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I really enjoyed watching someone succeed at this! Many years ago (1975 or so), I tried to demonstrate bacon-&-eggs-in-a-bag for my girl scouts. I started, of course, with safety instructions. "If your bag should catch fire," I explained, while demonstrating, "simply take two steps back and lower it to the ground." All agreed they "got it." I then placed the bacon, broke the eggs, and began the real demonstration. As I positioned breakfast over a roaring campfire (the book I'd read hadn't mentioned waiting until the fire became embers), the bag burst into big, greasy flames. Panicked, I flung the thing back over my head and into the group of girls (who--and whose parents--were counting on me to keep them safe in the woods). Fortunately, no scouts were injured, but that was my first and last camping trip!
It's a story worth telling, Linda. No one was hurt. It's an amusing tale. You should go camping! I think it would be a wonderful get away for you and your family!
#10 can of peaches not drained, white cake mix (Box) aluminum foil, heavy pan, bed of coals. Line pan with foil, add cake mix, add in peaches and juice. Mix well. Close foil over top set in coals. Shouldn't be very long until you have a fine peach cobbler.
@@youngwmhs5229 It really doesn't make any sense but I gave him a thumbs up anyway for the strangeness of the idea. I am not trying it. My bag would catch on fire for sure. He should have shown it finished cooking and taking it out of the bag. But even if he did and was successful I am sure my bag would catch on fire.
Great video and much appreciated Intense Angler . Did this 50 years ago in Boy Scouts and nice to see your demonstration my friend . Best wishes from rattle snake country New Mexico - > Lefty Cat
Great video --Cooking Bacon & Eggs In A Paper Bag - "Tip Of The Week" E34-- thanks so much. Gonna try this on a 3-day camping trip in April for six folks. Not because we won't have a frying pan, but just because we can, now. :) Oh, and TY, TY, TY for closed-captioning your video... my bad hearing really appreciates CC. -- Elizabeth
I used to enjoy showing this to scouts when I was a scoutmaster. We used to boil water in a paper cup also and cook eggs and several other foods in a zip lock bag in boiling water. Great Video
Thanks for taking the time to get this up here. I could imagine this technique might be useful if one were, say, bike camping, and maybe not hauling a big skillet around...or maybe just because you can. Pick up some eggs and bacon in a paper bag at some convenience or other store before making camp, get that fire going, and in the morning stir the remaining coals up a bit, do that bacon and eggs in a bag thing, lay it on the coals, and in about the time it would take to pack up your gear for the day's travels it should do its thing. A potato right in the coals--no wrapping--is also a fine thing, but should maybe be put into the coals a bit earlier, since it'll likely take a bit longer to cook. You'd then get to ride off with a full tummy. By the way, an old cruising sailor's trick is to smear Vaseline onto eggs to keep them fresher longer without refrigeration. It keeps the air from permeating the shell, which is what brings the rot. It's not a magic eternal ointment or anything, but it'll keep 'em fresh for at least a few days. Vaseline rubbed into cotton balls also makes superb fire starters. I keep a bunch tucked into an old prescription bottle on the trail, so they'd always be handy to dress up an egg or three. Anyhow, thanks again! I'll be filing your hack and others described in the comments away in the noggin for later travels.
Great vlog. I was so impressed to see someone do this. I have heard about it many times back in the 1970s, but now it is so nice to see someone actually do it. Keep posting.
when my mom would take us 6 kids and one grandson camping, she used netting to drape over the baby's bed so he didn't get eat up with skeeters, she always had her trusted cast iron skillet, she would fry up a huge pan of potatoes frying, and when they were almost done she would whip up some eggs and fry them with the potatoes for breakfast. best food in the world!
cook the bacon on the stick like a kabob , place a tiny hole in each egg and gently place it in the ash between just a few coals hole up and let it bake! about 5 minutes!
Good stuff! I've boiled eggs in a foam cup before, but I've never cooked bacon and eggs in a paper bag. Thanks for posting! My kids will get a real kick of this.
Awesome job, great idea for a last minute in a pinch situation. No need for lugging around cooking gear while on a early morning hike. Great channel by the way, thank you for sharing. Kind regards, Eric Dee.
Good job! Thanks I design my fire ring a little different… I leave about 12 inches open on the up wind side of the fire ring. I come out from the fire ring on both sides of the opening with rocks to create a channel. I rake the coals into the channel for cooking. A grill can set on the rocks and coals can be raked out of the fire ring as needed. That way you can cook and still have a fire. 🔥
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I remember as a child back in the very early 70s, here in Canada, we had our very own female survivorist, she was on most Saturday mornings between cartoons teaching us free spirited kids how to live in the woods. Grab an empty coofee tin can, fill a tuna can with paper and soak it in wax, then use the paper bag to cook bacon and then the eggs... thank you for keeping it alive.
One of my favorites is the zip-lok bag omelet. Get a pot of water boiling, crack an egg into a zip lok bag, add a bit of cheese, then any vegetable additions you like. I usually use chopped onion, chopped bell pepper and chopped tomato. Some people like chopped baby spinach leaves, and there may be other things you like in an omelet. Add a shake of salt and pepper. You can do as many of these at a time as you can get into the boiling water. Squeeze the bag a few times to mix up the ingredients and drop into the boiling water. Boil for three minutes, open the bag and pop the omelet onto a plate to eat.
I can't think of a situation where I would find myself in the woods with bacon, eggs, and a small paper bag but not any sort of pan. However, I guess now if I do find myself in such a scenario I am good to go. Fun fact, pioneers used to rub bacon fat on paper like that to make them more translucent and would then use them as windows. (insert "the more you know" gif)
I know it's a long time ago,and I know you were being sarcastic and joking lol. But I always figured it was started as just something to show kids something fun that they can learn from. Teaches them they can improvise,teaches them about the properties of fire if you explain it,etc. I don't know if people started to take it a bit more seriously or what,but to me,it's still a fun thing to do and I can't believe how many people still haven't heard of it.
Great idea, can’t wait to try it. FYI your Buck knife needs sharpened, or you need a Cutco hunting knife, they will sharpen that knife anytime you want, for free, for ever. If you give that knife to your son, 30 years from know, and he breaks the tip off, he will get a knew knife. That guarantee for ever, is on that knife, it does not matter who owned it. My grandmother raised me, she had a set of Cutco knives, i know have them and use them in our camper, as i have another set in my house. I send them in every 2 years, they come back sharpened, polished and replaced if need be. And no, I do not sell Cutco, i just believe in them so much that nothing else comes close. I bought both of my son’s a set, and even though he has not opened them yet, by oldest sone for his birthday is getting the Cutco hunting knife with the gut hook, and the Fisherman’s solution, which is a filet knife that is adjustable.
Buck will also clean, sharpen and service their knives for free. Just had them do so with a 37-year old folding Hunter. Had it back in less than 2 weeks.
When I first started watching this video, I was thinking, no way is the bag going to not burst into flames! I am totally shocked! Thank you for the wonderful tip, I think I'm going to try that with my little fire at home just so I can enjoy the wonderful smell it must have made.
An old homeless person once showed me how he made coffee in a paper cup held directly over an open flame. As long as there's water in the paper cup, it won't catch on fire. He boiled water in a paper cup, added instant coffee and to be honest I was kinda impressed.
