Bushcraft Camping & Cooking on Embers

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In this video myself and Megan spend a night in a woodland wild camping. I show how we set up a basic camp for an evening and Megan shows how she makes flat breads cooked over the embers of a fire. Cooking on a fire can be very simple and often requires very little as long as you allow the fire to die down to embers allowing you to manage heat far easier.

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hi there guys it's Mike and Mike here from mcg bushcraft hi guys all right doing some camping there's some wild camping in this woodland here we've been walking for quite some time just tracking around the woodland and we found this really nice location down here we have a nice water source a little stream a little bit turbid from the rain over the last few weeks but it's good enough but we have some high winds and rain coming in so we've got to get the tarp up get everything ready for this evening make sure that the camp is fairly comfortable and adequate for dealing with that kind of weather even though we're here for just one night you want to be dry and comfortable so we thought we'd take you along with us show you how we get everything set up and there hopefully later on when we settle down we can get some cooking on the go [Applause]

most of you have seems the tarp setup that I use to miss quick deployment setup this allows me to put the tarp up really quickly

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so this is the tarp setup I've gone with we've got a nice slanted bit just on the back there and that's runoff for the rain and in heavy rain it's really important to have that also helps you collect water as well if you run a piece of cord down from one of the end tabs or even if it's just dripping you can put your canteen there and get fresh water and like the dirty stuff that's going to be down in that River loads of soil that needs filtering out but we've kept it drawn down at the back there a lot of the winds are coming in up this sort of ravine area here the steeper part of the woodland if we pad out the strategy spot down here later with a little bit of wood maybe some debris and leaves then it will cut the draft site but it's looking quite good it's nice and high as well I don't like tarps that squash to the ground nor honestly I like them even higher than this but because of the winds we've got to be sensible and the rain as well or us will get wet because it's only a three by three but the letter of the day now is wood because it's been raining we need dead standing so we'll go and look for that but some Megan also looked some tinder if she can find some birch bark or something easy to light the fire with rather than feather sticks a lot of stuff ran here is very damp at the moment but this is hazel karelis Avalonia and it produces a lot of dead standing wood almost all year round you can see here lots and lots of dead wood all over the hazel here it's dry dead spamming wood doesn't absorb moisture like the wood off the ground so it's off the ground it's perfect for this kind of weather I'm going to gather lots of wood just like this huge bunches and if we got some decent tinder or we have a feather stick the fire will get going in no time those each box was thin around here the box

birch grows thickest where the climate is coldest and unfortunately here in the British and in the face it's certainly not that cold anymore so it doesn't grow very thick you want it thick really this will be okay it'll help my son so that's the softwoods dealt with that was hazel we've got lots of hazel some really big stuff - you should have big pieces like this when the fires really going you don't want to be chopping it up all the time doing trips away from camp finding wood all throughout the night you really wants to just have the fire going and be able to maintain it so get the job done while it's light but this is the soft woods really what we want now is some ash and oak or Hawthorne which are hot burners that we can put on especially as a raft on the ground first and that will give us a really good bed of embers for cooking but also keep the fire going almost all night without us having to venture out and get more wood it looks like some ash here certainly is this is fraxinus excelsior the ash tree and lots of different types of access is just a variety that we have in the British Isles and it's very cankered if you look at the bark but we've got a nice dead piece here ash is really springy and even though it looks a bit sort of tattered because of the bark actually underneath the wood will be really hard and this is dead standing if we bring this over

but this would be a decent piece of timber to put on the ground turn into a good bed of embers for us along with the other pieces that went over there [Laughter]

everything's very damp even this bark has to be so careful with it not keep it Crump together too often that's what will happen is just smother it very sensitive

see it's already starting to smother a bit and then when you pick the bar couple a bit of air and it comes alive a little bit more and just keep feeding it little shavings keeping them burning on the edges they're not lying them on the flap like that on the edges like this and they burn really volatile we don't really need anymore of the spark there's plenty around so I'll just put put it on without trying to smother anything we can get all of our twigs and put them over just like this and they won't actually touch the fire because of this a large log at the back that really helps us keep the oxygen in there we should have a good bed of embers in about an hour and a half maybe two at most

that's looking good now we just want to let it evolve turning into quite a nice day the rains are held off for us for the time being and the afternoon is looking pretty clear and the fire's dying down now into a really good bed of embers almost ready to cook on but a little bit more time yet and I made a simple bench kneeling by a fire isn't very comfortable sitting down this is way more comfortable for the both of us really instead of this vamp clay on your knees all the time but yeah you're going to be doing a little bit of camp cooking aren't you yeah yeah it's got some leftover vegetable chili that I made the other day use a couple of vegetables from my allotment and I brought some flatbread mixture so that we can make that up and cut back on the fire too so take to your keepers nice and warm this evening yeah should be nice it's sort of the kind of food we really eat when we're camping together you can bring leftovers with you and make things like flat breads provide you a bit of carbohydrate so should be really nice but yeah I'll try and give you a hand and you know we'll crack on so I'm going to go for the utensils and the ingredients I brought with us to make our dinner I've made this rolling pin earlier we've got the dry mixture here which is gluten free flour 200 grams a pinch of salt 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder 1/4 teaspoon of xanthan gum as some of you might know in celiac so I have to eat gluten free and that puts the elasticity back into gluten-free flour then we have a bit of oil which will add a couple of drops into that mixture and then we have the vegetable Chile which I made the other night some of its got the kale and purple starting from the allotment so I'm excited to try that out then we also have the container which I'm going to make the mixture in the dough going to knead it into this container so let's get started so we've got the dry mixture now in the canteen I'm going to absolute oil to the mixture not all of it just going to add a couple of spoons full and then mix that in and then we're going to gradually add our lukewarm water until it turns into a nice dough well makes is making the dough this is where the real shaft work begins

heating up chilly I'm not the best cook are more of one of these basic heaters or iMac but one makes us is me I tend to eat quite well does it really good very healthy meat quite a lot of vegetables don't we make grow a lot of things on our allotment when the seasons right that's kind of the way it's been for a while isn't it you grow lots of stuff my gran do quite a bit of hunting yeah exactly if I grate potatoes kale purple sprouting onions all the list goes on yeah good way of living yes all right it's a shame we don't have more a sort area to grow more actually that's always the limitation when you don't own your own very like lands basically isn't it in this country not quite like that maybe in other parts of the world but I'm just going to push this into the embers and just let it warm up you don't want the fire to hot when you're cooking it's a mistake that a lot of people make you want it like this where it's literally just embers it would be very hot in the call but you can manage heat a lot better with a fire like that flame is for boiling water Embassy for cooking food and I have a little bit of waters to this as well stop shit burning so when you're cooking flat breads on the embers like this it only takes about a couple of minutes on each side and then your dance and legacy really I see hmm pretty good it's one useful reason why being near a water source is a they're helpful really when you're around a campsite even just for a night because you can wash things this water isn't particularly clean I'm quite suspicious of it actually in terms of agricultural runoff and what we'd need to do is use it to wash things with but then actually put it by the fire and let it dry out completely with heat and that will sterilize it well guys hope you enjoyed this video we just thought we'd bring you along for our lit lighting here or some of it anyway we're going to get this camp squared away now sort the tarp and get all bed rolls together and get ready for the evening so just - thanks to Meg as well for doing the cooking Mase welcome thank you enjoy it I hope you enjoyed this video thanks again for watching and see you next time

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