Discover the joy of outdoor fire cooking and develop your culinary skills
Have fun and learn new skills in woods
Get outdoors, feel closer to nature and build stronger bonds with your group as you learn new outdoor cooking skills together. Our outdoor specialist chef will get you lighting a campfire for cooking before preparing and cooking a delicious meal as a group, under the guidance of our outdoor specialist chef.
An exclusive rural woodland experience to be shared with family, friends or colleagues
This is an intimate experience - being outdoors in the woods, by a fire and cooking and sharing food brings people closer together. Cooking over fire is the simplest expression of cooking where flavour is king and the stresses of modern life slip away.
Learn from outdoor specialist chef Robin Popham
Understand how to master the fire
Chef Robin will lead your campfire cooking session, showing you the art of setting up a fire for authentic campfire cooking and providing you with step-by-step guidance. The life cycle of heat is the key to cooking over fire, with a few basic skills and very little equipment learn to cook a tasty meal over your own campfire. You will learn how to use indirect and direct heat as well as the embers, to maximise flavour. Elevate your BBQ skills to a new level.
Enjoy locally sourced food with food allergies and preferences catered for
With his guidance your group will pick up loads of cooking tips while you produce a delicious, locally sourced meal to share together.
How your session will flow
- Start with building the fire from logs and learning to light it without a match
- Brew a cup of coffee and tea while the fire heats up
- Learn how to use the fire specifically for cooking
- 'Dirty’ cooking in the embers ~ root vegetables and occasionally meat & fish
- Direct & Indirect cooking on the grill with more leafy vegetables and a flatbread as well as meat & fish
- Spend time enjoying your meal in our beautiful woodland locations
- Finish with home made marshmallows
Stay dry in wet weather
We've have rustic shelters that'll keep you snug and dry. So, don't let a little rain dampen your spirits - join us for an unforgettable culinary journey in the heart of the wilderness.
Included in this experience
- 3 - 4 hour experience
- Minimum of 6 people
- Ingredients for cooking - local seasonal ingredients
- Homemade marshmallow
- Allergies and food preferences catered for
- Unlimited hot drinks
- Guided campfire cooking with an experienced chef on-hand
- Shelters
- Firewood
Bring with you
- Waterproof jackets
- Blankets
- Hats and gloves
- Layer up your clothing - you may get muddy
- Torches for evening campfires
- Sturdy boots or wellies are best (no sandals for cooking)
- Well behaved dogs on a lead are welcome
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