Camping Utensils You Cant Camp Without

The kind of camping utensils you take with you on you camping trip will determine what you are going to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You can light the greatest campfire ever built, pack the finest gourmet food and wine, and plan the tastiest camping menu ever written; but if you forget camping utensils – or bring the wrong ones – your meals will fall short of your expectations.

Camping Essentials

There are a few essential camping utensils that must go on every camping trip:

>Whisk. Use your whisk to beat eggs for scrambled eggs, omelettes, quiche, and other egg based camp dishes. The same whisk can also be used to mix hot chocolate or other beverages.

>Cheese grater. Never go camping without a big block of cheese and a cheese grater to grate it with. Melted, grated cheese can turn bread into a meal. Using different varieties of cheese can make tomorrow morning's omelette taste fresh and different from today's. A cheese grater can also be used to grate carrots, onions, and other crisp vegetables to add interest to your meals.

>Cutting board. On a camping trip, a cutting board doubles as a countertop, because it's a flat, level surface that is relatively easy to keep clean. You will use your cutting board to chop vegetables, cut meat, slice bread, drain bacon, make sandwiches, grate cheese, and do dozens of other tasks.

>Paring Knife. Use your paring knife to cut fruit and vegetables, rolls, meat, and serving dishes. You can get by on you entire camping trip, but if you can also find room for a serrated knife, you will find that you use both knives to prepare camping meals.

>Steel Tongs. Tongs are one of those camping utensils that, if you don't bring them, you'll be thinking during the entire camping trip, "I wish I'd brought my tongs!" Tongs are great for keeping corn on the cob and noodles under boiling water, and fishing them out of the water after they're finished cooking. With tongs, you can hold a piece of bread close to the campfire until it toasts on one side, or pull foil-wrapped potatoes from the embers.

>Eating utensils. Of course each camper needs his or her own knife, fork and spoon for eating everything. Bring one or two large serving spoons, or the food will be cold by the time you get it dished up on everybody's plate.

>Scrub brush. The last camping utensil you will need is a plastic scrub brush to make cleanup a breeze.