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Cooking & Baking

Warpy

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4. Everything I've ever tried to cook directly on coals

Reply to fizzgig (Original post)

Sun Aug 11, 2013, 02:04 PM

Aug 2013

has come back with part incinerated and part nearly raw. Aluminum foil just doesn't spread the heat evenly enough to cook over coals, IMO, unless the food is already wrapped in its own protective covering like unshucked sweet corn.

Even cheap, light aluminum camp kits do a better job of spreading heat so that food comes out edible.

Our Stone Age ancestors undoubtedly had the whole thing down pat and would get a laugh out of us struggling today.

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well, i failed at camp cooking this weekend [View all] fizzgig Aug 2013 OP

NOT a great timer, fizz!!! elleng Aug 2013 #1

someone just left the grill outside our apartment fizzgig Aug 2013 #2

DITTO! elleng Aug 2013 #3

Everything I've ever tried to cook directly on coals Warpy Aug 2013 #4

happy camper locks Aug 2013 #5

I've done tri-tip on grey oak coals, triple wrapped. A long and slow on the beach camping cook out. pinto Aug 2013 #6

Try taking a whole pot roast and soaking in brine for 24 hours. Snarkoleptic Aug 2013 #7