Hobo Stove from Tin Can - Traditional High Tech Camp Stove

Step 2 Pressure Cooker on Hobo Stove

Here I am west of Lake Okeefenokee, Florida, in the swamp along Fisheating Creek.
I'm cooking a Plecostemus South American Armored Catfish I caught with my cast net.
I finished eating the olive oil in this can during the days it took to learn to throw the net. These are aquarium sucker fish that were dumped out and are breeding wild and growing large.
The meat is very yellow and very tasty. The thick scales fit together in a very interesting way but I couldn't think of any use for them.

The pressure cooker is heavy but that doesn't matter so much in a canoe.
It's a joy to use. I can cook all my food for a day at once.
I would boil a dozen eggs with a stainless bowl of bread dough resting on top of that.
All inside the cooker.
I formed the dough into a bagel shape so the steam would cook it better, and it got steamed into a really good bagel. Especially when I used sea-water in the dough. That was the perfect amount of salt.

I just get a roaring fire going until the cooker is steamed up, then I forget about it, fire dies down and goes out. Everything gets cooked perfectly and I don't have to pay attention to it.

This cooker has two more bottom doors on the sides that you can't see, and burns the fuel completely. There's no charcoal in the ash.

If you don't want soot on your pot wipe soap all over it before putting it over the fire. Afterward the soot will wash off easily.

Comments

[KittyF]

there's at least one south amearican fish that has scales so large, thick and rough that they are used as fingernail files. I bought one once. I bet the piranha's can't get THOSE. LOL

[lil jon168]

that fish looks sick

[grandavi]

I think it was a hobo fish, it makes sense that a hobo human would eat it.