Good video my man! I have actually had that meal before! The best way to have done it, especially with all of those rocks around, would have been to find a nice flat rock, or a piece of shale, rinsed it off, or not, and put it into the fire until it was hot. You can then take it out of the fire, and you could have fried the bacon, and all of the eggs that you wanted, over and over again for about an hour without reheating! That way you could have made the eggs any style you wanted, and fried the bacon crisp! I have fried fish, pheasant, and just about everything you could imagine on natural slate that we have here in Michigan. When my sons and I would camp, we made a pact not to eat anything we didn't cook over an open fire. I am 51, and they are grown now, but I am looking forward to doing it with my grandkids! Nothing tastes better than food you cook at a campsite! Peace brother!
Tried this with cub scouts and we had flare ups and raw bacon. Eggs were good though. Thank goodness for instant oatmeal as a backup. Won't be trying this again. Glad it worked for you.
Same with us. The rest was semi cooked so the adults ate it. The kids ate oatmeal I'd brought as backup. I never thought a paper bag would hold up to fire.
+Sinfonian Barelytone It is a lot easier to hollow out an onion (leaving 3-4 good layers) and cook an egg in it, you will lose part of the outside of the onion but the egg gets nicely flavored You can also cook an egg in an orange peelOr hard boil an egg using a Styrofoam/plastic/paper cup directly on some coals :-D
Here's what I do take four wet branchs that are somewhat strong and place them in a x shape and place a clean flat rock and then cook eggs normally and it tastes great
As a kid back in the early 60's, I hung around the train tracks and hopped them for fun . I use to crawl up the bridges and get baby pigeons (squabs) for the hobo's to cook in their Hobo Stew. They would find a 5 gallon can, clean water, wild onions that grow everywhere and carrots & potatoes I would bring from home and cook it up. Hobo Stew is awesome :) This is a neat trick and a good thing to know.... Thanks :)
That was pretty dam cool . I have a fire pit in my back yard and we cook a lot meals in it with different cooking methods . All could be done 60 ft away in my kitchen but a fire is way more fun. I guess I'll try that this week ,thanks for sharing
Pretty cool! I think I'd place a potato or two there (small ones to cook faster), and there you go... bacon, eggs and taters. Mmm! Thank you for posting, great idea. :)
Great video mate my way is to use tin foil . or somtimes a old tray from my toaster oven at home I usually save the steel tray when I throw out the old toaster oven it fit into your rucksack good along with the foil .Just get a few rocks with the flat side up if possible and lay toaster tray on top make small fire underneath also save actual rack from old toaster lay on rocks
We like cooking a pumpkin over open fire you can even used the pumpkin like a Dutch oven to cook things in you can brown hamburger to think with you add them with seasonings rice and canned broth/stock. I like to toss in seasoning as roast till rice done in a hollowed out pumpkin just remove seeds
I remember hearing about this back in like 1989 or 1990 when I was at Camp Tallaha in Charleston, Mississippi when I was in the cub scouts. Never seen it done until now when I randomly decided to do a TH-cam search on it.
Use a big grocery paper bag, you fit more bacon without cutting, use a longer stick and prop it up about 3-4in above the coals with the other end of the stick leaning against a rock with another rock sitting on top of the end of the stick so it stands by itself like a fishing pole(it's called bacon in a bag), Put a large flat rock near the fire(turn the rock so it's evenly heated), clean it, rub with bacon fat, and make a robins nest(make a hole in the center of a slice of bread for the yolk(but cooked like this it's called egg on a rock), that way you have toast too.
Hi There a few years ago I got up early one christmas morning the first thing I did I put the oven on, but it did not work. I had to think very fast five people are waiting for christmas day lunch. I asked one of my son to build a large bon fire using old fallen branches from under the trees. I seasoned the turkey with salt and pepper and wrapped it in 16 sheets of foil. when the flames died down I made a hole in the centre of the amber andd placed the package in the centre and pushed some ember over the top and time it same as I would in the oven. After 40 minutes I could hear it sizzling I did leave it an extra 15 minutes then took in indoors. It was the juciest most tender turkey we ever had and some of the skin crisped, a little burn on one of the thigh. My neighbour who thinks I am a bit mad told his wife I was lighting a bone fire on Christmas day.
It's been so long since I camped out...used to go camping all the time with my late hubby...we camped almost every weekend...we would have our breakfast cooking on a cast iron skillet and then use the coals after breakfast for baking an apple pie...dig a hole, dump in some rocks and then half the coals, place cast iron dutch oven on top, with the pie inside...cover with the lid and place more coals on top and more rocks and bury it all and come back in about an hour or little longer and dig it up...you had the best apple pie you ever ate...we also did biscuits and cornbread this way too. I used to love going camping, after a long week at work, it was just so relaxing and fun...we fished and took nature walks, etc...we usually went with another couple that we were close friends with...we all had a blast back then. Loved the back and eggs in the paper bag trick...great video too!😊
in the german military we grilled Fish in Paper, just take the cleaned Fish, but let his skin normal as is was, no stripping ore soothing, it is a wast of time, even on Perch. Than rap 3-4 Layers of milliary Toiletpaiper or 2 of normal quality around the Fish, make the paper wet and lay it in to the glowing cools. 15min on both sides for a Trout is the best time. If you have some spice you can use them in the Fish, this is an amassing way, i do it like that ever since, the fish never gets dry, nothing is falling down salt and spice gets to the hole thing.
Max Eric, not sure when you be in the Germany Army. At my time we just follow the simple rule to put the Spices (if you have some) and put the Fish with the Head on a Stick. The Slow Grill it that way. It is called Steckerlfisch and is so still around in the South. And yes it is not as moist like yours. And yes for the follow Americans you just can nail it (use wood nails) on a Board of Apple wood. Just the way the native do it. But go on...... your way is something you can show up with
If you find yourself outdoors and find yourself in a similar situation but have cardboard and some minnows (A type of fish wild here in bonny Scotland) we have a similar cooking method which goes like this; Place as many minnow as you can without stacking them any higher than one level across a flat piece of cardboard from the bottom of something like a 24 pack of Budweiser or Super Tennant's lager native to my country, open up a few of these small fish first and wipe both sides of the cardboard with the innards, take a few bricks of similar size (Approx 8" high) and leave to cook through for a good thirty minutes. After you are sure the fish skin on these tiny minnows is starting to peel carefully lift of the cardboard being extremely careful not to burn yourself, throw the minnows to fu*k and eat the cardboard, happy hunting
Lol, still one of the deadliest drinks known to man, made here in Scotland I would've said Bucky too but the monks in Cornwall make it and we drink it :o)
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I remember doing this when I was in the BSA, fun experiment and survival tool. The haters commenting on this video crack me up though, as many of them have clearly never been hiking/camping. Backpacking is all about carrying multiuse items which could possibly save your life if something went wrong. I'm not saying I carry a paper bag with me on a normal trip, but you get my point. I do often carry fresh eggs with me though :)
NorthSurvival If you're asking if I enjoy the outdoors, yes, I love backpacking/camping/etc. I like being able to live off of what I carry on my back and it's nice to have the skills and knowledge to survive if things went south (applies to both wilderness and "without rule of law" scenarios). Knowing things like this video shows could save your life, even as trivial as it is.
