Health and Safety
Cooking basics
Stoves And campfires
MyPlate
200

Some common hazards while participating in cooking activities.

What are Burns and Cuts.

200

Methods of cooking in an oven.

What is baking, roasting, broiling. 

Bonus points: Explain the differences.

200

The 3 types of fuels used by camping stoves.

What is a Butane, Propane and alcohol?

200

This is a food group that includes carrots, lettuce, and boccoli.

What is a Vegetable?

400

The treatment for burns, cuts, choking, or allergic reactions.


Bonus points for listing all of the above.

What is;

Rinse area in cool water and wrap with sterile dressing. 

Stop bleeding (discuss how), and wrap with bandage or sterile dressing.

Heimlich  maneuver

Benadryl or Epi.

400

Cooking with bubbling hot water.


What is boiling? 

Bonus point. What is cooked this way.

400

This is a type of heavier but more reliable stove (more likely used for car camping than backpacking).

What is a Propane Stove?

400

This is a food group that includes tomatoes, apricots, and pomegranates.

What is a fruit?

800

What is how meat, chicken, fish, and dairy products should be stored and transported on an outing.

What is in a cooler with ice?

Bonus point. Why?


800

Cooking on an open flame.

What is grilling or campfire cooking?


Bonus:  name something that can be cooked this way and how temperature is controled.

800

This cooking method alone can make foods more flavorful.

What is a Campfire?

800

This is a food group that includes fish, eggs, and nuts.

What is a Protein?

1000

How to prevent cross contamination?

Cleaning the food preparation area after prepping chicken or raw meat.  

(discussion)

1000

List the equipment needed for dutch oven cooking and how to maintain cooking temperature. 

What is;

Dutch oven, charcoal or coals from a fire, tongs, heavy duty cooking gloves, lighter, lid lifter.

Number of coals placed under and on top of the oven.

note: rotate regularly for even cooking

1000

The benefits of using a camp stove vs. charcoal or a wood fire.

What is;

Faster, more efficient, better temperature control, space/weight saving. 

1000

This is a food group that includes bread, corn, and potato chips.

What is a grain?

1200

The importance of reading food labels.

What is a way to identify common food allergens.

1200

The 10 methods of cooking

What is baking, boiling, broiling, pan frying, simmering, steaming, microwaving, grilling, foil cooking & dutch oven.

1200

This is the fuel that a lightweight stove uses.

What is Butane?

1200

This is a food group that includes Milk, cheese, and yogurt.

What is dairy?