/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Your question is so absurd, my fellow friend. All I can imagine are potatoes wrapped in alufoil that you'd throw right in there.

got your firewood bro

OP here. Was wondering about using pic related. The fireplace is pretty big, so I’m wondering if it would be possible to smoke something without cooking or overcooking it.

>>15074894
You could do bannock, or campfire bread rolled around sticks.

>>15074916
Bro, you talking about a fireplace that indoors right????

>>15074916
Would be difficult.
Indoor fireplaces are generally designed to make high heat and good draft to suck the smoke up the chimney.
Smokers are designed for low heat and low draft, to hold the smoke in and cook slowly.

Grilling should work nicely.
Setting a cast iron pan on the grate should work well.
Think hot and fast, not low and slow.
You might be able to do low and slow, but expect a challenge.

>>15074900
>The oldest method of cooking is absurd
If you don’t have any better suggestions than a potato wrapped in foil what the fuck are you doing in this thread?

Please stay in your own board
>>>/lgbt/

>>15074894
You need cast iron and supports, from below or top, doesn’t matter. Although if you get nice and well behaved coals (an even combustion) you can just go cast iron on top of the coals, using lifting it off to control heat. If you go this route, make sure you have heat AND STEAM proof gloves. Some liquid steaming in the coals with your wrist 3 inches away will fuck you up and it happens in an instant.

>>15074921

>>15074941
Don't @ me ever again, fucking cro magnon.

>>15074921
Yes

>>15074894
/out/ definitely knows more about cooking over open fires then /ck/. Dutch oven cobbler or maybe foil packs are the best you'll be able to manage IMO.

>>15074894
https://youtu.be/XgNuPXIIvC8

>>15074983
Thanks, will start a thread there too.

>>15074983
>>15074999
retard

I was watching that show American Barbecue Showdown on Netflix and in one episode they are challenged to smoke meat over an open fire the way people would have hundreds or thousands of years ago, basically just using a wooden or metal grate over an open flame. And despite these people being expert barbecues, their end products, while edible, were ugly and probably tasted like shit. So if you want to cook in your fireplace go ahead but you should probably just get a damn stove.

>>15075091
The problem with cooking meat over a fire is that you have no control over the level of heat. Over my 6 years in the scouts no one in my troop even attempted it. We did cobbler all the time though, which isn't over the fire; you stack coals under and on top of a dutch oven. A fireplace is probably too small for that though and the side facing the fire will probably burn.

>>15075091
That's more because they have no experience with it. I bet they would suck at other cooking methods they rarely practice too.

>>15074894
Hot dog on a stick

>>15074894
Bro, just dont. Fireplaces are usually used to burn whatever flamable shit you have on hand and you are too lazy to put in the trash. This ranges from cigarrete butts to used condoms. I wouldnt be confortable to eat food cooked where some nasty ass dude burned his shit.
If your fireplace is new, you can make top tier baked apples, turnips, beets and even small pumpkins. Just be careful to put them in the calm coals, after the fire died out ( covered in foil, ofc). You want the heat of the hot fireplace to do the cooking, not the fire itself
Some other guy already mentioned baked potatoes. You can also do chestnuts
You can make bread in a dutch oven , or on a flat stone covered with a cast iron pot .
If you want meat , buy a handheld grill like pic related. If you are smart enough , you can make some iron fittings , on which you can put a bigger grill.

get one of them iron pots with legs

bamp