Cub Grub



Cub Grub Pow Wow 2011

Simple and easy outdoor recipes and techniques to satisfy any cubbing appetite. Includes some food safety techniques and practical tips.

Here are some great resources for more recipes and helpful outdoor cooking tips!

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Additional Random Handy Outdoor Cooking Tips and Hints

Protect your clothes from spills by putting on an apron; then wash your hands.

Read the entire recipe carefully.

Organize the bowls, spoons, pans and other equipment that you will need.

Read and know about making fires and fire safety.

Have all the ingredients for the recipe. Measure ingredients accurately. Follow the recipe mixing the ingredients.

While the product is cooking, put things away and clean up your work area.

Stay near your food. If you forget them, they will cook too long and burn.

Turn pot handles away from the edge so no one will bump the handle and cause pot to spill.

Always use potholders when handling hot pans. Keep all towels, pot holders, clothes and hair away from the flames.

Learn how to use a knife.

Pack charcoal in a paper egg carton and tie shut. When ready to use, just light the carton.

For a wood fire, use candle pieces wrapped (like candy) in wax paper. Light the paper and the wax will keep it going long enough to ignite your kindling.

Handy fire starters (never-fail) can be made by placing one charcoal briquette in each section of an egg carton (paper kind). Cover with melted wax. Tear apart and use.

Handy fire starter. Save lint out of lint filter in clothes dryer. Place lint under kindling and use as tinder.

Put a burger fresh from the grill into the bun and place in a plastic bag for about a minute. The bun will be steamed warm.

Let a pan or bucket of water heat on the fire while you eat and your dish water will be ready when you are.

Melted paraffin, applied inside and outside a cooler leak will seal it.

A bar of soap will stay clean on a cookout if kept in the end of an old stocking and hung in a tree.

For safety, always keep a bucket of water nearby when cooking outside.

When camping, choose foods that keep well with little or no refrigeration. Check out instant and dehydrated foods.

Cool the ice chest before you fill it. The ice will last much longer.

Cans of frozen juice can help keep other foods cold when packing your ice chest.

Freeze fresh meat before putting in cooler. It will last longer and also help keep other foods cold. Even make hamburger patties and freeze with double paper between each.

Give yourself plenty of time to start a fire and wait for wood or briquettes to be ready.

Brush grates of a grill with oil to prevent meat from sticking.

Don't forget to rub the outside of metal pans with liquid detergent - it sure helps when it comes time to clean up.

Outdoor Cookery Fun and Inventive Techniques

OPEN STOVE:

Place a well cleaned turpentine can on the wide flat side and cut an opening in the other side, as shown. Bolt two tuna cans to the bottom of the stove, and add waxed wicks. Cut a piece of hardware cloth or other heavy metal screening for the grill and turn under the sharp edges. For a charcoal burner, bolt aluminum foil pans to the bottom of the stove and fill with charcoal.

CLOSED OVEN:

Leave the lid of a large can partially attached to form a hinged door. From a second can of the same size, cut a section of tin, the full length and slightly wider than the can. Bend up the sides, as shown, and insert the rack in the oven for holding baking. Close the door and set the can directly on the coals to use.

REFLECTOR CAN OVEN:

You will need two potato chip cans and a coat hanger wire for this oven. Cut the bottom from one can, and open it along the seam. Then, flatten it out. Bend back one edge about 3” to make a stand and bend the rest of the sheet into a large ‘V’ shape using the shiny surface for the inside of the oven. From the second can, cut two triangles for the sides of the reflectors about 1" larger than the 'V' just formed. Drill three small holes along the center line of these side pieces for the baking rack. Fit the side pieces to the reflector and fasten securely with small nuts

DOUBLE BOILER:

Use a large can for the bottom of a double boiler. For the rack, bend two pieces of coat hanger wire into a U-shape with hooks at the ends as shown. Hook the ends over the sides of the can and set a smaller can on the rack above the boiling water.

Barbecue Tools

To make these useful implements, use coat hanger wire straightened with pliers. Sand off all paint.

