Small bbq grate. Lite, fits in the pack. You can put a small pot on, or grill fish or a split bird over the coals.

Take some salt, olive oil and dehydrated Tuscan herbs, garlic etc. Gravy powder enhances stews as well.

Make sure your pot has a lid, it prevents drying of meat like rabbits are prone to. Don't be afraid to cook rabbit pieces awhile, until the meat falls off the bone, then add a pinch of gravy powder to thicken it and deepen the flavour.

Use a good amount of oil and salt when grilling birds.

Fish can be wrapped in aluminium foil, put directly onto the coals or on top of the grate.

When the fish is cooked, open foil, peel skin and scales off, eat meat, lift bone grabbing the tail, then eat meat on other side.

 

Me and my cousin shot a Turkey last spring.... or fall of last year. Cooked it on a open campfire - using a green sapling to place through the Turkey.

We placed a sapling through the Turkey and rested the near end on rocks, placing the meat over coals. End of stick was weighed down with a rock.

Cooked the Turkey over hot coals only - wood added to just keep coals going. Cooking the medium bird ( two pieces - in slices ).... from start to finish.....yes this is true = was about 2 hours cooking time. One edge was slightly burnt, and it tasted the best, with a bit of "smoked flavor".

Listening to a country music radio station, Drinking beer, and enjoying tobacco while talking made the 2 hours go by fast. THIS WAS one of the best camping nights I had.

I am in my element when I am in the woods. Nothing like the peace and enjoyment of a good campfire - cooking on a campfire, while enjoying a good beer afterwards.


Green Shadow *^*

 

I use an MSR Universal. Lightweight, packs well, works great.

 

This is my new bug out cook set I just got. Haven't used it yet. Have had my Ti spork forever. http://www.amazon.com/HealthPro-Titanium-Lightweight-3-Piece-Cookware/dp/B00MV6WAE0

Car camping is cast iron or stainless. A few items will be in the INCH cart.

Stoves I have like a dozen. Military gasoline burning ones in 1 and 2 burner, Colman 2 burner's converted to propane (my favorite) for camping. Uses 1# throwaway (which I refill for about 75 cents) or a bbq tank. IR heater, lantern on the tank pole plus one on a pound can to wonder around with and the stove on a stand. Total propane camp - no pumping or fuel on your hands at cooking time. A converted Coleman fuel stove will work at 25 below, other propane stove not so much unless they have a pre-heater for the fuel.

For my BOB I have my original Gerry and 2 cans of fuel. One of the lightest stoves made that was adjustable flame. I prefer an Infantry Grunt stove to a Penny stove.

I refuse to carry a stick burner or a grill on my back. Rocks work fine and there is no shortage of them here or wood for that matter.

 

Will you be car camping or backpacking? If car camping, you can get one of the larger Coleman type stoves. If you're backpacking, or you just want something lightweight and smaller, you can use a SoloStove or a JetBoil. SoloStoves are great if you're in a wooded area as it uses sticks and twigs as the fuel. JetBoils require alcohol canisters for fuel, but they're cheap, small and lightweight.

 

I will be backpacking. I heard of people making a "hobo stove" out of a coffee can. Does that work?

 

I don't backpack, but I have my survival pack set up just in case I have to in an emergency and it includes an aluminum plate that can be used to cook on if necessary. I also carry a canteen in a belt mounted Alice pack with the cup which can be cooked in and a stove base to set the cup on next to an open fire or a small twig fire built underneath.

Also, have you ever heard of a Dakota/Lakota fire pit/hole? look it up on Y-tube a small version would work just like a rocket stove.

 

A Hobo Stove is basically the same as a Solo Stove, only home made. It should work fine for back packing. Here's a link to the Hobo Stove and for comparison, the [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Solo-Stove-Backpacking-Emergency-Preparation/dp/B007DBD3IU]Solo Stove[/ame].

 

No need for a stove :

1 - Make a campfire circle with rocks.

2 - At the base of the circle, leave about 8 to 10 inches open.

3 - Make a square at the base of the circle - like the white outline on the rear sight of a Glock handgun. Rocks downward to the right and left ( 8-10 inches long ), with rocks at the bottom....connecting the rocks to the left and right.

