This article is about how to build a cooking fire if you can not afford a camp stove, oven, grill or outdoor fireplace that can be converted into a grill.

The latest quick fix to Long Islands housing crisis is a sprawling eight-bedroom Hamptons home festooned with skylights and chandeliers. Here, the residents cook chicken curry on an oversized stove, swim in the backyard pool and play tennis and basketball on outdoor courts. Supply, demand and cathedral ceilings have intersected in the Hamptons.

Outdoor cooking differs substantially from kitchen-based cooking, the most obvious difference being lack of an easily defined kitchen area. As a result, campers and backpackers have developed a significant body of techniques and specialized equipment for preparing food in outdoors environments. Such techniques have traditionally been associated with nomadic cultures such as the Berbers of North Africa and the Plains Indians and pioneers of North America, and have been carried down to and refined in modern times for use during recreational outdoors pursuits.Currently, much of the work of maintaining and developing outdoor cooking traditions in Westernized countries is done by the Scouting movement and by wilderness educators such as the National Outdoor Leadership School and Outward Bound, as well as by writers and cooks closely associated with the outdoors community.