The Scouts Canada Great 8 Challenge - Week 1 - Far-Out Feast (An Outdoor Cooking Adventure Video)
Channel: Monster Hobbies Online
Date: 25/04/2021

Week 1 Challenge : You must use cooking equipment that you have not used before. 

In today's video, I will show you my solution for The Scouts Canada Great 8 Challenge - Week 1 - Far-Out Feast. This is an outdoor cooking adventure video.

What is the Great 8 Challenge? Here's some background reading!

Les Stroud, aka Survivorman, will be hosting this epic 8-week challenge and all the participating Scouts Canada groups will be competing for not only bragging rights, but to accumulate weekly crests and earn a coveted Ghost Crest!

With the challenges introduced weekly by videos from The Survivorman himself, it's going to be an adventure filled week you won't want to miss!

This series of challenges was developed by Les Stroud and Scouts Canada as activities that could be done either in a group or on your own during the pandemic of 2020/2021 to help get all the Scouts and Scouters out and doing something fun under their provincial restrictions.

About myself :

I am Scouter Trevor, (A Scout Leader) in our local community, as well as the owner of Monster Hobbies, a local hobby shop. As a youth, I was involved in Scouting and my Dad was also a Scout leader. Both my wife and daughters are also involved. I decided to try and make as many of these videos about what I am doing to solve the weekly challenge as I can. 

About our group :

We have a group of Scouts and Scouters that met online and decided that we would cook "Egg In The Hole", an egg and bread meal, on a stove that we hadn't used before. Due to the pandemic regulations, I could not attend that meeting, but I wanted to meet the challenge anyway, hence this video. 

About this video : 

Although these videos appear to be short and easy, there was a lot of research, development and trial and error in creating items like the tin can stove and trying to keep a fire burning in it long enough to cook a meal on it.

I built the stove using two tin cans from a plan I saw on the internet. This was the first time I built such an item. 

In the "Off Camera" trial run of the stove, I could keep the fire going, but the original design of the contact surface between the saucepan bottom (I was trying to boil water) and the stove top didn't meet and after 2 hours, I could only get the water luke warm. 

A re-engineering of the stove was used in the video, but it also had it's issues. 

In the end, everything worked out, and that's what Scouting is all about. 

Do Your Best!
Be Prepared!
And always have fun!

Thank you for watching The Scouts Canada Great 8 Challenge - Week 1 - Far-Out Feast (An Outdoor Cooking Adventure Video). It means a lot to us!

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