Cook a Meal Over an Open Fire.

“Oh, hell yeah! Living on a ranch + just camping and cooking in general. If you learn fire and learn cooking separately, it's hard to fuck up! By "Learn fire", I mean how to build, tend, keep smoke down, and know which parts of the fire are best for cooking what. Cooking fire isn't a bonfire - you'll be pretty well fucked if you just set a pan down in the bonfire, you know? Gotta have a coal bed for most pan cooking (because you need to be able to get close to it, right?), whereas flames are ideal for using a Dutch oven/tripod setup, which are used while standing. Gotta be familiar with cast iron, too, because it's the only thing you should be using on a fire. I like to mix and bag my dry batters beforehand (hoe cakes, pancakes, cornbread, biscuits, whatever), because who wants to bring measuring cups, right, and those are filling things you can make easily to snack on which can also accompany meals. As much prep as possible should be done at home, really. It's so much easier to have all your veggies and meat already sliced and marinated, ready to drop on the griddle. More time to enjoy the woods! Grilled steaks are pretty well low-hanging fruit by now [...] then carne asada/shrimp tacos, fajitas, beans, etc. for the other meals. I say interchangeable because, outside of the eggs, all of the leftovers can be thrown into the Dutch oven and slow cooked over the fire all day, for one delicious chili on your last night! It really is just a shit ton of practice - and a little meal planning goes a long way; if you know what you're cooking, you know what you need to bring (mixing bowl, spices and seasonings, etc)!”

“I cast the first vote. I've cooked over many campfires. I even taght a class on camp cooking fro REI, a large outdoor equipment retailer. I love it! First of all, everything tastes better when you are out in the woods, camping. Second, the thin blue smoke comming off of red hot coals in a campfire add amazing flavor. I've cooked lots of steaks, sometimes right on the hot coals (caveman steaks). I've also done foil packs, fish, veggies, omelets -- anything you can cook on a stove. I've also done a little dutch oven cooking with the coals from a campfire. Obviously, what I cooked while backpack camping in the wilderness is different from what I cooked when car camping, or camping in my teardrop camper. A dutch oven will really slow you down when backpacking.”