DizzyInsomniac asked:
i am embarking on a camping trip to Alaska for the very first time so I won't have any access to electricity. In this case, what kind of grills are most suitable for heating and cooking food?
North Face Sale
i am embarking on a camping trip to Alaska for the very first time so I won't have any access to electricity. In this case, what kind of grills are most suitable for heating and cooking food?
North Face Sale
What are your favorite things to roast on an open fire?
Camping Discounters
February 16th, 2010
Gold Bracelets
There are solar-powered travel “ovens” but they’re rather expensive and not terribly useful. Try your local camping or sporting store
Black Titanium Ring
February 17th, 2010
Gold Bracelets
Get a small propane stove made specifically for hiking and camping. They use cylinders of propane, and are very efficient (I can cook for a party of four for three days on a single fuel can on mine.)
Princess Cut Engagement Rings
February 20th, 2010
Camping Gear
Umm….I think you’d have a hard time finding one that does require some sort of electricity.
Charcoal or propane would work.
E-OMC
February 23rd, 2010
Camp Stoves
You are camping, so I assume space and weight are limited.
I’d go with a small hibachi-type grill. Such a grill would be much easier to pack.
As far as fuel goes, you could use locally available wood. Just about any wood would do, you just need to let it burn down into coals before using it. I wouldn’t recommend evergreen wood (pine, spruce, etc.) because it has too many volatiles, which would make your food taste like turpentine.
For even more primitive cooking suggestion, may I recommend the “Boy Scout Handbook” and Boy Scout Fieldbook, which offer a lot of suggestions for primitive cooking.
I first learned to cook as a Scout, cooking over an open fire. If you can cook under these conditions, you can cook under *any* conditions.
Indeed, I recommend the Scout publications to anyone planning a wilderness experience. Look in your phone book for your local Scout council headquarters. They will have many publications which can help you. And they are great people!
And I hope you have a wonderful time!
Mountain Gear
February 25th, 2010
Mountain HardWear Sale
why dont you get a flare and use dry wood.
Mountain House Freeze Dried Food
February 27th, 2010
Mountain Gear
Speaking of Scouting, I came from decades of Scouts, and Scout Masters, and trust me, not having electricity is not a big deal, and as a Girl Scout, we “made” grills.
Take a Tuna can and cut some cardboard the same height as the tuna can. roll the cardboard into a tight “spring” leaving between 1/4 and 1/2 inch of space between the curls. Put the corrugated cardboard roll into the tuna can. Add melted paraffin. This is your “fuel”. For the “grill” take a large empty juice can (tomato juice for example) The bottom of the can will be your cooking top.
You need to add air holes to keep the fuel going, so take a can opener (one that leaves triangular holes) and make several openings in each quadrant.
There you are! Primitive. But it works. And for your second model, take an ice pick to the cooking surface, making as many holes as you may wish for draining holes.
I guess I wrote this just in case you ever get stuck alone with your Swiss Army knife, paraffin, cardboard and a can of juice!!! LOL
(It’s the boy Scout’s fault. He took me down nostalgia lane!)
Camp Stoves
March 1st, 2010
Car Auctions
Unless you want to carry around a whole grill and charcoal while camping then a BBQ is not the way to go. If your just driving around from place to place and can carry whatever you want, then a BBQ habatchi with charcoal. propane grills are OK to a point and then the propane freezes.
Most people use fire with a backpacking grill, a little fold up stand along grill. Of they use a small backpacking stove with fuel, this can be very light but your limited by the amount of fuel you carry. And if you use fire wood, then finding a place with dry wood that you can cut is the issue.
Also Colman makes little portable 2 burner units that work with fuel.
Either way you need to know where you are going and plan accordingly. Again you have to carry fuel, and it is much to big for most backpackers.
Most people who camp regularly have a system for what foods they carry that are light and easy to prepare, and cut down on the cooking. Unless they are car camping, and then as I said bring whatever you want, your not caring it.
Also if your planning a trip soon here are some other thoughts, limited sunlight (solar ovens don’t always work real well up here) means you’ll need a LED. Water is starting to freeze at night, so you’ll need to be able to keep it warm or melt new. Coolers aren’t just for cooling. We use them to keep things from freezing too. And some foods just Do Not travel well.
Cotton is evil. Don’t sleep right on the ground. Tents fill with condensation as wet clothing and respiring people fill them, so have a plan for dealing with or preventing that.