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Message started by Snow_Dog on May 8th, 2012 at 12:41pm

Title: Re: Campfires vs. Stoves for cooking
Post by Spartan2 on May 8th, 2012 at 1:19pm
We used to cook on the fire all of the time, but we used to break camp and move every day, paddle a lot farther, portage a lot longer, and do everything a lot more energetically than we do now.   ;)

There are only two of us.  One small stove is fine for our simple meals, and it is a great convenience.  If clean firewood is readily available (read that:  no pine), we will cook on the fire.  And if we feel like bothering.  But now, if we don't feel like bothering, we use the stove.  In the morning I like to get up really early and have a quick cup of coffee even before the fire is getting going anyway.

We will often build a pine fire, even with just twigs and the little stuff that accumulates around the campsite, for our morning warm-up fire, or our evening campfire to sit around and enjoy.  Toast a few marshmallows. 

I think we probably are in the 50-50 group, but more and more we are tending to do our cooking on the stove and save the fire for atmosphere.

I don't remember the big suitcase Coleman stove fondly.  Can't tell you what our little tiny stove now is called, but it is small and lightweight, you don't have to use a match to light it, and I like it a lot.  When I bake on it I use a diffuser and my small Jello-mold oven, and create some tasty treats.
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