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Oven from a Cardboard Box Vagabond Stove Charcoal Stove Buddy Burner
A great way to make cooking fun and memorable for the kids is to construct an oven from an aluminum-foil-covered cardboard box. Any recipe that can be made in a conventional oven is suitable for a box oven. Supervise the construction and actual use for safety reasons. Making it at the campsite is a good activity and may inspire interest in helping to cook over the weekend.
Materials
needed:
Directions: Cover the entire inside of the box with heavy-duty foil, shiny side out. Continue up the outside of the box completely covering it. Tape foil to the box, if necessary. Optional is to cut a small square in the top of the box (which is actually the bottom) and tape an oven roasting bag over it to act as a window to check cooking progress. Fill the cans halfway with water or sand and place them in the area where you will have the fire, on the ground or barbecue. Space apart enough to support the pan you will be using. For every 40 degrees of heat use at least one charcoal briquette, or as many as 12 for a 9x13-inch pan. Place the briquettes in the middle of the arranged cans and light them. When coals are heated evenly, spread charcoals out and place prepared pan on the filled cans. Place prepared box over the baking pan and cans. The box should touch the bottom of the pit or barbecue and encompass the coals. Be sure there is gap for air circulation to keep charcoals burning. A small rock can be placed under one end of the box to prop it up slightly or a small vent flap can be cut at one or both end. Bake the item for amount of time indicated in the recipe.
Using
oven mitts remove the box and pan from the heat.
Vagabond
Stove
Simplicity
itself. It can be used to boil water, fry hamburgers or bacon, toast bread or bake small items. Supplies:
Cut
out one end of the #10 can. Use the tin snips to cut a 3" high
and 4" wide "door" on one side of the can at the open
end. Leave the top of the door uncut. Bend this flap of metal up so
the door is "open". Take the punch-type can opener, and
make 3 or 4 holes on the other side of the can at the top (this is
your chimney). Light the tuna can as described
below, and place the #10 can over the Buddy
Burner and place a pan with whatever
you want to cook on top of the #10 can. This "#10 can stove"
can be adapted to fuels like twigs, charcoal or charcoal briquets,
but these shouldn't be used indoors.
Use
with a small fire or a Buddy Burner Place the stove over the lighted charcoal, sterno, or a buddy burner .
Cook
directly on the top of the can as soon as it's hot enough
After
the stove is heated up for the first time,
Buddy Burner The emergency heat source
Supplies:
Using the regular can opener remove the top from the can Depenfing on Fuel type: Cardboard - cut into strips only tall enough to reach the top of the can. Roll the cardboard strips into a coil and place into the can across the corrugations, so that the holes show until the can is full. Wood chips - Fill can with wood chips, compressing as tightly as you can. Don't use sawdust as it doesn't burn as long. Fit a wick in the center of the fuel. Melt paraffin in a double boiler, never directly over heat. Pour paraffin into can so that it runs down into the holes and saturates the corrugated cardboard and fill the can to the rim let cool several hours
Light
the Buddy Burner with a match. Use with a Vagabond Stove or for emergency fuel or drive four 6" nails into the ground around the Buddy Burner to make a pan rest.
To
extinguish the Buddy Burner, remove the Vagabond Stove with a pot holder.
The
paraffin wax will be liquid and very hot - To use for cooking: Use a Vagabond Stove To regulate the flame for heating or cooking, use the can lid as a damper. Place it over all of the flame to extinguish the fire, or cover it partially to regulate the amount of flame. You can also use a piece of aluminum foil (several thicknesses folded), that is larger than the tuna can. Handle the damper with a pot holder, or a pair of plyers, or punch a couple of holes in the edges of the lid and use some wire to make a handle. To refill the buddy burner, place small amounts of wax on the cardboard while the burner is operating. As long as it has wax, it will function. Baking: Using tuna cans as little pans, anything you would bake in a regular oven can be baked on top of the #10 can stove. Simply place another #10 can over your baking pan and its an oven!
Emergency
heat: Don't put the #10 can over the
buddy burner, as it makes more smoke with the #10 can than without.
The
charcoal stove has been a basic for years because of it's
simplicity, portability, and ease of use. Supplies:
Tin
can (4-10" diameter)
Procedure (refer to picture for examples): Using the regular can opener remove both ends from the can. Using the other can opener, make a series (8) of holes around the bottom of the can. Using the drill, make 3 holes on one side of the top of the can, then make 3 more holes directly opposite the first set Do the same near the middle of the can. Run the wire through the holes, from one side to the other, first in the middle holes, then in the top holes. Crimp both ends of the middle wires down so that they don't slide. Crimp one side of the top wires (not both sides), they need to slide in and out for access to the middle wires. Usage: Put paper in the bottom section of the can as tinder for the charcoal. Put a couple briquettes (3-4) in the middle section, on the wires. Slide the top wires through the holes. Ignite the paper so that they start the coals burning. After the coals are heated (white) place your pan on the top wires and cook!
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Corrugated
cardboard box, flaps removed and at least 2 inches bigger than your
baking pan
