naturist
Oct 07, 2019Nomad
Rocks?
So what's with putting rocks in steel campfire rings? I've always found the **** things hard to light, and difficult to cook up to tenderness. (Posted here because a similar message left in the "ca...
am1958 wrote:irishtom29 wrote:
Some pre pottery cultures heated water by putting it in water tight baskets and then throwing in hot rocks.
It's a well known way of boiling water to sterilize it in a survival situation when you only have a plastic container. Put the water in the container and heat up stones and drop them in one at a time. The water cools them so they don't melt the plastic and they transfer the heat to the water. It doesn't take many to boil the water and you're safe.