Introduction: 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.
Step 2: Line It With Bacon
I used streaky bacon, however back bacon or similar is fine. Just wrap it round inside - or drape it in so it covers all the inside of the orange.
Step 3: Add Egg
Step 4: Fixing the Lid
I used toothpicks to secure the lids - but true backwoods style would probably use small sharpened green sticks.
It's a good idea to soak the toothpicks because otherwise they'll just burn away.
Step 5: Stick It on the Fire
Cooking on fires isn't straightforward, you need to understand the difference between embers and flames.
Embers have very little or absolutely no flame but glow red hot especially when blown on. If you're used to using BBQ's, that's what we're talking about. Flames are much less hotter & just blacken the food with soot.
Embers is what we want. When the egg swells and pushes the lid up, the food is cooked.
Step 6: Edible
The cooked egg is pretty much hard boiled and the bacon is getting a bit crispy. A success.
Shame it all tastes faintly of orange really, but edible.
Step 7: Taking It Further
Other thick peeled fruit works quite well too. We've used bananas to cook sausages. Because we had to open the banana up to check the sausage (and finding it uncooked) we had to re-wrap it and cheated with a bit of tin foil...
You can also unsuprisingly cook a banana in banana skin - making a slit in them stuff them with hot chocolate powder or chocolate buttons. Mmm, tasty.
Wrap onions in tin foil with sausages on top and they'll steam them and of course you get onions cooked in sausage fat.
25 Comments
7 years ago on Introduction
I tried this without baconm using a emptied potatoe ...no tast of the orange...
11 years ago on Introduction
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!
12 years ago on Introduction
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.
12 years ago on Introduction
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
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
You could always try hollowing out an onion and doing the same thing
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
Ding ding ....Winner
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
I can see that ending in tears!
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
lol priceless
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
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...
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
I just read step 7. Might I also suggest plantains as a less sweet / more starchy alternative to bananas.
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
But if you're doing the chocolate bananas sweet is good. I may give plantains a try though
12 years ago on Introduction
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!
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
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
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
don't think you usually find streaky bacon or hens eggs frowing wild on the campsite either - grin
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
but you do find any type of bird egg
12 years ago on Introduction
Actually, wrapping bacon around a stick and holding it over the fire works quite well too. Good idea for eggs though. :)
12 years ago on Introduction
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.
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
or you could use salt pork or some other sort of dried meat
12 years ago on Introduction
Orange eggs and ham anyone?
12 years ago on Introduction
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.