Prospector's Camp Cooking

[geno]

Forgive him for he knows not what he is doing.

[golden optimist]

Just calling them as I see them russau . I did not know a " General Prospecting " forum was a place to share recipes and hawk grills . When I read the topic heading " Prospectors Camp Cooking. " Somehow I thought it might have something to do with prospecting . I did not expect to see someone grilling on their boat . What was I thinking ?

If the flippant tone of my comments makes me a bad person in your eyes I guess I'll just have to live with it . I also think the fish looked quite tasty and Matt seems like a nice fellow , but that does not assuage my opinion on the post itself .

I would guess that you haven't been a long time visitor to this forum. We are fairly lax in categorizing posts. Most of us here are very close friends that have prospected and camped together many times over the years. As such, we are closer to family than just forum members and we are interested in what each other are doing. When Anne posts about her and her mother building a porch, many of us eagerly follow along.

Off topic? Yes but it's hard to find better friends than what you will meet here. If you are a diehard prospector, you need to join us on our outtings. There you will meet some of the most knowledgeable prospectors there is. Also, you'll find some like me that think the gold is in the people, not the ground. Thats the beauty of it. There is room for all.
Leonard

[Dust to Dust]

Just calling them as I see them russau . I did not know a " General Prospecting " forum was a place to share recipes and hawk grills . When I read the topic heading " Prospectors Camp Cooking. " Somehow I thought it might have something to do with prospecting . I did not expect to see someone grilling on their boat . What was I thinking ?

If the flippant tone of my comments makes me a bad person in your eyes I guess I'll just have to live with it . I also think the fish looked quite tasty and Matt seems like a nice fellow , but that does not assuage my opinion on the post itself .

I would guess that you haven't been a long time visitor to this forum. We are fairly lax in categorizing posts. Most of us here are very close friends that have prospected and camped together many times over the years. As such, we are closer to family than just forum members and we are interested in what each other are doing. When Anne posts about her and her mother building a porch, many of us eagerly follow along.

Off topic? Yes but it's hard to find better friends than what you will meet here. If you are a diehard prospector, you need to join us on our outtings. There you will meet some of the most knowledgeable prospectors there is. Also, you'll find some like me that think the gold is in the people, not the ground. Thats the beauty of it. There is room for all.
Leonard[/quote

Poetic . BS , but poetic . I was told about this website because the guy prospects in Georgia . If this thing is about Ms. Jones building a porch or Mr.Smith changing a flat tire then it should be listed as a friends chat room about whatever happened on the way to the grocery store . Not goldprospecting . Sorry if that scrapes on you . Again ; just call them like I see them , nothing personal . Unless you choose to take it that way . Everybody has a right to feel the way they feel .But maybe your right . Maybe I should mosey on . I just did not know about such forums and thought I would check it out while the weather is bad . I did see some good prospecting and find pictures on here though . Farewell sir .

[russau]

Matt on his many travels and many youtube videos has in the past brought his other boat along. ive seen it in the mountains of Colorado on his trip west. and he has cooked for all. the boat was quit a sight up there in the mountains!but then again Matt is quit a guy and a friend! and cooking is part of the entire event when your out with this group!we all enjoy our evenings in camp around a warm fire after dredgeing cold water during the day! sorry you dont see it that way!

[4theluvofgold]

Wow not too much of a miner there. I have been a member of this forum for quite a while myself and though I never posted to much have met a few folks on here. Mostly at DEF in Oregon.

I care about how fellow prospector friends are doing. Its not just friends, its Prospecting friends. And I know with my working mining I need a good way to make grub. A trout caught after some good mining is perfect.

Take it easy as this is a Prospectors forum. You have the option whether to open posts that are a little off the normal gold getting topics.

[golden optimist]

At the risk of offending anyone, here's some more camp cooking. It's not on a boat but is on our mining claim on the Arkansas River so should be a little closer fit for the General Prospecting, not that that matters a lot.

Steve drove down from Denver just to cook a meal for us. This is his recipie.

Steve's up-the-butt beer can chicken

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If you look closely under the left chicken, you can see a Foster's oil can beer. Thats about 22 ounces or so. First step before "insertion" is to drink 1/2 of the can. The chicken only gets the remaining half. So what you see here is 3 - 1/2 cans of beer. Steve has taken one for the group and drank the other 3 - 1/2 cans of beer. It was a sacrifice but he did it for the betterment of the group. Thanks Steve!

Here he's pinning the openings and floppy parts together using toothpicks.

Preparing the chicken

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Here's the camp site with the river in the background. The dredges are just a little upstream from here.

Camp site

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The top of the Webber wouldn't fit so he's improvising. I think I see a Jim Beam bottle on the table.

The kitchen

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I didn't take any pictures after they were done. I was to busy eating. You can see video of the whole production somewhere on my web site.
Leonard

[russau]

Steves C.U.T.B. (dont ask!) well it looks like Steve was limited on the firewood at your claim! Steve and his crew really like to see them sparks up in Wyoming!haha that chicken sure looked like it was gona be finger licken good !!

[DJR]

Hey you no eat, you no prospect.
As far as the boat goes, you can prospect for fish nothing wrong with that.
Some folks prospect for gold fish with a pan, others try to catch other fish. Who is to say what is prospecting and what is not.
I like gold fish in the pan, and I like eating fish in the pan. And if you have a copper pan you can do both in the same pan.

[DiggerD]

Internet tough guys... gotta love em. Someone talks like that in a local tavern... well... you could see where that would go.
You guys ever brine soak your chicken a day before? Brown sugar, kosher salt, and water is what I use. You can add whatever herbs into it you want.
From Wiki...
Brining makes cooked meat moister by hydrating the cells of its muscle tissue before cooking, via the process of osmosis, and by allowing the cells to hold on to the water while they are cooked, via the process of denaturation. The brine surrounding the cells has a higher concentration of salt than the fluid within the cells, but the cell fluid has a higher concentration of other solutes. This leads salt ions to diffuse into the cell, whilst the solutes in the cells cannot diffuse through the cell membranes into the brine. The increased salinity of the cell fluid causes the cell to absorb water from the brine via osmosis. The salt introduced into the cell also denatures its proteins. The proteins coagulate, forming a matrix that traps water molecules and holds them during cooking. This prevents the meat from dehydrating.
This also works well for that dried out mother-in-laws Thanksgiving turkey.

[russau]

that sounds good, but if your on a no salt or a reduced salt intake, im not sure if this is the way to go! for me anyway!but it does sound good!