Hey I'm okwith nature camping tips when you hardly have anything or in an emergency. Thumb up to the guy, and his video. Taste? Can't be picky in nature, it feeds you that's all that matters 😀
I guess you mean a cast iron skillet for people walking from the parking lot to your “camp site”... for people who actually hike and camp, carrying a cast iron skillet on your back with a pack for 50 miles isn’t realistic.
@@TheresFuckeryAfoot true. I use a cook kit from 1980 (tin? stainless?) for boiling water for dehydrated stuff (coffee, tea, food). I fail to work up the courage yet to carry bacon and eggs for a week. Too heavy.
I have cooked turkey in a paper bag before but this was a first for me. Thanks. Looks great for getting a good meal with limited resources when out in the wild.
I've cooked Thanksgiving stuffed Turkey in a large paper bag saturated with vegetable oil. Works like a charm. I will definitely try this!! Thanks for the tip.
hey, I think its a great idea..actually thinking outside of the bag, so to speak. Gonna give this a try. A person can never learn too many ways to do something. Thanks for the idea and video!
You're so very welcome! I'm glad that this brought back some good memories for you :) Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment by the way... it's much appreciated!
That was just too cool... will have to try. Talk about brown bagging a lunch, never thought I could do the same thing, for a good breakfast in the woods.
as a boy I would go hunting with my Grandfather, he would toast his lunch sandwich on the coals of a fire inside a paper bag. I wish I had payed attention and could remember how he did it. The sandwich was always golden brown
When the Zombie Apocalypse happens I will be well prepared... paper bag..fire.. bacon and eggs..tent made from branches and slingshot made from my knickers !!! I aim to survive !
Hey, great idea and NICE JOB! A great tip for emergency camping, if you have to stop where you did not plan on, and get some food going:) My grandmother used to make hobo bread in a tin can! She would just mix up the ingredients and heat the can (which can be over a fire) and in a few minuets, you have cake or bread in a tin:) Old fashion food ideas from the poor on the road...etc. Cheers!
I've been camping, hiking, and surviving in the woods better than 30 years. This is completely new to me. Thanks for the great idea. I tend to utilize branches, leaves, what ever holds up my food product. Often cooking eggs on rocks.
In Campfire Girls (like Girl Scouts) we greased the inside of the big and then passed the outside of big through water. You also can just wet bag--do not make it sopping wet and by the time the bag dries out the bag is saturated with grease
+D H Sure, but...stewed eggs and bacon in a paper sack? I think it'd be worth the extra weight to bring a small cast-iron skillet. Heck, a piece of thin sheet metal that's a lot lighter would do the work of a flat top.
You could bring the raw bacon and eggs for dinner the first night, or even breakfast the first morning on the trail. As long as you could keep it cold, which isn't that hard depending on when/where you are going, it would be fine. Then you could go on with your trip and not have to deal with anything from it. If you brought a skillet, you would then have to carry it for the rest of your trip.
Pretty cool deal. My grandfather taught me how to do a mountain pie with two slices of bread and pie filling and cook it over the fire in a burger holder. works good and tastes awesome!
I learned this when I was in boy scouts. You can boil water in a brown paper lunch bag. The ones that come per waxed, using the basically same method as you used for the bacon and eggs without the bacon fat of course. The wax keeps the water in the bag and the water keeps the wax from melting and stops the bag from burning.
4:55 HE GOES FROM PUTTING THE BAG ON THE COALS TO HAVING THE FINISHED PRODUCT OFF OF THE COALS WITHOUT SHOWING US THE EGGS AND BACON COOKING AT ALL OR HIM REMOVING THE BAG. Could easily have burned the bag, fried up some eggs and bacon in a skillet, and we wouldn't know the difference.
c.4.30 The bacon grease saturates the bag, preventing it from combusting, bursting into flame (or words to that effect). c. 5.10 '...Paper bag saturated in grease; ultimate fire starter...' A bit contradictory? By the way, is there some reason you did not film the most important part? The viewer sees nothing of how the bag looked when the food was supposedly cooked. That was conveniently left out of the video. We see nothing of the removal from the fire, or removal of food from the bag. Makes for petty poor documentation, and presentation as a "how to..." video.
he also took the stupidest bite of the egg and None of the bacon that looked Raw.. yea ill always pack a pot or something, or cook on a rock before i did this nonsense. how this has 16k likes it beyond me. must all be from bear grills.
@@robertcharlton2011 fantastic point. i use to live near a paper mill.. holy shit the smell. paper pulp.. yikes. i think you are the first person to point this out too.
One of my favorite ways to cook steak is by putting a thick layer of rock salt all over it and throwing the steaks directly in the fire. When it's done, scrape off the salt and ash and you got an awesome steak.
Paper bags are still quite common.. Thing is, after some thought, I realized that when off in the woods , when are you going to run across a paper bag? It's fine if you're only slightly off road,, then a likker store is for sure going to be nearby, or if your other halp gone and packed you a lunch. But for survivalists, I see three problems for those in the deep woods.... 1) No paper bags to be had.. 2) No hogs to slice up for fresh bacon, and 3) No access to fresh eggs (unless you bag a duck!) No 2 could be substituted with ("eheheh".. gonna find me a tasty Wabbit!), or even duck since they're so fatty. Just my 2¢
It will if you get even a slight flame near it! As long as you are getting heat, and no direct flame, you are okay! Ever squirt charcoal starter on hot coals with no flame? All you get is starter fuel smoke! Once any flame is introduced, whoomp! LOL.......Any oil based fuel, like kerosene, fuel oil, diesel and the like are all the same! Hard to get lit, until it gets hot, and then look out!!...LOL
The heat transfers too quickly through the paper into the meat for the bag to ignite. The meat is cooler, and absorbs the heat in the paper faster than the paper can reach ignition temperature. However, when the bag is empty, there's nowhere for the heat to transfer to except the paper and thin oily layer inside it, so it quickly combusts.
Awesome video brother, definitely will try this hunting season and I agree! Theres nothing better than a hearty meal in the outdoors. Just subscribed and cant wait for more.
I've made bannock bread on a stick, you can find recipes on line, I think I used a Euell Gibbons recipe, you use a thicker stick, stir it in the bread dough to coat it then cook over the coals turning it to evenly cook. It's pretty good and a hit around campfires.
It's easier to find a piece of foil today than it is to find a paper bag, and it works a whole lot better. You can actually fry up the bacon so it's crispy then pop the eggs into the grease so they cook up the way you want them, not just hard fried. Plus, you can actually reuse the foil if you're careful. But if you prefer limp bacon and hard fried eggs, go for it.
old boy scout trick, I learned back in the early 60's..............BTW if you have bacon and eggs with you, and you forgot to bring a skillet, then you better not be in the woods.
The bacon grease also "waterproofs" the paper preventing the egg whites from wetting the paper. Nice illustration of how the layering of the bacon on the saturated paper (which won't "dry" out in the heat, but instead will become more saturated as the fat melts) aids in reducing the heat of the paper below the paper's ignition temperature, and the low temperature of the liquid eggs further acts as a heat sink as it and the bacon cook.
