We think about cooking around the campfire, most people normally think of either stick roasting hotdogs and marshmallows over flames coals, or else throwing a grill over the top and cooking anything from steak to chicken to fish, potatoes, corn... and all the other good stuff. However, there are other ways of cooking with your campfire that don't involve grills or sticks. Direct heat cooking is a lot like cooking with your stovetop. Food comes in direct contact with the heat that is can taint in some sort of container. If containers can range from pots and pans to aluminum foil, wet paper or even leaves. There are a lot of variations on this idea, but let's take a look at a few.
If you happen to be in an area where the soil is somewhat like Clay, you can have some fun experimenting with cooking your food wrapped in Clay. The nice thing about this is that you can cook your food buried in a better coals without worrying about too much heat damaging your food such as a potato or corn. Using a potato as an example, here's what you would do.
First, rapid potato you want to cook in aluminum foil. Then pack about an inch of Clay all-around potato and buried in the coals for about an hour. The time is up, crack off the baked on clay (careful not to burn yourself), peel off the aluminum foil in recent potato if needed. You should have a perfectly the vicious baked potato ready to eat right away. If you choose to use this technique but place the Clay potato on TOP of the coals, you can expect to double the cooking time to about two hours.
You can use the same idea to hardcode can make (like a hard-boiled egg, only it's not boiled since we're not using water). To cook an egg this way you'll first need to make a pinhole in a bigger and so that air pressure can be released during the cooking process in your egg doesn't explode all over the place. Next, just like with the potato, and again buried in the coals. This time you leave it for about 20 to 30 minutes. And just like above, if you place it on top of the coals you can expect a time to be double; roughly 40 to 45 minutes. Also, if you go with this latter technique of placing it on top rather than burying it in the coals, you'll need to turn it about halfway through cooking time.
If you've never cooked this way, and especially if you children have never cooked this way, I can promise you you're in for a treat. It's amazing how intriguing cooking food suddenly becomes when you put a new spin on it, especially when it involves cooking in the dirt.
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