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[Shane V]

One of my favourite things to eat when camping is campfire toast.

Its pretty simple to make.

Ingredients:

1 Loaf of bread
Toppings of choice.

Toppings I really enjoyed:

• Cream Cheese and Raspberry Jam
• Peanut Butter and Jam (any sort)
• Peanut Butter, Vegemite and Jam (again any sort)
• Cream Cheese and Woolworths brand Breakfast Marmalade YUMMMMMMMM
• Cream Cheese, Vegemite and the above mentioned marmalade EVEN BETTER.

Instructions:

• First light fire using wood, not gas, not anything else, but wood, actual parts of trees!!! (it doesn't taste the same otherwise.)
• Retrieve loaf of bread and other ingredients from supply tent.
• Also get toasting forks, (if you don't have these immediately head to St Helens Hardware Store and purchase same, or use sticks.)
• Place bread on toasting fork, or poke stick through bread (good luck if using the latter method)
• Place bread over fire and cook until slightly blackened.
• Turn over and do the same on the other side.
• Apply plenty of butter to now taosted bread and add toppings of choice.
• Delight in eating first slice whilst repeating steps for next slice.

Before going camping on this trip I did not like to eat toast. Now I LOVE Toast, only on a wood flame.

[Son of a Beach]

I concur! However, I think that steel forks are only marginally better than a forked stick, and I now use home-made campfire toasters which I think are much better. I used long pieces of fencing wire bent into the desired shape, but I think wire coat hangers would do the job too. The basis of the design is as per the attached image (sorry, my drawing skills are not great):



The idea is that the toast sits in the U-shaped wire sling. That way it doesn't end up getting holes in it, and it doesn't fall off. In reality, you need a couple more wires than shown in the image above, to make sure the toast doesn't slide out the sides or out the bottom (but I left that out of the picture to make it easier to visualise).

Another idea that my mate used when he made a similar one, was that the rack part was hinged with the handle. This meant that he could turn the toast without having to remove it from the toaster - worked very well indeed (just raise the handle / lower the rack end, then turn 180?, then lower the handle / raise the rack end).

[Shane V]

Way cool Nik. Looks and sounds easy.(and you drawing skills aren't that bad because I knew what it was) I still like my fork but will give anything a go. What sort of toppings do you put on your toast?

[Son of a Beach]

I'm very simple. It's usually just vegemite or jam (home made, of course).

[Mystic]

I have seen similar contraptions used, and they seem quite effective. I like the idea of the hinged one. I use a fork, basically because it was there one day when browsing a store, lightweight, and easy to use. But I still like the stick best of all. Kind of a romantic image of camping trips from my youth.

I may have traded my stick for a fork to make my toast with, but my marshmallows will always get toasted on the end of a stick!!!

[Shane V]

Have you tried combining the vegemite and jam Nik? it really is very yummy.

[Son of a Beach]

Have you tried combining the vegemite and jam Nik? it really is very yummy.

No... I'll just take your word for it.

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The following attatched diagram is for a tool I used to use when I went camping for cooking all kinds of things over the fire. The ends are like wire grills which hold the food (especially toast) between them when the device is folded over onto itself. The ends are usually just held together with two pieces of wire wrapped around both [arts as shown in the picture as little ovals. Flipping is no problem here as you just turn the hald in your hand...this baby lets you cook in al angles you want to, as long as you hold the handle tight enough to not drop your food. I got one as a gift...made by someone who took an old fire grill and chopped the pieces and than welded them together, but I bet there are other, cheaper ways to make one of these.

My personal has to be to put good ole jam on the toast...blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, strawberry...any will do.
Oh, and don't forget chocolate and marshmallow (and maybe a bit of peanut butter.)

Happy camping and have fun toasting...open fire cooks everything the best.