Quote: Originally posted by Sceptical Camper on 06/9/2011
To answer the OP, there are quite a few people here on UKCS who regularly cook delicious meals over open wood fires. Whether they want fifteen minutes - or even fifteen seconds - of fame is another matter.
For what it's worth, whenever I've a fire going the kettle sits on it and, more often than not, I bake (or burn) spuds in it.
Is this a case of forum members giving the OP the recipes/ideas and she then nicks them for her programme,or will members who supply recipes/ideas be included in the programme..
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Quote: Originally posted by sunvalleysue on 07/9/2011
Quote: Originally posted by Sceptical Camper on 06/9/2011
To answer the OP, there are quite a few people here on UKCS who regularly cook delicious meals over open wood fires. Whether they want fifteen minutes - or even fifteen seconds - of fame is another matter.
For what it's worth, whenever I've a fire going the kettle sits on it and, more often than not, I bake (or burn) spuds in it.
Is this a case of forum members giving the OP the recipes/ideas and she then nicks them for her programme,or will members who supply recipes/ideas be included in the programme..
Be fair, she doesn't ask us to share our recipes here, just get in touch with her to talk about it. If appearing in the programme is important, I suggest you don't hand over your recipes until your agent has a contract drawn up!
My son catches fish at Nantcol and cooks them in foil on the Swedish log. He does potatoes in the campfire too, but both those are fairly standard.
For true Cobbless campfire cooking, the scouts and guides are the experts. You might not find them cooking from scratch much these days, but the older members will recall peeling the spuds and scrubbing the blackened pots afterwards!
I hope some of the forum members have contacted Cath, as it would be great fun to see some of their ideas - maybe even the cooks themselves! - on the telly!
I'm just wondering why cooking a bannock over an open fire would be that big a deal? All you'd need is a hanging skillet and some sort of tripod arrangement, or a good heavy based frying pan. I've made drop scones (that's wee chunky pancakes for you English folk) over camp fires plenty of times and a bannock wouldn't be much different, surely?
Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 07/9/2011
I'm just wondering why cooking a bannock over an open fire would be that big a deal? All you'd need is a hanging skillet and some sort of tripod arrangement, or a good heavy based frying pan. I've made drop scones (that's wee chunky pancakes for you English folk) over camp fires plenty of times and a bannock wouldn't be much different, surely?
looking in most modern womens shopping trolleys
these days , and i would imagine , for a huge percentage of them , it would indeed be a big deal ,,
not sure if chunky wee is available this side of the border valk_scot ,,
Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 07/9/2011
I'm just wondering why cooking a bannock over an open fire would be that big a deal? All you'd need is a hanging skillet and some sort of tripod arrangement, or a good heavy based frying pan. I've made drop scones (that's wee chunky pancakes for you English folk) over camp fires plenty of times and a bannock wouldn't be much different, surely?
looking in most modern womens shopping trolleys these days , and i would imagine , for a huge percentage of them , it would indeed be a big deal ,,
not sure if chunky wee is available this side of the border valk_scot ,,
On the principle that if you're out there cooking on a campfire anyway why would it be that big a deal, I meant. I know perfectly well that there's a huge % of the population, both women AND men, that are hard pressed to cook anything from scratch. (Probably one reason there's so many cooking progs on telly.) They should have gone to Scouts! My lad can cook okay at home (he's 15) but put him in front of a campfire and he's a cooking superstar...full breakfasts, curries and pasta sauces, damper (that's bannock without the currants), rice pud, things with custard...for thirty folk at a time. My advice to the BBC cooking lady is that she should visit her local Scout troupe to see what real campfire cooking is all about.
My love for cooking came from my schooldays , we were offered geography or domestic science as one of our third year options at 12 years old , so a load of us , usual suspects took d/s for a laugh , I seem to remember there being two boys out of about 20 , who actually wanted to be chefs , we all used to make the savoury meals , and we all thoroughly enjoyed the class , we had a lovely teacher who's name escapes me , very petite and nice looking , but she had a passion for cooking and teaching , when we first turned up at the class , the disciplinary head , would pop in on a regular basis to see why most of the schools herberts where all in one place , and woe betide anyone who got out of order and upset miss , it just didn't happen ,,
As for campfire cooking , I don't remember doing any other than spuds on bonfires , our back garden camping adventures , had the added bonus of using a pump up primus parafin stove for cooking on which I would have got from the many jumble sales I attended , I went to cubs , scouts , sea scouts and sea cadets , but have no memories of campfire cooking ,,
, I went to cubs , scouts , sea scouts and sea cadets , but have no memories of campfire cooking ,,
They must have fed you somehow though. Maybe they were a modern lot and used gas? My DD's Scouts (different troop from my DS's) do most of the cooking on big gas burners but even then the younger kids have to help with prep and the older Scouts do the actual cooking. My DS's troop have a fine disregard for H&S though and teach their Cubs useful life skills like how to smash up pallets with sledgehammers and how to build bonfires. And how to cook on fires.
Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 08/9/2011
Quote: Originally posted by steveiem on 08/9/2011
, I went to cubs , scouts , sea scouts and sea cadets , but have no memories of campfire cooking ,,
They must have fed you somehow though. Maybe they were a modern lot and used gas? My DD's Scouts (different troop from my DS's) do most of the cooking on big gas burners but even then the younger kids have to help with prep and the older Scouts do the actual cooking. My DS's troop have a fine disregard for H&S though and teach their Cubs useful life skills like how to smash up pallets with sledgehammers and how to build bonfires. And how to cook on fires.
I think most scout and guide units do some campfire cooking when they're under canvas. Our units do a competition camp fairly regularly, where the idea is to plan and cook meals for the whole unit using only the campfire. My son and daughter used to complain that they always seemed to get stuck scrubbing the black pots while their less dutiful pals were off somewhere welly-wanging or wide-gaming!
i can remember eating food round a campfire , as my belly will attest to , but no actual cooking , and as far as the fire starting goes , i've always had a fascination with fires and fireworks , and still do , the photo in my profile is a massive st georges day celebration of routing the french somewhere , that french fort is approx 5 pallets high , no cooking that night , we had fish and chips ,,, at seven years old i was considered to young to be held responsible for starting a field fire , but i vividly recall playing a game where i tried to control the spread of the fire in the field , see where short legs and small stamping out feet will take you ,,
We eat to pretty much the same as we do at home. I use my slow cooker for stews etc. I even make my own dumplings but I cook these in the oven as we like ours crunchy rather than soggy, when it's spring and possibly a little chilly but again we have dinners with mash and vegetables. Pies, chilli, shepherds pie, spaghetti bolognaise, etc. We certainly do not starve or live rough but I'm afraid I wouldn't like to be on a TV programme to talk about it on camera.
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