Grills are handy for toasting buns and cocking meats. At one end of your wire, bend up 1” as a prong for holding the meat; coil the wire around the prong to form a circular rack about 3” across. From another hanger, make a long narrow loop for a handle and twist the end ofthe grill around the handle. To finish, slip a clothespin over the loop and wrap with plastic coated tape. For forks, twist two wires together bending the ends to make two tines. Place the clothespin between the wires for a handle and wrap with tape. To make skewers for kabobs or toasting marshmallows, all you need is a long straight wire with a loop handle at one end.

Building a Fire

Before you cook outdoors you must have a fire. Remember that the fire makes the success of the cooking. Learn when to have a quick hot fire, when to have good coals, when to plan for a fire that burns for a long while. Firebuilding and cooking go hand in hand. Building a fire is a big responsibility. Build a fire only where and if you have permission. You need a grown up around when building a fire. Care of the fire and fire prevention becomes the responsibilities of the person who lights the match. A good camper knows not only how to light a fire, but also how to put it out. When he is finished, he makes sure every ember is out and cleans up the fire site.

Wood Fires

Have and safe and suitable place for your fire. It could be built in a park, a campsite or a driveway. Clear away anything that can burn - leaves, grass, paper,etc. Have a bucket of water ready to put out the fire. Collect your equipment before you start.

For a fire to burn three things are required:

FUEL - material that will burn.

HEAT - enough heat to bring fuel to ignition.

AIR - to provide oxygen for burning process.

When one of the three things is removed, the fire stops burning. Water cools fuel below ignition point, dirt cuts off the oxygen supply.

A fire needs three different kinds of fire material - tinder, kindling and fuel. The match lights the tender, the tender lights the kindling, and the kindling starts the fuel burning.

TINDER - should start to burn as soon as it is touched with a lighted match. Use thin twigs, tops of dried weeds, wood shavings, dryer lint, etc.

KINDLING - is little sticks and can be as small as a pencil or as thick as your thumb.

FUEL - is the larger wood that keeps your fire going. Do not use green or freshly cut wood, it does not burn well.

Stack the wood in three separate piles far enough away from the fire, so that no sparks can fly into stacks.

Building Your Fire

Using larger pieces of wood, form an "A" on the ground. Get your tinder and kindling. You will need two handfuls of kindling. Put the tinder on the "A" instead of the ground. This way the tinder has air underneath it and there is space for your match.

Light the match. Kneel near the fire and strike the match away from you. Tip the match down so that the flame catches on the match stick. On a windy day, kneel with your back to the wind and cup your hands around the match. Now light the tinder. Carefully add more tinder. You may need to blow at the base of the fire. Add kindling. When the tinder has started to burn, add kindling. Start with small pieces. Remember to keep close together but allow space for air.

Types of Fire

TEPEE FIRE: This a good fire for quick cooking since the heat is concentrated on one spot. It looks like a tepee. Stack the fuel over the foundation fire. The foundation fire will start the fuel burning. Add fuel as you need it.

CRISSCROSS FIRE: This type is long lasting and makes good coals. It is good for a campfire. To make this, lay fuel over the foundation fire in a crisscross pattern. Be sure to leave room for air. Add fuel as needed.

REFLECTOR BAKING: This type of fire is built against a high back of rocks or logs; a wire screening over coals is good for roasting corn.

After you are finished with your fire make sure it is out by:

Scattering ashes or embers

Sprinkling with water

Drenching charred logs

Covering with dirt or sand

When you can hold your hand on the spot where the fire was and not feel any warmth, your fire is out.

Cooking With Charcoal

To start charcoal fires make and use fire starters or a starter can. Charcoal starts slowly. Allow at least 30 minutes before fire is ready to use. To start charcoal use one of the following methods:

Place small twigs or fire starters close together as a base. Leave an air space beneath starters. Place charcoal on top of this. Light the fire starters, and gradually add a few more briquets, one at a time.

Use a starter can.

Charcoal will be grey-white in the daylight and red at night when ready.

