Favorite campfire food?
Poor boys! Why do I get a thumbs down poor boys are sooo yummy! You take ground beef onions potato's carrots garlic and pepper mix it all together wrap it in tin foil then cook it in the coals of the fire. YUMMM
Ideas for camping food?
we're going camping memorial weekend and i would like some suggestions for camping food. something besides normal boring stuff like hot dogs and hamburgers...those are too easy and lame
What are some camping food ideas?
Here are some of the things I get the best responses from:Quesadillas - A little chicken and cheese in a folded over flour tortilla and grilled in a small amount of oil over a camp stove.Breakfast Tacos - I dump a can of green chilis in a dozen eggs (scrambled) and cook them in a large non stick pan. I add shredded cheese and precooked bacon at the last minute, stir it together and serve it in flour tortillas with hot sauce.Burgers over the campfire grill. Lots of places have campfire rings with a heavy grill. I spruce up the wood fire burgers with refried beans, Fritos and a little salsa.I like to fry fresh fish if I've been fishing. I carry store bought fish fry mix and some oil. I fry the fish in a pan and put the fish on bread with lettuce, tomato and mayo.Cooking hot dogs and marshmallows over a campfire is super easy. You can add graham crackers and small pieces of chocolate to make s’mores. The only challenge is to keep kids from eating the chocolate before you make them.
Can i make a fire in a coffee can for when camping. what do i use for small portable fireplace?
Sure, you could use a coffee can for a small portable fireplace. You may want to put a few holes in the bottom to help with airflow (if burning wood), but I think a coffee can could be a bit bulky if you plan on doing a lot of hiking. I know you said it will be clear land with grass, yet do you know if there will be any rocks? A small ring of rocks does alright as a makeshift fire pit while out camping. Just make sure to clear the area of grass in case the wind kicks up. If there will be no wood around to burn and you just want a nice portable fire - you may want to check out this youtube vid showing how to make a wilderness candle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg4OL_2Rf9g I imagine you could do the same thing with a coffee can and burn time would be even longer than the stated 2 hours (you wouldn't want holes in the can for this approach), and you could probably play around with different materials like rolled up newspapers or paper towels partially submerged in the wax. If you don't have any old candles around to melt down then you can buy paraffin (candle wax) at walmart in the canning section for about $2.50/lb. But by using old scented candles you would have a good smelling little campfire lol. It's hard to answer your other question as to what else to bring without knowing how long you'll be out there and if you plan on doing much hiking (or if it would be in the same spot and close to your car). I haven't done any camping in a mountain area or with just nothing but grass around. But I have made some pretty cheap fire starters with wax and cotton balls or paper towels, and I know that this will work well for giving you a cheap portable fire. Not sure if you would want to cook over a candle though (especially if it's scented) - in which case you could stick with bringing stuff like sandwiches, jerky, granola bars, etc. .
Camping: What's the easiest way to start a campfire with a lighter?
There are several ways naturally. You just need to start with really small stuff like dried grasses. Shape them into a ball with a hollow center or into a cup shape. If you can find some fur or the material from inside of a cattail put it in the center. Create a hollow in the ground deep enough to have shelter from the wind, light your tinder and when it startes to burn slowly add your kindling. Once you have the kindling burning you can begin to add bigger pieces of wood. If you get the chance to plan ahead here are a few of my favorites:- Steel wool (one spark and it's on fire)- Cotton balls dipped in Petroleum jelly. (same deal)- Duct Tape (this is what I carry because not only is it great for starting fires, but it has a nearly unlimited number of other uses. I keep about 20 feet of it wrapped around the grip of a flashlight in all my packs.
What's something that's easy and tasty to roast over a fire on a stick?
I hate hot dogs and s'mores but I want something to do with the kids-maybe something seasonal, not too messy that we can eat off the stick while enjoying autumn weather. Any ideas?
Should my team use Hipchat or Campfire or Yammer?
It depends on what you and your team need. We used all of them and I hope you will find our experience helpful.We started with Yammer. It's very similar to Facebook thus it's really simple to use. Yammer is ok if you do not need immediate response (like you have more shifts in company or you don't want be bothered while you are working, etc.)Then we switched to Campfire (app) (actually to the whole 37 signals suite). For us it was not bad, but we were missing many things like integration with jabber and a free desktop app. Campfire is really easy to use, because it doesn't have too much functionality, but it wasn't for us.Then we discovered HipChat (product). It has everything what we needed and if the system has any issues, the HipChat team is very kind with super fast response. We are using it every day (15 people) for months now and we are not willing to switch from it (we have the old pricing plan, thus for us it is a little bit cheaper at this point).Even though we are building website apps and I'm a huge SAAS fan, I was missing a desktop app for Campfire. There are a few but they are pricey and if I need to buy one app for 15 people for $20 it's $300, which is the price for one whole year on Hipchat ;) Their desktop and iPhone apps are amazing, simple and very intuitive.This is just my (our) experience, you should probably try all of them to find out which one is most suitable for you and your team.
How do I start a campfire using lighter fluid?
Start by putting waded up papers under some twigs, about 8 sheets of notebook paper and enough twigs to build the pile about 1 ft high. Leave a small piece of paper sticking out so it can be lit and the fire will spread to the rest of the paper. Then it'll start the twigs on fire. Then you can put larger branches on your fire. Just leave the lighter fluid in the car, don't really need it. Use a branch to rake the area around where you want your fire, rake down to the dirt, to help prevent the fire from spreading. You really don't want to wake up in the middle of a forest fire
Why is staring at a campfire so hypnotic?
There are at a few unconscious systems in the brain at play.There are rod and cone shaped photosensitive cells in your eyes, the cones are sensitive to colour and the rods are sensitive to brightness. The rods are also sensitive to movement and inform your threat detection system of whether to activate fight or flight mechanisms in the body.The eye processes movement, then shape (as a silhouette of dark against light) then colour.The fire light is a reversal of the shape detection of the eye since it is a light source against something darker, this creates interest to your unconscious mind.The fire is always moving this stimulates the movement detectors and raises the flight or flight mechanisms for action, but since its a small campfire and a known quantity the panic button is not activated. You also know the fire is dangerous because you’ve been burned before or seen someone or something burned by fire yet the fire is not out to eat or kill you. Deep down you’re mystified by the beauty of something dangerous that wont kill you if you can control itYour threat detectors are activated by light and movement, but you know that the campfire will not unpredictable leap out and kill you, so you watch.