How To Build A Fire
Location First
Setting Your Fire
Cooking on Your Campfire
Location
When building a fire, selecting the right location is key.
Our Fire Safety page will give you specific
information on finding a safe spot to build your fire.
In general, always keep these four points in mind:
- Build your campfire on level ground. As most avid campers are aware,
the only known perfectly flat campground to exist is in a small park outside
of Rusty Wire, North Dakota -- though rumor has it that even the ground
there has shifted and is no longer level… Just make sure to set
your Freedom Campfire Ring on the most level ground
possible, so that the container will not fall over. And be sure to
leave plenty of room for people to sit around the fire.
- Centralize the
fire, but not too close to things that are flammable.
The warmth and cheer of the fire will definitely add to the fun of
camping, but not if anything catches on fire that isn't being cooked.
Do place
the campfire in close enough range to your picnic table if you are
using it to grill, so you don't drop any hamburgers on the way to
your plate.
Not too close, remember picnic tables are made of wood!
- Set your fire away from grass and brush. This is an important
Fire Safety precaution.
- Place your Freedom
Campfire Ring near your woodpile,
for easier start and maintenance of your fire.
Back to Top
Setting Your Fire
To get your fire going, you will need tinder, kindling, and appropriate
sized wood for the fire.
Tinder is a mixture of small twigs, dry grass, wood shavings,
and paper or tissue. You will need one or two handfuls of tinder
to get
a good
fire started. This should be set on top of the grate in the middle
of the fire container. It can also be set underneath the grate.
Next, place another one or two handfuls of kindling, composed
of small pencil-sized sticks, on top of the tinder (or set it
on the
grate just
above the tinder, if the tinder is placed under the grate).
At this point, you can ignite the fire, but be sure to have additional
kindling and some small sticks available to feed it when it starts
to burn.
You are now ready to put the wood on the fire. Do not put too
many large pieces on too soon, or you will smother it. When the
fire is
burning with a good amount of flame, continue to add wood in
small and steady amounts to keep it burning well. Putting too
much wood
on at once can cause the fire to flare up and will basically
waste a lot
of wood.
Your Freedom Campfire Ring is designed to
help burn wood efficiently -- allowing you to tend your fire,
keep it
hot, and
have a campfire that's enjoyable for all!
Back to Top
Low Fire — Cooking on Your Campfire
Cooking with your Freedom Campfire Ring is
far more fun than cooking at home!
A steady heat with low flames is the best bet for most campfire
cooking.
Using a hard wood such as oak, place pieces of wood that are
all one size and approximately 2 to 3 inches in diameter into
the fire
container,
so that the wood will burn down to coals at about the same time.
This will keep your coal bed balanced and the heat on the grill
uniform.
As the coals burn, you can add a little wood for "flavor," but
be careful that the resulting flame doesn't make the temperature
of the fire get too hot. You don't want to overcook the food
you bring
-- especially if you are far away from any restaurants!
Our Campfire Cooking page
shares some of our favorite recipes. Make sure to try them out
on your
new Freedom
Campfire Ring! Order today.
Back to Top
|
| Testimonial |
| |
"The Freedom Campfire Ring is great when we have guests
over. We light a fire and sit around outside in the evening enjoying
the warmth. It works well because it puts out a lot of heat and
doesn’t produce a lot of annoying smoke. Of course we take
it camping as well."
-David Marin,
Denver, Colorado |
|
 |
Guaranteed |
|
Product
is one piece & portable |
|
Very
attractive |
 |
|
Can
cook a meal |
|
Weathers
well |
|
Delivers
GREAT heat |
|
Perfect
to "sit around" |
|
Stays
warm for a long time |
|
Burns
safely down to ash |
|
