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Thinking about going outdoors for some days and trying to determine an easy and hassle free outdoor cooking methods? We’re with you to help in the camper days so that you can make those days more enjoyable and fun!
The point is that food is a basic need for our day to day lives. No matter whether you’re a city-dweller or you decided to go on an outdoor trip the next summer, you have to tame several outdoor cooking techniques to survive on those days.
Don’t worry if you don’t know yet how to cook outdoors. In this article, we’re going to break down the ABC of the outdoor cooking system. Keep reading this article until the end. You’ll be able to know some easier cooking methods to survive in the camper days.
Top 6 Outdoor Cooking Methods
To be honest, I’m a self-declared nerd in the outdoor cooking industry over the years! I know it well how to cook outdoors. I’ve gone through these six outdoor cooking methods many times in my life.
These methods of outdoor cooking have played an incredibly important role in my camper life. That’s why I believe that these apply to yours as well.
Let’s know in-depth!
1. Cooking In Ashes
At the very bottom of the camping days, cooking in ashes will be very helpful for you. We feel a shortage of cooking accessories on those days. Through the cooking method is unfamiliar to us; but, it’s very easy-to-apply to cook breakfast in the camper morning. If you’re going to camp for the first time and shocked about outdoor cooking, this technique will help you to cook foods in less time.
On the camping night, we often kindle a little far from our tents, right? In the very morning, we get tons of embers in the ground. Utilizing them, we can cook breakfast for our family members.
Thinking about how?
How To Cook In Ashes?
Here are the core basic step-by-step guidelines on how to cook in ashes in the wilderness trip. Tame this cooking method at least once before going the next camping.
- Remove some ashes from the top after taking the initial preparation of cooking your meal.
- Put the pan on the embers.
- Now you’re ready whatever you want to cook.
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- Remove the ashes slightly and place those types of foods that have self-contained such as egg, vegetables, bell pepper, etc.
- After that, cover the foodstuff with some embers.
- Wait until the food boil.
- Check from time to time.
Thus, you can easily cook your breakfast in ashes without any hassle.
Read: Plan a cookout perfectly
2. Cook On A Swedish Fire Log
Swedish fire log is one of the most familiar ways among the outdoor cooking. Many of us are known about the Swedish fire log from when it’s shown on many American TVs. It’s such an easy cooking technique that you can tame once you understand the concept.
This outdoor cooking method is pretty older than others. Lamberjackets used this technique before us over the years. However, if you want to cook foods in the camper days with a Swedish fire log, it’s momentous for you to know about how to make a Swedish fire log in no time.
How To Make A Swedish Fire Log?
First of all, before going to camp, make sure that you’ve taken a chainsaw with you to cut tree logs. A chainsaw is crucial not only to make a Swedish fire log but also to complete many other typical tasks.
- Select a piece of a dry tree.
- Measure the area of the tree by which you want to make the log.
- Take your chainsaw and split the log from the tree.
- Now, cut the log at the middle point with the chainsaw. (Don’t divide the whole log. Cut 80% from the top to down.)
- Do the job once again against the first one.
It’ll split into four-piece as well as create great ventilation at the middle point of the log. Right now, you’re ready to cook food on the log. Just keep some tinder into the log and light it up.
3. Cooking In Mud
Know how our forefathers would cook their day to day lives’ meals? There was no modern technology by which they could cook their food. They used to cook their food in the mud. For this reason, it’s to say, cooking in mud is an ancient method.
Though the cooking method is a little bit messy, it’s very useful to cook animals such as deer, chicken, fish, pork, etc.
How To Cook In Mud?
If you’re very much fond of cooking food in mud, you must go through the techniques.
- Find out a source of clay or consider cooking on the bank of a river/canal.
- Collect some mud and make the dough. (Meanwhile, prepare your foodstuff with spices.)
- If possible, then collect a few banana leaves.
- Keep the foodstuff on the banana leaves and cover the food with the leaves.
- Now, collect some tinder.
- Place the mud dough into the tinder. Now, it’s ready to start cooking.
- Kindle on the wood and wait at least two hours.
- Then, collect the mud dough and hit on it with a small stick.
- Once you’ve been able to remove the clay, collect the food.
- I hope that your food is now ready to have.
Downside: the downside of the cooking method is that there is no option to check the foodstuff whether it’s about to cook or overcooked. So, you’re not highly recommended to go through this cooking method if you don’t have any idea about this. At least, you have to practice this technique once before going to camp.
4. Baking On A Stick
Baking on a stick is another cooking method that can be used easily. Once you know about the method, you’ll be able to apply this technique in the camping days. By this cooking method, you’re allowed to cook anything you want.
Our ancestors used to cook their food with this technique when they would live in the forest. That’s why we also need to tame this cooking method so that we can easily survive in the wilderness trip.
Whatever it is!
This cooking technique is mostly used to bake bread. Yet, you can use this technique to cook any food. You just need to know how to do that!
How To Cook On A Stick?
- Collect some green sticks to avoid burning the sticks.
- Now, make a kindle how you typically make in the backyard.
- Then, put on two pieces of sticks on both sides of the kindle.
- Put another stick over the kindle.
- Place your dish or bucket at the middle point of the kindle so that it can be heated by fire.
- Finally, you’re ready to cook food on a stick.
5. Grilling Over Fire
Grilling over fire is another pretty good process of outdoor cooking that can be used to grill chicken or other meats. This method is almost the same as we grill food in our day to day lives.
How To Grill Over Fire?
There are a few basic skills to grill food over the fire. Once you can take those, you’ll never have to face any trouble in the camping days.
- Make a little hole in the mud.
- Place a few tinder to kindle.
- Put two stones on both sides of the hole you made in the mud.
- Now, put a grilling pat over the fire.
- Light the tinder up and put your foodstuff on the grilling pat.
- Turn the food side from time to time.
- Thus, you can grill to have on the camping days.
Read: Charcoal grilling
6. Cooking On Rocks
If you’ve become someone that you want to get the real taste of food without any smoky flavor, then you must decide to cook on rocks on a wilderness trip. Cooking on rocks is such a basic and the oldest skill that our forefathers used to apply their day to day lives to cook food.
However, you need to learn the cooking skill at first. Otherwise, you won’t be able to cook food on rocks. Thinking of you; we’re going to break down on how to cook on rocks. Let’s look at a glance.
How To Cook on Rocks?
- Gather a few rocks. (Among them, make sure that there is a flat rock so that you can use the rock as a pan.)
- Make a little hole in the mud.
- Then, place the rocks into the three sides of the hole to make an oven shape.
- After that, place the flat rock over the hole so that you can put your foodstuff on the rock.
- Now, kindle on the oven using some tinder.
- Once the flat rock heat enough bakes your food.
- Thus, you can cook your food on the rocks.
Final Verdict…
In a nutshell, to tame a few cooking techniques is important for you whether you go outdoors or you live in your typical house. However, whenever you go camping for a few days, make sure that you’ve taken all the necessary outdoor cooking accessories with you.
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