How do you like to cook your camp meal?

jerry · 09-28-2007, 02:01 PM

We cook on the fire as much as possible.
Me & my daughter making a stick meal. Put a hot dog on the stick and wrap it with one of those canned biscuits.

We like the dutch oven too. Just mix some sausage, eggs and taters all together, viola.

We like premade stuff we make at home and freeze. It helps with the ice in the cooler & you throw it on the coals when time to cook. Works great.
Foregot the ocassional fish fry

Dad does it best.

Chris · 09-28-2007, 03:26 PM

I love to get frozen corn on the cob if fresh isn't reasonable wrap it tin foil put it directly in the fire. I love it. We usually rig up some mini grill, and cook burgers.

If we are at the beach camping, we carry the colman stove and fry fish and chips.

Don't forget S'mores. yum!

jashoffa · 09-28-2007, 04:25 PM

For the best flavor I like cooking on an open fire. Since we got the camper and bought a mini propane grill we tend to use that more because it can cook faster with more even heat and I don't have to build a fire and wait for it to burn down to cook, I just light the grill and we are good to go. I have never gotten a chance to be around any dutch oven cooking but I would like to get one and give it a try!

ezearln · 09-28-2007, 04:34 PM

We (meaning I)B prefer open fire cooking however in many instances we are limited to time and regulation as to where and when we can do that, we always carry a walkabout BBQ grill with us that I carry lump charcoal for so that gets used alot, and of course we have the chuckwagon pit at our place at the Lake along with NOW 2 count em 2 smokers! And one of them smokers is HUGE!

Dallas · 09-28-2007, 04:38 PM

I usually let my Boy Scouts do the cooking. Sometimes I eat well and sometimes not.

jashoffa · 09-28-2007, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Dallas

I usually let my Boy Scouts do the cooking. Sometimes I eat well and sometimes not.

I hope you bring some beef jerky for when the eat'n isn't so good!

jerry · 09-28-2007, 08:43 PM

We cooked some mighty fine meals as well as some slop in the scouts. Hide that beef jerky as mentioned Dallas. The adaults will foregive you.

On the other hand, where do ya think I learned all those little tricks I'm showing my baby girl.

SPOCAHP ANAR · 09-28-2007, 09:35 PM

Hobo Meal in foil. HMMMM good!

You ought to try making your own jerky.

damage855 · 09-28-2007, 10:37 PM

Nothing like possom over an open flame. umm umm finger licking good.

Burke · 09-28-2007, 10:56 PM

I like to cook mine slightly inebriated..somehow it tastes better than when I cook it at home.

troy2000 · 09-29-2007, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Burke

I like to cook mine slightly inebriated..somehow it tastes better than when I cook it at home.

Do you mean you slightly inebriated, or the meal slightly inebriated, Burke? Or both?

Pollo Borracho (drunken chicken) always seems to taste better in a dutch oven...

ezearln · 09-29-2007, 10:34 AM

Prefer my drunken yard bird slow roasted in a smoker with a steam can in the smoker my self

JohnMcD348 · 09-29-2007, 05:21 PM

When I go, I take ALL my cast iron with me. I have a steel grate that I can use over the coals for grillin a good steak or just setting the cookware over. I do have a couple of old coleman stoves that, at least one, go with me and I use them for some of the other side cooking or just making hot water.

Big Dog · 09-29-2007, 08:33 PM

Y'all make it sound mighty good! My camp cookery usually involves Mountain House with two cups of water in a canteen cup, over an esbit stove. Ah, simplicity . . .

khahn79 · 11-15-2007, 10:56 PM

Cast iron skillet or a grill over the camp fire, usually. However we do take the coleman stove to fix breakfast on those mornings when the kids are too antsy to hit the hiking trails to wait for a fire. (And mommy's too antsy for her morning cup 'o joe!)

rckymtnboy · 11-16-2007, 03:01 AM

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Originally Posted by SPOCAHP ANAR

Hobo Meal in foil. HMMMM good!

You ought to try making your own jerky.

LOL. That brings back a lot of memories of hunting camp!!! Throw whatever you have for meat and veggies in tin foil and toss it in the coals for awhile. Those were some of the best meals I ever ate!!!

SueMe · 12-04-2007, 08:04 PM

I like the open wood campfire to cook on. Steak, Corn and potato on the fire. Oh!no now I'm hungary. Dessert is a smores with burnt marmallows, grahmn crackers, and chocolate.

