Pie Irons and Foil Pockets
The Pie Irons Outdoor Cooking Method
If you want to experience good food with a very simple setup when cooking outdoors, you should buy the right cookware. There are a lot of things you can bring to cook your food when you go out camping. For starters, there are portable stoves and pits. But if you can’t bring any of these and still want to cook something special, use pie irons instead. You’ll love all the tasty foods you can cook.
Pie irons are metal cookware. It is commonly as big and as wide as a slice of bread. It is best used when camping, because it is currently considered as a staple campfire cooking ware. Pie irons make campfire cooking special. And that’s because it allows you to cook something more than hotdogs over an open fire.
As its name suggests, pie irons are use to make pies - mountain pizza pies to be exact. It can be used to grill or toast a slice of bread. Just choose to cook the food that your taste buds prefer.
Mountain pies cooked with pie irons are an easy favorite of girl scouts and boy scouts when camping. Much of it is because it is simple to use. Just garnish a slice of bread as you would a real pizza. Wrap the bread and the goodies in it with a high-quality aluminum foil. Then heat it over the campfire and in a few minutes, you will be in for a real nice treat. Your tummy will love the mountain pie meal, for sure.
Even kids can use pie irons. And this is what makes using it as an outdoor cooking method more preferable to families. Kids can cook their own food over a campfire, while talking and sharing fun with the rest of the folks. Pie irons have the ability to involve all family members in the cookout.
Pie irons are commonly available at stores that sell camping gears. It may come in aluminum or cast-iron varieties. Of course, the cast-iron type is stronger than the aluminum. But aluminum is lighter, making the cookware easy to bring when going out for a hike.
You can also use a grill rack or a metal grid over the fire, should you want to leave the pie iron on it and do something else. Metal tongs may also be needed, if the pie iron you bought doesn’t come with heat-resistant handles.
Foil Pockets Outdoor Cooking
Aluminum foil isn’t just a shiny sheet that you can use to wrap food in or heat it up in the oven. Aluminum foil is probably going to be your best friend in outdoor cooking, as it is easy to carry around, light on your back, and it can allow your food to cook fairly quickly. All you need to know is how to wrap your food, what you can cook in aluminum foil, and how to make a fire. You can simply place your food in foil pockets and heat them over a flame, and you have a meal in minutes.
Using aluminum foil, moreover, can make dinner time at your camp an easy time, since you have little cleaning up to do. All you need to do is put leftovers in foil and throw the foil pockets out. Or, if you want to keep more food for the next round, you can simply roll the food in foil and store it in your food bin. Using aluminum foil for your cooking can be good if you are taking along a lot of children on your camping trip and have no time to do any washing.
One downside to using aluminum foil, however, is that aluminum foil can stick to the food if the food is cooked too quickly. This can be problematic if you are eating at night and can’t see if you have any aluminum foil left to take out of the food. Just be sure to have a flashlight handy so that you can be sure to keep your meal aluminum foil-free.
There are many different kinds of food that you can cook. As long as you cook them quickly, vegetables won’t be soggy or lose their nutrients. Potatoes taste good in foil pockets, but you can also cook cabbage, mushrooms, zucchini, and other vegetables that won’t moisten up or create a mess on the fire. Just be sure to have tongs ready, since vegetables can be very hot after being cooked on an open flame.
You can also bake apples and bananas in foil. Just be sure to keep these hot fruits away from children. You can also use foil cooking to heat up foods such as pizza, sandwiches, stews, and muffins. This can make cooking easier for you, as all you need to do is cook your food beforehand and heat everything up come camping time.
For more information on foil cooking, as well as recipes, look for foil cooking and general outdoor sites online. With some common sense and a lot of food to back you up, you can make your camping trip a great experience!
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