4 - Where your square is at the base of your circle, dig out the soil about 4 to 6 inches.

5 - Get a good campfire going.

6 - After you have enough coals to sustain a campfire and to cook with, pull some coals to the base of the circle....inside the area you dug out 4 to 6 inches - in your "square area".

Or ------> a campfire circle can be made with a "square" on each opposite side of the campfire to cook multiple meals - one
holding a pan and one holding a skillet

7 - Adjust the rocks on the left and right side to the width of your pan or skillet ( cast iron ) and place the left and right side of your skillet on those rocks. Be sure to have about a 1/2" space between the skillet and the coals - the coals need air to keep hot ; if not the skillet - pan or pot.... will literly extinguigh the coals.

*** You have a campfire + a place to cook ***

8 - Place meat - vegies....ect in skillet and cook. Me and my cousin do this frequently when we camp. Grease or whatever....already coated in skillet and wrap the skillet with plastic - place inside a plastic grocery bag....what ever. When the time comes to cook - set the skillet on the coals.....get heated enough to cook, and then start cooking.


Green Shadow **/**

 

1st rule of survival = Dont pack more crap than you can handle or manage. Pack light and make use of your surroundings.

Grates - Hobo stoves - heavy pots and ect.....all add weight and is something that you will have to keep track of, keep clean and ect.

If anything, get you a portable and compact Army Mess kit to keep in your pack.

Green Shadow */*

 

Gi mess kits are good for eating from but terrible for cooking in. Everything sticks and they are hard to clean.

 

Hello.....Hello...I am a...

Stove Junkie. I have more stoves than I can use. All types. Its in my blood and I shall not be free. Now. Pick one, a good one. Learn its strength, its weakness (they all have them)...are learn how to field strip it and work with minmal tools. Unless you are using wood... a fire and a grill..then pray it doesnt rain. I use Wood, White gas, JP8, Iso canisters, denatured alcohol...etc. All are a tool and work better in certain situation. I have several coleman 550's that are heavy but rock solid. I have Optimus, Snowpeak, Svea...etc...all good stoves, but all must be maintained

 

If SOLO escape/evade single SS mug above

If SOLO back packing small cook kit above

If 2 or 3 slightly bigger cook kit above.

If more than 3, bigger cook kit yet.

I carry a folding twig burner & alcohol stove.
That gives you 3 heating options, twig burner, alcohol stove or camp fire

 

For bugging out, plan on having food that doesn't need cooking.

For hiking, I use an alcohol stove.

It weighs an ounce and can boil 2 cups of water in 2 minutes. Cost was $0 as I made it from an energy drink can I salvaged out of the neighbor's recycling bin. It saves an enormous amount of time and energy by not building a fire, and it can easily be used even in the pouring rain. I can easily set up, eat, and clean up in the time it takes to build a fire. And you always have the option to build a fire if you want to.

Az

 

My DIY alcohol stove built from a water bottle, like the one shown.

 

I really like the idea of a small BQ Grate im going to add my 6" BBQ grate that my table top grill came with. its to put under the coals but it would be good for small meals and wouldn't take up much room or weight in my pack! Cool idea! Thanks!

 

Over 60 years ago, 4 of us backpacked across the Grand Canyon--Since we didn't know how much wood we would find, I carried a full size Coleman 2 burner stove, and a gallon of white gas in my pack! As I got older, the gear became much lighter, to the point that now, I use rocks, no grate, a small lightweight pan--size depending on how many we are cooking for--and a frying pan lid. Often we use foil for wrapping food, and placing in the coals.

I was doing the AT or PCT, I would carry a small single burner multi fuel stove, and maybe titanium (good quality) pan and lid/frying pan. My understanding is that many places wood becomes scarce--and in some situations a fire may not be an option. There is something to be said for a a small group, vs solo, for a stove, and weight.

Aluminum is hard to "season" as a cast iron pan--but cast iron is too heavy.

 

Also just using a coke can stove. As a stand i use my esbit burner. This means i can also use the esbit tabs as a backup if i run out of alcohol for some reason.