Patrols Vie for the Golden Spatula in Outdoor Cooking Competition
Scouts compete to cook delicious dishes at the Iron Chef challenge campout.
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How to Cook a Tasty Foil Dinner In the Campfire
You can create a tasty meal with just heavy-duty aluminum foil and hot coals from a campfire.
How to Safely Use a Camping Stove
Safety procedures for using a lightweight stove or propane stove on your next camping trip.
Try 40 Trail Mix Ingredients That Go Beyond GORP
Trail mix doesn't have to be boring. Mix and match these ingredients to create your own perfect trail snack.
How to Make a Solar-Powered Oven for Outdoor Cooking
Take outdoor cooking to the next level with this homemade solar cooker.
Be Courteous About Allergies in the Camp Kitchen
Preparing camp meals with food allergies in mind keeps everyone safe and helps you make food everyone can enjoy.
Conversion Chart for Dutch Oven Cooking Times and Temperatures
The amount of charcoal your Dutch oven needs will vary in order to reach the desired temperature.
How to Make and Decorate Holiday Sugar Cookies
The holiday season is here! Celebrate with these sweet cookies that you can make and decorate yourself.
Savor These 4 Scout-Approved Sweet Treats
Try these four tasty recipes to satisfy your sweet tooth on your next campout. Plus, send us your favorite dessert recipe!
Combat Food Waste with These 5 Easy Recipes
Perfectly good food scraps get tossed in the trash when they can be used to help make another meal.
How to Buy a Backpacking Stove For Your Next Camping Adventure
Enjoy a hot meal on your next backpacking trip with one of these recommended stoves.
Spice Up Your Camp Meals With These 8 Essential Spices
Spices add flavor to your food, transforming bland dishes into delicious meals. Here are a few spices to use on your next campout.
How to Build a Cooking Tripod
Use your lashing skills to make this simple tripod to hang a pot over a cooking fire.
4 Tasty Foods To Cook Over Your Campfire’s Coals
You don’t need a camp stove to make a delicious camp meal. Just use a bed of hot coals.
How to Roast a Turkey on a Tripod
Troop 66 uses a tripod, a chain and lots of aluminum foil to roast turkeys at their annual Thanksgiving campout. Here's how they do it.
How to Make Dutch Oven Corn Bread
Try this easy recipe for delicious Dutch oven corn bread.
How to Bake Pumpkin Spice Cake in a Dutch Oven
Try this easy recipe for baking Pumpkin Spice Cake in a Dutch oven.
Favorite Recipes From Troop 66 and 203
Here are some of the favorite camping recipes from Troop 66, West Suffield, Conn., and from Troop 303, Windsor, Conn.
How to Roast a Turkey in a Dutch oven
Break out your Dutch oven and roast a turkey over coals using this delicious recipe.
Fuel Your Body With These 6 Nutritious and Delicious Trail Snacks
What's the trick to having the energy to be active all day? Food! Keep strong all day long on the trail with these snacks.
How Do I Store a Camp Kitchen?
Q. I have everything I need for my first camp kitchen except for a good way to store it. Any ideas?
How to Keep Pots From Turning Black
How do you keep pots from your mess kit from turning black when using them over a fire?
5 Recipes For a Very Dutch Oven Campsgiving
These five classic and festive dishes will be right at home on your holiday feast table, inside or in the great outdoors.
How to Fry an Egg in a Potato Over Your Campfire
Did you know you can cook an egg in a potato? Try this resourceful and unique recipe on your next campout.
The Campfire Recipe Your Kids Will Love: Brownie in an Orange
If you've never tasted a brownie in an orange, here's how to whip up this outdoor delicacy at a campsite or in your backyard.
How to Make a Cranapple Pie in a Dutch Oven
Wow your friends with this delectable pie made in your Dutch oven.
How to Make Stuffing in a Dutch Oven
Fire up the coals and bake this delicious stuffing for a hungry crowd.
How to Make Cornbread in a Dutch Oven
This delicious side dish will compliment your Dutch-oven dinner menu.
How to Make a Tacos in a Bag
Everyone will love this Tex-Mex recipe, and not just because it starts with chips.
How to Make Dutch-Oven Baked Apples
This healthy — yet sweet — Dutch oven treat will reward you with baked apple goodness.
How to Make a Dutch-Oven Breakfast Casserole
Start your day with this tasty casserole that serves a crowd.
How to Make a Dutch-Oven Pizza
Pizza on a campout? You bet. Here's a recipe for making a homemade pizza in a Dutch oven.
How to Make a Dutch-Oven Lasagna
This delicious and easy Dutch-oven lasagna will feed a crowd at your next campout.
How to Bake a Dutch-Oven Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Learn how to bake a delicious Dutch-oven dessert at your next campout using this step-by-step recipe.
Propane canister or liquid fuel stoves?
Do you recommend a propane-canister or liquid-fuel backpacking stove? I've heard good things about both.
How to Cook With a Reflector Oven
Learn to cook some of Troop 1570's favorite reflector-oven recipes.
9 Great Prepackaged Trail Meals
Gear Guy reviews nine meals that are lightweight, simple to prepare and surprisingly delicious.
How to Cook Some Goofy Grub
We scoured the Internet for these six strange recipes and oddball cooking methods. Then we challenged a Scout troop to try them out.
Creative ways to cook favorite foods when camping
Camp cooking doesn’t have to be weird or boring. Check out how recipes for some of your favorite foods can be adapted for your next campout.
Hobo Pack Fish recipe from a TV cooking champ
Cooking tips and recipes from MasterChef Junior TV cooking champion Logan Guleff.
How to Cook Camping Doughnuts
Like most food, doughnuts taste even better when you're camping. Here's a simple recipe to cook fresh doughnuts on your next outing.
3 Mexican-inspired Dutch oven recipes
Enjoy a taste of Mexico on your next campout with these three tasty Dutch Oven recipes.
How to Cook Deep-Fried Oreos
Beast Feast, held every Monday night during summer camp at Cole Canoe Base in Michigan, is billed as the largest outdoor cooking demonstration in Scouting. And they’re not kidding.
Troop 1015’s Turkey Feed recipes
Every November, Troop 1015 invites almost everyone they know to attend their Turkey Feed. Here are the recipes they use to feed 100 people.
17 Tasty Dutch Oven Recipes
Here are some favorite Dutch oven recipes from our pals Tim and Christine Conners and their book, The Scout’s Dutch Oven Cookbook.
How to make the Maui Manwich with Spam
Most of the Spam recipes at the 2011 Greater Niagara Frontier Council’s Onondaga District Klondike were actually pretty good. This one — the Maui Manwich, which uses Spam, barbecue sauce and coleslaw — was judged the best.
Unusual But Effective Cooking Methods
Bread baked by mailbox? Fish roasted on a stick? North Carolina Scouts show off their unusual -- but effective -- cooking skills.