If you do a lot of cooking over a fire like Staple does, you need a way to get things off and on the fire without hurting yourself.
One way is to just use an apron or tea towel folded over itself a couple of times to pick up the item. This barrier is enough to move items a short distance, if done right and carefully.
We decided that we also wanted to make a fireglove.
On August 5th, Company of the Staple member Roxy talked about Campfire cooking and cooking with ceramics on a campfire. These are the notes from that talk.
The above image is of a saucepan with oil, for deep frying cheese fritters. It is in a trivet, and being cooked with charcoal.
A copy of the recording from the chat can be found here
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Bellows are an important tool when it comes to cooking with charcoal. Charcoal’s temperature, unlike firewood, is regulated more by how much air it has, rather than how much charcoal is on the pile.
Company of the Staple is a living history group in Sydney, Australia for living history portrayals of life in Calais, 1376