Starting A Cooking Fire With Jimmy Kennedy

And we’re going to like this tender.
Hey folks, we’re here
in South Hero Vermont at the Anchorage.
He’s got some cabins here right
on Lake Champlain
is a beautiful fall day.
Kind of early winter.
Hard to say really, but feels great out.
And what I want to show you how to do
is to build a very basic fire.
This is a great way to start it.
I mean, you can also use charcoal
in this, but we’re going to use wood
and there’s really three
components to a fire.
That’s the tender.
Which is really fine.
Kinda like Firestarter could be bark.
It could be cattail it could be milkweed.
Anything like that.
Even egg cartons.
Old cartons work very well for that.
You could pack stuff
in and those too, but
I have some Birch bark in here and
just some really old bark.
And then you have kindling
which is just dead branches.
And then we have some fuel wood.
So you got Tinder kindling and fuel wood,
and that’s our fuel wood here, which I
just brought from home.
And.
A lot of campsites
sell their own would you can do that?
Or you can source wood around
the campsite if you’re out
in the woods and we’re going to
like this tender.
Look how quick that
goes up, whether it’s own.
Like I said, this type of deal, whether
it’s on a rock, fire or whatever.
The most important thing
is to be able to control
comfortably control.
The heat of the fire
and do it in a safe manner.
You don’t want to cook, that is right
on top of the flames like this, ’cause
it’s just gonna be too hot.
Let it burn down, get some good coals,
put your pan on top.
That way you can control the heat and
like I said it needs to be safe.
You need to have a nice safe, sturdy
surface to cook with.
Let this go as a fuel.
So even if you’re
on two logs out in the woods.
Just be able to have
one side hot push all your calls on one
side so you got a cool side,
especially if you
have two pans and you can kind of rotate
around if you need,
and that’s all it is to it man.
Thank you.