Overland Journey

Man this looks good! I think Ill be doing this recipe on our next trip for sure!

Andrew Dwyer cooks lemon chicken in a Bedourie Oven on a campfire in the Flinders Ranges in Outback Australia

Twitter This

Usuario: Password:

Setting up the Backpacker Oven on Mt. Whitney making Pizza from scratch at the top of Mt. Whitney. Backpacker Oven from backpackeroven.com you can also see photos at backpackerovenphotos.shutterfly.com

Twitter This

Usuario: Password:

I found this to be a great and easy recipe while overlanding. Should already have a drill with you, which makes this a perfect treat.

Use a Power Drill with a 5/8th in. bit to core the apples and then bake. Visit my blog for more dutch oven cooking : jpodbuild.wordpress.com

Twitter This

Usuario: Password:

Too busy at work and too tired to cook? Even if we are a whiz a cooking, cooking can be a hassle and a pain if you have a 12-hour job, kids and absolutely no time to prepare the ingredients for cooking. If only we were rich and hire our own cook to do the cooking for us. If only we have a wonderful spouse who can surprise us with great-tasting dishes once we get home from work. If only our kids know how to cook. But alas, the times are against us, and we often have to resort to processed and frozen meals or fast food and take outs. However, this can be a bane – it vacuums money out of our wallets, makes our bellies even wider and clogs our arteries to the brink of giving us a heart attack.

Fortunately, there is still hope. There are ways on how to have good food at home, without the hassle of rushing work just to get back home and cook. One solution is to prepare the food at night or the day before workday. Whip up the dishes, and then store them in the refrigerator while we are at work. Once we get home, we can microwave them to heat it up and enjoy a fresh tasting pasta or casserole. Having a crock pot or a Dutch oven helps in storing the ingredients ready for cooking.

A Dutch oven is a cooking pot made of cast iron. It comes in various sizes, but it is generally handy for carrying it around. One might think that only stews can be cooked in a Dutch oven, but for the avid camper, they can cook a variety of meals – from bread and biscuits, chicken, pork and veggies, to soup, stew and noodles. You can boil, roast, fry and steam food in it.

Crock pots and Dutch ovens are especially good for slow cooking. For example, we can use them for slow cooking most frozen meat and poultry, which needs at least four or five hours for it to get soft. Other recipes have 12 hours tops to slow cook, so we can always prepare the ingredients and store them before hand, and slow cook the stuff the following day while we are at work kissing up to the boss or at church thanking God for our everyday meals. If you want to look for slow cooking food, you can refer to a Dutch oven recipe book or a Dutch oven ebook

.

Twitter This

Usuario: Password:

Homemade alcohol burner trial. … Stove alcohol homemade stoves portable camp cooking camping backpacking jet camppfire pitorch DIY spirta plītiņa deglis самодельная спиртоввая печка горелка самоделка

Twitter This

Usuario: Password:

While combing through the usual craigslist ads, I came across an ad for “Misc Camp Gear”. I noticed that the person was close by so I gave them a call. I went by and was able to purchase several things for the local Boy Scouts. One treasure I found for myself was this decent set of dishes and silverware. I think its a great find for $2. Doesn’t appear to have ever been used. If it has been used, maybe a couple of times. I washed everything by hand, then ran it through the dishwasher to make sure.

It came with:

• 4 Large Plates
• 4 Small Plates
• 4 Bowls
• 1 Serving Bowl
• 4 Cups
• 8 Forks
• 8 Spoons
• 4 Butter Knives
• 4 Steak Knives

Ill probably replace the bowls with ones that stack better inside each other to save more space. But I like the fact that all the silverware fits into the large serving bowl. Now if I can luck out on finding a lid that would cover the serving bowl I’d be in heaven.

Twitter This

Usuario: Password:

This is a great tip for those with a storm kettle. Great way to have a cheap stove from equipment you may already carry.

I made a thin strip of perforated steel to sit in a ring around the base of my storm kettle to see if I could cook on it.

Twitter This

Usuario: Password:

A backyard demo of cooking a quiche in the canteen cup, I t would be nice to have rocks to radiate the heat rather direct from the fire, but you can manage pretty well with some carefull coal placement. You’ll also note that it didnt stick and came out as one big egg log. Enjoy

Twitter This

Usuario: Password:

Let’s be honest, not everyone loves camping.  It’s a very “love-it-or-hate-it” type of thing, and some people just plain hate it.  There are varying degrees of campers too. From the people who drive their RV and occasionally walk through woods, to people who bring a sleeping bag and figure everything else out when they get there.  Believe it or not, solar cooking is helpful no matter what kind of camper you are or aren’t. In a myriad of ways, a solar cooker is ideal. From not having to build a campfire, to cooking what you catch, to pasteurizing water to make it safe to drink, a solar cooker can provide all you need to have a satisfying camp cooking experience.

Who likes building a campfire?  I know some people do (to be honest, I’m one of them), but most just don’t like all the effort.  Even for those of us that do, there are times when it’s just not practical.  Let’s say you just hiked a mile to the best fishing spot, but it was still 3 hours before you caught anything.  Do you really feel like foraging for wood, having to light it, and fighting with the wind?  I’m sure the answer to this for most would be a big NO.  That’s when you pull out a light solar oven, throw your cleaned fish in, and take a nap.  That’s really all there is to it, the sunlight will heat the oven up to roughly 275 to 300 degrees Fahrenheit, so even though it isn’t as hot as a campfire would be, it will still cook quickly.  All that and with no need to find dry wood, find kindling, dig a pit, or build a circle of rocks.  No fire safety issues either as the sides are cool to the touch.  The only real question is, what can you cook in it?

You can literally cook almost anything with a solar oven.  Let’s take that fishing story as an example.  Because the oven is about 300 degrees, it will cook a whole fish in less than 2 hours.  While that may seem slow, remember all the work you’re avoiding.  No tending to the fire, no making sure the little ones are too close to the fire (or throwing stuff into it), you just put the fish in and go do something else.  Don’t want to wait that long?  If you filet the fish first, the filets will take less than half an hour (assuming the oven is preheated or set up for about 20 minutes first).  Even more fun is that the oven’s relatively low temperature (from a cooking standpoint) will make it pretty difficult to dry out the fish which is every fisherman’s nightmare when it comes time to bite in.  As cool as all this is, your solar oven has an even more important use. Any idea what that is?

I’ll give you a hint: 70% of your body is made up of it.  That’s right, water.  Just set up your solar oven, fill a metal pot with water, and leave it in to boil for at least 10 minutes.  Now, don’t misunderstand.  If the water is chemically contaminated in some way, boiling the water won’t help.  Boiling only kills the natural bacteria that would make you sick.  So just make sure there’s no industrial waste by your water supply and you should be fine.

I think that that is a pretty amazing range of uses for something that weighs only ten pounds. Especially considering it needs no fuel except daylight, and even works when it’s cloudy (if you have reflectors).  So now that you know all its great camping uses, go camping with your solar oven and eat well with no excuses!  If you don’t have one yet, you can search online or just go to www.SurvivalOven.com for more information.  Have fun not building that campfire this weekend and please feel free to share your solar cooking camping stories! I’d love to hear them!

Twitter This

Usuario: Password:

This is a demonstration of the Swedish Army Cook Kit with Trangia Burner. My wife and I used these cook kits on an 8 day trip in the Canadian wilderness where a reliable stove is a must. These stoves can cook in high winds without a porblem. They have no moving parts so nohing can break, You can purchase these from my store at www.campacopia.com.

Twitter This

Usuario: Password: