Webelos Requirement: Cast Iron Chef

Webelos Adventure: Cast Iron Chef

Do all of these:

1. At an approved time in an outdoor location and using tinder, kindling, and fuel wood, demonstrate how to build a fire; light the fire, unless prohibited by local fire restrictions. After allowing the flames to burn safely, safely extinguish the flames with minimal impact to the fire site.

1. How to build a fire BSA style
2. Fire Safety Rules
3. Leave no trace rules for fire prep and cleanup
4. Smokey the Bear extinguishing a fire (with water) 
5. Lots of good stuff at Campfire Dude 
6. A great simple experiment to teach the boys the triangle that makes a fire, scientifically, fuel, heat, air(o2) 

1. Reuse modeling clay from previous project
2. Get cheap spray bottles here
3. Cheap birthday candles (this is alot of them, even needing 3 per boy, maybe find a smaller pack...)
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2. Set personal nutritional goals. Keep a food journal for one week; review your journal to determine if the goals were met.

1. Article on cub scout nutritional goals
2. Food Journal template 
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3. Plan a menu for a balanced meal for your den or family. Determine the budget for the meal. Shop for the items on your menu while staying within your budget.

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4. Prepare a balanced meal for your den or family; utilize one of the methods below for preparation of part of your meal:

   1. Camp stove

   1. It's just like cooking on a gas stove...but outside, and will tip if you bang into it hard enough...Anything you can cook on the stove at home you can cook here.

   2. Dutch oven

      
   
   
   
   
   1. The first thing you need to know, if you dont' already get dutch ovens, is How to buy a dutch oven
   2. The next thing you need is this handy chart that tells you how to make a dutch oven cook at a specific temp like a "real" oven. Once you have this you can make any normal recipe in a dutch. Really, once you control the temperature, it's basically baking..
      
      
   3. Next use parchment dutch oven liners, trust me makes cleanup a snap.
      
      
   1. My older son who's already Eagle, took these to a campout because we had them. The other scouts teased him about them.. Till afterwards and it was time to clean up, they all laboriously cleaned and re-seasoned their ovens...My son, pulled the liner out, crumpled it up and threw it away... At the next dutch cooking camp out EVERYONE had parchment dutch liners...and still do. My son loves telling this story.
   4. This guy has/had a TVshow on the Rural Cable channel,  and is an awesome dutch cook, he has some recipes to help you get started. 
   5. Simple dutch oven recipes
   1. Worlds Simplest Cobbler
   2. Mountain Man Breakfast
   6. There are some simple tools if you get really into dutch cooking,  
   1. a lid lifter,
      
      
   1. and a small folding stand to set the lid on, 
   1. So you don't set it in the dirt and get dirt on your food. This is more important than you'd expect, because the thing is super hot when you take it off.
      
      
      
      
   7. If you go whole hog into dutch oven cooking, there are some sweet tools you can add to this
   1. Lifter and stand and more in one..
   2. Or a dutch oven table that folds up.
      
      
      
       

   3. Box oven

   1. Making a Box Oven (also called a scotch oven because booze boxes are perfect)
      
       
   2. If you decide to go this way there ones designed to go on camp stoves... simplest way, they even have a thermometer. Lots of brands, the one linked is just an example
      
      

   4. Solar oven

   1. Solar oven from a pizza box, and how to make smores in it.
      
      

   5. Open campfire or charcoal

   1. No utensil camp cooking
   2. Foil pack cooking, or Hobo Meals, frankly, at some point you need to do this one. The boys just dig it. even if you do some of the others...
   
   1. Simple foil pack recipes
   3. Foil Pack Hints 
   1. Get all your veggies frozen and pre chopped. They will thaw in the cooler and be ready. If you can look you can find an assortment that fits your desires. 
   1. Alternately you can pre make these and bag them up. 
   2. Be sure you get potatoes and onions in if they boys will eat them.
   2. They make Non stick Foil,the non shiny side is non stick, put that against the food.
   3. Usually when you make these everything touching the bottom burns, the trick for that is after you make the foil pack, wrap it in a few sheets of wet newspaper, then wrap in foil again. The steam from the paper cooks, but reduced burning a huge amount.
   1. The water is basically a temperature buffer from coals it's laying on. 
   2. Another trick is to scrape away the coals set it on the hot dirt and then put coals back on top of it. But I like the paper better.
   4. Tips for successful Foil pack cooking
   5. If you want to do a dash of this with other methods, make the simple and easy Campfire Cones. 
   1. Just don't do the wet paper trick, as here you are just warming stuff up and you don't want the cone soggy..
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5. Demonstrate an understanding of food safety practices while preparing the meal.

1. Food safety
2. Be sure to use a Sanitize when washing dishes at scouting events. 
1. Most folks use bleach water, but it aggravates my asthma., so I use this stuff from brewing, works great, sterilizes on contact, no rinse, and doesn't smell as badly. 
2. If you've even been at a camp out when a illness runs through the whole troop, you'll get why this is a big big deal. One summer camp we had every boy but three out of a whole group of 20 or so scouts, and 1 or 2 of the dads moved to a special cabin as an infirmary it was so bad. 
1.  A video with more detailed information
2. A short guide to food safety from the LDS

Workbook for use with these requirements: PDF Format DOCX Format
BSA meeting plan for this Requirement