Cooking the One Burner Way: Gourmet Cuisine for the Backcountry Chef [Paperback]

Buck Tilton (Author), Melissa Gray (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1994

Learn how to prepare more than 150 meals - ranging from the simple to the elaborate - on top of your favorite compact one-burner stove.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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From the Back Cover

Backcountry cooking doesn't have to be bland if you learn how to prepare more than 150 meals - ranging from the simple to the elaborate - on top of your favorite compact one-burner stove. This essential reference will tell you all you need to make quick and delicious dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even dessert. You'll learn how to select, use and care for your stove. There are tips on setting up your outdoor kitchen and secrets to food and menu planning as well as advice on high-energy drinks and bars. There are over 150 mouthwatering and easy-to-make recipes. (

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

For more than fifteen years Melissa Gray and Buck Tilton have been cooking up meals for bicyclists, paddlers, and backpackers across North and South America. Their recipes have been field tested on many hungry students of the National Outdoor Leadership School, Outward Bound, and the Wilderness Education Association.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Ics Books (June 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934802912
• ISBN-13: 978-0934802918
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,028,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Transformed Me and My Family - Great Book, March 31, 2010

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Artlaw - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking the One Burner Way, 2nd (Cookbooks) (Paperback)

I love this book. Great and simple recipes that result in great tasting food, great overview of the process, and great spirit. My family gave this to me for my birthday a couple of years ago so I would make something edible on our camping trips. Bland carbs are fine for me, but my wife is half Italian and that means she wants to ENJOY her food. The book sat for months and then one day I caved to the pressure to help with dinner at home by pulling out this book. Unlike your typical cook book, these recipes looked quite approachable, and there is a lot of fudge-factor because it is designed to be used on a camping trip, i.e., less risk. Boom; it worked. It was fun and adventurous. The apex was cooking my own turkey-jerky, somehow making me feel like Clint Eastwood, James Bond and Jerimiah Johnson all at once. Most importantly, it all checked out in the outback. Last weekend, for example, we backpacked for a couple days at Mammoth Cave National Park and my family ate Spanish Rice prepared under a tarp in the rain, delicious pancakes, incredible pizza, and on our last day we hiked out having been fueled by beautiful cinnimon roles made with yeast. Am I a man or what? I was surprised to see this book panned by a couple of other reviewers when I went to get the link for a friend, so I have now written what I think is my first Amazon review. Perhaps this book needs an open mind, which I think you need for rewarding camping. I actually first thought the book was not comprehensive enough, but have come to believe that it is a great treatment in a digestible (haw haw) form; not too overwhelming. It goes from very simple to somewhat intense, letting you choose. Somebody said they were looking for "dodgers." I bet the "Quest Bread" is actually the dodgers they were looking for, but with a more inspired name. Overall, this book strikes me as a great combination of simplicity, accessibility, creativity, usefulness, and fun.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of good recipes in here, May 18, 2001

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RonnaJD (Wyoming) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cooking the One Burner Way, 2nd (Cookbooks) (Paperback)

I found this book very good. One of the best recipes is the pizza. It may be hard to believe you can make GOOD pizza in the bush, but I have cooked it numerous times for my family, and they ask for it everytime we camp out. The dessert recipes have been good as well. This is a good book for someone like me that is just learning how to cook good food out of what you carry on your back.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nothing I'd cook on the trail, December 13, 2009

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Dennis Miller (Acworth, GA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cooking the One Burner Way, 2nd (Cookbooks) (Paperback)

Probably some great recipies for anyone looking to feast in the wild, but I was looking for some basic one burner meals.