when its done and you click on it, it drops the ground. If you are close enough and have space, you pick it up. If your cooking station is in a complicated fire pit build, it can get stuck or bounce off a bit, making it a chore to collect. I had an early build where it bounced UP into my chimney and was inaccessible. Unfortunately, you may need to redesign your fire pit if you can't collect the product efficiently/easily. Also you can stack several stations over the same fire, to do a bunch at once. You are going to want a way to do it in bulk after the forest, as cooked meat start to become important and desired in quantity.