Any chef worth their salt can cook well with any heat source.It just drives me a bit batty when someone feels the need to exclaim how much better their choice is and how inferior other's are. People need to use what's best for them and not put down other's choices.
bakechef;1369068 Any chef worth their salt can cook well with any heat source[/QUOTE said:I cooked over campfires (NOT camp stoves) for many a time. Sometimes the entire summer long when we would camp in WY and MN from June to Sept.
I also learned to make a great dinner in my cast iron dutch oven with the lipped top.
Where we camped in WY there was a Basque sheepherder who would drop by a few times for coffee. He taught me how to bake bread in that CI dutch oven.
It's illegal now I'm sure (we were on BLM land and not in a campsite) but I dug a hole, made a fire in it, put the dough in the dutch oven when the wood had become great embers. More embers on the top then fill the hole back up with the dirt.
Go fishing all day, come back to freshly baked sourdough or a pot roast, potatoes, carrots that were perfectly done.
(I also had to sleep with the sourdough starter in a glass jar at the foot of my sleeping bag because the nights were really cold sometimes.)
And curtains so they can be drawn when dusk is falling and you are still a couple of hours away from home - an anti-burglar device as well as helping to keep the heat in the house when the central heating kicks on.And windows!
I like the fact that my current juicers parts will go in the dishwasher My old ond didn't and it was a fiddly beast to clean.
I cooked over campfires (NOT camp stoves) for many a time. Sometimes the entire summer long when we would camp in WY and MN from June to Sept.
I also learned to make a great dinner in my cast iron dutch oven with the lipped top.
Where we camped in WY there was a Basque sheepherder who would drop by a few times for coffee. He taught me how to bake bread in that CI dutch oven.
It's illegal now I'm sure (we were on BLM land and not in a campsite) but I dug a hole, made a fire in it, put the dough in the dutch oven when the wood had become great embers. More embers on the top then fill the hole back up with the dirt.
Go fishing all day, come back to freshly baked sourdough or a pot roast, potatoes, carrots that were perfectly done.
(I also had to sleep with the sourdough starter in a glass jar at the foot of my sleeping bag because the nights were really cold sometimes.
I suppose it beats a hot water bottle.(I also had to sleep with the sourdough starter in a glass jar at the foot of my sleeping bag because the nights were really cold sometimes.
Good advice! That's so true with many things, and not just appliances. How about smart phones and software and downloads? The same rule should apply... do your best to make sure the bugs are all worked out first. ?