Thank you for this video--we are a big Scouting family and are preparing for some den meetings and camp outs and hope to try this recipe. Today we are going to try making cakes in an orange wrapped in foil on the fire! Fingers crossed...
You're more than welcome Mia. Hopefully you get a chance to try out and enjoy this recipe on one of your upcoming outings. The cakes in the orange sound absolutely delicious! I hope that they turned out great for you. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment by the way... it means a lot. All the best....
Once you have a little more experience you might want to try a frying pan. They are made of metal and will not burn when cooking the eggs and bacon. But nice first try.
I'm just wondering why you would WANT to cook a full animal in a bag, a flammable bag, on a fire instead of either putting it on a spit over the fire, either whole or cut up, or cut up and cook it on rocks next to said fire. Cornish hen would spit roast wonderfully, I would cut up a turkey, either would be better with a good fire and natural smoke under than trying to disposable oven cook them. The bag is only because of eggs being liquid and no container to cook in. The hollowed oranges would work better, can even add the bacon to that. The bag didn't burn because of the bacon lining the bottom, just like a balloon filled with water not popping over a candle, NOT because he lined the bag with grease, as proven at the end with the admission that paper bag lined with grease is great for reviving fire. We all know grease burns amazingly.
Don't knock the guy. It works and it's kinda neat. I like cooking on a flat hot stone and I like to use plank wood to cook fish on. I love cooking and enjoying are great outdoors. But some are right I never carry the brown bag. And aluminum foil is being linked to metal poisoning in people not a good thing. People are so outta touch when it comes reconnecting with are roots. If modern day society fails in anyways you should know old school tricks on survival.
David allen... Ok, so aluminum heated to a certain point emitts toxic smoke. If you ever did roofing, you know about steel sheathing (sheet steel). That is much lighter than carrying an iron pan... But there are ways to heat treat mess-kit cook ware, so it isn't a cleaning nightmare.
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IntenseAngler you can boil water the same way
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shhh Freddie, i win a lot of beers with that one, lol. Best thing ever is bacon on a stick, cook it just like a hotdog, just weave it onto the stick.
IntenseAngler this video was great. Definitely got me to subscribe
I really enjoyed watching someone succeed at this! Many years ago (1975 or so), I tried to demonstrate bacon-&-eggs-in-a-bag for my girl scouts. I started, of course, with safety instructions. "If your bag should catch fire," I explained, while demonstrating, "simply take two steps back and lower it to the ground." All agreed they "got it." I then placed the bacon, broke the eggs, and began the real demonstration. As I positioned breakfast over a roaring campfire (the book I'd read hadn't mentioned waiting until the fire became embers), the bag burst into big, greasy flames. Panicked, I flung the thing back over my head and into the group of girls (who--and whose parents--were counting on me to keep them safe in the woods). Fortunately, no scouts were injured, but that was my first and last camping trip!
Linda Cross Neat story, thanks for sharing Linda :)
Next time just take a little skillet with you.
Al H that was in 1975 i don't think there will be a next time ;)
It's a story worth telling, Linda. No one was hurt. It's an amusing tale.
You should go camping! I think it would be a wonderful get away for you and your family!
Great story!
#10 can of peaches not drained, white cake mix (Box) aluminum foil, heavy pan, bed of coals. Line pan with foil, add cake mix, add in peaches and juice. Mix well. Close foil over top set in coals. Shouldn't be very long until you have a fine peach cobbler.
Sounds close to the dutch oven recipe. Really one of the finest cobblers I've ever eaten.
I use pancake batter, and sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top.
Hint - if you foil the outside as well as the inside of the pan, you won't have to deal with the cooked-on carbon.
I like using canned apple pie filling and a pantload of cinnamon.
@Analog- Aptitude lmfaoooo
Cool. The bacon grease not only keeps the bag from catching fire, but also helps it catch fire.
Ripp Snortin' 😂😂😂😂 Almost like it’s complete nonsense 😱😱😱😱
@@youngwmhs5229 It is!
@@youngwmhs5229 It really doesn't make any sense but I gave him a thumbs up anyway for the strangeness of the idea. I am not trying it. My bag would catch on fire for sure. He should have shown it finished cooking and taking it out of the bag. But even if he did and was successful I am sure my bag would catch on fire.
Samual Crocket try it with tin foil
Bacon is magic that way
Great video and much appreciated Intense Angler . Did this 50 years ago in Boy Scouts and nice to see your demonstration my friend . Best wishes from rattle snake country New Mexico - > Lefty Cat
Great video --Cooking Bacon & Eggs In A Paper Bag - "Tip Of The Week" E34-- thanks so much. Gonna try this on a 3-day camping trip in April for six folks. Not because we won't have a frying pan, but just because we can, now. :) Oh, and TY, TY, TY for closed-captioning your video... my bad hearing really appreciates CC. -- Elizabeth
I like it, I love the way you hung the bacon over the fire to make it crispier.
I used to enjoy showing this to scouts when I was a scoutmaster. We used to boil water in a paper cup also and cook eggs and several other foods in a zip lock bag in boiling water. Great Video
5:30 takes the smallest bite "that is absolutely delicious" puts it back 😂
Lol I was thinking the same thing
Luke Brundidge yep ... we didnt get a close up look at that pale ass bacon
Hunter Watson Let's not forget he also said he was "starving"
Maybe it was take 10
Hahaha, you're a jerkface!!! ;)
Thanks for taking the time to get this up here. I could imagine this technique might be useful if one were, say, bike camping, and maybe not hauling a big skillet around...or maybe just because you can. Pick up some eggs and bacon in a paper bag at some convenience or other store before making camp, get that fire going, and in the morning stir the remaining coals up a bit, do that bacon and eggs in a bag thing, lay it on the coals, and in about the time it would take to pack up your gear for the day's travels it should do its thing. A potato right in the coals--no wrapping--is also a fine thing, but should maybe be put into the coals a bit earlier, since it'll likely take a bit longer to cook. You'd then get to ride off with a full tummy. By the way, an old cruising sailor's trick is to smear Vaseline onto eggs to keep them fresher longer without refrigeration. It keeps the air from permeating the shell, which is what brings the rot. It's not a magic eternal ointment or anything, but it'll keep 'em fresh for at least a few days. Vaseline rubbed into cotton balls also makes superb fire starters. I keep a bunch tucked into an old prescription bottle on the trail, so they'd always be handy to dress up an egg or three.
Anyhow, thanks again! I'll be filing your hack and others described in the comments away in the noggin for later travels.
Great vlog. I was so impressed to see someone do this. I have heard about it many times back in the 1970s, but now it is so nice to see someone actually do it. Keep posting.
when my mom would take us 6 kids and one grandson camping, she used netting to drape over the baby's bed so he didn't get eat up with skeeters, she always had her trusted cast iron skillet, she would fry up a huge pan of potatoes frying, and when they were almost done she would whip up some eggs and fry them with the potatoes for breakfast. best food in the world!
cook the bacon on the stick like a kabob , place a tiny hole in each egg and gently place it in the ash between just a few coals hole up and let it bake! about 5 minutes!
And no brown paper bag/glue taste.
