One of the most enjoyable parts of camping is getting a campfire going – both for warmth, and for cooking! We’re massive fans of carrying your own portable firepit for camping with you whenever you’re camping, because they keep the fire up off the ground, burn wood more efficiently and let you control your campfire better. And when you cook over a portable firepit for camping, you make your camp cooking easier than ever before. Here’s how to make use of your portable steel camping firepit for cooking – and it’s way easier than you think!

1. GET THE COALS GOING

Cooking with a camping firepit is all about getting nice even temperature coals going. If you just feed your portable camping firepit with wood, it’s harder to regulate the temperature which makes cooking your food evenly a tricky job. A better idea is to use wood to get your campfire in your firepit going, and then add BBQ charcoal heat beads. You can even use a stainless steel charcoal starter like the Adventure Kings Charcoal Starter to make the process easier!

2. FIREPIT AND PORTABLE ROTISSERIE = A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN!

With your coals glowing nice and even in your camping firepit, you can then think about how you want to cook your food. We love using a portable camping rotisserie over the top of the portable firepit – just add your favourite piece of meat, adjust to the right height over your portable firepit and you’re set! Then you can just sit back and watch your meat cook away over the open coals, and smell the amazing smells of the meat dripping down onto the firepit the whole time. Sensational!

3. CAN YOU USE A CAMP OVEN ON A FIREPIT?

Short answer: Yes, you can definitely use a camp oven on a firepit! In fact it’s even easier to cook in a camp oven when you use it on a portable firepit compared to a ground campfire, because once again a portable firepit allows you to regulate your temperature which is exactly what you need when you’re cooking in a camp oven. Just get your fires going in your portable steel firepit, put the camp oven on top of them and chuck a few extra coals on top – and you’re ready to cook! And the bonus is you will have less smoke to deal with when you cook on a portable steel firepit, as opposed to a large ground campfire.

4. PORTABLE FIREPIT AND BBQ PLATE – THE ULTIMATE SIMPLE COOKING SETUP!

For the ultimate in simplicity when camp cooking, you just can’t beat putting a campfire BBQ plate over the top of a portable camping firepit! The Adventure Kings Campfire BBQ Plate sits perfectly over the top of the Adventure Kings Portable Steel Firepit, and gives you a large flat surface to cook on! And once again when you’re using your controlled campfire in your portable camping firepit, there’s less heat and smoke to deal with – making cooking your food so easy.

There’s a lot to love about carrying a portable steel firepit with you when you go camping. They’re the perfect bit of camping gear to add to any setup. Once you go camping with a portable firepit for camping, you’ll wonder how you ever went camping without it!