STARTER CAN

Cut both ends from a one gallon can, or large juice can. Make vent holes with a pop can opener around one end of the large can. To use, place can inside grill or on a pan or tray, crumple three full size sheets of newspaper into balls. Place newspaper in bottom of starter can or fill it half way with twigs. Cover with charcoal. Light the newspaper rough the vent holes. When charcoal is glowing, remove can with a pair of pliers. One charcoal briquette equals 40 degrees of temperature.

The Charcoal Stove has been a basic of Scouting for years because of it's simplicity, portability, and ease of use. Made of nothing more than a tin can (at least 4" round) and a few wires.

Supplies:

• Tin can (4-10" diameter)

• Clothes hanger gauge wire

• Can opener (type that makes triangular holes)

• Regular can opener

• Drill (1/8" bit)

Procedure (refer to picture for examples):

• Using the regular can opener remove both ends from the can.

• Using the other can opener, make a series (8) of holes around the bottom of the can.

• Using the drill, make 3 holes on one side of the top of the can, then make 3 more

holes directly opposite the first set

• Do the same near the middle of the can.

• Run the wire through the holes, from one side to the other, first in the middle

holes, then in the top holes.

• Crimp both ends of the middle wires down so that they don't slide.

• Crimp one side of the top wires (not both sides), they need to slide in and out for

access to the middle wires.

Usage:

• Put paper in the bottom section of the can as tinder for the charcoal.

• Put a couple briquettes (3-4) in the middle section, on the wires.

• Slide the top wires through the holes.

• Ignite the paper so that they start the coals burning.

• After the coals are heated (white) place your pan on the top wires and cook!

Campfire Can Cooking

Here's simple and easy method for campfire can cooking. Set a large coffee can on the coals. Then layer your food into the can, cover it and use the coffee can to cook your meal.

Campfire Can Cooking Instructions

1. Use an empty 44-ounce coffee can for your pot.

2. Layer your food into the can.

3. Seal the top of the coffee can with heavy-duty foil.

4. Place the can onto the coals.

5. Put a few coals on top of the foil.

6. Cook the can for 1/2 hour to 45 minutes.

7. Carefully remove the can from the fire. (Gloves may be a good idea.)

8. Serve up your mouth-watering meal!

Suggested foods: Use hamburger or chicken, and top with onions, potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, and other vegetables.

Save your old coffee cans, and try out this idea on your next camping trip. Just think, you won’t even need to bring a pan along!

Kick the Can Ice Cream

What you'll need:

1 pint of half and half

1/3 cup granulated sugar

4 tablespoons of your favorite instant pudding mix (chocolate was used here)

10 cups ice

1 1/2 cup rock salt (kosher salt or sea salt can be used too)

3-pound coffee can, emptied and rinsed

1-pound coffee can, emptied and rinsed

Duct tape

How to make it:

9. In a medium bowl, combine half and half, sugar, and pudding mix with a whisk until thoroughly mixed.

10. Place 1-pound coffee can inside the 3-pound coffee can and pour ice cream mixture into smaller can. Cover the smaller can with it’s corresponding lid and seal with duct tape.

11. Surround the smaller can with ice and salt by layering 5 cups of ice with 3/4 cup of salt.

12. Use duct tape to seal the 3-pound can with its corresponding lid and start rolling. Have the kids face each other and roll the can back and forth on its side for 10 minutes.

13. After 10 minutes, open the cans and check the ice cream. Remove the smaller can and check the ice cream. The mixture on the sides of the smaller can will set up faster than the center. Use a rubber spatula to quickly scrape down the sides and give the ice cream one stir.

14. Next, reseal the lid on the smaller can with duct tape, and set it aside. Quickly dump the melted ice water from the large can, and place the smaller can into the larger can again.

15. Now you need to surround the smaller can with remaining ice and salt by repeating step 3. Once that is done, put the lid on the larger can and seal with duct tape again.

16. Ask the kids to roll the large can for 10 minutes more.

17. Once they're done, open the cans again and serve the ice cream to your little helpers!

Make A Pizza Box Solar Oven

The pizza box solar oven is a great project for kids because it demonstrates two of the three basic principles of passive solar design working in concert with each other to accomplish a goal the kids can really relate to: making something yummy!