Good stuff! I've boiled eggs in a foam cup before, but I've never cooked bacon and eggs in a paper bag. Thanks for posting! My kids will get a real kick of this.
Awesome job, great idea for a last minute in a pinch situation. No need for lugging around cooking gear while on a early morning hike.
Great channel by the way, thank you for sharing.
Kind regards, Eric Dee.
thank you for sharing. It is good to hear this one since I have not heard about this since I was back in boy scouts during the 90s lol.
Food always tastes better when camping. Proving that hunger is the best sauce!
Yep, that's why I take cheap chocolate and cheap whisky into the mountains 😉
Or source!
Good job! Thanks
I design my fire ring a little different… I leave about 12 inches open on the up wind side of the fire ring. I come out from the fire ring on both sides of the opening with rocks to create a channel. I rake the coals into the channel for cooking. A grill can set on the rocks and coals can be raked out of the fire ring as needed.
That way you can cook and still have a fire. 🔥
It’s 3:30AM and now I want bacon and eggs.
Get to teh living room and use a few books for the fire gtg
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What?
Every once in a while I come back to this video it’s amazing I remember watching it when it came out 8 years ago. I think I was 11
I can't even begin to tell you how much your comment means to me my friend! Thank you for coming back to this video every once in awhile. And an even bigger Thank You for all of your support for all of these years now... it means a lot!
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@@IntenseAngler Haha of course! It’s been a while but at least you know that I came back!
@@gazetacobellfurlife4799 Very true my friend... very true! :)
@@IntenseAngler I’m back! Was thinking about this video today and decided to rewatch it again. Did not disappoint me. So I guess see you until next time!!
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I remember as a child back in the very early 70s, here in Canada, we had our very own female survivorist, she was on most Saturday mornings between cartoons teaching us free spirited kids how to live in the woods. Grab an empty coofee tin can, fill a tuna can with paper and soak it in wax, then use the paper bag to cook bacon and then the eggs... thank you for keeping it alive.
One of my favorites is the zip-lok bag omelet. Get a pot of water boiling, crack an egg into a zip lok bag, add a bit of cheese, then any vegetable additions you like. I usually use chopped onion, chopped bell pepper and chopped tomato. Some people like chopped baby spinach leaves, and there may be other things you like in an omelet. Add a shake of salt and pepper. You can do as many of these at a time as you can get into the boiling water. Squeeze the bag a few times to mix up the ingredients and drop into the boiling water. Boil for three minutes, open the bag and pop the omelet onto a plate to eat.
They don't make bags high quality enough to do that anymore. They melt nowadays.
I can't think of a situation where I would find myself in the woods with bacon, eggs, and a small paper bag but not any sort of pan. However, I guess now if I do find myself in such a scenario I am good to go.
Fun fact, pioneers used to rub bacon fat on paper like that to make them more translucent and would then use them as windows. (insert "the more you know" gif)
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I know it's a long time ago,and I know you were being sarcastic and joking lol. But I always figured it was started as just something to show kids something fun that they can learn from. Teaches them they can improvise,teaches them about the properties of fire if you explain it,etc. I don't know if people started to take it a bit more seriously or what,but to me,it's still a fun thing to do and I can't believe how many people still haven't heard of it.
Great idea, can’t wait to try it. FYI your Buck knife needs sharpened, or you need a Cutco hunting knife, they will sharpen that knife anytime you want, for free, for ever. If you give that knife to your son, 30 years from know, and he breaks the tip off, he will get a knew knife. That guarantee for ever, is on that knife, it does not matter who owned it. My grandmother raised me, she had a set of Cutco knives, i know have them and use them in our camper, as i have another set in my house. I send them in every 2 years, they come back sharpened, polished and replaced if need be. And no, I do not sell Cutco, i just believe in them so much that nothing else comes close. I bought both of my son’s a set, and even though he has not opened them yet, by oldest sone for his birthday is getting the Cutco hunting knife with the gut hook, and the Fisherman’s solution, which is a filet knife that is adjustable.
Buck will also clean, sharpen and service their knives for free. Just had them do so with a 37-year old folding Hunter. Had it back in less than 2 weeks.
...but Roger on the Cutco quality. I have some of their kitchen knives - they are superb.
Cheap, stamped knives with a ton of markup and a business model that is predatory to both employees and customers. Yeah, no thanks.
LONG STORY SHORT... DOES ANYONE WANT TO BUY A KNIFE?
When I first started watching this video, I was thinking, no way is the bag going to not burst into flames! I am totally shocked! Thank you for the wonderful tip, I think I'm going to try that with my little fire at home just so I can enjoy the wonderful smell it must have made.
An old homeless person once showed me how he made coffee in a paper cup held directly over an open flame. As long as there's water in the paper cup, it won't catch on fire. He boiled water in a paper cup, added instant coffee and to be honest I was kinda impressed.
Good video my man! I have actually had that meal before! The best way to have done it, especially with all of those rocks around, would have been to find a nice flat rock, or a piece of shale, rinsed it off, or not, and put it into the fire until it was hot. You can then take it out of the fire, and you could have fried the bacon, and all of the eggs that you wanted, over and over again for about an hour without reheating! That way you could have made the eggs any style you wanted, and fried the bacon crisp! I have fried fish, pheasant, and just about everything you could imagine on natural slate that we have here in Michigan. When my sons and I would camp, we made a pact not to eat anything we didn't cook over an open fire. I am 51, and they are grown now, but I am looking forward to doing it with my grandkids! Nothing tastes better than food you cook at a campsite! Peace brother!
Tried this with cub scouts and we had flare ups and raw bacon. Eggs were good though. Thank goodness for instant oatmeal as a backup. Won't be trying this again. Glad it worked for you.
***** It didn't work for him tho. That bacon was raw as hell.
Same with us. The rest was semi cooked so the adults ate it. The kids ate oatmeal I'd brought as backup. I never thought a paper bag would hold up to fire.
+Sinfonian Barelytone It is a lot easier to hollow out an onion (leaving 3-4 good layers) and cook an egg in it, you will lose part of the outside of the onion but the egg gets nicely flavored
You can also cook an egg in an orange peelOr hard boil an egg using a Styrofoam/plastic/paper cup directly on some coals :-D
+Sinfonian Barelytone kind of like cooking pancakes at high altitude, no one ever does it twice.
yeah this is a terrible way of cooking
Here's what I do take four wet branchs that are somewhat strong and place them in a x shape and place a clean flat rock and then cook eggs normally and it tastes great
As a kid back in the early 60's, I hung around the train tracks and hopped them for fun . I use to crawl up the bridges and get baby pigeons (squabs) for the hobo's to cook in their Hobo Stew. They would find a 5 gallon can, clean water, wild onions that grow everywhere and carrots & potatoes I would bring from home and cook it up. Hobo Stew is awesome :)
This is a neat trick and a good thing to know.... Thanks :)
That was pretty dam cool . I have a fire pit in my back yard and we cook a lot meals in it with different cooking methods . All could be done 60 ft away in my kitchen but a fire is way more fun. I guess I'll try that this week ,thanks for sharing
Pretty cool! I think I'd place a potato or two there (small ones to cook faster), and there you go... bacon, eggs and taters. Mmm! Thank you for posting, great idea. :)
Potatoes take too long to cook with this method.
