any good recipes for grilling when camping

[asianflava]

Lots of times I don't want to deal with raw food and having to keep them cold enough. That's why burgers, dogs, brats; stuff that is already fully cooked come up often.

[Shadow Catcher]

I am working on heart healthy camping recipes and one of the easiest to do is the "meal on small pointy a stick" aka shish-kabob, meat of choice (Chicken is healthier) marinated in what ever (low sodium teriyaki), or salad dressing or... along with what ever else you thread on the skewer. about 20 min on the grill turning about every 5 min. Beef is easier and through cooking not so important.

[Bogo]

Start with plain high choice or prime steaks of 1" to 1-1/2" thick from Black Angus stock that has all the marbling and tenderness genes. Warm them up to a relatively uniform 80F to 90F temperature before cooking. I stick the steaks in individual plastic bags, squeeze the air out, then stick them into a hot water bath. You may need to change the water a time or two to get the steaks up to temperature. Take the steaks out of the plastic bags and use some paper towels to soak up any surface moisture off them. Then they immediately go on a covered gas or electric grill at high heat, flip 2 minutes later, put the grill's lid down, and immediately turn grill down to medium. Quickly flip every 3 to 4 minutes until they reach 140F inside for medium rare. Use a proper quick read digital meat thermometer to gauge the temperature. If you don't remove the surface moisture from the steak it will turn out gray/light brown rather than a medium brown. With outdoor cooking, you will need to raise or lower the final inside temperature some to offset for the air temperature and wind speed. The inside temperature in the steak will rise some after removal from the grill. Any air movement, like a breeze, will lower the amount of internal temperature rise some by sapping heat away from the outside of the meat.

BTW, All my steaks start out frozen. There is no penalty for freezing meat if all surfaces are covered in a proper vapor barrier. I have a freezer or two full of beef. Something about being a cattleman. Anyways, I just pull it out of the freezer, remove the freezer paper and mylar plastic wrap. Then I immediately stick them into the plastic baggies and into the hot water bath. No thawing on the counter or in the refrigerator. I use hot tap water at home. On a trip, I'd preheat the water up to 110F or so and reheat as needed. Don't use hotter water or you may start to slow cook the outsides to soon. Generally it only takes 30 minutes to fully thaw a 1" thick steak and get it's insides up to 80F. Two steaks frozen together in a stack may take 10 minutes longer. Split the steaks apart as soon as possible to allow the heat to penetrate to the middle faster.

If you have a steer butchered, have the meat wrapped in mylar, then freezer paper. The mylar is a very good strong vapor barrier, and the freezer paper layer protects the mylar from damage.

[Bogo]

In the past I've used dry-ice to keep them and ice cream frozen. Works for 5 to 7 days with a good cooler.

[asianflava]

I'll do steaks on the second day. Freeze them before leaving home and they are defrosted the next day.

[Woodbutcher]

Here are 2 real simple grilling meats.....

Take a 1.5- 2 lb Flank steak. Put it in a 1 gallon baggie. Pour in 1 large bottle of (Catalina or Western) oily french dressing. Let it set. Massage it every so often, for 2 days. Remove from the baggie and grill about 5-6 minutes per side, depending on how hot the fire is. The steak will shrink down about a third while cooking. Let rest 5 minutes. Slice on a 45 across the grain, into 1/4" pieces and enjoy. Throw away the marinade. YUMM YUMM.

Pork Loin roast....This works best on a covered grill......I large or 2 small loins tied. Roll completely in Seasonall Salt, (the orange colored salt) Pack it on every side and the ends. Grill indirectly (coals off to both sides with meat between) till about 160 degrees. Let rest 5 minutes and slice. This will get a crust on the outside but the inside will be very moist.


If you need more let me know!

[doug hodder]

The best way to grill when camping is to buddy up with Rocky and his green egg! He cooks the best eats, been to BBQ school in Atlanta to boot! Thanks for the eats Rocky....you're the best! Doug