Favourite cooking setup

[Tony]

We're off for a little camp this weekend to scope out the site for the next couple of BushMoots, I've been thinking about for for the weekend, what to cook on etc and it got me thinking about different cooking setups and that got me wondering what you others like to use when you're out and about.

Often I have a fire with a grill, a pot and a frypan sort of setup, but in the past I've also enjoyed having a carved pot stand to hang my pot off, or cooked just in the embers. These days I use a firebowl more than in the past which makes it easier in some ways and harder in others.



I love George's @Seoras carved pot stands, they're brilliant, particularly the dovetail one.





Then there's what you want to cook, when you camp do you just do a one pot meal so a propped up pot in the embers or next to the flames does the trick, or is it dutch oven for bread, another for stew and dumplings and another for pineapple upside own cake! Is your preference to fry or bake, boil or roast.






So, what cooking setup do you enjoy the most and why? And, what one do you default to the most and why?



Thanks all, looking forward to hearing what you've got to say! Feel free to add some pictures as well!

 

[SaraR]

Fires are nice and all, but I always use a stove. Either my Trangia, the jetboil or or a little gas stove. On occasion I'll get out the Primus but it's loud and slightly scary (I need more practice perhaps).

I usually stick to simple things, often one pot of carbs+veg and one pot of mains+veg.

 

[punkrockcaveman]

Full blown fires very rarely happen for me- I use a small hobo stove sometimes but most of the time cooking is on the trangia 25. Most meals get cooked as part of a rest on a walk or fishing trip so it works out pretty versatile, and I can use the same pots on the hobo stove.

Need to try a Swedish fire torch thing this winter.

 

[billycoen]

Trangia for me too,usually cook noodles and veg,i've got a soto windmaster,great stove,but well too noisy when i just want to relax.

 

[Buckshot]

we will normally have a fire, maybe with a gas briefcase stove for a quick brew.
It tends to be static camps with a fire pit etc. so not a problem to spread out.
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[ghostc]

i use my msr dragonfly most of the time, and sometimes a trangia. i do have a wolf grizzly setup but not got round to using it yet

 

[bearbait]

Simple tripod in a pit for a brew:


Or the same tripod rigged as a campfire crane:


Close-up showing I'm using a mixture of BBQ chunks and regular firewood:


And the product of all that effort:


The pit now has small stone walls and a back wall reflector so makes a better, and more contained, firepit.

This setup is for a static camp in some woodland I have. Regular stoves are used when "on the road" such as Primus Omnifuel, Caldera Ti-Tri, etc. Or a occasionally my Firebox in a metal BBQ firepit.

Here it is keeping me warm in my tipi on Dartmoor a few days ago, using a Swedish Candle setup for the fire itself:

 

[Tony]

Thanks for your input people, good to hear what you use and see some pics.