Great video mate my way is to use tin foil . or somtimes a old tray from my toaster oven at home I usually save the steel tray when I throw out the old toaster oven it fit into your rucksack good along with the foil .Just get a few rocks with the flat side up if possible and lay toaster tray on top make small fire underneath also save actual rack from old toaster lay on rocks
We like cooking a pumpkin over open fire you can even used the pumpkin like a Dutch oven to cook things in you can brown hamburger to think with you add them with seasonings rice and canned broth/stock. I like to toss in seasoning as roast till rice done in a hollowed out pumpkin just remove seeds
A pumpkin Dutch oven sounds AWESOME!
Can I bake a pumpkin pie without the crust in it? Because I am definitely trying that. It would be more like pumpkin pudding, but whatever.
I remember hearing about this back in like 1989 or 1990 when I was at Camp Tallaha in Charleston, Mississippi when I was in the cub scouts. Never seen it done until now when I randomly decided to do a TH-cam search on it.
Use a big grocery paper bag, you fit more bacon without cutting, use a longer stick and prop it up about 3-4in above the coals with the other end of the stick leaning against a rock with another rock sitting on top of the end of the stick so it stands by itself like a fishing pole(it's called bacon in a bag), Put a large flat rock near the fire(turn the rock so it's evenly heated), clean it, rub with bacon fat, and make a robins nest(make a hole in the center of a slice of bread for the yolk(but cooked like this it's called egg on a rock), that way you have toast too.
What a great video! Going camping this week and am going to try this.
What were your results?
Unfortunately I was rained out. Will try next season.
It's interesting to see the many different ways to cook over an open fire. Thanks for taking time to make the video.
My pleasure :) Thank you for the kind comment by the way... it's much appreciated.
Hi There a few years ago I got up early one christmas morning the first thing I did I put the oven on, but it did not work. I had to think very fast five people are waiting for christmas day lunch. I asked one of my son to build a large bon fire using old fallen branches from under the trees. I seasoned the turkey with salt and pepper and wrapped it in 16 sheets of foil. when the flames died down I made a hole in the centre of the amber andd placed the package in the centre and pushed some ember over the top and time it same as I would in the oven. After 40 minutes I could hear it sizzling I did leave it an extra 15 minutes then took in indoors. It was the juciest most tender turkey we ever had and some of the skin crisped, a little burn on one of the thigh. My neighbour who thinks I am a bit mad told his wife I was lighting a bone fire on Christmas day.
It's been so long since I camped out...used to go camping all the time with my late hubby...we camped almost every weekend...we would have our breakfast cooking on a cast iron skillet and then use the coals after breakfast for baking an apple pie...dig a hole, dump in some rocks and then half the coals, place cast iron dutch oven on top, with the pie inside...cover with the lid and place more coals on top and more rocks and bury it all and come back in about an hour or little longer and dig it up...you had the best apple pie you ever ate...we also did biscuits and cornbread this way too. I used to love going camping, after a long week at work, it was just so relaxing and fun...we fished and took nature walks, etc...we usually went with another couple that we were close friends with...we all had a blast back then. Loved the back and eggs in the paper bag trick...great video too!😊
Used this way over 50 years ago. Taught lots of kids how to do this, as well as boiling eggs in a paper cup in the fire.
in the german military we grilled Fish in Paper, just take the cleaned Fish, but let his skin normal as is was, no stripping ore soothing, it is a wast of time, even on Perch.
Than rap 3-4 Layers of milliary Toiletpaiper or 2 of normal quality around the Fish, make the paper wet and lay it in to the glowing cools.
15min on both sides for a Trout is the best time.
If you have some spice you can use them in the Fish, this is an amassing way, i do it like that ever since, the fish never gets dry, nothing is falling down salt and spice gets to the hole thing.
That's why you lost the war.....spent too much time grilling fish....
It's called papillote
Max- Eric Thiel
New or used toilet paper...lol
Max Eric, not sure when you be in the Germany Army. At my time we just follow the simple rule to put the Spices (if you have some) and put the Fish with the Head on a Stick. The Slow Grill it that way. It is called Steckerlfisch and is so still around in the South. And yes it is not as moist like yours. And yes for the follow Americans you just can nail it (use wood nails) on a Board of Apple wood. Just the way the native do it. But go on...... your way is something you can show up with
@@campinggman4806 Gman keep it simple, I love it!
Pretty awesome! We went fishing & forgot our grill, so we open up aluminium cans, flatten them out & made small personal grills for hamburgers
If you find yourself outdoors and find yourself in a similar situation but have cardboard and some minnows (A type of fish wild here in bonny Scotland) we have a similar cooking method which goes like this; Place as many minnow as you can without stacking them any higher than one level across a flat piece of cardboard from the bottom of something like a 24 pack of Budweiser or Super Tennant's lager native to my country, open up a few of these small fish first and wipe both sides of the cardboard with the innards, take a few bricks of similar size (Approx 8" high) and leave to cook through for a good thirty minutes. After you are sure the fish skin on these tiny minnows is starting to peel carefully lift of the cardboard being extremely careful not to burn yourself, throw the minnows to fu*k and eat the cardboard, happy hunting
Ah'm Wi yooz, Joe! Bound tae taste better, specally wi a hangover frae the Super Tennants!
Lol, still one of the deadliest drinks known to man, made here in Scotland I would've said Bucky too but the monks in Cornwall make it and we drink it :o)
In vast quantities according to the cops picking up the guys who don't survive it!
Wee Joe lmfao
Fuck you
I will definitely be having this for breakfast this weekend when I'm enjoying Hematite Lake in LBL!
😍 The second most useful video I've ever seen on TH-cam 😍
Thank you so much for your very generous compliment... I can't begin to express how much it means to me! I'm very glad to hear that you found this video so useful by the way :-)
I remember doing this when I was in the BSA, fun experiment and survival tool. The haters commenting on this video crack me up though, as many of them have clearly never been hiking/camping. Backpacking is all about carrying multiuse items which could possibly save your life if something went wrong. I'm not saying I carry a paper bag with me on a normal trip, but you get my point. I do often carry fresh eggs with me though :)
I agree with you, to many haters, this was a awesome trick. Do you like camping and the outdoors.
NorthSurvival If you're asking if I enjoy the outdoors, yes, I love backpacking/camping/etc. I like being able to live off of what I carry on my back and it's nice to have the skills and knowledge to survive if things went south (applies to both wilderness and "without rule of law" scenarios). Knowing things like this video shows could save your life, even as trivial as it is.
Joshua Cranston I like that too. Bushcraft and survival is my thing. I do a lot of cool and useful stuff on my channel. Take care.
"Survival tool"
Lmfao, piss off. Where are you going to find bacon and a paper bag in the wild? The fuck?
I'm cracking up at the haters, too. Obviously never hiked farther than a couple hundred yards from their Escalade.
Hey I'm okwith nature camping tips when you hardly have anything or in an emergency. Thumb up to the guy, and his video. Taste? Can't be picky in nature, it feeds you that's all that matters 😀
Boy Scout stuff from the 1960's.
,50 cent skillet from Goodwill does a better job.
