Originally Posted by
Rowan
Actually, just a piece of pedantry for you: Anyone who cooks on a gas or alcohol stove cooks on a fire.
I don't see how your recipe a few posts above this one differs from that except for the heat source.
Governments, however, make a big distinction between camp stoves and wood camp fires. I'm not sure about the wood camp stoves mentioned above.
There are places where I believe that a camp fire is 100% safe any time of the year, under any weather conditions. I don't have the photos of my fire, but here is where my last camp fire was built a couple of years ago.
The camp fire was a few feet from the edge of the water, at water level on a large gravel bar. And, it was just as big as needed to cook on. Not a busy camping area, and the whole area would have flooded a couple of months after I was there.
Unfortunately, it is easier for governments to prohibit all camp fires than to teach people how to be safe and appropriate.