Post by Joe on May 6, 2020 20:29:35 GMT
First is Ray Mears on how to light a fire in the woods using a fire steel and some Birch bark as tinder.
Cooking and eating is a huge part of bushcraft and camping, often the highlight of the evening. You'd be so hungry by the time you hike to the location and get some firewood ready.
"Scrambled O" makes feather sticks at 7 minutes, and uses a fire steel (aka ferro rod) at 9 minutes in. Interestingly, the fire steel is neither Steel or Iron, it is Magnesium.
He cooks bacon and omelette breakfast, steak and potato dinner, and works on his shelter (24 minutes)
The next method here is more traditional, Andy of "Kent Survival" uses a flint striker and some charcoal cloth with dry grass (at 1 minute 30 sec).
To make charcoal, put your wood or cloth material into a tin with a lid (leave a tiny hole for the combustible gas to escape), and bake it in a fire.
He cooks a Christmas dinner on the campfire (14 minutes).If your going to get a fire steel get a thick one, the thin ones wear out sooner. Use the back of your knife to grind on the fire steel, not the blade.
Most Bushcrafters use their knife for both cutting fire wood and preparing the food, so it has to be strong and stay sharp.
The "Mora" knives are easier to get in America, but here in Ireland it is easier to get a Hultafors knife. I recommend the heavy duty one (green handle) for about 15 euro.Another video from Scrambled O, he makes bacon fried apple breakfast with cinnamon (14 minutes), enjoy.
