PHR / experience of advanced studies world & discover / blog by Oliver Sutton
theme: fire, oven, outdoor cooking experience
Testimony
During our block week of recess times world and discover ( http://vswelterleben.blogspot.com/ ), we spent from Tuesday until Wednesday 18:10:05 19:10:05 two days in the forest. Under the expert guidance of Remo Gugolz (forest play groups and teacher training for teachers) and our lecturers Prof. Michael On top we got a fire without matches or making it lighter. We also built two different ovens and cook a big fireplace for.
fireplace
basic rule is to use already existing fireplaces. This can be increased or decreased depending on preference. In most cases, existing fire places already well-selected points are found. It is important that trees, shrubs, roots and the leaves are in a safe distance from the fire. Man / woman should note that the distance in width and in the amount large enough. The fireplace should be limited to big stones, so that dry grass or dry Leaves can not ignite. It is advantageous if a man / woman makes the fire in a place where it still has water in the vicinity. Thus, man / woman leaving the fireplace delete properly.
Remo Gugolz,
Karin Sutter
Martina Eberle when creating our cooking fire.
is the background to see the river Goldach.
Ancient lighting a fire with flint
Remo Gugolz showed us, how could ignite with husband / wife simple means a fire. He took a flint in your left hand to the right a tool steel. He struck with the tool steel quickly to a flint edge. By the friction caused little spark. The sparks were caught with charred jeans and it began to glow.
Instead of charred jeans you could also use dry grass, lichen, or tinder fungus. The tinder fungus is found mainly birch. He was formerly placed in nitric acid and used as an igniter. Occasionally tinder fungus was also inserted in urine and dried ½ years, only to burn better. However, it was only the black bark placed the fungus.
In the picture, the fuels are shown.
Left nach rechts: -Werkzeugstahl und
Feuerstein
-verkohlte Jeans
Mit grossem Staunen sahen wir, wie Remo mit der Glut aus der verkohlten Jeans, das trockene Gras entfachte. Es entstand eine kleine Flamme, mit der wir unser Feuer anzündeten. Wir legten zuerst Weichholz (z.B. Tannen- oder Lindenholz) in die Feuerstelle. Hartholz (z.B. Haselnuss- oder Eschenholz) wird erst wenn das Feuer schon ein Wenig brennt hineingelegt.
Kochen auf dem Feuer
Um bodenständige to cook meals on the fire, you need the right kitchen equipment. It's mainly steel pots and mess tin for cooking because they survive the high heat well and absorb the heat quickly. The steel pots below you can smear them with mud, so that the soot that is produced when cooking with wood, the bottom can not recognize.
We cooked stews, especially because they are very nutritious and because it requires little cooking.
An advantage of our cooker was that the Goldach 5 feet away from the fireplace. There we could wash our cookware. We took to wash leaves, twigs and sand. The sand acts like steel wool and is very for washing of burnt food residues.
To cook on the fire, you do not always pan. We baked bread, for example, directly on the red embers in the fire or on heated stones.
menu suggestions outside
During the two days was a whole lunch, dinner and an evening meal prepared and cooked on the fire.
menu from Tuesday night: rice stew
preparation first Chicken with oil sauté
second Various vegetables cut into small pieces (and then fry
Broccoli, peppers, onions, garlic, potatoes, ginger, Zucetti)
third Add rice fry briefly
4th Add water and stew 10-20 minutes on the fire to cook
seasoning with salt, pepper and curry powder
5th In the end, taste and season to taste
match the rice pot there was still flat breads that were baked right on the red embers.
The bread consisted of water, flour, salt and baking powder, which was kneaded into a dough. It is important that the pita bread is very flat and thin expresses that they can be baked quickly. On the baked pita bread, you can still add olive oil, salt and pepper before eating.
