To get the most out of your camping experience, using a little imagination goes a long way. Before you are ready to plan your next camping excursion, there’s a few things to keep in mind that are needed like long wooden matches, a spray bottle of water (also an extra bottle with your favorite chicken marinade), one of those long lighters for grills or candles, skewers, flashlights, candles, oil, cooking spray and all the long forks, knives and spoons, preferably the long metal ones with the wooden or polyurethane handles. Last, but not least, hot pads or oven mitts and always have some sort of extinguisher.

Now, if you’re one of them really crafty people who like to invent things or create things to save you a little time, I always found it necessary to keep all the grill areas from my old grills. It got to the point I had four of them sitting around and came up with the idea to make one huge cooking area by combining all four of them together. There’s two ways you can do this depending on how much space you have. If you have limited space, the four grill areas can be separated and put together by joining them with some heavy gauge wire. The surrounding ends can be mounted on metal tent stakes. Make sure to put two or three to support the middle (skinniest ones you can find so they don’t take up the fire area) due to the weight. This will give you a good three or four foot cooking area. The better way would be to find a heavy steel or iron plate that’s approximately two square feet. You then weld the corners of the grills onto it or drill holes around it and clamp them all down and the legs on all the sides. The result is a bit heavy but sturdy and easy to clean. Have fun experimenting!