Originally Posted by chrisx

Cooking on a fire is the lightest way to carry a kitchen. For thousands of years people cooked on fires. Not quite as easy as it sounds. Perhaps there are a few people out there that still remember how.

I build a very small fire. As small as possible. I cook on the coals. First thing in the morning I build a little fire with sticks no bigger around than my smallest finger. It quickly burns down to coals. As I heat my water / food I have a second tiny fire going. I swithch the pot from one set of coals to the other. If I eat rice in the evening I find a small flat rock to set in the fire. This acts as simmer for the rice.

I have noticed that cooking on an open flame can cause a titanium pan to bend out of shape a little. Coals do not seem to cause warping of my ti pan.

Anybody have a good recipe for beans on an open fire?