For dessert there were apple pies, they were baked on a heated stone slab in the fire. They were made of batter, apples, sugar and cinnamon.
menu of Wednesday morning: Porous
Ingredients: oatmeal
sugar
cinnamon
apple slices
water
milk
-> all together cook until a paste
Mr On top result in action the coffee. He prepared all morning before eating alone. When we got up, everything was ready (coffee, tea and porous).
menu from Wednesday lunch: vegetable stew with different breads
preparation ham, vegetable sauté
tomato sauce add
pour boil with water and let
seasoning
taste
To this end, there was bread, whole wheat bread, vegetables, bread, Porigebrot (from the rest of the morning Porous food), cheese and apples.
jaws with the fiery furnace
We had the task of building two different ovens. One was only aus natürlichen Materialien wie Steinen und Lehm. Der andere wurde mit einem Weissblecheimer, Steinen und Lehm gebaut. Nebst dem Material unterschieden sich die beiden Backöfen in ihrer Backtechnik. Beim erst genannten Ofen war es wichtig, dass der Ofen so gebaut wurde, dass hinten im Ofen eine Öffnung war, wo der Rauch und die heisse Luft über das Backgut gelangen konnten. Beim anderen Ofen wurde das Backgut durch die im Weissblechkessel entstandene Hitze gebacken.
Sandstein eignet sich sehr gut zum Bau von Öfen, weil er nicht wie andere Steine versplittert und weil er vielfach in grossen Steinplatten vorkommt.
Erster Ofen
Second oven
Further thoughts
I can imagine with middle school students students to build small furnaces. I am thinking in particular of the oven with a tin kettle would be very suitable. Man / woman does not carry this very heavy stone slabs, it would even be worth a try, white tin cans lay directly on the coals and bake something small in it. I
might do something good with some pupils to cook a stew on the fire, but you have to schedule this much time. As a teacher could man / woman is a kind of workshop set up in the woods, in which the children can enroll for various services in advance and to do during an afternoon. Perhaps parents would be enthusiastic to actively help this afternoon. In the early evening could man / woman sitting by the campfire and enjoy the previously-prepared meal.
I could imagine it outside for the children and their parents an experience of nature would, because I think that in this day and age, the distance between Natural and man still continues to grow. Many people do not dare to do something more outdoor.
curriculum regarding M & U
space portion and Time:
show historical, economic and social developments on the basis of changes in the everyday life of people
Possible Contents: Housing, food, clothing, living together
Culture shape and enjoy life
Possible content: festivals, celebrations, traditions, community living
landscapes and habitats to explore
excursions
nature and technology:
relationships in der Natur erkennen
Rohstoffe/Konsum, Kreisläufe, Abfall
Hauswirtschaft:
Mit Nahrungsmitteln verantwortungsbewusst umgehen
Individuum und Gemeinschaft:
Interesse am Erleben und Empfinden anderer zeigen
Freude, Erlebnisse, Alltag, Sitten, Bräuche
Miteinander reden und arbeiten
Gemeinsame Aktivitäten planen und durchführen
Religion:
Schöne Erlebnisse des Alltags bewusst wahrnehmen und sie als Geschenk Gottes deuten
Links
http://vswelterleben.blogspot.com/
http://www.feuervogel.ch/
http://www.waldschule-sg.ch/
value of the event
I had before in the young guard in the military and cooked on the fire. The baking of bread in a homemade oven was new to me. I found it very interesting different bread baking techniques and breads to learn. What I also specifically found was very interesting introduction to the fire making Remo Gugolz. I had only ever heard that you can do with flint fire but it still never personally experienced live.
A highlight of this rather misty and cold outdoor days were for me each of the tasty dishes that certainly had a huge influence on our good well-being.
I thought it was great that we were getting a small group, on such a common project. I am convinced that we have all learned a lot, because we "act" and could not have been inundated with "dry" theory.
I think many of us could imagine students to share similar experiences in future also to the students. In my opinion, one keeps a bit longer, if it even with different senses wahrgenommen hat.
