cailin-mara: awkward-lesbian-writer:bisexualbaker:rinitachan:bear–hearted: This is a beautiful
cailin-mara: awkward-lesbian-writer:bisexualbaker:rinitachan:bear–hearted: This is a beautiful graphic but it doesn’t explain the pros and cons of each fire type. The Swedish torch is good for an efficient and contained fire, it’s controlled and good for cooking over and produces less light and heat than other fires. It can be difficult to keep going once you burn through the original log The teepee is your traditional campfire. Good for heat and light not great for cooking, burns through fuel fairly quickly The star fire is one of the slowest burning and not well protected but provides an even heat good for slow cooking and is excellent if you have limited fuel and need the protection a fire can provide The lean to is a compact and efficient fire that evolves into a dense and hot bed of coals. The structure creates a good source of air flow which can help damp wood burn. A slightly better cooking fire that isn’t as bright. It also provides protection from wind on one side The platform fire is incredibly hot and will create a very thick bed of coals but it doesn’t have a lot of air flow and is a little harder to get started. The log cabin is big and bright and has lots of air flow which again is good for damp logs. You can also use this structure to start a smaller fire in the middle while drying out bigger logs. This fire will crumble into a messier bed of coals that don’t produce particularly even heat for cooking. The modified leanto is excellent if you need it to perform multiple functions. The side with more fuel will burn bright and hot and the side with less fuel will burn less hot but more evenly and controlled, this gives you different cooking options. reblogging for writing purposes. the exact reason will come soon enough. [Images: Infographics for seven ways to build a good campfire, made by Rolling Fox. End ID.]I’ve taken the liberty of turning @bear–hearted’s descriptions of the uses for these various campfire types into its own infographic, so it’d be easier for me to keep all the information in one place on my computer. Here it is for anyone else who likes to save infographics! The text is almost 100% copied word-for-word from above, with only minor tweaks, such as capitalizing and underlining the campfire setup names for ease of finding them. As someone who writes post apocalypse or zombie outbreak stories, this helps a lot. As someone who has a fire a lot, this helps lol -- source link