Cooking on a rock.

[41Dude]

I am in NO WAY an outdoorsman but I enjoy watching outdoorsmen (women) out in the wild using their skills.
No, not that one, turd ;)
Found one guy trekking solo in Alaska. Not exactly completely roughing it. He takes along flour suger salt fishing gear shotgun with slugs for bear :oops: axe etc etc in a sturdy
backpack. Set up a shelter with fire pit in front. Did some fishing. Cleaned his catch and cooked it on a slab of flat stone over fire
along with making some fresh coffee.
Turned in watching the amazing stars of the Alaska night.
If I was A LOT younger it might be my kind if adventure. Many videos like his on YouTube
and I am sure many other online sources.
Fun stuff.

 

[JohnL]

I am in NO WAY an outdoorsman but I enjoy watching outdoorsmen (women) out in the wild using their skills.
No, not that one, turd ;)
Found one guy trekking solo in Alaska. Not exactly completely roughing it. He takes along flour suger salt fishing gear shotgun with slugs for bear :oops: axe etc etc in a sturdy
backpack. Set up a shelter with fire pit in front. Did some fishing. Cleaned his catch and cooked it on a slab of flat stone over fire
along with making some fresh coffee.
Turned in watching the amazing stars of the Alaska night.
If I was A LOT younger it might be my kind if adventure. Many videos like his on YouTube
and I am sure many other online sources.
Fun stuff.

I never seen a rock used in that manner. Heating a bed or sleeping bag, yes. Basalt would be my choice.

 

[41Dude]

I never seen a rock used in that manner. Heating a bed or sleeping bag, yes. Basalt would be my choice.

That is what caught my attention. Skin down, a lot of sizzle, then into his camp plate.

 

[nrobe50]

Nice steakhouse, Holiday Inn Express. I like roughing it.

 

[41Dude]

 

[JohnL]

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That is Basalt. Holds together when heated without exploding the way Granite sometimes does.

 

[turd]

Never cooked on a rock, but do remember catching trout in the morning and eating them (yes, cooked) on toast for breakfast. Wasn't really toast, kinda cooked bread on a one burner stove w/tiny frying pan. Did enough hiking and camping to know that roughing it doesn't agree with me much. Cover a LOT more ground driving through the mountains than walking through them. Although Long's Peak in Colorado was quite an adventure for a flatlander.

 

[gnappi]

I've seen rock frying a couple of times in TV westerns. Back home some of our mountains had large shale deposits and friends who were a lot more outdoorsy that I was said they had cooked on it.

 

[TestEngineer]

Never have cooked on a rock, but I have cooked eggs in a paper sack. That was part of the "survival course" we were taught in Jr. High (mid 70s).

Far superior training came from a family friend who was a true "mountain man". He would regularly disappear for several days in the woods, taking only a belt knife in addition to his daily clothing. You might find him sitting beside a stream cooking trout on a willow branch grill with wild onions, asparagus, and watercress. He caught the trout in stick traps set up in the shallows.

That same guy taught me about sleeping in snow caves. VERY warm and comfortable compared to sleeping next to an open fire in winter!

 

[Johnnu2]

I remember sleeping under BIG SKY..... but I was a LOT younger then. My hunting buddies stayed in the tent and told me that I was mountain lion bait out there; so I didn't do it every night. Food was done by the only guy who could actually cook; and yes, we did have fresh caught trout (that he brought from the previous season).
Sleeping under an umbrella of stars is certainly something one never forgets and is thankful to have done.

J.

 

[eveled]

Never cooked on a rock.

I have a rock I preheat. Then put it inside the chicken to cook it evenly.

 

[Threespears]

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Rock Bass ?

 

[blume357]

Seems like it would work if you have the time and fuel needed to heat up the rock, just can't be in a hurry.

 

[eveled]

If you think about it. A pizza oven has a rock cooking surface.

 

[Wvfarrier]

I did it quite often as a boy scout 35 years ago. Not really since then

 

[MaxMan]

I thought it said cook ;ike a rock and I as going to talk about my biscuits.

 

[blume357]

Most pizza ovens are brick, actually bread baking ovens. but the smaller semi-portable ones will have thin rock for the base, I have one of these. But as for a real commercial pizza oven... it take hours to get one of those up to the right temperature.

 

[GHollan]

I went to a restaurant last week and ordered a steak that was brought to me lightly seared and rare, along with a hot stone. You slice a piece of steak and finish it to your liking at the table on the stone. It worked great and every bite was cooked perfectly and was warm. The stone was rectangular, flat on all sides, and between an inch and two inches thick. The stone stayed hot the entire meal.

 

[Terry Baird]

There is a restaurant called "The Elevator" in Columbus Ohio that will bring to your table a hot rock and a tuna steak for the customer cook on the hot rock. That is the extent of my experience cooking on a rock. They also brewed a beer called "Heifer Weizen". Yes it was heifer, some kind of play on words there but I do not remember how. In any case, the tuna was great and the Heifer Weizen was the best beer I ever tasted.