Wilderness Cooking Methods

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As anyone who has camped with me knows I like to cook when I am in the woods. There are 4 basic methods that work well in the woods.

1. Boiling- the most nutritious
2. Baking- easy to do with foil or a dutch oven
3. Roasting(Planking)- no cookware needed
4. Frying- least healthy, but best tasting



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Steaming is simple and can be efficient. If you cut down a sieve or one of those anti-spatter frying pan guard things to make a basket and poke it in the top of your pot like a pipe gauze you have something that is very light. Boiling can be done in the bottom of the pot and whatever you want steamed above it at the same time.
 
Another great video. Can I just move down there and you teach me all you know, then I come back up to MN and open a school? The little things that are often overlooked make the time outdoors drudgery or fun.
 
Very nice video, you know, that little wedge holding the frying pan ---- simple but makes you want to slap your forhead to all the times you played the balancing act on the uneven rocks guarding your firepit game in the past....
 
Great video / post. The frying pan wedge is so simple a caveman could do it but I've never seen that done / thought of it. Great tip and one ill use my next time out. I also liked the planking which I've never seen before either. I can see how that would be perfect for some fresh caught fish filets. BTW - What is your recipe for banuk bread?
 
Really cool video. The only one of those I haven't used before is planking, but I'm gonna try it. A lot of people cook fish that way. Something similar to planking is just skewering what you want to cook and roasting it but it might be hard with bread. You can even do ground beef by skewering if you use flat skewers. Another way I've cooked bigger things for a lot of people is to do the whole luau pit thing.
 
Thanks IA for all your awesome videos and tutorials. I am so glad you are posting up your knowledge for those who do not visit the other forum.
 
Nice video Terry!

I have a quick question for you, if you don't mind. When I do my baking, I generally use the zebra, and I suspend the food in the insert so that it has air space above and below. In that pot you were using for baking, how is the bannock in there?

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Rockywolf said:
Another great video. Can I just move down there and you teach me all you know, then I come back up to MN and open a school? The little things that are often overlooked make the time outdoors drudgery or fun.
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Come on down plenty of room in the basement.
RTAK said:
Great video / post. The frying pan wedge is so simple a caveman could do it but I've never seen that done / thought of it. Great tip and one ill use my next time out. I also liked the planking which I've never seen before either. I can see how that would be perfect for some fresh caught fish filets. BTW - What is your recipe for banuk bread?
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I use
1 cup of flour
1 Tsp of baking powder
1/8 Tsp of salt

You can add whatever else you like. You can also cheat and use Bisquik

Brian Andrews said:
Nice video Terry!

I have a quick question for you, if you don't mind. When I do my baking, I generally use the zebra, and I suspend the food in the insert so that it has air space above and below. In that pot you were using for baking, how is the bannock in there?

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Brian here is a vid that covers that question.

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What about cooking right on the coals? I like making a steak directly on the hot coals. Would that be broiling?
 
Great video, reminds me of a thousand days in camp in my youth commercial fishing and trapping with my family. Now I'm hungry and must find something to eat :)
 
Great post! I learned a lot from it. I'm a simpleton who has pretty much stuck with boiling and grilling in the past, but I've been eager to learn other methods. Besides the four methods of cooking there's a lot of small details that you show - the setup inside your baking pot and the frying pan wedge, for example.

Is there a considerable time difference in cooking your bannock bread from one method to another?

Thanks again!
 
Abbott said:
Great post! I learned a lot from it. I'm a simpleton who has pretty much stuck with boiling and grilling in the past, but I've been eager to learn other methods. Besides the four methods of cooking there's a lot of small details that you show - the setup inside your baking pot and the frying pan wedge, for example.

Is there a considerable time difference in cooking your bannock bread from one method to another?

Thanks again!
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The frying and boiling are the fastest, baking and planking take a little practice and patience.
 
Please excuse me for being a little picky here.

IA Woodsman said:
1. Boiling- the most nutritious
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It is only the most nutritious if you drink the cooking water. If you throw out the water then you are throwing out a lot of the nutrition.

As for the video, well, now I'm hungry. :)
You've inspired me! I don't get to use an open fire much but next time I do, I have to try the cooking on a flat bord method for scones or damper.

Cheers
Craig
 
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Looks all of them so nice.
Never tried Planking in person but roasting is one of my favorite way as it requires almost no equipment with such a nice result. Esp., I love smokey flavour from open fire.
A vid I've recently seen told that a plate for planking itself should be heated to some extent to make the contact side of food is cooked.
 
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