Posts by SeabeeCook

I cleaned mine every two weeks at camp this summer. With a 10 or 15-gal capasity, it wasn't too bad. The job was made easy by having the dishwachers limit the ammount of grease and food scraps that went down the drain. Sorry, I won't...

I find that it takes about 1 quart of cheese sauce per pound of dry macaroni, cooked.

I agree about bagie pants ... I've avoided them most of my career in institutions. We wore a Dickie-style brown pant in the prison system as staff. Now that I've working at a casino, our only option is baggie chexs with draw strings. The...

My experience is if you pettle "prison slop," the inmates will turn you into slop. I don't know about Canada, but here in California, prison jobs offer chefs and cooks a good way to earn a very good wage and steady income,...

My vote was for open fire. Like others, I grew up camping where we always cooked over a campfire. My father didn't buy a Colement camp stove until after I enlisted in the Navy. Even today, I will cook over a mesquite charcoal fire at...

I purchased a Craftsman toolbox at Kmart last spring for my summer job. It worked great and held all my tools except knives. For knives I used an old canvas knife roll. I didn't need the knife roll once I was at work since I stored them...

My longest was over 12 years ...

K-bat, chef's knife -- it doesn't matter -- I've always had a thing against using knives to open cans. Today, I've got this ingrained habit to check the can opener before I venture out on a camping trip or cooking job.

I've been using dedicated camping kitchen equipment since the late 1980s. I first purchased an Army surplus footlocker for a chuckbox in the late 1980s, then moved to a purpose-built chuckbox in 2001. My blog contains more information on...

I've been keeping one for about 20 years and just started book number 26 at the begining of August. The notebook started as a camping notebook and slowly evolved into a culinary notebook and journal of sorts. I use it often, daily during...