Sometimes, weather doesn’t cooperate and you need to make s’mores inside. Teaching others how to properly cook a s’more, roast a marshmallow, or warm the chocolate is a great way to connect. You make s’mores for the shared experience, for the time together around a campfire, and the memories that it can create.įor many kids, cooking a s’more over a fire might literally be their first time cooking anything. You don’t make a s’more just to have something yummy to eat (although that is clearly a benefit). The internet is filled with alternative methods for making s’mores: Cook them in the oven or microwave! Cook them over a candle! Use the toaster!īut in my mind, cooking a s’more over anything but an actual fire defeats the purpose. So if you want the best s’more possible, take the extra few seconds and actually roast the marshmallows. Does roasting them properly take longer than the burn and blow method? Yes, but we’re talking 1 minute verses 10 seconds, not a whole hour. If you roast the marshmallows over the coals and slowly rotate them, they will turn golden brown on the outside and warm through to the center. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for, s’more perfection awaits! You’ll need to wait a bit for the fire to burn and watch for those coals to fall to the side. The key to successfully roasting a marshmallow is to do it slowly over the coals of the fire. I can’t think of a single food item where people prefer the burnt version over a properly cooked version. If you genuinely prefer this method of roasting marshmallows, then I guess it’s a free country and you can do what you want.īut in my view, you will never make the perfect s’more with a marshmallow that is burnt on the outside and cold on the inside. But that’s kind of like eating nothing but cheese pizza – you’re missing out on a world of possibilities. If you only eat s’mores that contain those three ingredients, you’re still technically eating s’mores. Speaking of ingredients, the basic s’more recipe is simple: So make sure you have some reliable s’more roasting forks handy, and get all your ingredients ready to go. Odds are your marshmallow would fall on the ground in the process, get cold, or just get eaten before you had achieved s’more perfection. Once we were done, we never knew what to do with these long and pointy things that could never return to their original form.īut nothing is worse than toasting a marshmallow and realizing you forgot something at the store or still need to unpack the graham crackers and chocolate. We spent many campfires trying to unwind metal clothes hangers and then debating if the white paint on them would poison our marshmallows. This dance wasn’t that nice.Īnd of course, there was always the clothes hanger. I’d spend the next few minutes holding the marshmallow near the fire for a few seconds, then pulling it away because my hand was starting to burn. On multiple occasions, the s’mores stick I found on the ground was way too short. We had all the ingredients ready, but then had to wander around the woods in the dark (while hoping to avoid poison ivy) and look for a s’mores stick long enough to roast the marshmallow. I can remember many campfires growing up where we decided to make s’mores.
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