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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Rocket.

This BB requires you to build a Dakota fire hole and cook some food on it.



Step
1

Build a Dakota Fire Pit



Build your Dakota Fire Hole!

Here are some threads on Dakota Fire Holes
  - Dakota Fire Hole
  - Dakota Pit Fire

Some Articles on Dakota Fire Holes
  - Making a Dakota Fire Pit
  - What is a Dakota Fire Hole

Dakota Fire Pit Explained



How to Build a Dakota Fire Hole/Stove



Construction and Use of Dakota Fire Pit





Step
2

Cook with a Dakota Fire Hole



Cook anything you want on your Dakota Fire Hole!!!

Cook Bacon and Eggs on Dakota Fire Hole



Venison Steak on a Dakota Fire Hole



Cook Wild Game with Dakota Fire Hole





Minimum requirement:
 - as in the Food Prep and Preservation aspect, no aluminum or teflon/coated cookware or plastic touching the food (including bowls and utensils) is allowed

To get certified for this Badge Bit you must provide pics or video (<2 min) of the following:
  - The spot where the Dakota fire hole will be dug
  - Building the Dakota fire hole
  - Starting materials before fire with cold Dakota fire hole
  - Fire started
  - Additional wood added
  - Food cooking
       - If using a pan or pot, show it resting on something to keep from plugging the exhaust of the system
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This is my pic of my starting materials in the dakota fire hole before I started the fire. On the left side, there is paper, and oen the right, there is a bit of my kindling sticking out.



This is a pic of my fire started in the dakota fire pit that I built!



This is a picture of additional wood that I added to my dakota fire hole!



This is a picture of my salad sauteeing over the dakota fire stove; the spinach is wilting in tghsi picture, which i think counts as showing food is actively cooking. Also, the salad looks kind of shiny, too, because I was able to melt the coconut oil with my dakota fire pit and coat the salad with melted coconut oil!



Staff note (Mike Haasl) :

I hereby certify this BB complete!

 
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good work dave!  looks good.  :)
 
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Hello there!
While at the 2019 PEP Jamboree, I dug a Dakota stove at Arrakis, and cooked some veggies in olive oil.

[Edit/add: In hindsight, I would have made the burn tunnel longer, as my arrangement had some "wrong chimney" problems. But...this was the third spot I'd tried to dig that day, and so I wasn't even sure the ground would permit the stove to be dug.]
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Digging Dakota Stove
Digging Dakota Stove
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Starting materials
Starting materials
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Fire started
Fire started
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More wood!!
More wood!!
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Food cooking
Food cooking
Staff note (Mike Haasl) :

I certify this BB complete!

 
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