LiveToShoot · 12-04-2007, 08:25 PM

Over an open flame, or bed of coals, depending what the campfire meal is.

I like the taste of a fire cooked steak, or a foil pack meal cooked in a bed of coals.

Dutch oven cooking is a favorite too. A friend brought us over a dutch oven full of BBQ ribs a couple of weeks ago, really spoiled us with that one.

Full MeTal Jack · 12-04-2007, 10:48 PM

Sometimes I'll bring wood with me like Live Oak, Pecan or Mesquite.
Grill a ribeye steak over wood coals. Cut a big potato 1/4" slabs. Coat with olive oil and grill turning frequently and basting with butter/oil flavored with red pepper and garlic. Slice zuccinnee and grill also.
Lunch: Cheapo sandwich and apple with a cold beer or two or three..............
Breakfast: Of course bacon and eggs is always a favorite. Secondly, beer pancakes. Add beer instead of water. Add diced up apple and crushed pecans. To make pancakes fluffier mix in a packet of instant oatmeal.
Ah yes! Cooking fresh caught fish at camp in nonstick skillet
Ive done the mountain house numerous times but it you have the time, for me I like to fuss about cooking over an open camp fire and down a few Bud Lites before dinner is ready.

My campout shopping list starts this way:
beer, beer and more beer

ArkansasHunter · 12-05-2007, 12:43 AM

Why I just stop by KFC and buy a barrell of chicken and all the fix'ins because it's gotton to risky to build fires in the great outdoors now...Unless theres been plenty of rain fall.

09-28-2007, 02:01 PM	#1
jerry Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 10,760 Trader Rating: (0)	How do you like to cook your camp meal? We cook on the fire as much as possible. Me & my daughter making a stick meal. Put a hot dog on the stick and wrap it with one of those canned biscuits. We like the dutch oven too. Just mix some sausage, eggs and taters all together, viola. We like premade stuff we make at home and freeze. It helps with the ice in the cooler & you throw it on the coals when time to cook. Works great. Foregot the ocassional fish fry Dad does it best. __________________ Last edited by jerry; 09-28-2007 at 02:05 PM.

09-28-2007, 03:26 PM	#2
Chris HMFIC Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 3,834,126 Trader Rating: (0)	I love to get frozen corn on the cob if fresh isn't reasonable wrap it tin foil put it directly in the fire. I love it. We usually rig up some mini grill, and cook burgers. If we are at the beach camping, we carry the colman stove and fry fish and chips. Don't forget S'mores. yum! __________________ Rules \| Contributing Members I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. --Thomas Jefferson No one has the right to deny my personal safety Need a reminder, why this site is so great?

09-28-2007, 04:25 PM	#3
jashoffa Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Iowa Posts: 380 Trader Rating: (0)	For the best flavor I like cooking on an open fire. Since we got the camper and bought a mini propane grill we tend to use that more because it can cook faster with more even heat and I don't have to build a fire and wait for it to burn down to cook, I just light the grill and we are good to go. I have never gotten a chance to be around any dutch oven cooking but I would like to get one and give it a try! __________________ "I don't go shooting without my guns and they don't go shooting without me!" Member NRA

09-28-2007, 04:34 PM	#4
ezearln Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Texas Hill Country Posts: 3,178 Trader Rating: (0)	We (meaning I)B prefer open fire cooking however in many instances we are limited to time and regulation as to where and when we can do that, we always carry a walkabout BBQ grill with us that I carry lump charcoal for so that gets used alot, and of course we have the chuckwagon pit at our place at the Lake along with NOW 2 count em 2 smokers! And one of them smokers is HUGE! __________________ "You can have my Freedom when I'm done with it!"

09-28-2007, 04:38 PM	#5
Dallas PUKHA DAWG Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Virginia, just outside of Washington D.C. Posts: 3,591 Trader Rating: (0)	I usually let my Boy Scouts do the cooking. Sometimes I eat well and sometimes not. __________________ Those who forget History are condemed to repeat it.

