Campfire Cooking & Safety

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A favorite technique hubby and I used to use was preparing 12 charcoal briquettes on a piece of heavy duty foil, and when they were ready they would be arranged 6 on the bottom and 6 on the top of a double pie iron or panini.
The more I think about this, the more I like the idea of using the pie iron as a tiny dutch oven for one or two. Can't wait to give it a try (it's raining)! This has also made me rethink the cast iron waffle maker. No flipping required!
 
The more I think about this, the more I like the idea of using the pie iron as a tiny dutch oven for one or two. Can't wait to give it a try (it's raining)! This has also made me rethink the cast iron waffle maker. No flipping required!
I want to try one, too. Most that I am finding are around $90, though. The cast iron ones.
 
With a google search I see the cast iron panini pans for between $22 and $40, by Rome and at Amazon.

Not that bad, right now.
 

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I like pie iron pizza rolls And right now I have some instant pop open canned type dough just sitting in my fridge. might be a thing I do tonight as we still have a ton of 'stuff' down from the last storm to burn.... One pizza roll each and one apple pie filled thing each.
 
So I got to thinking about campfire cooking and remembered I had seen a you tube video about reflector ovens to set in front of a fire. I had made one out of dollar store cookie sheets and a dozen or so nuts and bolts. I dug it out and tried it out for the first time today, as we are and will be for a while, still cleaning tree stuff up from a storm, which means fires. I tried it and IT works. Cost for the whole thing about $5.00 plus a few nuts and bolts from the shop. Tonight, we had fire baked biscuits, and they were yummy. This thing is definitely going camping with us.
While I don't have any links or anything just look up reflector oven cooking on youtube....
 
You can do a lot with that Dollar Tree foil. I built this Smoker with it.
The grill was modified to work on a rod set by a camp fire. The sheets of foil are held together with paper clamps.

https://vanlivingforum.com/threads/smoking-meat-and-other-things.44709/#post-554727
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Ha. I have always cooked over an open flame campfire. Never had one single problem. And, as noted above, the soot wipes right off. If your pans get a little blacker, who cares. But if you do care, a quick scrub with some fine steel wool and they look new again.
cover the bottom of the pan with soap (use a bar of soap to wipe it on). When finished cooking over coals or fire, wipe the blackened soap off. Off comes the soot and the pan is not black.
 
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