Rate: ***
This
was a good article with many useful tips and recipes for cooking over
an open fire. It was a simple read with minimal detail.
The
article mentioned some things to be cautious of when making a cooking
fire such as the location, wind and quality of the wood you are burning.
It also described how to make the perfect cooking fire by placing rocks
in a "U" shape with a large rock at the back to act like a chimney,
then laying the
sticks across the rocks in a grid like shape. Something really
interesting that I found in the article was that after all of the sticks
have burned you can readjust the coals to cook on, placing the hottest
ones towards the back to recreate the high, medium, low feature on your
oven. The article then explained a variety of creative and easy recipes
to cook on an open fire.
I
was really interested in reading this article after making bannock on
an open fire for the first time. I really enjoy cooking and I also love
being outside so combining the two together seems like a natural fit.
After the hiking trip I learned that the food you make plays a huge part
in your enjoyment of the trip so for future trips I really want to
expand my outdoor cooking skills. It surprised me how many recipes there
were that you could cook over an open fire and how simple some of them
were. I've already made bannock which was simple and delicious but I
learned that anything from fish fillets to apple, cinnamon and brown
sugar desserts can easily be made over the fire. A new technique that I
learned about was just wrapping the food in tin foil and throwing it in
the fire with the coals to cook. I'm really excited to try this technique and some of these recipes and might even test them out at winter camp.
Reference:
Eartheasy.com,. 'Campfire Cooking: Recipes And Techniques For Cooking On An Open Fire'. N.p., 2014. Web. 11 Dec. 2014. http://eartheasy.com/play_campfire_cooking.htm
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