How To Cook Seven Simple Recipes Over a Campfire

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Don't be one of those wimps who use a camp stove. Learn how to cook in the outdoors the real way -- over a campfire!

To complete this How-To you will need:

Heavy-duty aluminum foil
Tongs
Potholders or camp gloves
Marinated vegetables
Pre-baked potatoes
Flour and baking powder
Hot dogs
Biscuit mix
Bacon
Eggs
Paper lunch bags
Bread
Cheese
Unshucked ears of corn
Grill grate (optional)
Grated cheese (optional)
Dried fruit (optional)
12-inch wooden skewers or branches (optional)
Seasonings (optional)

Step 1: Get permission to make a fire

Check ahead to make sure you're allowed to have a fire at the place you're planning to camp.

Step 2: Bring along a grill

Consider grabbing the grate out of your toaster oven or off your backyard barbecue and stashing it with your gear. When you get to your campsite, just balance it between two rocks and you have yourself an instant barbecue grill.

Step 3: Pack cooking essentials

Pack a few things that are essential to cooking over an open flame—heavy-duty aluminum foil, tongs, and potholders or camp gloves. Don't forget the seasonings!

Step 4: Prep some veggies

Before you leave, prep some veggies for kebobs. Cut them into chunks big enough to stick on a skewer, marinate them in salad dressing, and seal them in plastic bags. At the campsite, just stick them on wooden skewers (or braches you've cleaned) and hold them over the campfire.

Tip: For faster cooking, microwave potatoes for three minutes and then refrigerate them before taking them on your trip; they'll bake much faster.

Step 5: Cook bannock

Make the classic campfire staple, bannock. Mix together a cup of flour, a teaspoon of baking powder, and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. When you're ready to cook it, slowly add water until you have about half a cup of firm, sticky dough. Roll out a rope-like shape and wrap it around a skewer or stick. Hold it over a flame until golden brown. Serves two.

Tip: Add grated cheese or dried fruit to the basic mix for variety.

Step 6: Make pigs in blankets

Make pigs in blankets. Prepare biscuit mix, wrap some around a hot dog, put the dog on a stick, and hold it over the flame until cooked, about 15 minutes.

Step 7: Make breakfast in a bag

Make a complete breakfast in a paper lunch bag. Line the bottom with bacon strips -- the grease will help protect the bag from burning -- and then crack an egg or two on top. Fold down the top of the bag until it's about three inches high, and skewer this folded part with a stick. Hold it about half a foot above the coals for 10 minutes.

Tip: Transport eggs more easily by cracking them into a plastic container before you leave home. They will pour out one at a time.

Step 8: Toast some cheese sandwiches

Toast some cheese sandwiches by finding two sticks sturdy enough to squeeze a sandwich between them like tongs as you hold it over the open flame.

Step 9: Make your own hot pockets

Wrap just about anything in heavy-duty aluminum foil—veggies, hamburger meat, thinly-sliced potatoes—and stick them directly on hot embers.

Step 10: Turn a rock into a skillet

Find a large, flat rock that you can heat at the edge of your campfire and use it as a skillet to fry a steak or an egg.

Step 11: Extinguish the fire

When you're done with the fire, put it out with water. Stir the embers into the dirt until they are completely extinguished.

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[JusLookinRound804]

May as well go camping behind foodlion,

[davebb100]

fail 2:23

[born2ride97]

This is like an Expert Village video...filled with no expertise.

[survivealist]

Don't be one of those wimps who use a camp stove, you will need potholders. -_-

[Pandaonfire5]

That Breakfast in a Bag thing was the stupidest idea I've ever heard of.

[potsnpans1000]

@zacandmillie most of the time, I just poop directly into the fire. Does this make me a bad man?

[zacandmillie]

There is not enough room here to allow me to pick the faults in this video and the bad advice it offers. Needless to say it's produced by someone that never had to carry all their gear when camping. Starting off by calling anyone with a small efficient gas cooker a wimp for not using a fire that leaves a mess of burnt waste and depletes the surrounding area of biomass.

[zombiedude25]

i WOULD NOT recommend anyone to take aluminuim foil camping i like the countryside clean

[nongwinNO]

Hot dogs... I have a dog but it's not very hot.. Should i put it in the oven before leaving?

[blackkittys668]

I will not put dirt over my campfire because im badass.

[SlackerSlayer]

Sry but 'amateurs'.

I used to bring my wok camping. Only using the gas camp stove if the wind was kicking up too much dirt n dust then I'd cook in tent.

[icheffjj]

Bacon strips on bacon strips on bacon strips on bacon strips.