When cooking with a skillet, let the fire die down, gather as many hot coals as possible and set your skillet firm on top your coal pile.
When cooking with a pot, hang it above a low fire, in most cases you wanna make sure the flames aren't licking your pot.
This pic is from my last camping trip, if you wanna know how to build the tripod, there are pleanty of youtube videos on the topic.
My personal hell is wanting to read these super long replies on post in this community, to better understand my adhd, but I can't bring myself to finish reading them. Something else always snags my attention.