Cooking without any cooking utensils

[Sally Furniss]

Survival cooking without
any cooking utensils

...

Hot rock cooking

Simply light a fire above a bed of non-porous rocks. Don't use soft, porous stones with high moisture content, which might explode on heating.

Let the fire burn for half an hour or more. Meanwhile, prepare your food. Brush away fire and embers with, for example, a handful of long grass.

Cook food directly on the hot rocks. Use it in the same fashion as you would a frying pan. This survival cooking method is ideal for fish, thin meat slices and frying eggs.

Cooking in mud

Wrap your meat in fresh grass. Tie the grass off using natural cordage, completely covering the meat. Cover the package in at about 3 cm (1") of wet clay or mud with no grass showing through. Place the package on a deep bed of embers and build a fire above.

A good sized fish take around an hour to cook. A small game, such as a rabbit, takes about 4 hours.

http://www.wilderness-survival-skills.com/survival-cooking.html

 

[Laidback Al]

Re: Cooking without any cooking utensils

Cooking flat breads on thin sandstone slabs was common among the Hopi Indians of the American Southwest. From a Google search of piki stones:

from: American Indian Food By Linda Murray Berzok

 

[tigger2]

Re: Cooking without any cooking utensils

Not sure if this fits. One method that could work is plank cooking.

http://www.tastytimbers.com/about-plank-cooking.html

 

[mixin]

Re: Cooking without any cooking utensils

I vote that each of you test the method you posted this weekend and report back Monday on your results.

How do you get those eggs off those hot rocks with no cooking utensils?

 

[Lizw]

Re: Cooking without any cooking utensils

I vote that each of you test the method you posted this weekend and report back Monday on your results.

How do you get those eggs off those hot rocks with no cooking utinsils?

Pick up the rock (in your gloved hand) and turn it upside down over your plate. Seriously, it works.

 

[mixin]

Re: Cooking without any cooking utensils

Thanks for the feedback. Do you have to grease the rocks?

I have a solar box I made over a year ago, which I haven't experimented with yet. I also have a thermos bottle for thermos cooking, which I haven't tried yet. As well as a large cooler to be used in a slow cooking method, which I haven't yet attempted.

I have an assortment of parts for different homemade burners, which are still unassembled, an alcohol burner which I have never used and a bbq grill that collects dust.... all prep items.

I guess now would a good time to test those methods.

 

[Lizw]

Re: Cooking without any cooking utensils

Thanks for the feedback. Do you have to grease the rocks?

I have a solar box I made over a year ago, which I haven't experimented with yet. I also have a thermos bottle for thermos cooking, which I haven't tried yet. As well as a large cooler to be used in a slow cooking method, which I haven't yet attempted.

I have an assortment of parts for different homemade burners, which are still unassembled, an alcohol burner which I have never used and a bbq grill that collects dust.... all prep items.

I guess now would a good time to test those methods.

Uh, yeah! Re the rocks, we cooked bacon on them first, so they were pretty greasy already. I would think greasing them would be a good idea, though.