Outdoor Cooking Magic provides tips, trick and recipes for cooking delicious food outdoors. We show you how to cook on the grill, in a smoker, using dutch ovens, over the open fire, and a whole lot more.

Outdoor cooking is not difficult. It just takes time and a little magic and is well worth the effort. It always tastes better when it's cooked outdoors!

With modern technology, outdoor cooking is slowly becoming a lost art. Many make do with packaged foods that took little effort to prepare. They have no experience with cooking over a fire, or even with cooking on a grill. Our pioneer ancestors depended on their ability to cook over coals, whether at home, or while traveling. While we don't have to be as primitive as our ancestors, cooking outdoors is a great hobby, a good skill to have, and lots of fun.

Using a variety of methods, you can cook almost anything outdoors that you can cook inside. Breads, meats, vegetables, main dishes, side dishes, and desserts can all be cooked outside.  They also taste considerably better than when cooked inside. There is something special about cooking outside that makes everything taste better.

Methods include using foil, cooking on a grill, using reflector ovens, dutch ovens, and solar ovens, and cooking directly on the coals.

While you can adapt almost any recipe to cook outdoors, you'll find a variety of outdoor cooking recipes here that are delicious. Send us your favorites and we'll be happy to include them, and give you credit. If you have tips or articles to share, we welcome those.

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