Cooking Hodogs in a Milk Carton

When a childhood friend, Kelly, posted some pictures on her Facebook page of an activity she was doing with her daughter, I knew I had to try it with the boys! Kelly’s daughter Hannah was working on an outdoor cooking badge for Girl Guides. As a former Girl Guide leader, this appealed to me. The boys just wanted to light things on fire!

Yes! It is possible to cook a hotdog in a milk carton!

What you will need:

Hotdogs (peel off plastic)
2L or 4L milk carton
Newspaper
Tinfoil
Matches

How to make:

1. Roll each hotdog in tinfoil.

2. Cut the top off the milk carton and make sure the plastic spout is gone. Place tinfoiled-dogs in the centre of a milk carton.

For a 4L carton, you can cook 4-6 hotdogs.A 2L carton will cook 2-4 hotdogs.

3. Around the hotdogs, place lightly scrunched up newspaper. This will help the hotdogs to stand upright in the centre of the carton.

4. Go somewhere fireproof! We used our driveway.

5. Light the milk carton on fire.

6. When the milk carton and newspaper have totally burned away, your hotdogs will be cooked!

7. Carefully pick up your hotdogs in the tinfoil. Be careful! They will be hot!

8. Put in bun and you are ready to eat!

What are other ways you have experimented with cooking food?