Cooking
Let make one thing very clear from the outset, neither of us are in any way chefs. This is as much more about the environment, and the various elements involved in consuming food, preparing it and storing it.
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Chip Stove (Chippy)
I picked up the idea for this invention from a retired caravaner. He did a lot of free camping and he enjoyed cooking, and boiling the billy over a fire and he didn’t particularly have much interest in roaring campfires, and came up with this simple, cheap and effective compromise. Chip Stoves (or Chippys) require minimal fuel, comprising of just twigs, whilst it produces ample heat to cook with. Add a metal baking tray to sit the chippy on top to both avoided scorching the ground and clean up any charcoal mess. The simplicity of this Chippy is brilliant, its just a commercially available $19.95 charcoal starter (or charcoal chimney)…
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Camp Ovens
The campfire is more than just something to stare at during a pregnant pause in the conversation, and a prop for that favourite and constant camping quote “It doesnt get much better than this”. The campfire is also the engine room of the esteemed camp cook. Cooking with the camp fire is one of campings great joys, but like most skills that’s only if your confident, and with a bit of practice and experimentation that confidence is closer than you think. Anyone can roll a few sausages over a campfire, but its difficult to maintain an interesting diet eating sausages in bread 3 times a day; eventually you’ll run…