Survival Skills: How to Boil Water in Clay Soil When you’re stuck in the middle of no-man’s-land, and boiling is your only choice for disinfecting water, how do you get that job accomplished without a container? You may already know the trick of rock boiling, which is the technique of using fire-heated stones, dropped into a cavity filled with water. This method is used when your water container cannot be moved (like a cavity in a rock) or should not be placed over the fire (like a wooden bowl or bark vessel). But can you rock boil without any rock cavities or another type of container? After the first rock boiling, you could still drink the water. Sure the water still becomes a muddy mess, but the finished boiled water looks a lot more like water, and a lot less like chocolate pudding. Just burn a hot fire from small sticks in your clay lined hole for 20 minutes. Let the fire die, and scoop out all the charcoal and ash (ash and water make lye, you don’t need that). Then improvise something to carry water from your source to the fired clay hole. Heat some rocks for 40 minutes in a fire, drop them in the hole, and boil away.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 05:58:29 +0000
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