Campfire cooking in the wild is one of our favorite things to do. Before we head out on our adventures, we double-check our campfire cooking kit list. There’s nothing worse than realizing you forgot an essential ingredient or cooking tool. Therefore, we recommend building your campfire cooking kit so that you will always have everything you need. As we all know, campfire cooking is one of the main reasons we love camping. Although it’s certainly more difficult than cooking in a modern kitchen, that’s part of the fun. The equipment Steve chooses for his Campfire Cooking Kit is very important to him as a Red Seal Chef. Prior to adding something to his kit, he thoroughly researches it.
The Best Ever Campfire Cooking Kit
Let me share some secrets about safe campfire cooking kits that will keep you safe while making delicious meals. Whenever you work with fire, you’re always responsible for your own safety and the safety of those around you. Always make sure that the conditions around you are safe before you build a campfire. Campfires can pose a fire hazard under certain conditions, most often when there has been hot weather without much rain. This can affect large areas of a forest and even people’s properties. You can find local campfire bans on government websites if you want to know if it’s safe to start cooking over a fire. You can also ask someone at a recognized campsite or national park if there is a fire ban.
Cooking over an open flame is not recommended
It’s time to get down to some cooking advice now that we’ve taken care of the safety advisory. One of the first culinary rules is to never cook over an open flame. It might seem that the flames are the hottest part of the fire and therefore the best to cook on, but you would be wrong on both counts. Those glowing coals that form as the wood burns are the hottest part of the fire. As well as being the hottest, they also provide the most even and consistent heat of any campfire. As a result, the outside of whatever you’re grilling over the coals will be evenly charred and the inside will be fully cooked. It’s important to give the fire some time to develop before cooking over a campfire. The large, red coals don’t appear instantly, but only after the fire has burned for some time. To ensure an even and hot campfire cooking environment, wait at least 30 minutes, if not longer.
The Best Way to Control Temperatures
Occasionally, however, what you’re cooking doesn’t require too much heat. When this happens, what should you do? Using ashes to cover hot coals is Steve’s favorite method of controlling heat. You can cook delicate foods more easily by putting a shovel or two of ash into the pile of coals you’re using for cooking. Additionally, you can move coals around, making a thinner pile and removing some of the heat from your food. Campfires aren’t as easy to control as an oven or barbecue, since no temperature is known. Trial and error is involved and there’s a lot of feeling involved.
Campfire Cooking Kit that folds
When it comes to campfire cooking kit, even experienced cooks often have trouble finding a clean place to place something down. In the woods, there isn’t as much counter space as in a kitchen. A campfire grill provides a convenient place to set down a Dutch oven, cast iron pan, etc. Because of their low profile, they can also be used for cooking over a fire surrounded by rocks, but we use them more for setting hot pans / Dutchch ovens.