Camping 101 for Beginners | Useful Knowledge

[Music] hey this is Jamie it useful knowledge this video we're calling camping 101 this is gonna be for you campers that have never been camping before but you want to get out to the outdoors and see what it's like we're gonna show you what to take how to set up your campsite and we're gonna show you how to build this campfire right here and how to cook a camp dinner over it so stay tuned oh and don't forget the marshmallows when you first arrive at the campsite you want to set your tent up so what you need to set your tent up you need a ground cloth and that's just a tarp and that protects the bottom of the tent from moisture from grass and sticks that made poke holes in the bottom of the tent you need your tent and you need a rubber mallet or even just a hammer to drive in your tent stakes [Applause] okay once your tent is set up you want to set up your bedding now I recommend one of these blowup mattresses that you can get in the big-box stores or some type of comfortable mattress pad and the reason is you want to be comfortable if this is your first time ever camping you want to be as comfortable as possible don't forget your batteries okay once you blow up your mattress which takes about 2 to 3 minutes or you place in a mattress pad of some type next thing you want to do is go ahead and put in your sleeping bag ok recommendations on sleeping bags for those that never been camping purchase a sleeping bag that is rated for 20 degrees colder than what you expect to camp in for instance tonight it's going to be 35 degrees here in North Alabama so I'm using a sleeping bag that is rated for 15 degrees next bring you a pillow you don't have to purchase the camp pillow you can't bring a pillow from home next I suggest you wear some type of beanie or something to cover your head up while you're sleeping they'll help keep you warm finally I recommend a fresh pair of socks the reason I like to put on a fresh pair of socks when I go to bed it helps to keep you warm and if you wear the socks that have been in your boots all day those are going to be damp it's going to contribute to you being cold so you need to swap out your socks before you go to bed so if you're going camping you need a campfire if you've never started a campfire in your life that's okay I'm going to show you the simplest easiest way to do it so what you're going to use is some instant light charcoal you're gonna mound it up so this campfire ring is something I personally own but most of your state campgrounds and federal campgrounds will have a campfire ring similar to this what I like to do is build a log cabin fire around this I'm going to demonstrate for you okay once you get the big logs on start putting on some smaller logs and we're gonna place a couple of smaller logs down below so that the fire can really get on those okay just need to let that build up and there's your campfire okay it's been about five minutes and as you can see we have a pretty good camp fire going okay the campfire is looking good our charcoal is burning down so what I like to do around this point is to go ahead and add a small piece of wood right up in the middle so that's really going to get to burning and you'll have a very nice campfire at that point okay so one thing to note about campfires is they will burn down and fall so you need something to kind of help you move the wood around I recommend a shovel just go buy you a cheap shovel and that will help you move that wood around it doesn't have to be a fancy shovel just something cheap from a box store is fine and you need a pair of leather gloves when you're working around the campfire just so you don't burn your hands and there's a pair of leather gloves that I like to use okay for cooking over a fire for someone who hasn't cooked over a fire I'm gonna recommend cooking some hot dogs or some brats or some beef sausage now get the ones that are already fully cooked if you'll notice and you'll look on them you'll see that's fully cooked okay the reason I recommend these is because you don't have to worry about getting sick you're just browning them over the fire and they'll be ready to eat once they really get hot and browned over the fire I recommend some chips and some hot dog buns and you've got a meal don't forget the ketchup mustard and also bring you something whatever you like to drink I brought some water for this camping trip don't forget paper plates some type of utensils and also bring a roll of paper towels okay one last recommendation for cooking over a fire you need a camp fork you can get these in the camping stores and your big-box stores in the camping area it's just called a camp fork and they're usually about three feet long okay what I usually like to do is I put my camp fork in there for a minute just to make sure it's cleaned off okay all we got to do here with this camp for it's just put your sausage on there and then these obviously these this count for it's pretty hot okay I want to show you this these sausages are done only cook them for about five minutes now we're gonna get out the hot dog buns and the chips we're gonna have ourselves some dinner okay and there's your camp meal enjoy it okay just a note here some of this wood is burning up and actually falling down into our campfire so as you need more wood especially if you get cold keep adding wood to it when it gets dark and things get quiet and the fire gets big it's time for marshmallows hey good morning we're going to make some breakfast of course coffees first okay let's see what we have here okay our waters starting to bowl so I like to make cowboy coffee I add one well-rounded teaspoon to every cup of water I have in here just straight to the water okay what I recommend you do is you take your water off the eye before you put your coffee and you don't want it you don't want to have a full rolling boil going on while you're adding your coffee so I've got five cups of coffee in here I'm adding five well-rounded teaspoons of coffee just straight to the water so that's what it's going to look like and then basically you're gonna put that back on your eye now you don't want that eye on full blast so once the coffee starts doing this I want you to turn that eye down because at this point this coffee is ready to go turn that eye down to really low or even off and just set this over to the side we're gonna put that coffee on the edge of that eye to keep it warm now all I'm doing here is I always carry a cast-iron skillet with me all I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna warm up bagels and we're gonna have a goes and cream cheese now if you don't own a camp stove try to borrow one or simply go find your restaurant most of these parts are close to a town and just go find your restaurant for breakfast if you don't want to cook breakfast in the woods okay our bagels are smelling good if we're starting to brown turn them over at this point I'm just going to turn everything off because this iron skillets hot and that's going to brown them and warm them up I'm just going to turn everything off coffee's really hot the skillets hot and we're going to be ready for breakfast here in a second okay at this point we're just going to load up these bagels with some cream cheese and we're gonna call it breakfast alright there you go that's a good camp breakfast right there got some bagels and cream cheese hot coffee so we hope you gained some useful knowledge on how easy it is to go camping for your first time so remember we talked about shelter we talked about bedding we talked about building that campfire we talked about cooking over that campfire we talked about marshmallows and lastly we talked about cooking breakfast so we hope you have a great first campout and thanks for watching

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Length: 9min 12sec (552 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 02 2019