Smokeless Cooking inside Shelter

Description

I love to cook in the openness of a tarp shelter, but I don't always want to use a conventional fueled stove. In this video is a way to cook inside a shelter utilizing wood as fuel and also smoke free. I did this successfully during last season, this time I'm trying to use a small Lodge cast iron skillet. I set up my PSTL Tarp and pitched my PSSL Poncho as a hammock under it.

Stoves http://wildernessinnovation.com/stoves/

PSSL Poncho http://wildernessinnovation.com/?p=1935

PSTL Tarp http://wildernessinnovation.com/?p=796

Tags: Cooking (Interest),Lodge cast iron,Tarp,Survival Poncho,shelter,survival gear,training,winter,outdoor camp cooking,camping

Video Transcription

very peacock here with wilderness animation and oh yeah I film a little video here at a camp I did a week or two ago I guess they decide to come back and show you a different camp I use just our standard size PST our tarp and I'm going to use the large tarp and show how to make a a nice shelter with a hammock and everything suitable for a rainy stormy kind of snowy weather that sort of thing and kind of show you how I set all that up so let's go ahead and get started on this thing and have a little fun here all right so today I brought with me my multicam tart the pstl so it's the large 10 by 10 and I'm going to string that up between these two trees and since I was here last time I pruned out just a few more branches here to allow a little more clearance for the tarp so I'm going to go ahead and get started stringing this up by putting a nice ridge line between the two trees and then we'll put the tarp over that alright so I didn't show you all the details of setting this up because it's pretty straightforward it's just a square set up hanging over Ridgeline I pulled my back part out a little bit and it speaks lightly like this front but not nearly as much they've peeked that up a little more so this gives me a little visibility looking out and I can get in here do a little cooking and stuff like that all right so they don't absolutely need this but it's kind of handy to make you myself a little cooking platform I found this rock here now a little ways away from where I can pick this up and carried it over here it's a little deeper right here so I'm just gonna use the back edge of my hatchet here just to kind of dig a little trough for that thing to sit in and we'll just kind of fit that in here my goal is that I want this there we go I want that to be pretty level here we go I can actually ah dang I'm already level well I am just it's so slightly off there we go you don't actually have to be that close anyway so I set a little just gonna set a little stove down here and then that's what I'm going to cook on and I could cook right on the ground but doing something like this these are stump or a rock or several rocks you know it just makes us so it you know so much easier to to to cook because I can set in my stool and be nice and cozy here okay so today I'm just going to use see me alternating back and forth here this is a little nano stove so that's what I'm going to use today for cooking so you see this is why I've set this thing up here like this because I'm going to cook on this I'm underneath totally under my shelter I'm not using alcohol butane you know white gas anything like that I'm going to cook it with wood wood fire but I'm not going to have actual fire in here so this way to be in here be smoke free and still be able to cook your stuff so I'm going to get things together here and this thing going with some hot coals in right so I'll just take my stove nano stove is any any little stove you want but that's that's something that I carry I've got a cheap little set of tongs here cost about a dollar I've got a good friend going to be making some really nice multipurpose ones but I can't see who he is at this point when they'll be ready or anything I'm excited whenever that happened I usually always carry some leather gloves in my pack the latter times some leather mittens summertime some leather fingered gloves so I'm gonna start with that right there and then that's what I'm gonna start cooking with is this these coals so now I have my other gloves we'll go back to the camp alright so here I am I'm set up in here got my hot coals right here and the pans already starting to warm up a bit I put such a cast-iron small cast iron lodge cast iron skillet that I sometimes take with me is kind of a luxury and I'm going to let that just sit there and imma let that get nice and hot and I'm going to make up some cornbread and then a make a cornbread cake to put in there and something a little bit to munch on so you see I'm virtually smoke free and I'm inside my shelter there it is and I come along here and and there's my rock that I carried in and my stove full of hot coals my stool right there handy so now see I'm cooking and sitting at about the same height so it's very handy very easy and accessible all right so this pan in this cast-iron pan is starting to heat up nice the oils really getting thin in there so it's coming along

now obviously you know I got a small amount of coals and a cast iron pan so it does take a little bit to heat that up but once that thing gets hot you know take very little - to keep that going and I decided since I do have another stove in my pack I I just grabbed my fire ant and filled it up with coals because I decide well I want to go ahead and make me something hot to drink because the snow is starting to I don't know if you can see it out there but snow is starting to come down here it's pretty small flakes but it's coming down pretty good so I thought well why don't I make me make me a little something hot to drink so that's what I'm doing exactly

