Using the loaf

[Pattree]

Using a Zebra pot as a bread oven is nothing new, I’m pretty certain that it’s been done in a Kelly Hobo before.

However:
Hobo (and a set of pot grippers) provides an opportunity to solve the top browning issue:



What?
Oh aye!
I’ll let you know come lunch time

 

[Pattree]

Bit more salt next time. It’s good open textured bread.

I burning birch and pine so after I’d solved the top browning I had to solve the finger blackening before I could eat.

I’m trying to do these four days without resorting to my knife just to see how much I really need it.

I can report that spreading butter with an LMF Spork is the most challenging task thus far.

 

[TLM]

burning birch

If one wants to avoid soot when burning birch just take all the bark off, a lot less soot follows. Somewhat similar strategy for pine, just avoid the resinous parts.

 

[Pattree]

……. or I can just wash my hands and rub the pans with a fold of long grass

I’m not using big branches or the usual fire logs. I get those but I cut them up to about 30mm before I start out. If I were foraging firewood I’d still split it to 30mm section with a little hatchet.
I do take some of the bark off before I start and use it to light the Kettle. I also cut my 30mm firewood into approximately 12mm square lengths using secateurs. It’s the perfect size for the stove and much of the bark comes off and can be saved.

I’m well on into day three and I’m guessing I’ve burned the equivalent of three average log quarters. Dinner tonight and breakfast tomorrow will probably take me to just over one whole 225mm domestic fuel log. It’s a good system.