Hi, so I don't know whether this is the best place, cause I want to cook chicken at camp. And I'm not really sure what's camping like in different countries, but basically our school camps is where the students just stay over at school. And then we sorta make fires in the field or something and cook stuff...and so me and my friends decided to bring a chicken or two to try to cook. Now I say cook cause I don't know whether to roast them or bake them or whatever...
A little bit about the conditions, there would be a small campfire, on which we can do our cooking, and there may be 1-3 chickens. There's no spit, just a fire...unless you suggest making one ourselves
What I'm thinking of doing would be just covering them in butter, wrapping them up in aluminium foil and then burying it in the embers, or even just under the fire. I don't know if that's a good way of cooking it so I'd like to know:
A little bit about the conditions, there would be a small campfire, on which we can do our cooking, and there may be 1-3 chickens. There's no spit, just a fire...unless you suggest making one ourselves
What I'm thinking of doing would be just covering them in butter, wrapping them up in aluminium foil and then burying it in the embers, or even just under the fire. I don't know if that's a good way of cooking it so I'd like to know:
- How big and what type of chickens would you recommend?
- Do I use whole chickens, or do I chop it up before hand?
- What can I put on them? Besides butter or some herbs, and maybe half a lemon or something...
- How do you suggest I cook them? Like I said, I would just wrap them and bury them, but is there a nicer way, or a better method?
- And also, how long would your suggested methods take to cook the chicken thoroughly? I'd rather not get food poisoning because of that, or worse, someone else getting food poisoning...