A fire is always warm, satisfying and cozy. To avoid problems with cooking over an open fire, the Expedition online store offers simple and effective solutions. This is trouble-free fire equipment from world famous brands. In this section we do not sell matches, but we offer something more valuable - real camp grills, effective flint, gas burners and unique picnic sets.
Tourist equipment for organizing a field kitchen
Eating a tasty meal or simply warming up after a long trek is not just pleasant, but priceless for every tourist. Fire equipment is one of the most important pieces of equipment for any traveler, because without hot, aromatic food it is difficult to experience all the delights of outdoor recreation. It’s better to admire the landscapes on a full stomach, don’t you agree?
Choose the best equipment for a field kitchen from the Expedition store. With our devices and accessories you can cook in any conditions:
- Barbecues and smokehouses
. The collapsible design takes up minimal space during transportation, but when assembled it easily replaces a stationary grill. - Burners and stoves
. Durable cooking equipment will allow you to feed a large crowd. You can use coal or wood as fuel for the stove, and the camp burner runs on liquefied gas. - Sets for kebabs, burgers and grilling
. An apron, skewers and other accessories will simplify your life as a kebab cook. Just try how to grill meat quickly and easily with our BBQ kits and burger pans.
Do you like to cook over an open fire? With the nano grill you can do this anywhere. The unique design of our camping grills will not leave you indifferent - throw it in your backpack and surprise your family and friends with culinary masterpieces prepared in nature.
How to start a fire when the matches are wet and the lighter is lost
If you need to light a fire, but don’t have a lighter or matches, then a flint in combination with a knife will give a powerful spark, especially if you use a special set with flammable material for ignition. We have thought of everything so that you don’t go hungry, don’t get cold and can sing your favorite song on the guitar while sitting by the fire.
Continuing the campfire theme, let's talk about how to hang a pot over a fire. After all, cooking is the second purpose of a camp fire after heating. In fact, hanging the pot is not at all necessary. There are several types of fires on which you can simply place it. For example, a fire-well, a taiga fire or a nodya made of three logs. You can read more about them here.
There are also a great variety of ways to hang a cauldron; tourist imagination is rich. I'll tell you about the ones I had to use. In each specific case, one method or another is appropriate. For example, there is no point in using public fire equipment if it is a solo trip or two tourists.
How to cook over a fire for 1-2 people
In this case, I don’t take campfire equipment, but come up with everything on the spot. For example, the most common hanging for a pot is a vanka.
Vanka
This is the easiest and fastest way to hang a pot over a fire.
For the vanka, a pole 1-1.5 m long is taken. It is placed on a stone (log, mounted spear) according to the principle of a rocker. One end of it is also pressed to the ground with a stone, a log, or even your backpack, and a cauldron is hung on the other.
At the end of the pole, a small cutout is made with a knife under the handle of the boiler. The disadvantage of the design is that only one boiler can be suspended. But it always suited me. While we are eating porridge from the first, during this time the tea in the second has time to boil.
Kinemur
This is a more complex design - a crossbar on two spears. The name kinemur is taken from Sami. The design is convenient for hanging several boilers at once, and to remove them individually, you can hang them not directly on the crossbar, but use wire or wooden hooks.
I used kinemur only if I found it near old fire pits, I didn’t bother making it (except for the composition of a pot on a fire, the photo of which you see in this article), I usually built something simpler.
Tripod
Another device for hanging the boiler is a tripod. This is a homemade tripod. It is made simply - three sticks about a meter long are placed in a pyramid, and their tops are tied with wire, and a simple rope will do if the fire does not reach it.
The structure is stable and quick to construct, but if the boiler is round, then only one can be hung. And even if there are two flat cans, then hanging them side by side is still not very convenient - the soup will run away and end up in the tea.
Wooden hook
How to cook over a fire if you lost your hook during a hike or forgot it at home? A wooden hook can be cut from a raw branch.
If I hang the pot from a cable, I can make many small hooks and use them to adjust the height of the suspension.
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How to hang a pot over a fire
Details Author: Sergey Fedoseev Of course, an experienced hiker does not have this problem; he knows a bunch of ways to hang a pot over a fire in any conditions. But for novice tourists who decide to cook something over a fire or simply boil water for tea, it would do well to familiarize themselves with several simple methods.
It seems to me that the most common (but not the most convenient) way to hang a pot is a cross stick on two flyers. For such a hanger, it is better to take damp wood, otherwise the top crossbar may catch fire and, if you do not notice this, your pot will collapse into the fire. For flyers, you can also take dry branches, but then they need to be installed a little further from the fire. If you light a fire in a hole (Dakota hearth), the fire will only go upward, without touching the side supports.