I see the snow is still coming down starting to coat the ground just slightly then we see the little little flakes or whatever it's that pan hear a little sizzle

I've actually mixed the cornbread mix in a in my tea pot I will tell you why just because I did so I'm gonna attempt to pour it out into this pan not too thick maybe not like that let's see what the heck happened with it my water here actually was already steaming and I already used some of it so I'm starting it over so it's starting to get warm again till you see those coals down there pretty hot well I think the the cornbread may not work in this with the coals especially I think I noticed since the temperature dropped outside here with the snow coming down the this this pan this cast-iron pan I think is I think it's a little too much for that much coals to keep hot I mean it's pretty hot but it's just not quite enough to kind of finish that off now what I did it last year I made a cobbler but I used a weekend or optimist weekend or pot and so that's quite a bit thinner and all that sort of thing plus I had a lid on it it worked really well where this is open air I think that's having quite a big impact on on what I can cook just with coals you know it's coming along I might try a little something else but if I had another I might rummage around enough I've got another pan or something I can use but I've been through some some Louch I been through some water already about ready to have me some chocolate and pyro and and I don't know I might try a little something else over here see if I got another pan somewhere well I'm nice and toasty in here out of the weather having a good old time doing some cooking they're experimenting anyway but so it's a nice little shelter here and nice to keep me out of the elements while we're still picking up a little snow out there I got an egg here that's about ready to turn here finally run up getting a my they gave up on the cornbread right now I'm going to try something next something else next time I come out so it's not bad in here I mean this is what it's all about you got experiment you don't learn anything less you try I've felt so many times I don't know what the heck but you know if you don't try something and it doesn't go right you got to try again I mean I that's half the fun of being out so anyway so I'm gonna have me a little something here okay I just turned that egg it's a little bit ugly but you know I had a little bit of charcoal II stuff in the pan and stuff so I don't really care it's going to taste all right what my ugly egg is done I'm gonna eat it right now right here I cook something on this darn thing in out hot I cook something on here anyhow very good very good you know lead on well here I am I don't even know what video I've got of this darn event up here today I've there's a fire back over there I'm gonna let that kind of die out now I've got what I want here but I've burned a batteries out my main camera this camera is almost gone burned out the battery of my iPhone it's fine he's out as a camera but that's that's the deal when you're really spontaneous like I am and aside all of a sudden just come up here with whatever you got so we're just living with it but I love it I'm having a blast love it out here a little light snow and really loving down on my shelter nice and dry and cozy inside of there so you see see back inside of their hammock all ready to go got my multicam poncho up there her poncho is a hammock no it's my pet hammock multicam tarp is this a large type

yet certainly we do have that tarp available now in SIL nylon for superlight weight I mean we're talking half the weight and this one right here especially if you do the titanium stake upgrade so it really had a good time playing around with with using coals to cook with and this just didn't turn out quite as well as what I did a lot of spring with the with the maple they use maple calls to a maple fire think that work better my cast-iron little cast-iron skillet I think is too much to try to heat just with those little coals I used a optimist weekend or last time I made a I made a cobbler yeah last spring and that turned out really really nice but it was that pot with a lid on it so that helped contain the heat so you know and in the back I'm you know I just stock that up with coals I haven't really done anything else with it and it's keeping my drink nice and hot just just about the right temperature to drink so it's really cozy really nice and I just love it out here just loving it well I'm just loving life here nice and cozy like I need to string my hammock a little tighter here I haven't even checked it but not out of blast doing this kind of stuff here so far well it's uh it's about snoozing time I think time for a nice long winter snooze winter nap but the shelter work it's working really nicely for me keeping the snow out keeping the breeze out keeping everything in here nice and dry and and nice and nice and cozy so yeah that's the one way to use the here's the Poncho's a hammock use the the pstl the large tarp string it up like this I would point out depending on the weather now now that I see that snowed and stuff I am probably gonna want to put a little longer stick in here so I have more of a peak coming down this way instead of it's a little flat on top right now but I think it's been fine till now but I think before I turn in I think I'm gonna put a longer stick in it to give it more of an a-frame right here so the snow kind of slide off better but other than that it's just doggone lovely out here