How to Cook over a Campfire

Video Transcript

" Hi, this is Bruce Lessels from Zoar Outdoor on behalf of expertvillage.com. We’re going to talk about making a campfire and taking down a campfire and campfire safety. So a campfire not only can provide a nice source of warmth in the evening but it can also be a way to cook a meal or cook something as small as marshmallows or as big as an entire meal like hot dogs, hamburgers, fish, steak, anything like one of those things. To cook over a campfire you need either a grate over the fire which you could support with the rocks on the outside of the fire pit or they also make a nice grate that’s a hand held grate that allows you to put hamburgers or hot dogs or steak or fish or something inside it and hold it or support it over the fire and then it has sort of two pieces and it’s sort of a vise like grate and then you can turn it over from side to side and it’s a good way to cook over a fire. Another cool way to cook in a fire is to take and wrap either a hot dog and a bun in tin foil and actually put it inside the coals, once you have the fire burning down and you have some nice white hot, red hot coals in the bottom, you can put that inside the coals, leave it for about 10 or 15 minutes and it should cook nicely and evenly. You can also do that with vegetables, you can do that with a chicken, you can cook a chicken by taking a whole chicken stuffing it with vegetables and spices, putting tin foil around that, putting that inside the coals and you can leave that for several hours and that’ll come up with a nice really juicy, really tender chicken meal with vegetables as well. So there’s lots of different ways to cook over a campfire. The one thing that’s not great to do over a campfire usually is to boil water, a campfire is not the hottest fire you can get, a cook stove is often much better for that. So if you have a cook stove that may be a better way to boil water or to prepare pasta or things like that."