You will need two roughly equal sized sticks with a fork at one end. The opposite end must be sharpened with a knife or an ax, so it will be easier to stick the flyers into the ground. If you have a spatula with you, you can dig holes, put flyers in them and cover them with earth, compacting them well.
Thread the cross stick through the bow of the pot and place it on the flyers. Build a fire under the pot.
With this method of hanging it is not very convenient to remove the pot. To do this you will have to remove the crossbar. You can make a simple hook out of wire that will cling to the crossbar, and hang the pot itself on the hook. By slightly improving the shape of the hook, you can hang the pot at different heights, which is also sometimes needed when cooking.
The second method of hanging a pot is no less popular and just as simple. It requires one long stick and one flyer. The flyer should also be firmly stuck into the ground or buried next to the fire. You place a long stick with one end on the flyer so that it is above the fire, and the other end must either be pressed down with a stone or secured in the ground. You can also hang the pot directly by the handle, or attach a wire hook to the end of a stick over the fire.
The third method is very convenient to use if you have a chain with a hook. You will need three approximately identical sticks, which must be tied together and placed over the fire in the form of a pyramid. The sticks must be long enough so that the fire does not burn through the rope with which they will be tied. And if the chain is long enough, you can tie sticks at one end and hang a pot on the other.
If you do not have any wire or a chain with a hook, you can make a pendant from a suitable stick with a knot. You need to cut it to a convenient length, shorten the knot if it is too long and make a small cut for the handle of the pot. Even a large cauldron can be hung on such a hook. This method is good because you don’t need to carry any additional equipment with you, and where there is firewood, you can find a suitable stick and make a hanger for the pot out of it in a minute.
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How to hang a pot over a fire if there are a lot of eaters
For organized groups of more than 3 people, it is more convenient to have special campfire equipment with them. The most common of them is a steel cable.
A cable with a diameter of 2-4 mm and a length of about 1.5 m is suitable; there should be thimbles and cords at the ends. It is stretched between two trees, the cauldrons are hung on hooks.
In large camps, the rope is hung at a height higher than human height, and the boilers hang on chains. This makes it more convenient to fuss around the fireplace, adjusting the height of the pendant with a chain, including in order to increase or decrease the boiling force of the contents of the pot.
Some close-knit groups have a marching taganok among their equipment; there are as many designs of them as there are craftsmen in our country. Our people love to invent and make things themselves.
More often, water workers suffer from this; weight is not critical for them, but the design is always with you and the answer to the question of how to cook over a fire is received once and for all. The main advantage of the Taganka is that it is convenient to cook in any container. Be it in a saucepan, or in a frying pan, or in a smokehouse.
In general, when you arrive at the place where you are going to set up camp, just look around - there are a lot of things you can use to build a cooking device. For example, stones from which you can lay out a taganok, two logs (like an extended node), or even trekking poles placed on a tripod. And the pot can also be hung on a carbine, however, only if the fire is small.
So a hanging for a pot is like porridge from an axe, life will force you - and the most original designs will be born from what is at hand.
Dmitry Ryumkin, especially for Zabroska.rf
Outdoor recreation, fishing, hiking - cannot do without making a fire. Fire is an ancient companion of man. The human connection with fire is hardwired into instincts; The general importance of fire for our civilization is difficult to overestimate. So, when relaxing in nature, we always like to light a fire
, warm up, cook something, admire the flames, meditate.
There is a special item in the camping equipment - campfire accessories
. We will talk about them.
So, we have established that when camping, fishing, especially with an overnight stay, a fire means light, warmth, hot food and good contemplative pastime. Any fire, before you extract anything from its presence, must be lit and lit. Let's start with this.
To make a fire, you need firewood (usually there are no problems with this in nature), dry tinder (paper, dry birch bark, leaves, bark), as well as a source of fire and, if the firewood is not perfectly dry, some kind of combustion accelerator. Nature itself will help us with firewood and tinder, but we must have a source of fire with us. You can, of course, try to start a fire using improvised methods, but in modern realities, in ordinary, not extreme, conditions, this is an unnecessary hassle. So, your equipment should include: matches, a lighter, and a flint. One of these, or 2-3 tools at once, for insurance. I usually take a lighter and, just in case, a flint. Suddenly it rains, the lighter gets wet, and the flint, even when wet, can create a high-temperature spark! They scratch the flint with the sharp edge of the butt of a knife, the blade of a knife, or a special piece of iron that comes with the flint.
By the concept of combustion accelerators, I mean dry alcohol or some kind of flammable liquid. This could be a bottle of fireplace lighter fluid (commercially available), or simply a bottle of gasoline, for example. If you can find dry firewood, this is not required. But during periods of prolonged rain, with high air humidity, it happens that lighting a fire is a very difficult task if you do not have such an activator.