Paper bags are meant to carry your Beer in. 😎
Really?...wouldn't the beer soak through the bag?
@@CB-xr1eg LMFAO
I guess you mean a cast iron skillet for people walking from the parking lot to your “camp site”... for people who actually hike and camp, carrying a cast iron skillet on your back with a pack for 50 miles isn’t realistic.
@@TheresFuckeryAfoot true. I use a cook kit from 1980 (tin? stainless?) for boiling water for dehydrated stuff (coffee, tea, food). I fail to work up the courage yet to carry bacon and eggs for a week. Too heavy.
I have cooked turkey in a paper bag before but this was a first for me. Thanks. Looks great for getting a good meal with limited resources when out in the wild.
I've cooked Thanksgiving stuffed Turkey in a large paper bag saturated with vegetable oil. Works like a charm. I will definitely try this!! Thanks for the tip.
Frying bacon has never smelt so good, as when mixed with pine tree scent while camping.
Next week, how to cook soup in a hair net !
Chris66able weak
I pass!!!!
Chris66able LMFAO!!👏
Hahaha, you're a jerkface!!! ;)
😂
hey, I think its a great idea..actually thinking outside of the bag, so to speak. Gonna give this a try. A person can never learn too many ways to do something. Thanks for the idea and video!
Amen. Thanks for saying what I was thinking
I learned this at Girl Scout camp many MANY decades ago and had completely forgotten about it. Thanks so much for the reminder!
You're so very welcome! I'm glad that this brought back some good memories for you :) Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment by the way... it's much appreciated!
That was just too cool... will have to try.
Talk about brown bagging a lunch, never thought I could do the same thing, for a good breakfast in the woods.
I used to hollow out oranges and cooked an egg in them over the fire.
Sounds delicious... going to have to give that one a try. Thanks :)
We did that in girl scouts once. :D
I think that makes more sense than cooking an egg on TOP of raw bacon inside of a paper bag
IntenseAngler We did same thing when i was a kid. Make Oj then use the orange rhines to cook eggs in.
Cryonix great imagination
as a boy I would go hunting with my Grandfather, he would toast his lunch sandwich on the coals of a fire inside a paper bag. I wish I had payed attention and could remember how he did it. The sandwich was always golden brown
When the Zombie Apocalypse happens I will be well prepared... paper bag..fire.. bacon and eggs..tent made from branches and slingshot made from my knickers !!! I aim to survive !
@Agent J Can you eat the inserts in adult diapers? I don't know, but willing to bet they got eaten in Venezuela.
Slingshot would be better made from your bra? Use your knickers to strain drinking water.
@Agent J Easy there boy, I wasn't arguing, just having a bit of fun. You have heard of fun...right?
@Agent J What the fuck are you smoking? None of your replies make any sense.
Hey, great idea and NICE JOB! A great tip for emergency camping, if you have to stop where you did not plan on, and get some food going:) My grandmother used to make hobo bread in a tin can! She would just mix up the ingredients and heat the can (which can be over a fire) and in a few minuets, you have cake or bread in a tin:) Old fashion food ideas from the poor on the road...etc. Cheers!
I've been camping, hiking, and surviving in the woods better than 30 years. This is completely new to me. Thanks for the great idea. I tend to utilize branches, leaves, what ever holds up my food product. Often cooking eggs on rocks.
Throw a flat rock on the fire & use the rock as the skillet.
G.R, Dray primitive technology
Thats what we do. Flat rock near the fire. Works great.
Go to Bennigans!
Eggs slidddde duuude.☺
or, just bring a skillet
In Campfire Girls (like Girl Scouts) we greased the inside of the big and then passed the outside of big through water. You also can just wet bag--do not make it sopping wet and by the time the bag dries out the bag is saturated with grease
Great episode and one I used recently in practice while camping and having lost our gear. Thanks so much for getting me out of a pinch.
I must say that was quite impressive!
I'll keep this in mind next time I'm lost in the woods with my sack of bacon and eggs.
absolutely starving now. So he goes to the nearest cafe 2 miles down the road!!
probably a good idea, since he forgot to bring a pan
If you can bring the raw bacon and eggs, you can also bring a skillet.
+James Ash except a skillet is a LOT heavier...;)
+D H Sure, but...stewed eggs and bacon in a paper sack? I think it'd be worth the extra weight to bring a small cast-iron skillet. Heck, a piece of thin sheet metal that's a lot lighter would do the work of a flat top.
or show me how to make a metal skillet, then I'll be impressed
+James Ash Wrap the bacon in leaves and put the eggs into the ashes and enjoy :)
You could bring the raw bacon and eggs for dinner the first night, or even breakfast the first morning on the trail. As long as you could keep it cold, which isn't that hard depending on when/where you are going, it would be fine. Then you could go on with your trip and not have to deal with anything from it. If you brought a skillet, you would then have to carry it for the rest of your trip.
Pretty cool deal. My grandfather taught me how to do a mountain pie with two slices of bread and pie filling and cook it over the fire in a burger holder. works good and tastes awesome!
I learned this when I was in boy scouts. You can boil water in a brown paper lunch bag. The ones that come per waxed, using the basically same method as you used for the bacon and eggs without the bacon fat of course. The wax keeps the water in the bag and the water keeps the wax from melting and stops the bag from burning.
the trail behind him leads to a waffle house
Lol
@Beegee L
Me too!!!😉
I like foil wrapped and coal cooking ...that bag is okay but good chance of a fire . Lol
Rather EAT THE BAG than eat at Awful House!
AWEFUL
4:55 HE GOES FROM PUTTING THE BAG ON THE COALS TO HAVING THE FINISHED PRODUCT OFF OF THE COALS WITHOUT SHOWING US THE EGGS AND BACON COOKING AT ALL OR HIM REMOVING THE BAG. Could easily have burned the bag, fried up some eggs and bacon in a skillet, and we wouldn't know the difference.
look at the video again, and notice around the bacon and eggs and the burnt edges of the bag, clearly it did catch fire but it was edited out heh heh
I'm suddenly hungry for bacon and eggs. Be right back!
c.4.30 The bacon grease saturates the bag, preventing it from combusting, bursting into flame (or words to that effect).
c. 5.10 '...Paper bag saturated in grease; ultimate fire starter...'
A bit contradictory?
By the way, is there some reason you did not film the most important part? The viewer sees nothing of how the bag looked when the food was supposedly cooked. That was conveniently left out of the video. We see nothing of the removal from the fire, or removal of food from the bag. Makes for petty poor documentation, and presentation as a "how to..." video.
he also took the stupidest bite of the egg and None of the bacon that looked Raw.. yea ill always pack a pot or something, or cook on a rock before i did this nonsense. how this has 16k likes it beyond me. must all be from bear grills.
I'm sure there's no harmful chemicals holding all that paper together as well. Lol
@@robertcharlton2011 fantastic point. i use to live near a paper mill.. holy shit the smell. paper pulp.. yikes. i think you are the first person to point this out too.
The bottom of the food looks really black, probably the reason why theres no unbaging, it caught fire.
