Hogan said:
Survival scenario. I've carried my water in my condom shoved in a sock back to camp. Have had the luck to still have firesteel and knife, so have healthy fire going, shelter made from available materials. Fish caught on hook & line from survival tin.
Only thing is, no cookware. No saucepans, mess kits or anything like that would fit in survival tin.
Question: How do I boil the water to make sure it's safe to drink? and what do I cook in (assuming I have no desire to eat raw fish).
Over to you......
Fashion a pot from clay that you dig from the earth, or use hot stones, as others have explained (Steinbier is made like this).
Chris mentions carrying aluminium foil in your survival tin. I think that stainless steel foil is more resilient.
Kobayashi Maru approach.
How big is a survival tin? I've seen people mention Altoids and Fisherman's Friends....
When I was in the Scouts, we put together some survival tins of different sizes. Some had first aid kit, fire kit, navigation and signalling in a single tin. A cigar tin is bigger than a Fisherman's Friend tin, sure, but still manageable. I mean the oval tins that tobacconists have on the shelf, with 24 or more cigars in them. There are probably several different sizes, so maybe you could find one just big enough to serve as a small billy can, as well as container for kit.
As for cooking the fish, you can take green twigs and make a sort of racket that holds the fish, and makes it easy to turn so both sides cook. If you try to skewer it, it risks falling apart as the flesh cooks and softens.
Keith.