Met a guy at Baker Lake who showed me how to cook trout on a flat rock

I was struggling to get a fire going last summer at Baker Lake when this older guy walked over and showed me how to heat a flat basalt rock to cook fish without a pan. He said the rock holds heat way longer than metal and you don't need to scrub anything. Has anyone else tried cooking directly on rocks like that?

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the_cora13d ago

One time up at Diablo Lake I used a hot slate like that and the trout skin came out perfectly crispy.

roseb477d ago

and I was reading this thing about how the Maillard reaction works way better on a surface that's already been used a few times, like that slate builds up a tiny layer of oil over time. something about the texture being more even for heat transfer, so you get that crackle without burning the inside. I tried it on a cast iron pan with some rainbow trout last weekend and it was legit the best crispy skin I've managed at home, no lie.