Outdoor cooking
Outdoor cooking is not
only fun but encourages team spirit. Every one participates and lends a helping
hand. I am sure you have gone on an outdoor cook out picnic at some point of
your life. If not, there is hope, you can have exciting times ahead learning,
if you have not yet tried cooking outdoors.Building a small fire place with
bricks and stones all around, and grinning at the first signs of your food
sizzling with flavour as you cook out,are all part of the thrills of a campers culinary delight.
Cooking out in the wilderness, jungle or riverside provides you
a kitchen which is endless and open. Everything tastes better grilled,boiled and roasted
over an open fire, maybe that is why kids love campfire dishes. Camping can be
a great family activity and the cooking activity makes good outdoor memories.
Open
environment is expansive and large,cooking outdoors puts safety as the number
one priority. Therefore you need to be all the more careful.You have the gentle
breeze, sometimes strong winds, sand and falling leaves surrounding your open
pit fire source.Here are some tips and techniques on how you can ensure that
your cooking experience outdoors in the natural surrounds makes it all the
worth the while.
Backpacking is awesome when you want to really
get away from civilization and cook up something more rustic,other than just open tin cans with
baked beans and ready food items. Both Boy Scouts and girl scouts are taught to
cook. Scouts are always prepared. No matter what the activity, whatever the
situation, and whatever the weather, scouts are ever ready to cook. ‘Survival’
stands as the basic criteria of all scouts,which was also the case with ancient
nomads.Cooking food was one of the main aspects of surviving. Thus cooking
outdoors is by no means just a new recreational experience, it has evolved down
the ages. Therefore, preparing food in outdoors environments needs some technique,
for sure. Cooking outdoors requires utmost respect and care for the
environment.
Everyday
offers the potential for the unexpected to happen. It's a fact of life that we
all have to deal with but there is no reason to panic or be overly concerned
about cooking outdoors, especially when you have taken the time to prepare and
have emergency plans in place.So enjoy, with caution.
-Choose a good cook out picnic site.
Ensure that you are allowed to cook in that particular wilderness
zone.Permissions are vital.
-Prepare and marinade whatever you would
like to cook, way in advance to get more flavour and save on cooking time.
-Allocate different jobs to different
people so that all are involved in the cook out and the work gets done easily.
-If you plan to have a date with cooking
outdoors, collect all the ingredients of the favourite dishes, according to the
picnic age group.Cater to the group as much as you can.
-Try your best to carry your own dry
firewood or ready coal rather than breaking branches outdoors for cooking.
-These days modern ‘Solar’ cooking
utensils and stoves are available. Charcoal BBQ grills and folding picnic sets also
make cooking outdoors easy. These must only be used outdoors and by no means
under a tent or inside a parked car. Similarly check all your cooking equipment
in advance before you set out to cook outdoors.
-Once
you have set up a fire, do not allow children and pets to play around the fire
unsupervised.
-Look
for long-handled grilling tools to give the person cooking, plenty of clearance
from heat and flames when handling dishes on the flames or roasting items on
the grills.
-If
you are simply cooking outdoors in your garden or community cooking spot, try
and choose a cooking spot already used earlier.The soil beneath will be well
worn. You can easily recognise a good cooking spot which is not wet or soiled.
-Then
place firewood in a low heap which is surrounded closely by bricks or stones to
create an enclosure,to keep the fire intact and burning within the range.Light
the fire with dry paper or leaves.
-Keep
your vessels and ingredients ready for cooking your first dish.Keep all items
covered and well supervised.
-Keep
holding cloth napkins ready to handle dishes.
-Ensure
you have a bucket of soil, sand, or water ready to douse the fire in case of an
emergency. You could carry a portable fire extinguisher while cooking outdoors.
-Inform
your picnic members and cook out guests about the fire spot to ensure safety.
-Keep
grills and stoves away from clothes line or fences if cooking near domestic
outdoor areas and keep fires away from over head branches if cooking out in the
wilderness.
-Ensure
you clean up and gather all garbage after your cook out event.
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