So, the fire is received, the wood is burning. You need to cook the fish soup on the fire, fry the kebab or fish, boil the kettle. Accordingly, you need to have camping utensils and have equipment for installing them on the fire. There are many possible names and options.
In order to hang a pot or kettle over a fire, the following structures are used: stags and a pole; tripod; other options for standard designs.
In order not to carry completely metal stags, and it is also unknown what size the fire will be, they take only pointed metal forks. They simply cut out straight poles of the required length on the spot, drive them into the ground, hammer them into the upper end, and screw in a standard flyer.
Improved stags with adjustable length can also be used.
To combine stags and poles, special hooks are also used. This allows you to hang the pot higher and remove it without burning your hands. You can make such devices yourself by bending them from suitable steel wire.
It is clear that stags and poles can be easily cut right there, on the shore, from tree branches and bushes. This is what they do when they don’t have a ready-made solution with them. This requires steady hands, suitable vegetation around and some time. We are talking about equipment, accessories for the fire and what you can have for maximum convenience around the fire.
You can also place a pot and a kettle, as well as a frying pan and a grill with kebabs (fish) on some kind of prefabricated structure. You can do it directly on the arms like this, but it’s more convenient to have an additional grille. Then the arms can be spaced widely - and the fire will have a large area and several elements of utensils will immediately become available.
To cook food while camping, fishing, or hunting, you need not only to properly build a fire, but also have the necessary equipment for a fire, which is commonly called “fire equipment” or fire accessories.
Let's take a closer look at what kind of economy this is?
The most common and primitive foci.
It is clear from the photo:
a) Two flyers with long legs driven into the edges of the fire, on which a stick-crossbar is placed for hanging dishes.
b) or - one roguly crossbar hanging over the fire, and fixed with the other end on the ground.
c) A cauldron suspended over a fire on a tripod of stakes using a thin steel chain (cable) and a hook. Flyers, stakes and crossbars are usually cut from aspen or alder - species that are not particularly valuable and grow quickly and are resistant to high temperatures.
d) Often, especially when relaxing in the countryside or while fishing along the coast of a reservoir, you can find waste bricks.
To avoid cutting down trees again, you can build a fire pit out of them.
e) Or you can use large (natural) stones, especially in those places where the soil is rocky and it is impossible to drive wooden slingshots into it, large stones can be used to build a fireplace. They should be placed next to each other in such a way that they serve as a stable support for the dishes.
The problem of finding suitable flyers for a fire at a campsite can be simplified if you prepare a variety of fastenings before going on a hike (fishing trip). As well as devices for hanging the crossbar over the fire - welded or bent from steel wire. Approximate samples are shown in the pictures.
Methods for hanging a pot over a fire.
This topic is primarily addressed to tourists, survivalists and people who simply love to relax in nature, and in general to everyone who is thinking about the question of how best to hang a pot to cook food over a fire.
There are actually quite a few methods, as well as opinions about which method is the best. We will not make any conclusions, but will only express our opinion on this matter and describe the methods that are used most often.
However, before talking about ways to hang a pot over a fire, it should be noted that sometimes hanging the pot is not required, for example, if you decide to use a type of fire that allows you to place the pot directly on it or next to it. For example, fires like a Finnish candle !
How can you hang a pot over a fire?
1. For the first method, we will need a stick capable of supporting the weight of the pot, as well as suitable objects that can be used to create two hills above the fire (put stones in a pile or bricks, large cobblestones, place logs. You can make a fire where there are natural uneven areas rising above the fire on sufficient height).
Logs will also work.
One stick will also be enough when using a Dakota hearth type fire .
Hanging a pot over a Dakota fireplace.
2. The basis of the next method is also a stick, but you only need one support. You need to find a spear and drive (screw) it into the ground so that it does not fall, this way you will get a support. For greater stability, you can drive two or three spears, inclined towards each other (see photo below).
Two slingshots at an angle provide greater stability than one vertically.
Then you need to select a stick of sufficient length and place it at an angle on the support, while we hang a pot on one end of the stick, and securely fasten the other, pressing it down with a load (for example, a heavy log), or use a peg driven into the ground (which will press the stick to the ground ). You can even secure the end of the stick with a cord, tying it to a driven peg; this will allow you to adjust the tilt of the stick-holder, and therefore the height of the pot above the fire. You can also not secure the second end of the stick, but immediately hammer it into the ground at the desired angle, as shown in the figure below.
We drive a stick into the ground.
