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Yeah there's a trick to that, with any green wood to add smoke flavors, ya gotta strip the bark.
I learned the same thing only with apple-wood.
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The worse camp meal you ever ate?
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Yeah there's a trick to that, with any green wood to add smoke flavors, ya gotta strip the bark.
I learned the same thing only with apple-wood.
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Went on a hunting outing for four days with two other fellas food was good. Each guy brought his "special" so we could just warm it up. One brought bean soup, one brought goulash with kidney beans and I brought chili with ,of course, kidney beans. Also someone brought some kind of five bean salad. We were building a log cabin so we ate hardily. On the way home we had all the truck windows open WIDE. Too bad one can't save all that vapor to put to use. I think we were part of the cause of the ozone problem. Oh on the forth day we mixed them all together- we ate it all. It was near lethal.
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Canned hash, it was fine Friday night when I got to camp, hit the spot at breakfast, still ok at lunch, :hmm: about dinner on Saturday I started thinking maybe I should have brought something other then 6 cans of generic hash AND ONLY 6 CANS OF HASH on my 3 day outing. Sunday was just plan ruff, kind of had that TV dinner aftertaste, Monday morning it was mad dogging me from the pan. Yea I would say canned hash on that Monday morning was my worst camp meal. I skipped lunch and had dinner at home....not hash thank goodness!
Why? Because I was 13 or 14 (too young to drive anyway) and I "knew" the Mountain Men ate the same thing every meal so I thought I would too. :haha:
Why? Because I was 13 or 14 (too young to drive anyway) and I "knew" the Mountain Men ate the same thing every meal so I thought I would too. :haha:
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Even Manna would get old if you ate it every day. :hatsoff:
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How do we get as old as we are with some of the stories I see here. :rotf:
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Dry pinto beans, with no soaking ahead of time and not enough time left in the day to cook them tender.
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I can't think of a bad meal ever. Ran low on groceries once. My son and I made a bologna, potato and corn stew. But even that was kind of good even if it looked strange..
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Loyalist Dave said:
A few year back, I volunteered to make gumbo for the friday night meal for our little group...made it before, so no problem.
Had not thought about how much cutting and browning I had to do...took so long, people got fish and chips while they waited...had to do the washing up before I could serve as I'd used so many plates for cutting stuff up...
I plan much better now!
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A meat loaf served at a hunting camp in Moluccas Maine. Made of spoiled bear burger. Even at 7 pm after 2 hard days of hunting I and my party refused to partake.
Drove a while to Bangor and bought steaks for myself ,nephews and Guides who were contracted by the camp.
Never ever book a hunt for moose in Maine the night you draw the permit. The place blew the food was carp. The two hired guides were fantastic and remain friends today!
Hunt was in 1997
Drove a while to Bangor and bought steaks for myself ,nephews and Guides who were contracted by the camp.
Never ever book a hunt for moose in Maine the night you draw the permit. The place blew the food was carp. The two hired guides were fantastic and remain friends today!
Hunt was in 1997
Our only "camp" was when elk hunting and while I was camp cook, only premade meals by me were allowed....I'm funny that way. I don't trust the wives of my fellow hunters to prepare the meals....or even those meals prepared by my buddies.
Although the appetites in a camp are usually ravenous and lousy food might still be palatable to some of the party, I don't like lousy food.
So....have I eaten a "worse camp meal"? No.....Fred
Although the appetites in a camp are usually ravenous and lousy food might still be palatable to some of the party, I don't like lousy food.
So....have I eaten a "worse camp meal"? No.....Fred
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I'm with Gunny,
There seems to be a right of passage one just has to go through on their first camp out as a Boy Scout, that usually includes "cooking" an inedible meal that one gets sick from and/or spends way too much time in the outhouse.
I was fortunate that in our patrol, we didn't really know how to cook over an open fire yet, but at least many of us had Mom's or Grandma's we had seen cook with cast iron. so at least our food was somewhat edible. Not so the other patrols, though.
We got done cooking and eating sooner than others, so we walked around and looked at some of the food others were making. I don't know how some did it, but I saw bacon that burnt charred black in some areas of the slice and raw in other areas of the same slice. I and others warned them not to eat it, but they wouldn't listen. One could only guess something was an egg by the barely yellow spots peaking through the blackened crust. Pancakes that were unrecognizable as food at all, let alone pancakes. It was incredible what was done to oatmeal in some of the patrols.
However, the worst was a pot of muddy boiling glop that every so often sort of lurched up and fell back down in the pot with a horrid sounding noise. I could not describe it until I saw almost exactly the same thing in the boiling mud flats at Yellowstone Park some years later. Turned out it was instant Cocoa. More than one lad "survived" that morning on the orange each one of us got.
