Foil Cookery: Cooking Without Pots and Pans [Plastic Comb]

Lori Herod (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1995

Foil Cookery will help you reduce the muss and fuss of outdoor cooking, guaranteed. Learn tips and tricks on creating bowls, pots, pans, skillets, drip-o-later coffee/tea pots, and reflector ovens - all out of aluminum foil. As an outdoor cooking consultant for the Boy Scouts of America, author Lori Herod knows how to satisfy hordes of hungry campers in a hurry, using only basic equipment and ingredients on hand.

Foil Cookery teaches you how to create foil cooking utensils, choose the right wood for a campfire, start a charcoal fire the easy way, match cooking methods with campfire design, and protect the environment while cooking outdoors. It also includes illustrations on building campfires and give suggestions for simple camping meals.

Recipes include Campfire Steak and Eggs, Southern Texas Salad, Hot Reuben Melt, Hunter's Stew with Dumplings, Good Anytime Stir-Fry, Plum Good Pork Chops, Chicken Cordon Bleu in the Woods, Alaskan Salmon Cakes, Honey Cashew Green Beans, and Mountain Man's Apple Cobbler.

Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 116 pages
• Publisher: Explorers Guide Pub (June 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879432196
• ISBN-13: 978-1879432192
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,890,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the type of foil cooking I was expecting, September 30, 2008

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Bob from NJ (NJ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Foil Cookery (Cooking without Pots and Pans) (Paperback)

While the recipes in this book look like they'd taste great and would be easy to cook....it wasn't what I was looking for in a foil cooking book. I expected a book full of foil pouch recipes that could be simply cooked on the coals by scouts.
Instead, this book is full of standard camp skillet and pot recipes. The author simply puts the word "foil" in front of the words skillet and pot.
This would be a much more useful book if it were divided by (or at least indexed by) cooking style...such as foil pouch, foil skillet, foil pot, or foil reflector oven.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not so hot, September 21, 2009

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K. Rackouski "K-Rack" (Ashland, WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Foil Cookery (Cooking without Pots and Pans) (Paperback)

I bought this book for recipes to use in our backyard fire-ring. After reading through it, I was very disappointed in the recipes offered. I was hoping for more foil-pouch-type recipes. There are a few of these, but the majority are recipes that you can use anywhere, the author just tells you to "make a foil skillet" or a "foil pot". The title of this book should really be "How To Make Foil Cooking Utensils". The editing is also atrocious in this book. A few recipes have sentences repeated, and there are misspellings everywhere. It seems they spent all the production budget on the cover photography and skipped everything else. There are better camp-cooking books out there, try "Roughing It Easy" instead of this dud.Roughing It Easy : A Unique Ideabook for Camping and Cooking

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, February 5, 2009

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Craige A. Tschirner "Haz book" (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Foil Cookery (Cooking without Pots and Pans) (Paperback)

I have been looking for some cook books for camping. I really wanted to use the coils to cook with when camping instead of meals I could make at home on the stove. These cook books have many receipes to choose from that I can use over the coils. I really like the way the book shows you how to make pots and pans out of tinfoil and sticks found around the woods.

Its perfect!!!!