Cook Egg and Bacon in an Orange

This ible is about cooking without pots and pans over an open fire.  Egg and Bacon in Oranges sounds odd and quite frankly, it's an aquired taste.

Actually in my opinion it tastes horrible, but the scouts enjoy doing it and even enjoy eating them.

You need:

- Orange
- Egg
- Bacon
- A well built fire.

Don't get too hung up about not being able to find oranges in the wild in Britain, but it's about getting kids to think outside the box.

Step 1 Preparing the Orange

You need to slice off the top of the orange - same sort of height you might do a boiled egg.  Refer to the photos to see the sort of 'cap' you are trying to create.

The most difficult bit of the procedure is to remove the contents of the orange (eat it, it's tasty and healthy btw)

At the end, the cap should still sit on the top of the orange.

Comments

[dlaszakovits]

I've got to agree, the orange taste takes some getting used to, but I use large onion, rather than an orange to cook the eggs, and we even make up omelettes, with cooked bacon or sausage, onions and peppers and of course cheese, mix all together and add to hollowed out onion. After you toothpick the onion, wrap in a bit of foil, so you have an aluminum ball. It takes about 18-20 minutes, to cook, and I turn once (now you see why I cover in foil). You end up with a tasty omelet, no orangey taste at all!

[nanosec12]

You can do a similar thing with muffin mix. Just put it in the orange and cook in the same fashion. The muffins aren't perfect, but they take on the 'orange' taste in a much better way than eggs and bacon would.

[skea1790]

Actually, wrapping bacon around a stick and holding it over the fire works quite well too. Good idea for eggs though. :)

[IdahoDavid]

Well done. I did this with just the egg in Scouts, but never considered the bacon. If keeping the bacon fresh is a concern look for the precooked kind in a pouch (in the salad fixings area) at the grocery. It makes a nice packbacking food that doesn't require refridgeration. They also sell precooked bacon in the meat section. A bit pricey, but convenient.

[mikaelthemycologist]

or you could use salt pork or some other sort of dried meat

[mikaelthemycologist]

Orange eggs and ham anyone?

[edsgirl1234]

The taste does sound horrible. Have you thought about substituting one of those small round green squashes or even the single size pumpkins instead? Some of the ones I've seen recently are just at a serving size, the taste would blend much better with the bacon and egg.

[Screamo]

Wouldn't it leave a orange-ish taste?

[kill-a-watt]

I remember this. I could never come around to try it because of the orange aftertaste that is to be expected. Maybe I'll give it a stab using the outer skin and first layer of an onion

[Calis]

Ooooh, wrap it in a small onion, then put it inside an orange...and then put that inside a grapefruit. Then of course have Turducken for dinner...

[tim_n]

You could always try hollowing out an onion and doing the same thing

[loosestool]

Ding ding ....Winner

[alegriagarden]

I can see that ending in tears!

[billybobjhonson]

lol priceless

[kill-a-watt]

I just read step 7. Might I also suggest plantains as a less sweet / more starchy alternative to bananas.

[tim_n]

But if you're doing the chocolate bananas sweet is good. I may give plantains a try though

[vixenblue]

Might I suggest a more palatable option. Instead of eggs and bacon try a vanilla or chocolate cake mix . It works the same way and the outcome is amazing!

[superant10000]

This is a camping instructable, I don't think you can find wild cake mix growing in a field lol. Plus I find egg and bacon much more enjoyable than cake. Always remember to add IMO (in my opinion) ;D

[jtpoutdoor]

don't think you usually find streaky bacon or hens eggs frowing wild on the campsite either - grin

[billybobjhonson]

but you do find any type of bird egg

[PyromaniacDaniel]

Being an Eagle Scout I have gone on many a survival camp outs and this was a staple but we only did the egg no bacon. I would almost be afraid that a scout might not cook the bacon well enough and get sick. Bananas with half its contents removed and replaced with chocolate, marsh-mellows, and red hots cooked in the fire is divine. another good foil meal is the Hobo Dinner - take a chunck of ground beef some cut up potatoes, onions, and carrots. place in foil and cook. Delicious!

[tim_n]

Generally uncooked bacon won't make you particularly sick as long as you've kept it cool and you're not cooking off bacon. You could potentially get worms however. In my experience, the bacon will almost certainly be cooked by the time the egg is cooked, so I wouldn't worry too much. The bacon does make absorb a lot of the taste of orange and if you're using smokey bacon, you get smokey bacon and orange flavoured eggs.

[justa_person]

This is pretty nifty, I'll do this next time I go camping! Thanks

[zascecs]

...Sure sounds better than green eggs and ham...

...I'm gonna have to try this when I go camping; it's just too hot to light the fireplace in my house during summer...