When I was a kid, my mom cooked with firewood. I liked to search for firewood under a dried tree. I brought the wood home and gave it to my mom. This evening, I asked my kids to try cooking with firewood.
My kids were enjoying themselves by the fire. They have never had experience of doing these activities. I told my kids that their grandmothers always cooked with firewood in the past.
Today, we cooked using a gas stove. It is much easier and cleaner. Why did I ask my kids to try cooking with firewood?
I told a story when I was a kid. I helped my mom cook in the kitchen with firewood. Then, my kids begged me to try cooking with firewood. Finally, I taught them how to make a brick stove. I taught them how to make a fire for the first time. The first time, we needed some materials that were easily burnt. I used dried leaves. I put the wood in the pile of dried leaves and burned the leaves.
After the dried wood was burnt , I started to put a pan on it. My kids understand how to make a fire now. It started with materials that were easy to burn. I think kids should have experience of how people lived before there was new equipment like stoves and electric equipment.
This knowledge will teach them how to survive without modern equipment.
Had the same experience. During dry season, we go to the bush to fetch dry woods, but during raining session, we buy from people that store dry wood for sale.
Cooking with fire wood is what I grew up with, but mom later got us stove, so we shuffle, anytime we are cooking large quantity, we use firewood.
Firewood is faster and more economical. And they say the taste of food cooked with firewood can't be compared with the food cooked on stove cos is more sweeter. hahahahahhaha I don't know how true though.
Cooking with firewood is fun I must say.
It is true that cooking with firewood will make the food taste better. The smoke of the burnt wood will make tasty aroma to the food.
Hahahahaah OK... Thanks for affirming that.
I also experienced cooking with firewood when i was a kid, i always feel sad when it is time to cook especially after it rains and the woods are already soaked with water.
Trying to make fire becomes so difficult unless you use materials like Kerosene, in as much as there was something called gas but our mothers still prefer to cook with firewood because there is a saying that says food cooked with firewood taste better.
In as much as it has its advantages it also has its disadvantages, having such as experience as a child will help one adapt to any environment they find themselves in.
If you go camping you can try cooking with fire wood with your family and friends, The activity will be much more fun with playing guitar and coffee. It remind you to your memory when you were a kid.
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