• food 101 [buy it w/ thought; cook it w/ care ; serve just enough; save what will keep; eat what would spoil ; home-grown is best; do not waste it; salvage what you can; compost the rest ]
• grinding tools [ mano , metate , mortar , pestle ]
• traditional food preparation methods [ raw ; sprout ; soak ; ferment ; stock ; cultures ]
• coal cooking [ temperature estimations, how long you can safely keep your hand overheated open cookware : 1 sec = ~500 *F, 2 sec = ~500*F, 3 sec = 450*F, 4 sec = 400*F,5 sec = 350*F, 6 sec = 300*F, 7 sec = 250*F, 8 sec = 200*F]
• DIY ovens & stoves [ dutch oven ; clay oven ; earth oven ; pit cooker ; tandoor cooker ; solar cooker ; rock oven ; bucket stove ; bush fungus stove ; 16 square brick rocket stove ;6 hex brick rocket stove ; 4 cinderblock rocket stove [3 8's 1 H block ]; dona justa oven ;upesi stove ; parabolic cooker ; zen stove ; solar umbrella cooker ; solar tire cooker ]
• dutch oven cooking [ rotate oven every ~10 minutes || baking – 3/4 coals above, 1/4below || roasting – 1/2 coals above, 1/2 coals below || stewing / simmering – 1/4 coalsabove, 3/4 below || frying / boiling – all coals below]
• blanching [ immerse in boiling water → immerse in ice water]
• thermos bottle cooking
• steaming & steam pits
• pots [ tripod , bipod , monopod ]
• cast iron [ seasoning & maintenance]
• boiling [ metal ; hot rock ]
• fry rock cooking
• bark wok cooking
• spit cooking
• board / rock reflectors
• improvised utensils [ skewers ; chopsticks ; spoons ; forks ; knives ; tongs ; ladles ; scrapers ; graters; mashers]
• food conservation [ making bone & veggie scrap stock ; cooking meat to the side offires to save the fat drippings ]