3. Next comes my favorite method and I love it for its relative simplicity, convenience, stability and aesthetic appearance that the finished structure has. To hang the pot, a crossbar is used, which is usually supported by two supports. The difficulty in construction can only be the search for suitable spears and the hardness of the earth. But, if you can handle this, you will get a pretty convenient hanger for pots.
The best way in my opinion.
Usually the bowler hat is hung directly on a stick (this is what I usually do), but if this is inconvenient for you, you can carry metal hooks with you or build a “hanger” from a stick with a knot, as shown in the video below:
By the way, the slingshots for the supports can also be replaced with ordinary sticks, only then you will need a rope or something similar to tie the tripods to replace the slingshot supports.
4. Another quite common and valid method, but it requires the construction of a fairly large tripod. We will need three long sticks that need to be tied together at one end. And spread the untied edges of the sticks to the sides. A rope is also attached to the top, to which the pot will later cling. Tripods are good for use on hard and rocky soils where it is difficult to insert supports into the ground.
A pot under a tripod.
5. Fifth method. This includes various cables and ropes, usually stretched between two trees on which the pot is hung. True, in this method you will have to use some kind of hooks (possibly taken or made in advance), otherwise removing the pot will be very problematic.
On a cable.
6. The next, one might say, group of methods includes devices taken in advance, most often metal ones, with the help of which it is very simple and quick to secure the pot (these are some purchased tripods, special homemade devices, etc.). To be honest, I don't particularly welcome this approach. Firstly, it’s excess weight, and secondly, and more importantly in my opinion, it’s much more interesting to do everything right there on the spot, with your own hands! However, we must admit that situations are different and sometimes you don’t want to waste time on this...
An example of such a device.
7. The seventh point includes all other methods of suspension, based on your ingenuity and design abilities. You can always come up with an unusual and effective fastening method, the main thing is that it is reasonable and does not turn into reinventing the wheel!
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Devices for hanging pots over a fire.
They can be screwed or driven (this depends on their design) into the end of any straight stick, which is much easier to find in the forest than a slingshot.
In the fire set shown in this picture, the hooks are equipped with an additional post with a crossbar. During cooking, you can handle it with an unprotected hand, as it heats up little.
Hook design allows for adjustment
heating buckets by raising or lowering them.
The set should contain five or six of these hooks.
Fig a. Fire net and rope with hooks
:1 - metal mesh;
2 - steel cable or chain; 3 — halyard (nylon cord);
4 — thin cables with hooks for hanging cooking utensils (non-removable);
5 — mesh spacers; 6 — thin cables; 7 - carabiner.
Fig b. Clip fixing the suspension to the cable
:1 — clamp with hole for cable; 2 — cable, 3 — pendant (thin cable, chain) with hooks.
The mesh and rope not only make it easier to organize a bivouac (camp) in winter conditions, but also contribute to the conservation of nature.
A metal rope for hanging dishes, which is adapted for stretching between trees, is very popular ( Fig. a
, at the top).
It is indeed very convenient because it eliminates the need to look for and cut out anything.
I took it out of my backpack, secured it to the trees - and you can hang dishes on the hooks.
This cable should be long enough (6-8 m) so that it can be stretched between trees that are far apart from each other.
You can also use a shortened cable (2-3 m long), then you need to tie ropes to the loops at its ends and attach them to the trees.
However, no matter how hard you pull the cable, it still bends under the weight, and the pots of food end up above the hot flame. A clamp helps eliminate this drawback (Fig. 6
), proposed by ski tourism instructor V. Yarov.
The principle of operation of the clamp: a suspended bucket, dragging down the cranked hook of the clamp, jams it on the cable anywhere..
When using the clamp, there is no need to tighten the cable.
On ski trips, winter fishing, hunting
for a fire they dug a hole in the snow or built a flooring from damp trees. Both are very labor-intensive.
A solution was found in the use of a fire net (hammock) (Fig. a, in the lower part), made of wire (0.5 mm); mesh dimensions 50x80 cm, cells - 10x10 mm (or slightly larger). Thin cables (thin chain) are tied directly to the mesh, which are extended with a nylon cord. The net is tied to the trees.
The branches burn well on it, so it is not at all necessary to chop sushi.
Rolled up, it fits in the side pocket of a backpack (authors: E. Grigoriev, V. Denisov).
The cable and mesh are used all year round.
With this design, the set can be carried by placing it in a large work mitten.
This way, the hooks won’t get lost, and the mitt can be used for its intended purpose—to pick up hot dishes. As shown in the photo, all of these simple devices can be easily made in any mechanic’s workshop.
Therefore, as soon as tourist trips cease to be random events in a person’s life and become more or less regular, you should gradually acquire a homemade fire pit.
