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I keep going to outdoors stores looking for a nice frying pan
Yup, with a small fire and a nice slab of rock you can fry up a whole variety of food. Some of the tastiest pizzas are cooked on a hot stone and it is now a novelty to roast steak and seafood over a cooking stone
. They’re just reinventions of an old concept that predated the cast iron frying pan.
and it is now a novelty to roast steak and seafood over a cooking stone. They’re just reinventions of an old concept that predated the cast iron frying pan.It’s simple in concept but you have to be careful. You really need to watch out for rocks that have moisture in them. Just like in a campfire, a river stone or shale that hasn’t been dried carefully the heat from the fire can cause the moisture to vaporize and in turn cause the rock to explode. ¿Flying fish anyone?
Create two stable piles of stones and place the large cooking slab across them like a bridge. Next, start your fire and when you have a good coal base, move the coals under the bridge. Keep adding small wood to the fire as needed. It will take a while to heat up the stone to make it hot enough to cook on. If you heat it too fast it can shatter. Once the stone is heated, you can add food to your new cave-man frying pan and enjoy a fun, tasty dinner.
One of my favourite benefits of using a stone is that it cooks evenly, unlike the thin frying pans that are built for backpackers. Take a look at the following video to see this technique used to cook a tasty trout!
If you missed the post on how to fillet trout, take a look at this post.