As an Adult Assistant Scout Leader, we took our Troop into the Mountains in California for a "Snow Camp" each year. Those lads would otherwise have never seen snow. The other Assistant Scout Leader brought a HUGE pot of 5 Bean soup that was truly excellent, so everyone ate way more of it than anyone would normally. The only bad thing was I had to be VERY careful where I smoked, so I would not ignite the atmosphere in camp. Some of the lads also drove themselves out of their tents.
Gus
There seems to be a right of passage one just has to go through on their first camp out as a Boy Scout, that usually includes "cooking" an inedible meal that one gets sick from and/or spends way too much time in the outhouse.
I was fortunate that in our patrol, we didn't really know how to cook over an open fire yet, but at least many of us had Mom's or Grandma's we had seen cook with cast iron. so at least our food was somewhat edible. Not so the other patrols, though.
We got done cooking and eating sooner than others, so we walked around and looked at some of the food others were making. I don't know how some did it, but I saw bacon that burnt charred black in some areas of the slice and raw in other areas of the same slice. I and others warned them not to eat it, but they wouldn't listen. One could only guess something was an egg by the barely yellow spots peaking through the blackened crust. Pancakes that were unrecognizable as food at all, let alone pancakes. It was incredible what was done to oatmeal in some of the patrols.
However, the worst was a pot of muddy boiling glop that every so often sort of lurched up and fell back down in the pot with a horrid sounding noise. I could not describe it until I saw almost exactly the same thing in the boiling mud flats at Yellowstone Park some years later. Turned out it was instant Cocoa. More than one lad "survived" that morning on the orange each one of us got.
As an Adult Assistant Scout Leader, we took our Troop into the Mountains in California for a "Snow Camp" each year. Those lads would otherwise have never seen snow. The other Assistant Scout Leader brought a HUGE pot of 5 Bean soup that was truly excellent, so everyone ate way more of it than anyone would normally. The only bad thing was I had to be VERY careful where I smoked, so I would not ignite the atmosphere in camp. Some of the lads also drove themselves out of their tents.
Gus
Sorry guys, this may be long. From the time I was 6 or 7 I wanted to be a Boy Scout. I saw pictures in LIFE and Saterday Evening Post mags. of Scouts in their uniforms and some how obtained a copy of the Boy Scout hand book and started reading "Boys Life". Read, Read, Read. I was attending a two room school and being an eager young man I asked for and received at age 9 the job of school janitor. My first paying job. I saved my wages (mostly) and by age 12 (the first year I could become a Scout) I had enough money to join up, AND buy a complete uniform, tent, sleeping bag, and cooking kit. It was during the great war #2 and folks at home had money but no kindling to start their fires in the morning. I split kindling after school and sold it on Sat. to finance my Scouting, and other things. I wanted to learn how to cook outdoors and would buy items at the corner store and would slip away into the woods and "fix" (that's Southn for make) supper. My Scout Master, Stoney Parker (may by the best man I have ever known) was a farm boy from NC who could cook up the best thing you ever tasted in your life right in the woods. I wish to this day I had his NC BBQ receipe. Any way, that's how I learned to cook outdoors. I have been the camp cook for 70 years ----- but it's getting old.
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If you are eating badly at camp, it's your own fault...
We eat like kings!
We eat like kings!
:thumbsup: I've eaten a thing or three I might not cook again, however the outdoors is a great spice.
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tenngun said:
Yes it is..... :thumbsup:
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Black Hand said:
I am with you 100% on this one. Anything even approaching suspect gets dumped in the fire pit. Plan ahead and you don't have to risk jeopardizing your trip...or worse.
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tenngun said:
Vegeta is a great spice, the outdoors is ruthless.
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Venison or Elk are fairly standard rations. Also Squirrel, Muskrat, Moose, Smoked pork loin, Bear, Swan, Goose, fresh-caught Trout and others I may have forgotten.
Cornmeal is a standard, and is eaten usually for breakfast with sausage and/or bacon and flavored with dried vegetables, red pepper flakes and black pepper.
Rum and Shrub are common in our camp. Other libations abound.
A few squirrels, a handful of barley, dried vegetables and portable soup have fed us many dinners.
One can make a fine meal with period rations, and there is no need to go hungry or eat poorly. While the outdoors may be a "spice", the company makes the meal...
Cornmeal is a standard, and is eaten usually for breakfast with sausage and/or bacon and flavored with dried vegetables, red pepper flakes and black pepper.
Rum and Shrub are common in our camp. Other libations abound.
A few squirrels, a handful of barley, dried vegetables and portable soup have fed us many dinners.
One can make a fine meal with period rations, and there is no need to go hungry or eat poorly. While the outdoors may be a "spice", the company makes the meal...
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Even the worst meal I've eaten when camping was good. Early on there were some false starts with not knowing how to cook over a fire or how to use a gas stove correctly, but in the end the food tasted good and I don't recall anyone getting sick from the food.
