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PostPosted: 15:48 - 14 Apr 2009    Post subject: Re: Camp cooking. Reply with quote

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Camp cooking.

Involves a lot of mincing and can involve dressing like the Village People Very Happy
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PostPosted: 15:59 - 14 Apr 2009    Post subject: Re: Camp cooking. Reply with quote

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Camp cooking.


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PostPosted: 16:05 - 14 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

On a more sensible note.

I try to use as few pot/pans and other bits as nessecary.

Rice and pasta are good for camping as they dont take long to cook and are easy to store. I usually take a few boil in the bag meals, just in case but prefer not to use them.
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PostPosted: 19:40 - 14 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Boil in the can. No need to pierce the can providing it doesn't boil dry.

I sometimes take my Jaffle iron and have tosties and square fried eggs. You can put most things in a toastie.
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PostPosted: 19:43 - 14 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whilst I can cook, when I go camping/rallying with the lads we give all the stuff to one of the bloke that's with us and he cooks for us, he's a fantastic cook...

He has no choice or say in the matter though... Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 19:44 - 14 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I generally take food items that don't need cooking, and I am known for wandering around with carrots and humous at rally sites.

I sometimes take bacon with me, then wander around asking if anyone can cook it for me, and I take a mug and tea bags and beg for hot water.

BUT, this year it will change. I asked for a camping stove for Xmas and got one!!!! I just need some tiny cooking pots and some gas and I'm well away!!!
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PostPosted: 01:40 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

When abroad I just picked something up from the shops on a day to day basis for that night, unfortunately on the continent tinned beans and sausages or anything else along those lines taste worse than tesco's value stuff (something I didn't think was possible).

If there's two of you cooking then spaghetti bolognese is good, one does the quick cook spaghetti, the other the bolognese, and then swap half with each other when done and eat, same goes for rice and curry, I'll only be taking two mess tins when I go again by myself, pots and pans are just too bulky and unnecessary. If you can't be bothered to cook one night then go find takeaway or restaurant, easy.
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PostPosted: 06:03 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I actually eat better when camping than when at home. I have been known to do a full cooked breakfast, sausage, bacon, eggs, fried bread etc and pork chops, sauté potatoes with fried tomatoes for tea, all on a single burner & 2 pans lol
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PostPosted: 06:48 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:

I sometimes take my Jaffle iron and have tosties and square fried eggs. You can put most things in a toastie.
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I was looking for a source of 'proper' ones in the a while ago (think I'd asked you about it), anyway, just re-googled and we have salvation:
https://www.pie-iron.co.uk/irons/1105.htm
Definitely be acquiring one before Glastonbury.
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PostPosted: 08:41 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

well after spending 4 days camping out at brands hatch this weekend and running out of gas on the last night that morning breakfast was cooked using a makeshift grill consisting of about 30 tee lights and a rack fashioned out of the top of a disposable bbq.

ok so it took over an hour to boil the water for a brew and cook some bacon but hey.. it worked Very Happy

if id have gotten up earlier i woulda just got some wood and built a proper fire but my m8s other half had set it up and she seemed so proud of herself i didnt wanna interupt (and i dont eat bacon anyway so i was quite safe Very Happy)
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PostPosted: 08:44 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Didn't somebody once manage to cook a fray bentos pie on a coleman stove?.

In that Fray bentos pies seem more space efficient than ramen which I am considering bringing as backup food incase we are stuck in the back and beyond.
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PostPosted: 09:28 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Itchy wrote:
In that Fray bentos pies seem more space efficient than ramen which I am considering bringing as backup food incase we are stuck in the back and beyond.


Your taking the piss right? fray bentos pies are well bigger and weigh a ton! You thought about some of those food pouches/rations the army uses?

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PostPosted: 09:45 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gmanxiii wrote:
You thought about some of those food pouches/rations the army uses?


I really like the bacon and beans Smile Some of the others are a bit rank, though. Still got a couple of boxes somewhere.

Some good ideas here Thumbs Up

I try and get things that are already cooked, and just need heating.

Morrisons do ambient pouches of chicken curry, one of those Uncle Bens rice pouches and you're sorted.

Another nice one is a small tin of stewed steak and tin of baby spuds - throw them in the one pot, but it's nicer than tinned stew (which always seems to have a weird taste Sick )

Hot dogs are essential. They can be eaten cold, or heated and wrapped in bread (if you have any), chopped up with pasta and a small pouch of tomato & chilli pasta sauce Drooling or thrown in (drained) with aforementioned bacon and beans, fry an egg in the pan lid and there's brekkie.

I just wish I could find ambient (non-chilled) pouch ones, to save on space of tins.

I tend to also take a couple of Mug-Shots with me,
https://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Images/ExternalImages/ProductsDetailed/63/026963.jpg they take up no space at all, just need hot water mug and spoon, very filling and are actually edible, unlike Pot Noodles and the like.

For the inevitable washing up, use as few pots as possible, then I take a little tupperware tub with a scourer sponge and a travel shampoo bottle filled with Fairy, then it's dead easy to wash everything using the biggest pan as a washing up bowl. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 09:56 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is this camping thing that you are talking about?

Is it like when you order room service instead of going to the restaurant?

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PostPosted: 10:18 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rob wrote:
What is this camping thing that you are talking about?

Is it like when you order room service instead of going to the restaurant?

It's when you get food with small insects in, rather than bodily fluids from other humans Wink.
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PostPosted: 10:33 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Touché! Wink
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PostPosted: 10:50 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

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fray bentos pies are well bigger and weigh a ton

but you could use the lid to stop the sidestand sinking and the tin for oil changes Very Happy Plus nowt sits better in the stomach after a long days ride.
but i tend to take wayfarer food bags..either the boil in the bag type or the self heating 1s if i see them on offer. And cereal for mornings. Use a combi-stove so never run out of fuel.

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PostPosted: 21:48 - 15 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Problem with army rations is they're so expensive, used to like them when I was living on them for a few days at a time in Cadets, all the menus were pretty good and the snacks. I've yet to find anywhere selling them under about £10 which is daft, can buy a meal out for that easily.
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PostPosted: 09:51 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Phoenix wrote:
Problem with army rations is they're so expensive, used to like them when I was living on them for a few days at a time in Cadets, all the menus were pretty good and the snacks. I've yet to find anywhere selling them under about £10 which is daft, can buy a meal out for that easily.


It's because all the paintballing para-wannabes will pay top dollar for them.

I prefer to pay nowt for them. Wink
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PostPosted: 10:43 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you have got to take freeze dried stuff take stuff from "Expedition Foods." (I have tried a lot of different brands and these win hands down). I always take a couple of these when walking. The Korma and the Apple and Custard are brilliant. Good to have in your bag if you are stuck/can't be arsed.

Last year on my mini tour it was 2 minute rice and one of these:

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PostPosted: 10:57 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Expedition foods is even worse £15 for army ration packs, as said I'd rather pay £8 to get a 24 box of 2 minute ramen or 4-5 Fray bentos pies for a couple of those things!.
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PostPosted: 11:54 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Irish stew. Could eat it every day.
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PostPosted: 16:50 - 28 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

What about cooking up fresh seasonal "road kill"?

Dunno about fancy ration packs, camp cooking sets etc.
Just get yourself down to your local tesco/asda/sainsbury`s.
Pick up some cheap pots/pans and 1 of stinkwheels 1ltr+ tea/coffee pots, and a set of knives/forks for £5-£10 and you`ve got the basic kit for cooking food for several rallies, Buy own brand tinned spagbo, curry... rice & pasta for a couple of quid, and you have the basis of the main meals for a weekend away
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