[TheForge] Coal, propane, or charcoal?

[Saint Phlip]

That's more or less what we do to supply the cookfire at Pennsic, for
the Open Fire cookery we've been experimenting with. Have you seen
these?

http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/pennsic2005cooking.html
<http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/pennsic2005cooking.html>
http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/pennsic2006cooking.html
<http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/pennsic2006cooking.html>
http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/pennsic2007cooking.html
<http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/pennsic2007cooking.html>
http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/pennsic2008cooking.html
<http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/pennsic2008cooking.html>


This last one, the first half, shows one of my students making a
trivet for this Pennsic's cooking. The second half is some strange
dude teaching how to make a spoon auger ;-)


http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/pennsic2008forge.html
<http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/pennsic2008forge.html>


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
> The method used to supply charcoal to the pig roaster at the local church is
> to have a barrel stove going a few feet away and shovel live coals into the
> roaster as needed. The occasional piece of green alder (local good smoking
> wood) makes for nice flavor.
>
> Frosty


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