5 minute freewrite 2767 prompt set the fire
This is my post for #freewriters 2767 prompt set the fire hosted by @mariannewest
I guess I am a bit of a firebug. Every year, when we used to go camping, I loved tending to the fire. I even still have the fire stick from my last camping trip, which was back in 2017. A fire stick is a stick about 4 feet long, and a hard piece of wood that will not break when moving logs around.
Once the fire had made enough coals, I would use the fire stick to move them to one side, where rocks were placed in a circle to hold a grill. Once the grill was placed on the rocks, I would set the fire to the side where it started, and add more wood to it so it could burn down. This way, I would have more coals to add under the grill. I kept this fire going.
The coals I started with were never enough to cook chicken, and no one wants to eat undercooked chicken.
I think it was back in the late 1980s after having a fire in one place for several days, I had a thought. I had never heard of this being done, but my thought was the ground had to be like an oven, and I wondered if I could cook a roast under the ground.
I never liked going to shore once I was camping on one of our islands, but if I wanted to try my hand at cooking a roast, I made the trip to the store and bought all the fixings. Once back on the island,
I put all the fixings in my roasting pan and covered it in several layers of heavy foil. I put the lid on and covered it in several layers of foil. Someone would dig the hole where the fire had been and put the roasting pan in it, and cover it with sand. I did this in the morning, and built a new fire on top of it, and kept the fire going all day until it was time to eat dinner.
And someone would carefully dig it up, that was the hardest part. It was a hot job.
With this roast, we had some leftover green beans, and I put them on top. I do not advise doing this because they burned, but everything else came out perfect, you could pull the meat apart with a fork.
The kids enjoyed it, but some would not eat everything, no carrots or potatoes, only the meat, but the adults enjoyed it all.
photos are mine
When one goes to any reenactment or camping demonstration here, there's likely to be someone with a cast iron dutch oven. It's a big pot with a dished lid designed to hold coals or hot stones. You place it in the fire and hep hot material on top so it cooks throughout like your pit oven would, but faster. It's a heavy sonuvagun though. @generikat has stories about traditional Hawaiian cooking.
I have a cast iron deep pot, it is the best for frying fish. Does the one you talk about look like two pots where one sits on top of the other? I have never seen a cast iron one like that.
It looks like this.
My pot looks like this, but the lid is different. I can turn the lid upside down and have the same thing.