Campfire Cooking
Cook over embers with better heat control, sensible firecraft and temperature-led safety.
Dutch Oven Coal Chart
How many briquettes go on top and underneath, how to place and rotate them, plus campfire safety.
Read the guide →Safe Cooking Temperatures
Temperature-led guidance for meat and other foods cooked outdoors.
Read the guide →Two-Zone Fire Control
Apply direct and indirect heat zones to control what is cooking and how fast.
Read the guide →Campfire S’mores
The NPS s’mores-in-a-cone recipe, plus official campfire safety.
Read the guide →Dutch Oven Peach Cobbler
Lodge’s lazy cobbler with the briquette count and coal-handling tips.
Read the guide →Cast Iron Over Fire
Lodge’s guidance for skillets and camp Dutch ovens: heat, cleaning and seasoning.
Read the guide →Campfire Hash Brown Packets
Taste of Home’s cheese-and-bacon foil packets, cooked over an open fire.
Read the guide →Freezer Breakfast Burritos
NPS’s make-ahead camping burrito, built at home and reheated at the fire.
Read the guide →Setting Up a Grill Rotisserie
Trussing, counterweighting and firing up Weber’s and Char-Griller’s spit methods.
Read the guide →Dutch Oven Camp Biscuits
Lodge’s own recipe, baked with an 8-under/17-on-top coal split.
Read the guide →Campfire Doughboys
Biscuit dough on a stick, paired with NPS and Smokey Bear fire safety.
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