I happened to be on YouTube today uploading some videos and I came across this video about some marshmallows unjustly murdered. Ok, I have to admit I thought it was mildly humorous but mostly stupid. Anyway, since it has to do with roasting marshmallows, I figured I would share it. Enjoy.
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Awesome New Marshmallow with Chocolate Included!The wife did it again! She brought home some marshmallows with chocolate already drizzled on top. You know I couldn’t wait to roast those over the campfire.
These are the Campfire Zebras. They’re smaller than normal marshmallows but that just means you can roast more than a few at a time. By themselves, they’re pretty good. The marshmallow tastes, well, like a marshmallow, and the drizzled chocolate on top has a slightly hard texture, like a shell. Pretty much what you would expect from a Hershey bar or similar chocolate.
But the real taste of these bad boys is unleashed when you roast them over the fire. When you get them nice and toasted, the chocolate takes on a rich, dark chocolate flavor. You don’t even need to use a chocolate bar for making s’mores. They add the chocolate all by themselves and they are absolutely delicious!
I don’t think we’ll replace the traditional s’more completely with these since my 5-yr old likes to eat the chocolate and graham crackers by themselves (without marshmallows) but this is definitely something we’ll be doing again!
Well, my kids did it again. We decided to have a campfire and roast some hot dogs for supper with s’mores for dessert. But the kids weren’t sold on hot dogs and when someone mentioned pizza rolls, they asked if they could roast them over the fire. Being the adventure seeker that I am, I figured it was worth a try!
So we broke out the Rotis-a-Prong campfire roasting forks and put two pizza rolls on the fork to heat up with the campfire. I didn’t defrost them at all – I just stuck the frozen pizza rolls on the end of the fork. It took a little while to heat to the right temperature since they were frozen but with a little patience they came out fine. I was pleasantly surprised by the light smoky flavor added to the normal taste of the pizza rolls. In a way it reminded me of pizza baked in a wood fired oven. Delicious!
The only drawback to cooking your pizza rolls this way is that you can only do a few at a time. It takes a little while to cook enough for you to make a meal out of it. But, if you’re just looking for a nice snack and you enjoy being around the campfire, this might do the trick for you. I’m also thinking about seeing if we can find some larger size pizza rolls to try. All in all, I’d have to give this a thumbs up, and I’m ready to do it again!
I have no idea where we came up with this idea, but we thought we would give it a shot. We had some Peeps marshmallow treats in the cupboard in early anticipation and we decided to roast them over the fire pit in the backyard to see if this was something we wanted to do the next time we went camping.
There’s nothing special about this “recipe.” Nothing fancy in regards to how to do it. Just put the peep on the end of your favorite campfire cooking fork and roast it over the fire like you would a marshmallow. I recommend roasting it as evenly as possible to get a consistent flavor. It’s hard to do that when they’re not shaped symmetrically, but give it a shot. We used our Rotis-a-Prongs as always, but you can use whatever roasting fork you have.
The first thing I noticed was the sugar on the outside of the peeps started kind of melting and turning a different color. Some parts burned slightly and other parts looked just plain weird. But we were willing to get over the look so we could taste the awesomeness of the roasted peep.
But the awesomeness never quite came. The result was… ok at best. We were a little 
underwhelmed. The melted sugar gave the peeps a unique flavor but I think the overall quality of the marshmallow in the peeps isn’t the same as the regular marshmallows we roast over the fire. So I guess I’m saying we’re not planning to do this again anytime soon but it was still worth doing. Next time you’re bored, I recommend giving it a shot. Just don’t expect the best thing since sliced bread.
My wife came home from the grocery store this weekend all excited about a new find. She found a couple different versions of the traditional marshmallow. I won’t go into a lot of detail in this post but one type of marshmallows is a square, stackable version perfect for making s’mores. The other one was regular marshmallows drizzled in chocolate. Really neat ideas.
We’re already watching the forecast to see when we can break out the backyard fire pit and test these new marshmallows for s’mores. You can bet I’ll write some campfire cooking recipes for these new marshmallows and a few other ideas we have. Look for the new posts to come soon. I just hate to offer up suggestions without trying them first and taking pictures so you’ll have to wait until the weather warms up just a tad. I know – the wait is killing me too!
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This thing is pure genius. Picture this: You’re at a party or gathering where there’s food served on paper or plastic plates. You have a drink in one hand and your food on a flimsy plate in the other hand. Now, with both hands full you’re somehow supposed to figure out how to balance everything and get some of that food into your mouth!
It doesn’t work, does it? If you try to balance the plate on your lap, you’re likely to spill some food because you’re trying to hold the drink at the same time. Or the paper plate is too flimsy. Or the paper plate soaks through and soils your pants. On the flip side (no pun intended) you might try to balance your drink between your legs or set it down somewhere where it will either get knocked over or someone else mistakes it for their own drink.
Now whose idea of fun is that? You can’t enjoy a picnic or party when you’re stressed out by the eating part!
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We just installed a new photo gallery on our site and added in all the fan photos we have of the Rotis-a-Prong in action. If you’ve got some photos of your Rotis-a-Prong, send them in. We’d love to add them to the collection and show them on the site.
If you like to take photos of camping in general, send in your best shots. We’ll add a gallery of camping & campfire photos to highlight the best photos. We can’t wait to see what you have!
To send in your photos, attach them to an email and send it to info@rotis-a-prong.com.
I wanted to take a moment and share what I love about the Rotis-a-Prong. Quite frankly, I wanted a better video that shows how cool the Rotis-a-Prong is, because the campfire video we have on the home page of the site just doesn’t do the product justice.
Unfortunately, it’s still winter in Wisconsin and I have a lot of snow on the ground so I wasn’t able to film the Rotis-a-Prong in action. So you’ll have to settle for a video of me in my office for now. I promise to get better video out as soon as the snow melts!
