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Campfire Cooking Equipment

With the right campfire cooking equipment, cooking over a fire can be safe, easy and enjoyable.

You don't need a lot of gear. Here are the campfire cooking tools that we use:

Campfire Cooking Equipment

A Dutch oven

A Dutch oven is a wonderful tool for cooking camping meals!

You can cook stews, casseroles, soups, desserts and more in a Dutch oven. You can even bake cakes and bread! Click here to learn about Dutch oven cooking.

Dutch Oven

Here is a good-quality Dutch oven, available at Amazon for a great price!

A long-handled spade

We discovered the beauty of a long handled spade by accident one summer.

My sons had brought along all of the family shovels on a camping trip, hoping to build massive sand sculptures on the beach. (As it turned out, there was no beach!)

  My husband had the brilliant idea to use the longest spade as a fireplace tool.

It was perfect! We've included it on our camping list ever since.   A long handled spade allows you to arrange the coals without getting too close to the flames.

rearranging coals in a campfire with a spade

It's also handy for removing campfire potatoes from the fire.

removing foil-wrapped potato from campfire with spade

And for taking tin foil dinners out of the coals.

A foil dinner on a spade over the camp fire

A spade with a shorter handle would work too, but you'd have to get closer to the flames.

Look for a steel, long handled spade.

If you don't have a spade, use a set of tongs.

Be careful, though - the fire is hot!

Oven mitts

A pair of oven mitts is essential for handling the foil-wrapped food once you've gotten it out of the flames -

or for gripping your tongs if you didn't bring a spade.

Or how about a campfire glove? Here's a good one at Amazon!

Portable Campfire Grills

There are quite a few options on the market that are compact and easy to transport. Some fold up like the Odoland Firepit Grill below - this comes with its own carry bag and gloves.

We have a page reviewing the best portable campfire grills. You can find it here.

Odoland Firepit Grill

Marshmallow roasting sticks

These are essential for making the classic campfire snack: roasted marshmallows.

You can buy marshmallow roasting sticks, or make your own.

Click here to learn about the different marshmallow roasting stick options.

A campfire popcorn popper

Popcorn is an inexpensive and healthy snack. It's also delicious - and making it over a campfire is fun!

Here is a link to a great popcorn popper at Amazon!

Campfire Cooking Equipment
- The bottom line

Having the right tools makes it easy to cook over a campfire!

Once you have the campfire cooking equipment you need, you're ready to start cooking over the campfire! Here's what you need to know about campfire cooking.

All the information for a successful camping trip can be accessed from the The Camping Family Home Page.