Part 2:  How to build and manage a cooking fire in a fire pit and a grill.

Materials you’ll need:

• The stuff from the first session

• Sweet & Salty Sausage (p45), Fire Roasted Leeks, Baked Butter Oats (p44)

• Your fire lit and burning for about 30 minutes..

Topics:

• Cleaning before-during-after

• Cleaning your cookware copper, bronze, iron, ceramic

• Cleaning your surfaces

• Building a fire about cooking, not entertainment.  

• Do you really need that big fire?  Cooking coals vs. high flame entertainment.

• Fire ingredients; O2, ignition, fuel.  It's infrared radiation.

• More O2= hotter fire and greater fuel consumption

• 1 brick = 300-700F for 15-20 minutes per brick. Depends on brick ingredients

• Food burns above 500, so you don’t want the big heat.

• Smoke= incomplete combustion (water vapor, carbon, small particles not burned)

• https://trailblazerbbq.com/en-us/the-science-of-grilling/

• Daylight cooking is best.  Do you really want to chop and cook in the dark??

• Food safety

• 40-140F

• https://www.foodsafety.gov/keep-food-safe/4-steps-to-food-safety

• https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/index.html

• Time to cook!  Sweet & Salty Sausage (p45), Fire Roasted Leeks, Baked Butter Oats (p44)