The principles demonstrated are:

Solar Gain - arranging for sunlight to enter a device as a source of energy. In this case, the gain is accomplished both by reflection and direct gain. This principle also includes using dark colored surfaces to absorb the solar energy that enters a device.

Insulation - containing heat by trapping air inside and around a device to contain heat, and reflecting thermal radiation back into a device.

The third principle of passive solar design - thermal mass, can also be experimented with the solar oven. If you are interested in this option, see the project "Build a Passive Solar Design Laboratory" for ideas. Large amounts of food will provide some thermal mass, causing the oven to heat up more slowly.

Besides explaining these principles in the process of building and using the ovens, here are several other points you might want to make:

Cooking food takes alot of energy! By using solar energy, we can save alot on fuel.

Cooking takes time, and the Sun will change position during that time. Therefore, somebody, such as a vigilant cook, may need to align the solar oven now and then to keep the sunlight entering. Mechanisms that track the sun and adjust the device automatically are called "heliostats" (like thermostat, but with "helio", which means "Sun", instead).

Solar ovens have been used for a long time. In the 1830s, the British astronomer John Herschel used a solar collector box to cook food during an expedition to Africa. Nowadays, one can buy commercial solar ovens, ranging from small single dish units, to large units that can feed many people at once and that have to be hauled around on a trailer.

Without the reflector flap, the solar oven becomes what is called a "flat plate collector". Flat plate collectors are used for many applications, such a heating water (the reason for not using a reflector is that it is not really needed for these applications- and thus alignment difficulties associated with reflectors can be avoided). One of the first known uses of solar hot boxes was by the cooks of the Roman Emperor Tiberius who wanted to eat cucumbers all year round. The cooks satisfied his regal appetite by using a solar hot box, a kind of flat plate collector, to grow the cucumbers all winter long! Nowadays, many people also use flat plate collectors to heat water for their pools and houses.

The simplest pizza box solar oven design, as given below, can get up to two hundred degrees Fahrenheit on a warm sunny day, enough, for example, to make "s'mores" (graham cracker sandwiches of chocolate chips and marshmallows). Several optional features will enable the oven to get even hotter, which may be desirable in cooler weather, or for more serious cooking. One should allow ample time for cooking - roughly twice as long as would take in a conventional oven, and for smore's, it works best to leave the sandwiches open while cooking so that direct sunlight falls on the marshmallows and chocolate chips). We do not recommend trying to use the oven outside in temperatures below about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. If its cool outside, try a sunny window sill.

Note: Many pizza shop owners will be more than willing to donate boxes. In return, you may want to ask a local reporter to cover the event, and ask the reporter to specifically mention the pizza shop's donation in any news article that appears.

Materials needed for a single oven (simplest design)

1 large size pizza box oven

Several feet of aluminum foil

1 sheet black construction paper

2 1/2 feet of clear plastic wrap

4 feet of masking tape

2 feet of string

Note: Avoid materials that you think might become toxic when heated

Tools needed

scissors (teachers or older students may also want to have an exacto knife on hand, to better be able to cut cardboard with).

ruler

marker

Instructions

18. Assemble the pizza box, and open it up.

19. Glue aluminum foil to all inside surfaces of the sides except the top of the box, with the shiny surface facing in. This will create a "radiation trap" that will trap, by reflection, invisible (low-frequency) radiation that is radiated by the food and air inside the box.

20. On the top flap of the pizza box draw a square with a marker with edges spaced 1" from the four sides of the box.

21. Cut along three of the lines, on the sides and on the front edge of the box, leaving the fourth line along the box's hinge uncut. Then fold open the flap, making a crease on the fourth line (see the figure above). Note: Extra supervision make be needed during this step, because students often cut along the fourth line as well by mistake.

22. Glue aluminum foil to the inside surface of the top flap, with shiny side visible! This will form reflector, to reflect sunlight into the oven. Be careful to make as few wrinkles as possible, and smooth out whatever wrinkles occur.

23. Tape the black construction paper to the bottom of the box. This will help to absorb the incoming sunlight.

24. Carefully stretch the plastic wrap over the opening of the box, sealing the edges with tape to seal the air in.

25. Cover any air leaks around the box edges with tape, except while making sure that the box can still be opened, so you can place food inside the box and remove it later.

