Foil Dinner Campfire Cooking Hack – How to cook the perfect foil dinner while camping! This simple trick will prevent your foil dinner from burning over the campfire.
This Summer we had the chance to spend a few days camping in the heart of the Rocky Mountains in beautiful Alberta, Canada! Foil dinners seem to be the go-to camping food in our family and they can be delicious – but I always find it hard to cook them just right. While the top layer of food is edible, the food on the bottom tends to burn!
My sister and her husband shared a little trick with us and it is genius! No more burned foil dinners for us! I can’t wait to give this a try on our next camping trip!
Foil Dinner Campfire Cooking Hack
To help prevent your foil dinner from burning and to promote more even cooking start with heavy duty aluminum foil – you need the good stuff!
Prepare your food. Make sure it’s cut up into small, evenly sized pieces. Get TWO pieces of foil, spray the inside layer with cooking spray to prevent sticking. Place meat first as this will take the longest to cook. Add remaining ingredients. Wrap up the food, fold ends securely to prevent any food or juices from leaking out.
Here’s the trick! Take two layers of newspaper, dip them in water and then wrap the foil food packet tightly with the damp newspaper. Finish off by wrapping the packet with one more layer of foil and voila!
This damp layer of newspaper helps prevent burning and actually acts to insulate the food inside, keeping it nice and cool before cooking.
This method would work just as well when cooking foil dinners at home on the grill.
More Quick Tips for Cooking Foil Dinners
1. Cut up meat and vegetables in small, like-sized pieces so they’ll cook evenly and more quickly.
2. Don’t cheap out on light weight tinfoil – get the heavy duty kind. It makes a big difference!
3. Spray the foil with cooking spray to avoid food from sticking.
4. Be sure to flip your foil packet every 15-20 minutes while cooking for more even cooking.
5. Cook over hot coals, NOT an open flame. The heat generated from the hot coals is more consistent.
A few of our Favorite Campfire Cooking Accessories
If you love camping as much as we do here are a few things that we use that might come in handy next time you’re cooking in the great outdoors!
Portable High Chair for little Campers
Jet Boil Personal Cooking System
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I’ve always wanted to try a foil dinner when camping. Maybe we should try this at the beach next week.
You can also take a lettuce leaf and line the bottom of the inside of the foil and put the meat and other ingredients in the leaf and that won’t burn.