for boiling small fish by just digging a hole, filling it with water and tossing hot rocks in to boil them whole.

 

[dartanyon]

Yep I think I'd like to try and make soup, that'd be a challenge.

2dogs, how ya goin? Saw your name and cracked up again. Sorry but I think maybe a hypnotist left their mark on me, good medicine though. Now that I look at my original post I see that its a little missleading. What I meant was "what would be your favourite cooking method"?

I was watching a cooking show on tv and one of the methods was wrap fish in wet bark with lemon grass. Looked nice.

 

[GroovyMr1337]

I dunno, how about A KEBAB????

Definitely the easiest way to cook with only a knife.

 

[bikermikearchery]

Shot a Turkey a while back removed the head, feet and entrails.leave feathers and skin on. Stuffed him with wet river rocks ( to act as a steamer ) packed the whole bird in mud. Set mud covered bird directly on bed of coals. build fire up around and on the mud covered bird. Let die down to coals leave for about 4 hours. when you crack the baked mud covering off the feathers and skin come off with it.

 

[EmsRescueGuy]

I Remember doing something similar to what bikermikearchery did but with a trout (no stones inside either) I diddnt cook it long enough though and ate some mud with the meal. I used this method as well as a spit and the Tennis raquet method discussed by Dale W in boy scouts as a part of cooking merit badge (had to cook for a weekend with no utensils or pots etc)

 

[Myal]

Sorta depends on whats on the menu

turtle :
http://sievers.nl/visitnorthernterritory/126-02.jpg

Goanna:
http://www.ozoutback.com.au/postcards/postcards_forms/abor_hunting_1/Image/au246341.jpg

kangaroo:
http://www.treloars.com/exhibition/images/web01.jpg