Moving your cooking equipment further away lowers the heat reaching the food. While there are techniques to cook directly on coals, most campfire cooking cooks food with the heat coming off the flames. That heat can reach around 600☏ (320☌). Blue flames have a temperature in between white and red-orange flames. Looking at flame color can help determine fire temperature. White flames are very hot. While this lesson was short and simple for the elementary students, let’s get a little more in-depth here. The food portion of the day included a talk about how to cook when electricity and modern equipment were not available, such as campfire cooking. Thanks to 4-H Memorial Camp in Monticello for hosting Illinois Extension and Monticello Elementary School for a day of education about pioneer lifestyle, including choosing items for a covered wagon journey, playing games, cooking and preserving foods, and learning about pelts and animals.
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