Cooking without a pot

[Scout Leader]

Hi,

Does anyone have any good but simple receipts and methods of cooking without pots (incl foil).

I guess you have your meat on a stick or hot stone, egg (with hole), Fish in wet newspaper.

Anymore simple ones?

 

[mentalnurse]

I have cooked on hot rocks or slate over embers,

This link is good....

http://www.troop19.org/outdoorskills/No-Pot_Cooking_Recipes.pdf

 

[Shewie]

Green sticks arranged like a rack can be useful, another I've tried is a cable threaded through meat and then rotated next to a fire.

 

[Silverclaws]

When I was in the scouts, we knew cabbage leaves can be cooked in, they resist burning, also an egg can be cooked in it's shell over a flame and this is performed by gently tapping a hole in the shell in two places then threading a green stick through the holes and laying over the heat. Also paper can be cooked in, try boiling water in a paper bag. Food can be cooked at the side of the fire as to remember heat is radiated outwards as well as up and rocks around a fire edge can be used as a griddle, all stuff I remember from scouts.

 

[shaggystu]

completely pointless post removed, i miss-read the op

 

[Reaps72]

Plank cooking, just soak a hard wood plank, 1" thick, in water overnight, then set it above the embers & cook meat or fish on that! It semi steams/roasts the meat/fish.
Different woods impart different flavours, Apple, Oak & Olive are good that I've tried.

En Papillotte, posh french term for in a bag. But for a fire I use doubled over foil to make an envelope, fill with fish & vegetables & some moisture (Wine/Cider), seal place on the fire & leave for 15-20 mins & you get nice steamed fish. Excellent for whole trout or Salmon, you can even cook a stew this way.

Green wood spit roast, for small-ish joints, you need string that will not burn to truss the joint on & someone has to sit & turn it, but good for scouts as it involves lashings.

 

[CBJ]

Bacon and eggs done in a scooped out orange:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=bacon and eggs cooked in an orange&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.instructables.com%2Fid%2FCook-Egg-and-Bacon-in-an-Orange%2F&ei=fZw3UOSRCqO10QXFh4G4Aw&usg=AFQjCNEr-4u1UPPwS2t31UuXr1OORy781g

Haven't done it myself yet but will do shortly.

Its supposed to be an " Acquired" taste but oyu can substitute the orange for an onion
atb

Craig

 

[santaman2000]

As we were taught back in the Boy Scouts, steaks can be laid directly on the coals.

 

[Silverclaws]

Oh, another one, cook a spud in it's skin ala jacket potato wrapped in grass and clay, retrieve, cut in half and hollow out one side as starters, then pour in our foodstuffs into the skin, re wrap and bung back in the fire. Fish, clean it wrap in grass or herbs, seal in clay and lob that in the hot coals, ( am told this works with hedgehogs as well, as the clay removes the spines). Bass especially make a smoky fire with a green stick raft covered in fennel leaves with the fish stuffed with fennel and cook.

 

[lannyman8]

you can make a stew in animal skins if you turn them into a bowl first then suspend them over the fire....

earth ovens are easy, but it takes allot of work and resources though...

you can make a rack and hot smoke foods, an awesome way to bring the flavor of the fire into your food....nom nom nom...

simple cooking is the best i think and often try not to use a pot, it also saves on the washing up...

 

[yeha]

Survival badge?

We did - twists on debarked green Willow sticks. Fish on the same sticks, either a full one with the stick through the mouth or smaller pieces skewered. Baked potatoes in the ashes.

 

[Chiseller]

Green sticks arranged like a rack can be useful, another I've tried is a cable threaded through meat and then rotated next to a fire.

Courtesy of N education from Patricks Backwoods Survival School.... (no affiliation.... Just a very happy and educated student...

Simple solidly built spit roast system that turns a quarter at a time
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[absw]

I have a bunch of PDFs here - http://ab5w.com/cooking/camp cooking/

We also did rabbit on a stick at scouts - http://i.imgur.com/vH5NM.jpg

 

[dan_druff]

I copied a style Ray Mears did on one of his shows on my first 'bushcraft outing' was pretty chuffed with myself it worked out well.. its an american indian way i think...

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turned out really well.. its perch or in swedish 'aborra'

 

[Dano]

Bacon and eggs done in a scooped out orange:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=bacon and eggs cooked in an orange&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.instructables.com%2Fid%2FCook-Egg-and-Bacon-in-an-Orange%2F&ei=fZw3UOSRCqO10QXFh4G4Aw&usg=AFQjCNEr-4u1UPPwS2t31UuXr1OORy781g

Haven't done it myself yet but will do shortly.

Its supposed to be an " Acquired" taste but oyu can substitute the orange for an onion
atb

Craig

as a scout we did egg in an orange, tasted pretty strange I must say, you can also do in in a potato

 

[spandit]

You can also cook chocolate cake in an orange

 

[ex-member BareThrills]

good idea there mate. just found a video. we are doing cakes at the next white rose meet so will come in handy

http://www.backpacker.com/trail-chef-how-to-bake-cakein-an-orange-/videos/106