How long jacket potato in fire

Be sure to visit The Camping Family home page for lots of helpful hints. Camping Lists. Food Ideas. Screen Tents. Tin Foil Dinners. Planning your Trip. Search this site. Enjoy this page? Please pay it forward. Also, remember to add plenty of salt and pepper. Larger potatoes such as number threes are better to use than the store run number twos, as they take a little longer to cook and have more food per potato.

Russets are a great choice for this camping dish recipe. The difference in these campfire potatoes is in the preparation stage. Instead of piercing the potato, you need to cut it about halfway through in a deep lengthwise slit. Add the garlic and onion or, in a pinch, substitute with garlic and onion powder. Just remember that fresh garlic and onion simply have more flavors than the powdered versions. Note that diced onions and garlic are likely to caramelize during cooking and they will impart more flavor to the potatoes.

You can also add sliced peppers, though this is optional. You can also vary the flavor a bit by adding oregano, basil, or bacon. Wrap the potatoes and onion-garlic mixture in the foil, sealing as tightly as possible to retain the flavors. Check to make sure that your campfire has a good bed of coals. It is best to let the coals die down a little before adding the potatoes. If the coals are too hot the outside of the potatoes may cook far quicker than the inside, leaving you with a charred outside and a nearly raw inside.

Also cooler coals allow more time for the flavors to permeate the potatoes. Add potatoes to the coals and watch carefully. You don't need an oven to make a perfectly cooked baked potato. An open flame like you would find at a campfire provides the necessary heat to bake a potato. Learning how to cook a potato in a campfire opens up your camping menu to go beyond the basic stick-roasted hot dogs with a side of chips or pasta salad.

The key to an evenly baked open-flame potato is keeping a close eye on the cooking progress of the potato. Clean the potato by washing and scrubbing it under cold water.

Use a vegetable brush to get the dirt that doesn't wash away easily on its own. Dry the potatoes gently with a clean towel. Stab the potato on all sides with a fork to create a series of holes in the skin. We even have a small round grill we use mainly for the potatoes.

We put them on a grate and cover. Just turn them once in a while and when you pick them up to turn if they are soft- then they are done. We make enough to refridgerate a couple to slice for breakfast fries. Simple and delicious.

Dick Fiedler. My family also tried this method and we made the 5 nicest charcoal briquets you ever saw. Needless to say we had no potatoes with that meal. All Reviews for Campfire Baked Potatoes. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs. Amount is based on available nutrient data. If you are following a medically restrictive diet, please consult your doctor or registered dietitian before preparing this recipe for personal consumption. All Reviews. The bacon will pretty much dissapear but the juices soak into the potatoe.

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