Camp Cooking

You can make camp cooking very simple or very complicated.

If you are on a day hike, you might just bring some trail mix and beef jerky to keep you from getting too hungry, but if you are on a multi-day camp out you will want to have hot food. Your cooking options are only limited to how much you want to carry.

Open flame cooking can be as simple as a hot dog on a stick or it can be a complete meal cooked inside a dutch oven.                   

A two burner camp stove can make cooking as easy as it is at home. This type of stove is about the size of a briefcase. It is not very light but with two burners, you can cook more food, faster.

A one burner stove like this one weighs just a few ounces. It has only one burner and a small fuel tank. This is a great little stove, but would only meet the needs of one or two people. The gas canisters for this type of stove can be hard to find outside of specialty stores.

These two stoves are very small, the little brass stove on the left burns rubbing alcohol. The steel one on the right burns fuel pellets. These two stoves can be brought on airplanes because of the types of fuels they use.