Cast Iron Chef

 

Complete at least Requirements 1 and 2 below.

  1. Plan a menu for a balanced meal for your den or family. Determine the budget for the meal. If possible, shop for the items on your menu. Stay within your budget.

  2. Prepare a balanced meal for your den or family. If possible, use one of these methods for preparation of part of the meal: camp stove, Dutch oven, box oven, solar oven, open campfire, or charcoal grill. Demonstrate an understanding of food safety practices while preparing the meal.

  3. Use tinder, kindling, and fuel wood to demonstrate how to build a fire in an appropriate outdoor location. If circumstances permit and there is no local restriction on fires, show how to safely light the fire, under the supervision of an adult. After allowing the fire to burn safely, safely extinguish the flames with minimal impact to the fire site.

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The Best Hard Boiled Eggs
The Best Hard Boiled Eggs

Use this method to make perfectly cooked hard boiled eggs that the shells are easy to take off also.

Chocolate Chip Wheat Cookies
Chocolate Chip Wheat Cookies

Flaky and soft whole wheat chocolate chip cookies. Make a double batch to replace the cookies you ate directly off the pan!

Ribs Dry Rub
Ribs Dry Rub

Try this dry rub recipe the next time you cook up some ribs.

Fruit Salad... Yummy, Yummy!
Fruit Salad... Yummy, Yummy!

Simple and yummy fruit salad for your Webelos to make for their Cast Iron Chef adventure

Simple and Delicious Strawberry Syrup
Simple and Delicious Strawberry Syrup

One of the family’s favorites was this simple three ingredient strawberry syrup for your pancakes, waffles, or french toast that only takes about 5 minutes to make.

Perfect Snickerdoodles
Perfect Snickerdoodles

This recipe yields 48 soft and delicious snickerdoodles, perfect for cracker-barrel at your next activity .

Materials For Fire
Materials For Fire

Throughout the years, many items change within the different printings of the handbooks, manuals, merit badge books, and fieldbooks. One topic stays constant is the three materials you need to make fire.

Food Safety
Food Safety

While shopping at the grocery store, I noticed that the bags in the meat department had some blue writing on them.  Naturally being curious, I walked over and pulled the roll down a bit to see what was written on the bag. 

 
 

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