cooking with hot rocks

[andrew7978]

has anyone heard of a method of cooking where you heat up rocks and bury food with them? If so what sort rocks are best to heat up? Heating rocks isnt dangerous is it? (at most I would assume they would just crack)

 

[Thomas Linton]

"Water rocks" - sandstone, limestone, slate, shale - can explode when heated due to trapped water truning to steam.

Here are a couple of places to start:

http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/pit.html

www.bagelhole.org/?page=93

 

[22-rimfire]

Les Stroud cooked up some bugs or something with hot rocks in his Suvivorman show. Maybe it was those cattail roots/tubers?

 

[Normark]

Hey Guys...

Andrew...

Yaa What Thomas said..
Stay away from heating rocks found in or around water.......

Ron Hood show how to cook a bird, by shoving a hot rock up it's ass and wrapping it in leaves then burying them...

Once the bird is cooked from the inside out,, you simply pull the skin off it,, and eat it off the bone..
The bird doesn't even have to be gutted,, simply cut and insert the rock, wrap, bury and pig out..

ttyle

Eric
O/ST

 

[Strobengh]

Cooking with hot river stones is a very common method of cooking in Asia.
There was an episode of Iron Chef (Japanese version) where one of the chefs cooked his fish by using heated rocks. He pulled a few trays out of the oven and dumped them over the fish.

 

[Thomas Linton]

It's not so much where the rock is found as what sort of rock it is. Sedimentary rocks are plain dangerous in such uses. On the other paw, a lump of basalt found in a riverbed will do fine.

 

[JimMLa]

Either on Les or Bear's show, (Bear if I had to guess) a rock exploded while he was sleeping with hot chunks landing where he lay. I don't think it was caught on camera, but he talked about how dangerous/stupid he was after the fact.

BTW, I would have to drive north half a day to see a natural rock. None here in the swamp/marsh.

 

[bikermikearchery]

I've used hot rocks to boil water in a wooden bowl and rock reflectors to fire bake. For any thing else there is usual an easer way.

 

[Danno4017]

The Japanese restaurants give you raw fish and meat and a really hot rock that you drape the strips of food over to cook.

I remember going fishing in a remote area where we caught nothing and had no food so we cooked the bait (Garfish) we had on a hot rock in the fire. Easy to do.

 

[Fiddleback]

Either on Les or Bear's show, (Bear if I had to guess) a rock exploded while he was sleeping with hot chunks landing where he lay. I don't think it was caught on camera, but he talked about how dangerous/stupid he was after the fact.

BTW, I would have to drive north half a day to see a natural rock. None here in the swamp/marsh.

Hey. I knew where you were from before I looked. I'm went to high school in Rayne. Where are you at?

 

[tholiver]

Yes rocks can explode when heated so Beware!
However...
Native Americans used to heat water in skin bags with hot rocks.
They would Get a fire going,heat multiple rocks in a fire. Fill skin bag full of water. When the rocks were hot enough they would use wooden tongs/ branches to pick up the rocks and (one at a time) put them in the bag til the rock gave off its heat
then remove the rock. They would repeat this til they achieved the required water temperature.

 

[22-rimfire]

You can also just use the hot coals of a fire to cook things, dutch oven style. Sedimentry rocks can be a little explosive when heated in a fire, just like burning some woods.