You can still cook with it!
Marshmallows at least...
That is exactly what we cooked on it. 4 nights of S'mores. I probably could have cooked foil wrapped baked potatoes on the coals in about 5-10 minutes.
Kind of interesting that the bowl straps are still attached and holding a grate! I love how it's glowing on the bottom. That's neat.
The morning after the first fire, I looked in the bowl and thought I had completely melted the charcoal grate. It was beneath all the ashes and had sagged from the heat into the contour of the bottom of the bowl. Pulled it out, stepped on it and it straightened right out. Made it easier for starting the fire. Every morning I had to go through the same routine of straightening the charcoal grate.
The rental house also had a black Weber kettle on the deck to use for BBQing. The first night when we went to bed, I had the bright idea of placing the lid from that kettle over the fire pit to extinguish the fire. Within a couple of minutes I started hearing the lid making these terrible creaking and tinging sounds. The lid had a older wooden handle so I was able to grab it and pull it off without burning myself but the radiant heat from that lid was unbelievable. I checked it in the morning and luckily, could not find any visible crazing or damage to the porcelain of the lid. Funny thing was, I could not duplicate that orange glow on the bowl bottom any of the other three nights I had fires. I even went so far as to empty the ashes to replicate the first nights fire. No luck. I remember a thread by
@Darko trying to get a kettle bowl glowing. Now having seen one in person, I can see why he was trying to replicate it.
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