Anyone using the fireplace to cook?

[Industrial Toys]

I BBQ on the fireplace from time to time. Did it at New Yesrs. Just to cold to go outside.

Wait for the fire to die down, spread the coals out and throw a grill on the two railroad rails I have in there.

I leave the fireplace glass doors open.

Unfortunately, I underestimated the heat, and dried out two nice steaks!

 

[Fan of the 1911]

I looked on YouTube and found some neat videos, one was for chicken on a string. Looks great, saw a few more that look pretty good. May have to adapt a few things for my use, but I have a fire going might as well make dinner. My son thinks it's the best thing that ever was. Wants to know when the next time we are going to make little steaks in the fireplace.

Don't know if he could stand watching a chicken on a string for 3 hours, he might starve to death. Have a big hotdog fork might try that next, I wish I would have had a fireplace sooner. I'm not getting much extra work done, but I'm enjoying the fireplace a great deal, don't even mind chopping, cutting wood, but it does make a mess.

 

[sld]

Every time we go camping I wrap a few potatoes in foil and throw them in the fire before we go to bed.

I love eating a baked potato for breakfast. Just unwrap it and eat it like an apple.

 

[s219]

We've done baked potatoes and hotdogs. The potatoes go into the coals directly, no foil.

 

[/pine]

We've done baked potatoes and hotdogs. The potatoes go into the coals directly, no foil.

it's amazing how good they are that way...:thumbsup:

 

[Leejohn]

Every time we go camping I wrap a few potatoes in foil and throw them in the fire before we go to bed.

I love eating a baked potato for breakfast. Just unwrap it and eat it like an apple.

We always packed mud around our potatoes and when the mud came off the potatoe is done. If you do have some foil put it around it first then the mud.

 

[Gunny]

When I was very young, my grandfather used to make cathead biscuits in the fireplace for us kids, I used to think they were the best biscuits I'd ever eaten.

He'd also make some kind of beef stew/biscuit combination in an old dutch oven. Just throw all the ingredients in, put the lid on, stick it in the coals, then shovel some coals onto the lid. That was some pretty good stuff too.

 

[Stimw]

Growing up we had a Camp on a river outside of town in Ohio.
My Dad's favorite thing was to bank up a good fire in the fireplace, shake down the coals and put T-Bones with heavy onions, salt and pepper wrapped tight in tin foil in.
I don't remember his timing but they were always PERFECT!! I can still smell the steam when we cut them open! OMG!

 

[sld]

When a teenager, I made biscuits in a home made dutch oven. I dug a hole, line it with flat rocks and built a fire in it. Once it was down to coals, I put a muffin tin full of batter in it and another flat rock over the top. My buddies thought that was the cat's meow.

Until the next time we camped on my buddy's grandma's place. Evidently, she found the "oven" and a family of copperheads had moved in and scared the heck out of her. She said no more digging holes. Awesome lady. Walked the fence line of 1200 acres twice a week. It was pretty rough terrain too.