A key element of successful posh camping is cooking a great
meal. Hot dogs on sticks are for Boy Scout troops – you are an adult. A grate
is definitely needed to prepare an extravagant camping meal, especially if you
cook in foil as much as I do. However, unless you are at nicer state park, the
chances are you will just be building a fire in a rock fire pit. This makes it
difficult to get food over strong, even heat, especially for protein. Nothing
is worse than a half raw-half cooked piece of fish.
When my roommate replaced the charred and rusted grate on
our 18.5” Weber charcoal grill at the apartment, I turned the old grate into my
dedicated car camping grate. It works fantastic. With just a few rocks, I can rest
it evenly above the coals and have food roasting comfortably in their own
juices. No chance of a meal falling into the fire, foil tearing on an edgy rock
or opening a foil packed to discover half cooked disappointment. The best part
is, it was bound for the trash so if I forget it, it gets bent, broken or in
some other way destroyed, it's not a big deal.
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| A delicious batch of baked apples made easy. |
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