Cooking over something other than a wood fire is a relatively new development for the human race. A recent study showed that 43 percent, or some 3 billion members, of the world’s population rely on wood Read More →
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There’s nothing quite like baking a pineapple upside down cake in a dutch oven. It’s easier than you think! Preheat the dutch oven until a hand held inside gets uncomfortably warm in five seconds. While Read More →
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I learned how to care for cast iron cookware from some old timers. Their methods are compatible with standard Boy Scout principles and more modern methods. Some of this may be considered “heretical” by the “authentic” Read More →
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Steve Karoly writes about Dutch oven bread revisited on his blog ‘Round the Chuck Box. This isn’t quick bread, no, it’s slow bread - bread that takes hours to make with kneading and rising and kneading and proofing and yeast. Read More →
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Hiking Jim is obsessed (in the best possible meaning of the term) with backpacking stoves. I have never run into anyone more expert on the subject; it really is something! His blog is ‘ Adventures Read More →
If you aren’t cooking in a dutch oven you are missing a lot of fun and some great food! Now nobody is going to carry a dutch oven backpacking; this is a ‘car camping’ option Read More →
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Trail cooking and the Outdoors blog offers these Recipes For Chilly Weather. Hearty beverages, dinners, snacks and other great recipes from Sarah Kirkconnell. We’re off backpacking soon and these recipes look great! Sarah and is also the author of Freezer Bag Read More →
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Steven C. Karoly is a retired Seabee Cook who blogs at Round the Chuckbox. I eagerly followed a series of eight of Steve’s recent posts on the ‘Code of the Campfire’. They are a combination Read More →
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Dutch oven cooking is worth the trouble. Truth be told it’s not actually all that much trouble either! Here’s a great introduction to dutch oven cooking in three parts. It is as easy as it looks; Read More →
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I first wrote about mess kits five years ago. Most of the advice remains the same but enough has changed to justify an updated version; For a number of years I was thought that real campers Read More →
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Roger Edison has collected a lot of lore and useful information about Chuckwagons and Cowboy Cooking. Here's a plan for building a cowboy fire box. Admittedly not for leave no trace camping or backpacking the Read More →
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This looks like fun! I don't know why you'd have to sand the outside though.
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‘We sat on the snow and looked at the country far below us … we nibbled Kendal Mint Cake.’ wrote Edmund Hillary recalling the first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953. Another member of Read More →
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