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Cooking Techniques For Camping



Camping can be a joyful experience, shared with friends and families alike. Being in the great outdoors brings people together, especially without the distractions of day-to-day affairs like work, cell phones, and the internet. Without these disturbances, families and friends can bond over hiking, swimming, games, and especially, food! The meal, the breaking of bread, is a time to come together and talk, to interact with each other in a way that our busy lives so often keep us from experiencing.

Family meals are important experiences to share. Magic can happen around the campfire when you’re cooking and sharing great meals and stories together. Since none of these methods are regularly used at home, the many variations of camp cooking make the experience all the more unique. BBQ over a campfire, using coals, foil packet cooking, and more are all included in this cookbook!

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Foil Packets

Cooking techniques while camping are unique. Aluminum foil packets are one of the most common methods included in the recipes. It consists of placing the food on an aluminum foil sheet and folding it tightly. The trick to foil packets is to keep the center seam at the top. This allows easy checking on the progress of the food, but also makes eating out of the pouch itself an easy possibility. They provide easy clean-up, with the fact that it is cook pot and serving dish all in one. Also, when cooking with foil packets you should not place the foil packets directly into the fire. Place them on a grill over the fire or on the coals once the fire dies down.

 Open flames versus grilling

Certain recipes work well for cooking directly over the fire. S’Mores, foods that require boiling, and recipes that need charring do best over direct flame. However, most foods will cook best either on the grill (at a safe distance from direct flames) or on coals. Foil packets, for example, cook very well on hot coals. If you do cook directly on the grill, make sure the grill has been both cleaned and oiled.

Smokers and garbage can cooking

Another option for cooking is “garbage can cooking.” This method requires a CLEAN metal can, and turns into a camping smoker. This works so well because it cooks foods very quickly at very high temperature. This keeps the juices in the meats and vegetables you are cooking and gives it a natural smoky taste that you can’t get anywhere else. Large pieces of meat like turkey, pork roast, roast beef, and firm vegetables like potatoes are all great options when using this cooking technique. The complete method is detailed within the recipe and will certainly be the highlight of your trip. It is certainly has been for our family! It’s also a great activity to do when feeding a large number of people since you can literally cook some 20-30 pounds of meat in a 20-gallon garbage can.





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