In preparation for warmer weather and all of the great outdoor cooking opportunities, we have five tips to help you stay safe and have a much better experience with outdoor cooking.Click here for Tip #1
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Tip #4: Remember to properly cook your food. To ensure that you have a successful foil dinner, follow these steps. First, make sure you use two layers of heavy foil and use tight folds to trap the moisture inside. Make sure that you cook on charcoal or the hot coals of a wood fire, never on flames. Occasionally turn over the foil packet to cook evenly and prevent burnt food. Remember, every foil dinner needs a source of moisture like onion slices, soup, salad dressings, seasoning sauces, butter, vegetable stock, or a spoonful of water. Cooking depends on the amount of heat in the coals, but a good average is fifteen to twenty minutes for hamburger, at least twenty minutes for chicken, and longer for solid meats like steak. Use caution because cooking too long can burn or char the food, but undercooking can become a health hazard. Check one meal before pulling out the other meals if you are cooking more than one. Hard veggies will take longer to cook.
4 comments
Anonymous
I love grilling out and any and all tips for safer food is appreciated. It takes a bit of practice to get things done in the middle without burning the outsides. Creamed soups added to foil packs is a great way to add moisture and make it "casserole" like.
Teresa H.
Anonymous
A great recipe (in foil pouch) is to put a fish filet, topped with lemon slices, salt & pepper and stir fry frozen veggies (defrosted). Sprinkle a little white wine over everything, close up the foil pouch. Leave extra expansion room around the food and put in the grill for approx 20 minutes or until the pouch completely expands.
-Nina
AmyO
In relation to emergency preparedness and food storage, I recently purchased some large bags of charcoal briquette's and put them in an airtight plastic storage bin and have them stored in my garage! We can continually cycle through them during our summer camping excursions, and yet – have a large supply for cooking if there is a disaster.
Sue D
Thanks for the guidelines for cooking times. I remember years ago on our honeymoon my husband and I totally charred our foil packet dinners although the potatoes were still edible.