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Entry: How To Cook With A Campfire - A87756727
Author: RossyTheWorm - U14996671

Um i was asked to do one on these

Hello - welcome to h2g2, it's great to see you and I am delighted to see you're raring to start writing and get going, and you've certainly made a very good start. I hope that this is the first of many contributions to come!

Although there is already an article on campfires in the guide (which can be seen here: A593534), it doesn't mean that you can't write about campfires, but perhaps you could emphasise the section on cooking to reduce the amount of overlap?

I am, I must admit, a little concerned about the mention of diesel (health and safety, you know). I'd consider removing it.

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Hi Rossy

I can see you have a sense of humour, and think you were joking about the diesel - well I certainly hope so because it would affect the flavour of the food.

And yes, I was rather hoping for actual cooking methods. Suggestions of food to cook over a camp fire?

Tell us about the most successful meal that you've made over a real fire - that would be really interesting to read.

An excellent idea for an entry! I like the style too, especially the first line.

One of the things you could do is give a list of foods you could try to cook and more details about how to go about it. A section on skwer cookery for example. I mention this it might seem obvious but only a few weeks ago my cousin was cooking dough on skewers made from branches. I've cooked many a chicken thigh using metal skewers on a campfire before but it hadn't ever occurred to me to try to make bread and I was so distracted by the very concept that I wasn't paying attention to details like which type of branches, why she burnt them first or what kind of dough.

Also, regarding burying potatoes, I've always wondered, are you supposed to eat the skins or not?

Oh! I've overlapped with Lanza there a bit. I type slowly...

ok so in conclusion for now, maybe take diesel out and add cooking methods and foods to cooked?

Hi Rossy,

Welcome to h2g2, great to see a new face

Yes, that would be great.

In general guide entries are in the third person, so we tend not to use 'I', but I'm sure you can say the same thing with a really small change in words. This is because we're a collaborative guide, so in the future someone may add something else to the entry, for instance more recipes, and it would be strange if it said 'I' from two people.

Great work.. and welcome..

This is a good complement to my entry on Cooking on a Camping holiday, which is for cooking on a gas cooker. We used to camp a lot but open fires aren't allowed on organised campsites.

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When it comes to the actual cooking, the main rule is: cut everything up small before you start cooking. As well as cooking quicker, it means you don't need knives to eat with, and the food doesn't cool down while you're wrestling with a knife on a tin plate on your knees.

Hi Rossy

You could take out the diesal joke, or just say something like 'while you might be tempted to use any number of inflamables to light your fire or stoke it up, do not do it, not only is it dangerous to do so, it will ruin the flavour of your food'

I wouldn't get tied up in the health and safety aspects.

I like the humour and the idea that this focuses on either methods of cooking on campfires or recipes, or both

I would add a link to fire saftey precautions and say before you light up everyone should consider these and leave it at that

*hopes Rossy doesn't wonder what they have got themselves into*

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hey i get it all the time from other on another site will edit it then to do that

Cheers

I'm glad that a satisfactory way to keep the lighting with fuel bit in without opening up safety hazards has been found - I don't feel like I should say what should and shouldn't be included.
You could, perhaps, include links to those articles mentioned so far.
Great job - I'm impressed that not you've already made some changes as suggested, to the same standard

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haha thanks, glad to be of service, now for my next item.... *tries to think*

Oh – you also could mention marshmallows!

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marshmellows i can do that, if you have any other scouting like thing i can give it a shot, and may also sailing bits

Lovely! Tinfoil food and jacket potatoes from the embers really are a great experience and something everyone should have.

Did you learn about this through scouting?

Without wanting to bog this entry down in health and safety, as Bluebottle quite rightly says, perhaps you might include something about where you can actually do this. These days there are so many regulations about open fires. So maybe something about checking beforehand if it's allowed, and also giving tips about where to position the fire, considering nearby vegetation, trees, and wind strength and wind direction.

Also, if you have any suggestions for clearing up afterwards please include these. When I was a kid we learned to do "turfing" - you cut an "H" shape in the grass, about a hand's breadth deep, and then rolled back the two halves. You could light the fire in the oblong hole created, and balance the grid on the two rolls of turf at either end. When the fire had burnt down and gone out, you just rolled back the two squares of turf and trod them down a bit and could leave the area practically untouched. (Well, that was the theory)

I am looking forward to your next entries. Maybe if you look around at some entries that have already been written, you can get some ideas for things to write about - there are plenty of gaps!

ok will add the placing sections in morning when i get up, yes I am currently in scouting myself and enjoying every instance of it, also keen at water sports

A couple of sources you might reference:

http://fieldbook.scouting.org/

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28490




An interpretation of humor: humor is founded on a shared body of values and a percept that certain things simply are not done; hence the mere suggestion is ridiculous and laughable.

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sorry going to have to unsub

ok I have added the references, and the safety bit