I cooked every meal over an open fire for 2 days with Hexclad pans — and I might never go back to cast iron

Hexclad pan with steak over fire.

As much as I like to call myself an outdoor cooking enthusiast, my idea of outdoor cooking usually involves a smart grill, a high-end pellet smoker, or some other appliance designed to take the guesswork out of the process. So spending two nights cooking every meal over an open fire at AutoCamp Catskills pushed me well outside my comfort zone.

Fortunately, I wasn't exactly roughing it. I was glamping in the mountains with a set of Gordon Ramsay-backed HexClad cookware. I've used HexClad's hybrid pans before, just never with an open flame as my primary heat source.