I sometimes help with Scouts as well as Beavers (and Cubs), last week I did a double stint. Helped with Beavers first - we were doing languages and world learning, but all run by the other leaders so I didn't do huge amounts. Then I stayed on to help with the Scouts.
The Lesson sounded fun anyway - cooking mini pancakes on top of bean cans.
We drilled all the holes and then started lighting candles. The little tea lights we had weren't really hot enough so we ended up having the can rest on three of them to get them to sizzle and cook.
A fun session and one that was enjoyed by everyone, well worth a try, but don't think it's going to be your next emergency stove!
We talked about maybe having a "different stove" night and making up some stoves to cook with. There's a stove you can make with a beer can and I think a rocket stove would be great fun to make with them.
What stove would you make with a scout troop?
I remember doing that in Guides but with smaller cans! Have you tried sausajes on sticks cooked over candles?
ReplyDeleteI sometimes do sausages over the fire with sticks. I tend to blind bake the suasages first to make sure they're cooked all the way through though!
DeleteWe also did this with guides, it can be really messy fun.
ReplyDeleteYeah they all seemed to really enjoy it!
DeleteIf they can be trusted with tin snips and the sharp edges thus created a insulated rocket stove is great.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/best-rocket-stove-diy/
I've built this style before, very powerful and even worth buying some BBQ spray paint to protect it from rust.
Ah that's cool, we were talking about doing some other stuff with them.
DeleteIt will be an easy lesson about BTU's tea lights vs a handful of twigs. Burn rate could be discussed as tea lights last a lot longer but for cooking twigs are better.
DeleteThermodynamics can be fun. Popcorn helps :-)
Even more fun if you like is building an oven out of a clean (no paint in it) paint can with a brick and a half (learn basic brick cutting here with cold chisel, mallet and eye protection). Bake a loaf of bread or some cookies.
Extra credit if you can locate a square paint tin for this.
I've seen those beer can rocket stoves over here too. Back in my scouting days, our cooking lesson was preparing a tinfoil dinner. We put our raw ingredients on tinfoil, sealed it up and tossed it into the coals of the fire until it was half raw and half charred. They always tasted so good after a hard day of scouting.
ReplyDeleteWe used to do that on bonfire night, mum would cook up potatoes and we'd have them wrapped in tin foil, always a good memory.
DeletePerhaps a tuna can would have been better. Rocket stoves are the thing and there are plenty of internet guides on making them out of tinned cans.
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