On the weekend, I like to cook breakfast at least once, if not on both mornings. During the week our mornings are a rush to simply get ourselves and our kids out of the house with everything that is needed for the day. But on the weekends, I like to make something for the family. When I’m getting the itch, I also like to cook it outside.
I recently tried making omelettes in a bag with the boys and they made for an easy and fun breakfast. For outdoor cooking and clean-up, it couldn’t have been more simple. All we needed to do was boil water. At their most basic, this is the one job that camping stoves were made to do. Every camping stove has pros and cons to its design, but I’ve never used one in which boiling water wasn’t the stove at its most effective.
The omelettes were a fun recipe to prepare, especially for my younger son who has a particular interest in cooking. We cracked eggs into plastic bags and sealed the bags. Then the best part of squishing the bags to scramble the eggs!
After that there was the option to add additional ingredients – cooked sausage, tomatoes, salsa, cheese. The boys had fun getting to have the choice of what they wanted in “their own” breakfast. After that, we dropped our bags into a pot of boiling water.
After a few minutes in the boiling water. the whole omelette was cooked and we could retrieve the bags out of the water. Now you might be thinking, doesn’t the plastic bag melt? No, it doesn’t because the temperature of the boiling water is only the boiling point of the water, 212° F. That is well below the melting point of a common plastic bag.
We let the bags cool for a minute or two, just to make them easier to handle, then opened the bags out onto our plates. Add in some toast, and we had a great breakfast. We can’t wait to try this out on one of our next camping trips.
Recipe:
Eggs – 2-3 per omelette
Additional Ingredients – meat (precooked), vegetables, cheese
Small sealable plastic bags
Bring pot of water to a boil – about 1 qt water per bag to cook at a time. Crack eggs into plastic bag and scramble. Add additional ingredients, seal bag. Boil sealed bags for 5-7 minutes. Remove omelettes from bags and enjoy.