Campfire Cooking

Now a days with the arrival of modern stoves and solar ovens people are more keen into using these sophisticated types of cookware, but have they really replaced campfire cooking? Certainly not. These easy to use camp ovens might make the task much easier for the cook but it cannot replace the appeal and the taste of campfire cooked foods.

Campfire: Making the Fire

Comparatively, campfires might seem a little troublesome. It requires certain pre- conditions. Since you need to make the fire all by yourself, you need to look after a few things. You cannot prepare the fire on heavy rocks. Because of that you need a place that is soil-based. The atmosphereic conditions should also be in favor. Heavy winds can lead to danger as it will increase the sparks. It will also decrease the coal fast which will leave very little time for cooking. Without suitable windy state, outdoor fires are next to impossible. For clear- burning you need dry wood. Fir is readily available in many places. If you don’t get the proper wood then it may create unwanted smoke and will polute the air to a great extent. The objective is to have an even fire that will produce no flames and provide longest possible time for cooking.

There’s a saying that “Stuff that you’d dump in the trash at home is a delicacy in the wild“. There is a huge number of dishes that can be prepared by a campfire. With a little difference in techniques you can have a long menu to feed your appetite. These foods are not only easy to cook but they taste great as well. Some other advantages are that you can cook for many together, no as such tools are needed and you can easily observe how it’s going. You can cook on a grill or a stick or even in fuel and coals.

Popular Campfire Foods

There seems to be a never ending list of items in campfire cooking. You can prepare any kind of barbeque food out of it. Here are some popular campfire foods:

•           Hamburgers

•           Hotdogs

•           Shish kebabs

•           Marshmallows

•           Bannock

•           Campfire potatoes

Take a look at this video we found on Youtube that shows you how to make some great stuff utilizing this cooking method.

You can even make many delicious campfire desserts. Choco-nana, apple-sweet, smores, fried pies, orange brownies are just to name a few. In addition, if you get a dutch oven then you can make almost anything and everything that you make in your home. But it is more available in case of stationary camping.

In absence of dutch oven the variety of dishes decreases. And if you are even slightly carefree then the food might get ruined too. Many nature-lovers sometimes criticize campfire cooking for destroying the environment as well.