camping and cooking over camp fires

[pike]

if you take your own wood you most likely know what you have.
but if you go next door to your friends camp and roast hot dogs or what ever over there fire with wood that you dont know, is there a danger in that, no not really as your using the heat and not the smoke of an open fire to cook marshmellos or hot dogs and such.
if im cooking some deer stew or something and i want it to gain some smoke flavor ill bring my own wood just for that reason is ok, it is rare to have a bad reactin to wood smoke from a camp fire and cooking over it, and being so rare it is deadly to the person with these allergies.

 

[csmith2884]

I try to cook mostly over the coals and less of the flame, here in NY they have rules about hauling campfire wood into the parks.. In a pinch there is always charcoal and that is what I use in my smoker.

I also try to see if I can tell what kind of wood is in a wood pile. We have many local fruit woods around so often that is what we can get near the campgrounds. Apple and cherry make for a good smelling campfire.