@@Isaiah42069 Compare that to Betty Crock's cake in a box ingerdients lol
OMG I have not done this in over 50 years and had forgotten about it. It is a great way to cook over a fire without a pan
One of my favorite ways to cook steak is by putting a thick layer of rock salt all over it and throwing the steaks directly in the fire. When it's done, scrape off the salt and ash and you got an awesome steak.
The hardest part would be finding a paper bag? I haven't seen one in years.
lol
strange, but true!, what about a paper plate?
Burger King take out bags
go to a liquor store
Paper bags are still quite common.. Thing is, after some thought, I realized that when off in the woods , when are you going to run across a paper bag? It's fine if you're only slightly off road,, then a likker store is for sure going to be nearby, or if your other halp gone and packed you a lunch.
But for survivalists, I see three problems for those in the deep woods....
1) No paper bags to be had..
2) No hogs to slice up for fresh bacon,
and
3) No access to fresh eggs (unless you bag a duck!)
No 2 could be substituted with ("eheheh".. gonna find me a tasty Wabbit!), or even duck since they're so fatty.
Just my 2¢
That's really smart and awesome! Great tips
+mari2010 Thanks :)
So, a paper bag soaked in bacon grease is the ultimate fire starter as you say. But when there's actually bacon in the bag, it doesn't ignite?
Camper logic.
It's fat, not kerosene. It may burn well but good luck getting it started without just tossing it into the fire.
It will if you get even a slight flame near it! As long as you are getting heat, and no direct flame, you are okay! Ever squirt charcoal starter on hot coals with no flame? All you get is starter fuel smoke! Once any flame is introduced, whoomp! LOL.......Any oil based fuel, like kerosene, fuel oil, diesel and the like are all the same! Hard to get lit, until it gets hot, and then look out!!...LOL
The heat transfers too quickly through the paper into the meat for the bag to ignite. The meat is cooler, and absorbs the heat in the paper faster than the paper can reach ignition temperature.
However, when the bag is empty, there's nowhere for the heat to transfer to except the paper and thin oily layer inside it, so it quickly combusts.
*****
Thanks for the reply. Makes sense.
Awesome video brother, definitely will try this hunting season and I agree! Theres nothing better than a hearty meal in the outdoors. Just subscribed and cant wait for more.
I've made bannock bread on a stick, you can find recipes on line, I think I used a Euell Gibbons recipe, you use a thicker stick, stir it in the bread dough to coat it then cook over the coals turning it to evenly cook. It's pretty good and a hit around campfires.
It's easier to find a piece of foil today than it is to find a paper bag, and it works a whole lot better. You can actually fry up the bacon so it's crispy then pop the eggs into the grease so they cook up the way you want them, not just hard fried. Plus, you can actually reuse the foil if you're careful. But if you prefer limp bacon and hard fried eggs, go for it.
crispy bacon? might as well throw it in the woods and start over.
who the fuck eats burnt crispy bacon??? go eat tree bark
Gotta have that bacon crispy or you might as well cook a ham.
That bacon wasn't cooked-you know it, and I know it. Our little secret.
old boy scout trick, I learned back in the early 60's..............BTW if you have bacon and eggs with you, and you forgot to bring a skillet, then you better not be in the woods.
Very cool, I will remember this one if/when the 'big one' hits in Victoria!
I seen lots of camp cooking tricks , that's a new one for me! every trick counts. Thanks!
Next up...how to make a sleeping bag out of a candy wrapper
cook the bacon on a hot rock...boil the eggs in your cup sitting there
And shave in a puddle with a broken beer bottle
For real
GO TO A DINER
same rock thats been shat on for hundreds of years .. mmmmmmmm
@power equipment use a plastic one
My God you have discovered the recipe for the egg mcmuffin.
The bacon grease also "waterproofs" the paper preventing the egg whites from wetting the paper. Nice illustration of how the layering of the bacon on the saturated paper (which won't "dry" out in the heat, but instead will become more saturated as the fat melts) aids in reducing the heat of the paper below the paper's ignition temperature, and the low temperature of the liquid eggs further acts as a heat sink as it and the bacon cook.
Thank you for this video--we are a big Scouting family and are preparing for some den meetings and camp outs and hope to try this recipe. Today we are going to try making cakes in an orange wrapped in foil on the fire! Fingers crossed...
You're more than welcome Mia. Hopefully you get a chance to try out and enjoy this recipe on one of your upcoming outings. The cakes in the orange sound absolutely delicious! I hope that they turned out great for you. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment by the way... it means a lot. All the best....
Getting ready to watch but I'm like get out of here in a bag?
Once you have a little more experience you might want to try a frying pan. They are made of metal and will not burn when cooking the eggs and bacon. But nice first try.
+Bob Hope Hmm....lug around a metal frying pan in my backpack or a packet of small paper bags...decisions decisions
+Bob Hope What would he do to make a tutorial then? "How to pee behind a tree"?
I wonder if you got a really big bag if you could cook a turkey?
That would be awesome.
the bag in the video is probably large enough for a cornish hen though, not a turkey, but turkey-esque
I'm just wondering why you would WANT to cook a full animal in a bag, a flammable bag, on a fire instead of either putting it on a spit over the fire, either whole or cut up, or cut up and cook it on rocks next to said fire. Cornish hen would spit roast wonderfully, I would cut up a turkey, either would be better with a good fire and natural smoke under than trying to disposable oven cook them. The bag is only because of eggs being liquid and no container to cook in. The hollowed oranges would work better, can even add the bacon to that. The bag didn't burn because of the bacon lining the bottom, just like a balloon filled with water not popping over a candle, NOT because he lined the bag with grease, as proven at the end with the admission that paper bag lined with grease is great for reviving fire. We all know grease burns amazingly.
Yes you can. I've done it. In an oven, of course where the temperature never gets near the flash point of paper.
sure, as long as you line it with bacon! lol
This brought back so many memories of sack cooking in the Twin Falls ID. boy scouts. We cooked rainbow trout on bacon as well.
You made me hungry. Bacon and eggs are my favorite foods with fried potatoes. I don't just eat these in the morning... ☺ yummy video
Don't knock the guy. It works and it's kinda neat. I like cooking on a flat hot stone and I like to use plank wood to cook fish on. I love cooking and enjoying are great outdoors. But some are right I never carry the brown bag. And aluminum foil is being linked to metal poisoning in people not a good thing. People are so outta touch when it comes reconnecting with are roots. If modern day society fails in anyways you should know old school tricks on survival.
Mmm... a couple of fresh caught trout cooked on a bit Cedar over the ol' fire sounds pretty good about now :)
Hopefully it never comes down to that
David allen... Ok, so aluminum heated to a certain point emitts toxic smoke. If you ever did roofing, you know about steel sheathing (sheet steel). That is much lighter than carrying an iron pan... But there are ways to heat treat mess-kit cook ware, so it isn't a cleaning nightmare.
A flat rock definitely sounds better than a paper bag.
this guys gonna to survive in a zombie apocalypse!
When you're in a pinch and all you have is a paper bag, four strips of bacon, two eggs, and a cigarette lighter.......
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And a cell phone with the Grub Hub app...lol
That was way kool. I've cooked turkey in paper bag and is one of juicy turkey I've ever made. Thanks for the video
great surprise bacon and eggs in a bag ! Delightful ! Thanks !