Outdoor Cooking

We went outside in our outdoor activity lesson on the 31st January and learnt how to cook in outdoor circumstances. In our group there was me, Chantelle Galloway, Amie Bilby and Dan Haythorne. Firsty we boiled some new potatoes and some pasta and sauce and for desert we had Heinze choclate sponge pudding. Our first problem occured when we could not peirce holes through the tin of chocolate pudding as we had to cook that whilst cooking the potatoes and pasta as it took 35 to cook. Our method of cooking was using Tranjia which is a small cooking appliance run by mentholated spirits which is a purple liquid which has a blue flame when dark; usually you can really see it in daylight. You find out its lit when you pretty much burn yourself. It contains a stand which connects to another circular metal object which spins onto the stand. This holds either 1 of the 2 pans or a frying pan. It also has a lid which can cover the food while it’s cooking. It’s a quick way of boiling liquid seen as though it only takes about 5-10minutes. The food was cooked well and didn’t take long to cook, however we came to some issues with the boil in a tin chocolate pudding. Our first problem occured when we could not peirce holes through the tin of chocolate pudding as we had to cook that whilst cooking the potatoes and pasta as it took 35 to cook. Then the tin opener wouldnt work so we had to try and open the tin by bashin it open on rocks which didnt really work. We gave up on the idea and just used the water it was cooking in to make a hot drink. Compared to the other groups we took the easier approach which was all boiled. A different group decided to make a chicken stir fry which was simple and smelt good, and another group decided to do a fry up. The stir-fry group had the best nutritional value in the food seen as though ours was full of Carbohydrates. To improve a cooking experience we could have had a better tin opener which could allows us to have the chocolate pudding which was high in sugars for quick releasing energy.