Camping and Outdoor Cooking Tips

To chop onions the easy way, start by cutting off the stem end,then peel the skin back to the root, KEEPING THE SKIN ATTACHED. Holding the skin to steady the onion, cut in half nearly to the root end, then at right angles to the first cut, 3 or 4 more cuts nearly to the root end. Next, still holding the root end by the skin, slice finely across the onion from the stem end, the result will be nicely chopped onion. And it takes longer to explain than to do it!

Use a ball of aluminim foil to clean your grill. Make a ball as big as your fist and just rub away grease and grime.

To make freezer packs for your coolers, make juice and pour into plastic pop bottles, leaving room at the top for expansion. Freeze, then add to your cooler. Saves space you get to drink it when its defrosted. Perfect for hot sunny days.

Use pita bread instead of regular loaves on camping trips. Pita does not crush, takes up less space and you can fill them with an assortment food.

When tent camping for several days, freeze all meats and pack a "food only" cooler from bottom to top in the order of planned meals. This keeps kids out of the cooler and it basically works like a refrigerator.

To prevent bacon from curling up in the pan during frying, pierce raw bacon with a fork or knife down each slice before frying. You can poke several slices at a time.

Crack your eggs into a clean mayo or mason jar before you go camping, they will pour out one at a time when needed.

To make an outdoor hand washing station use a clean milk jug. Tie a string to a golf tee or nail and poke the tee into the side of the jug, near the bottom, tie the string to the jug so it won't get dropped. Fill the jug with water. To use, pull the tee out, loosen the lid and a stream of water will pour out. Replace the tee and recap when finished. You may also tie a nylon stocking with a bar of soap into the toe to it. TIP! Set this out of the way so the mud won't become a problem. I perfer using a golf tee rather than a nail. Nails tend to rust. The wooden tee will swell a little and not drip as much when not in use.

Instead of hunting for dry twigs and branches to light your fire, bring along a nice bag of Match Light Charcoal (doesn't need lighter fluid) to get the process moving quickly. Add wood in a teepee around charcoal...a great time saver!

that's all you got...

i could go on for days and days and pages and pages of all the easy/safe/good skill things for camp cooking...


tony

Great, then I guess you better start writting!

so prove it Mr. know it all

where should i start... i already did the cast ware...


tony

anything else that pops in your head.... start from the beginning, getting ready to go camping and continue till you reach the end of the camping trip.....

ok i will give one per day then...

ok well... we will start at packing for the trip then.

when going on a camp trip you never know what is going to come your way... it could be emergency, rain, tornado, fun, or lame. so you want to be ready for what ever comes your way. also you don't want to pack in big duffel bags and stuff so light and small is always good.

one of the best things for packing is put all of a days worth of clothes in one Ziploc bag and then role the bag to get all the air out of it. this makes it small, compact and WATERPROOF (remember what ever comes your way)

also when you go you will want a GOOD first aid kit and E-prep kit with you. me personally when i go i have a small one (about 15 items) on my person. a larger (about 150 items) on my pack with my pack labeled "FIRST AID" (because i am a certified first aid administer) and then back at camp i have a 2000 piece EMT kit there FOR the biggest of all emergencies.

and then of course you have your good camping clothes and rain gear and all that fun stuff


tony