Ornate Garden

Fire is heat. Fire is Bon-fire® cooking. Fire is light and live coal. From ancient times, fire has been an important part of humans’ lives. Fire meant heat and power. It meant warm meals. And fire creates a bright and warm centre in our lives. Fire can be used throughout the year. It is wonderful in the springtime and during the bright summer nights – but winter is also Bon-fire® cooking.

Pick the right spot for a fire
First of all you need a perfect place for your fire. You can buy it or you can build it. It can be lethal for you and others to light a fire at the wrong place during a dry period. In the woods or at a camping site you must use the spaces laid out for a fire, or you can ask the forester/camping site manager about possible bonfire spaces.

The perfect Bon-fire®
There are many different kinds af fires. We have pictured a pagoda fire – because it burns easily and is perfect for cooking. You must:

• Find two logs, approx. diameter should be 10 – 15 cm, length 30 cm. Put the down paral- lel with some space between them, in the wind direction. Find a couple of logs more, slightly thinner than the others and put them across the other two and then yet another two. It must look like a small house/pagoda (see drawing).
• Make some small balls of creased newspaper and put them into the pagoda.
• Stick short twigs all around the newspaper balls.
• Light the fire with a match from the wind direction to allow the flames to be sucked into the fire.
• Find some more short twigs and put plenty of them into the fire. Put more and more and thicker twigs into the fire and finally firewood and remember to lay them down crosswise to fedd air to the fire.
• If you wish to cook food over the fire, we recommend you put lots of firewood on from the start – this way you will have many live coals when you are ready to barbecue.
• Remember to keep feeding the fire with wood. Now it is time for you to lie down and relax – or perhaps get some delicious Bon-fire® cooking started!