09-28-2007, 08:43 PM	#7
jerry Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 10,760 Trader Rating: (0)	We cooked some mighty fine meals as well as some slop in the scouts. Hide that beef jerky as mentioned Dallas. The adaults will foregive you. On the other hand, where do ya think I learned all those little tricks I'm showing my baby girl. __________________

09-28-2007, 09:35 PM	#8
SPOCAHP ANAR Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: SC-upstate Posts: 4,023 Trader Rating: (0)	Hobo Meal in foil. HMMMM good! You ought to try making your own jerky. __________________ Spocrest Out!..........

09-28-2007, 10:37 PM	#9
damage855 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: North Carolina / Lake Norman Posts: 883 Trader Rating: (0)	Nothing like possom over an open flame. umm umm finger licking good. __________________ If total goverment control will make us all safer, then why are prisons so dangerous?

09-28-2007, 10:56 PM	#10
Burke Ahh..Cordite. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Gun City, Arizona Posts: 485 Trader Rating: (0)	I like to cook mine slightly inebriated..somehow it tastes better than when I cook it at home.

09-29-2007, 10:34 AM	#12
ezearln Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Texas Hill Country Posts: 3,178 Trader Rating: (0)	Prefer my drunken yard bird slow roasted in a smoker with a steam can in the smoker my self __________________ "You can have my Freedom when I'm done with it!"

09-29-2007, 05:21 PM	#13
JohnMcD348 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 10 Trader Rating: (0)	When I go, I take ALL my cast iron with me. I have a steel grate that I can use over the coals for grillin a good steak or just setting the cookware over. I do have a couple of old coleman stoves that, at least one, go with me and I use them for some of the other side cooking or just making hot water.

09-29-2007, 08:33 PM	#14
Big Dog Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tallahassee, Florida Posts: 10,059 Trader Rating: (0)	Y'all make it sound mighty good! My camp cookery usually involves Mountain House with two cups of water in a canteen cup, over an esbit stove. Ah, simplicity . . . __________________ Moderator of: AR15/M16, M14/M1A, New/Beginning Shooters and Militaria/Collectables.

11-15-2007, 10:56 PM	#15
khahn79 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Illinois Posts: 179 Trader Rating: (0)	Cast iron skillet or a grill over the camp fire, usually. However we do take the coleman stove to fix breakfast on those mornings when the kids are too antsy to hit the hiking trails to wait for a fire. (And mommy's too antsy for her morning cup 'o joe!)

12-04-2007, 08:04 PM	#17
SueMe Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pine River ,Minnesota Posts: 34 Trader Rating: (0)	I like the open wood campfire to cook on. Steak, Corn and potato on the fire. Oh!no now I'm hungary. Dessert is a smores with burnt marmallows, grahmn crackers, and chocolate.

12-04-2007, 08:25 PM	#18
LiveToShoot Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Northwest USA Posts: 1,776 Trader Rating: (0)	Over an open flame, or bed of coals, depending what the campfire meal is. I like the taste of a fire cooked steak, or a foil pack meal cooked in a bed of coals. Dutch oven cooking is a favorite too. A friend brought us over a dutch oven full of BBQ ribs a couple of weeks ago, really spoiled us with that one. __________________ "Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." -Unknown

12-04-2007, 10:48 PM	#19
Full MeTal Jack Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Southeast Texas Posts: 1,416 Trader Rating: (0)	Sometimes I'll bring wood with me like Live Oak, Pecan or Mesquite. Grill a ribeye steak over wood coals. Cut a big potato 1/4" slabs. Coat with olive oil and grill turning frequently and basting with butter/oil flavored with red pepper and garlic. Slice zuccinnee and grill also. Lunch: Cheapo sandwich and apple with a cold beer or two or three.............. Breakfast: Of course bacon and eggs is always a favorite. Secondly, beer pancakes. Add beer instead of water. Add diced up apple and crushed pecans. To make pancakes fluffier mix in a packet of instant oatmeal. Ah yes! Cooking fresh caught fish at camp in nonstick skillet Ive done the mountain house numerous times but it you have the time, for me I like to fuss about cooking over an open camp fire and down a few Bud Lites before dinner is ready. My campout shopping list starts this way: beer, beer and more beer __________________ [IMG]http://img287.echo.cx/img287/63/9130110x100a4vb.jpg

12-05-2007, 12:43 AM	#20
ArkansasHunter Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Arkansas Posts: 10,504 Trader Rating: (0)	Why I just stop by KFC and buy a barrell of chicken and all the fix'ins because it's gotton to risky to build fires in the great outdoors now...Unless theres been plenty of rain fall.