26. Go outside in the sunlight and place oven on a flat, level surface.

27. Place food on some foil (or a paper plate) and place inside the oven.

28. Use string and masking tape to tie back and adjust the reflector, so that sunlight is reflected into the oven, and especially onto the pie tin.

29. Let food cook, and check reflector angle now and then to make sure sunlight is getting inside the oven.

30. Enjoy your solar treat!

Optional Features

Add addition flaps to reflect sunlight into the oven. This can substantially increase the gain of the oven. This will require some extra cardboard (from some old boxes for example), and some extra foil, glue, and string to adjust the flaps.

Crumple up some sheets of newspaper and stuff them around the inside of the box, to provide extra insulation.

Add an additional layer of saran wrap across the box opening, but attached to the inside surface of the top flap, such that an air space is created between the layers of wrap (the plastic is bound to stick together in some places: don't worry about this too much).

Place a thermometer inside the oven as well, to measure the temperature.

Solar Plum Fruit Leather

Celebrate the Summer sun by using solar power to make fruit leather. Try substituting other fruits such as apricots, but add a little lemon or pineapple juice to keep light colors from going brown.

Ingredients: 2 pounds of fresh plums, ¼ cup light corn syrup, Saucepan, Blender, Plastic Wrap

Directions: Slice the plums thinly; discard pits and place in large saucepan. Add the corn syrup and bring to a boil for 3 minutes. Pour this mixture into a blender and blend until smooth. Set aside to cool. Cover cookie sheets with clear plastic wrap. Pour the strained puree to ¼” thickness. Let dry in the sun (can take up to 2 days in the sun). Your Fruit Leather is done when it pulls off the plastic easily.

Cardboard Box Oven

Almost anything that you could bake in a conventional oven you can bake in a cardboard box oven. On the web you can find many ways to make a cardboard box oven. I have tried different ways of making and using a cardboard box oven. The idea I am sharing is my favorite way because this one has a window and by using an apple box it is very sturdy and can be used many times.

You will need:

• The top and bottom of an apple box (20” x 13” x 12 ½”.). You can get one from the produce department of your grocery store.

• Wide heavy duty aluminum foil

• High heat foil tape (Some foil tape says “extreme weather” tape.) This tape is available at most hardware or home improvement stores.

• 1 plastic oven bag for the window.

• High performance spray adhesive

If there are any holes in your apple box (such as holes for handles), cut extra cardboard to fill holes and cover patch with foil tape on both sides.

To make the window opening, take the top (outside) box and cut a horizontal window (approx. 9 x 4 inches) in one of the long sides, centered and 2 1/2 inches from the closed bottom of the box. Make sure that you measure and cut the hole in the correct spot so that it will be just above the level of the rack so that you are able to view the food cooking and to monitor the oven temperature.

Put the bottom box inside the top box, bottoms together. Trace the perimeter of the window onto the inside box. Separate the boxes and cut out the window. Tape the corners of the windows on both boxes with the foil tape.

Covering the outside of the top box:

Cut a 50” piece of foil and lay it shinny side down on a flat surface. Place the bottom of the top box in the center of the foil. Fold the foil up over the end sides of the box and over the edges. Carefully unfold the foil. Tip the box up on one end and spray the bottom and the end side with adhesive. Lay the box back down into position and smooth foil against the box on the bottom and side. Spray the other end side of the box with adhesive and attach the foil to the remaining side. Glue the flaps of foil around the corners of the box.

Cut 2 pieces of foil large enough to cover the remaining two sides of the top box. Position the box on top of one of the pieces of foil, shinny side down. (Even the side with the cut out window will get covered). Fold the foil around the edges of the box to make sure that the foil will cover the open edges. Remove the foil and spray the adhesive to the side of the box, then attach the foil and smooth it. Repeat with the remaining side. Use the foil tape to cover all the edges and to make sure the foil is attached.

On the inside of the box you will see where the foil covers the window. On the exposed foil draw a horizontal line through the center. From each corner of the window draw a diagonal line that meets the center line. (>---- ................
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