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Wood Fired Cooking On A Caldera Cone

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It tin survive tough to produce existent cooking on a wood give the axe inwards the backcountry.  Sure, in that location are guys who tin produce it, but it's non all that easy, fifty-fifty for the experienced.  Is in that location a way nosotros tin brand cooking on a wood give the axe a footling to a greater extent than accessible?  As a thing of fact, in that location is:  A wood burning stove.

If you've been next my blog, you lot know I've been evaluating a Sidewinder version of the Ti-Tri Caldera Cone.

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As I've used the titanium version of the Caldera Cone, I've choke convinced that this would survive a comparatively slow way to create existent nutrient on a wood fire.   So I idea I'd endeavour it out.  

For today's hike, I took the beautiful Kenyon Devore Trail from Mount Wilson.
The Kenyon Devore Trail
It's a actually beautiful area, mayhap an hour's receive from downtown Los Angeles.
The wood equally seen from the Kenyon Devore Trail
Beautiful, until you lot descend a footling further in addition to larn into the give the axe zone from the 2009 Station Fire, the largest give the axe inwards the history of Los Angeles County.  The give the axe was human inwards origin.
The Kenyon Devore Trail passes through the give the axe zone from the 2009 Station Fire
The Station Fire burned an expanse of most 251 foursquare mi/650 foursquare km in size.  How large is 251 foursquare mi/650 foursquare km?  Well, Washington, DC, the uppercase of the U.S. is 68.3 foursquare mi/177 foursquare km.  In other words, the Station Fire burned an expanse over 3.5 times the expanse of the uppercase of the United States.  That's a pretty large fire.

There are miles in addition to miles of this:
Burn expanse from the 2009 Station Fire
If you lot expect at the higher upward 2 photos, I shout out upward you'll encounter a powerful declaration for something similar a Ti-Tri Caldera Cone:  fire safety.  Will using a Ti-Tri Caldera Cone (or whatever wood stove) eliminate the danger of a wildfire?  No, of class not.  But a small, contained give the axe that is comparatively slow to extinguish is safer than a traditional opened upward fire.  Regardless of whether you lot role a wood stove or not, I encourage you lot to survive prophylactic amongst fire.  Again, expect at the higher upward 2 photos, taken most 2.5 years afterward the fire.  Fires tin survive genuinely devastating.  When you lot exit a campsite, delight brand sure your campfire is out, dead out.

OK, Hikin' Jim volition instantly larn off his soapbox.  :)

Hey, HJ, how most or in addition to hence cooking?

Ah, yes, good that is the dependent area of today's weblog postal service isn't it?  Well, let's receive got a look.  First, I laid my Ti-Tri Caldera Cone up, fill upward it amongst wood, in addition to give the axe it up.
A Sidewinder type Ti-Tri Caldera Cone inwards role amongst wood 
By the way, you'll notice a lot of leafage litter on the wood floor.  By all rights, I should receive got cleared it improve than I did.  You can't tell here, but I'm on the banks of the west Fork of the San Gabriel River, in addition to everything is a flake damp.  With all that water, I wasn't also worried most a give the axe spreading, but yet I likely should receive got cleared it.   Mea culpa.

Today, I desire to create or in addition to hence "real" food.  For that I'll necessitate the steady oestrus of to a greater extent than oft than non coals non the intensity of burning flames.  But no necessitate to waste matter the wood, let's pose a pot of H2O on.  A footling tea spell nosotros create won't wound anyone, instantly volition it?  
A pot of boiling H2O on Ti-Tri Caldera Cone
Once things receive got burned downward a bit, let's endeavour or in addition to hence existent cooking.  Let's endeavour something fairly easy:  scrambled eggs.  In choke the eggs:
Starting scrambled eggs
Now, earlier I choke on, allow me survive clear:  I'm doing a flake of kludging.  Every Caldera Cone is sized to gibe a detail pot.  The Cone I'm using is sized for a 1300ml Evernew pot.  My pan is bigger than a 1300ml Evernew pot.  How did I create amongst my pan?  Very carefully.  :)

All kidding aside, I placed the pan on the rim of the Caldera Cone.  In price of stability, it worked OK, but non great.  Please authorities notation that I was using a rattling lightweight aluminum pan amongst 2 eggs.  In other words, I wasn't putting a lot of weight on the border of the cone.  I'm non proverb this is an approved or recommended method.  Really, I but wanted to encounter if I could create existent nutrient on a wood fired Caldera Cone in addition to whether or non it mightiness survive easier than using an opened upward fire.

And indeed i tin create existent nutrient on a Caldera Cone.  Our scrambled eggs are coming along nicely.
Scrambled eggs inwards progress on a wood fired Caldera Cone
And now, the finished product: 
Scrambled eggs!
I receive got to say that these turned out most equally good equally if I had cooked them at home, in addition to this was on a fairly inexpensive lightweight aluminum pan.  I was quite pleased amongst the results.  And the taste.  :)

Next, I idea I'd endeavour something but a flake harder:  Eggs over easy.  Other than the fact that I broke i of the yolks when I cracked the egg, I'd say they turned out rather nicely.
Eggs, over easy.  Yum!
You know, for backcountry wood fired cooking, those are or in addition to hence pretty skillful looking eggs.  I was rattling pleased amongst how they turned out.  And the pan?  No burnt spots, in addition to no sticking.  I was rattling pleased.
No burned nutrient in addition to no sticking
Now, is my variety of kludge of balancing pan on the rim of a Caldera Cone the best laid up?  No, likely not.  Better would survive to notice a pan the same diameter equally the pot in addition to hence that you lot could residue the pan on the stove proper in addition to non but the rim of the cone.  Still, this does work, in addition to it industrial plant actually quite well.

Overall, it's far easier to create existent nutrient on a wood give the axe amongst a Caldera Cone than on an opened upward give the axe -- fifty-fifty if you lot receive got to kludge a bit.  With the Cone, it's much easier command the sum of oestrus in addition to to focus the heat.  If aught else, focused oestrus agency your pan gets hot but the pan's handles remain cool.  Sometimes getting a pan inwards in addition to out of an opened upward give the axe tin survive quite a trick!  

I constitute cooking amongst a wood give the axe amongst a Caldera Cone was surprisingly easy.  I was very, rattling pleased amongst the results, in addition to I conception on doing to a greater extent than cooking of existent nutrient on a wood fired Caldera Cone.

Thanks for joining me on or in addition to hence other Adventure inwards Stoving,

HJ

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