FIRECRAFT
Ava D. G. Dunning
A practical guide to cooking real food over open fire with simple equipment — built around understanding heat, using what you need and becoming more confident around outdoor cooking.
Published by The Enoch Clock LtdMost of us can cook without ever needing to build a fire. That convenience is welcome. But cooking over flame asks us to notice different things: fuel, heat, distance, embers, timing and the food itself.
FIRECRAFT is an invitation to become more comfortable with that practical way of cooking — not because kitchens have failed us, but because the skill is still worth knowing.
Imagination
A campsite. A permitted fire pit. An outdoor gathering. A meal cooked slowly over embers. FIRECRAFT is about learning how food can move beyond the kitchen without requiring a trailer full of specialised equipment.
The aim is not spectacle. It is confidence: learning to work with fire deliberately enough to make something good to eat.
Usefulness
Good open-fire cooking begins before the food goes on.
The book moves from the foundations of preparing and managing a cooking fire into practical methods for using heat, embers, simple cookware and minimal equipment to prepare food outdoors.
The emphasis is on understanding what you are doing, rather than collecting more gear.
Minimal equipment
Minimal equipment does not mean no preparation. It means knowing which tools matter, how heat behaves and how to make sensible use of what you have.
FIRECRAFT keeps the focus on the fire, the food and the practical decisions between them.
Cultural continuity
Cooking with fire belongs to many places, families and traditions. FIRECRAFT does not try to reduce those histories to one story. Its concern is simpler: keeping the practical act of cooking over flame understandable and usable in the present.
Inside the book
Audience
For people who want to become more comfortable cooking outdoors — whether that begins with a campsite, a garden fire pit where permitted, an outdoor gathering or simple curiosity about cooking with flame.
Cook with care
Use open fire only where it is permitted and appropriate. Check local rules, access restrictions, weather conditions and fire bans before lighting a fire. Keep suitable extinguishing means close by, maintain competent adult supervision and never leave a fire unattended.
Do not use open flame or charcoal in enclosed or poorly ventilated spaces. Keep children at a safe distance, use suitable food-safe equipment and follow normal food-hygiene practices. Extinguish the fire fully and leave the site responsibly.
This short website note does not replace the fuller safety guidance provided with the book or the rules that apply where you are cooking.Purchase
Choose the FIRECRAFT format that suits you best.
A portable print edition for reading, marking up and taking outdoors.
Paperback · ISBN 9781806051137
A larger-format hardback edition for the shelf, kitchen or gift table.
Hardback · ISBN 9798305718584
A digital edition for reading on your preferred device.
eBook · ASIN B0DS7GRM5K
Listen to FIRECRAFT on ElevenReader, with 1,000+ voice options and approximately 3 hours 52 minutes of audio.
Ava Does Firecraft
Ava Does Firecraft is the creator journey around the book: learning, practising, cooking and continuing the conversation beyond the page.
The book came first. The practice continues in public.
Questions
FIRECRAFT is a practical guide to cooking real food outdoors over open fire with simple equipment.
No. Its focus is open-fire cooking, practical confidence and minimal equipment. Preparedness-minded readers may find those skills useful, but the book is not presented as catastrophe or survivalist instruction.
The book places strong emphasis on minimal equipment and understanding fire and heat rather than accumulating specialised gear.
Families may enjoy outdoor cooking together, but fire requires competent adult control and close supervision. The book should not be taken as encouragement for children to build, tend or cook over fire independently.
Only where open fire is permitted and suitable. Check the rules, weather conditions, access restrictions and fire bans that apply where you are.
FIRECRAFT is available in paperback, hardback and eBook editions, and is also available to listen to on ElevenReader as an eBook with Audio. Choose the format that suits you from the options above.
Yes. FIRECRAFT is available to listen to on ElevenReader as an eBook with Audio. It runs for approximately 3 hours 52 minutes, and listeners can choose from 1,000+ voices. Availability and displayed price may vary by market.
Ava D. G. Dunning is the author of FIRECRAFT and the creator behind Ava Does Firecraft.
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