Best way to cook trout w a backpack stove

[sivart]

Anything easy so a caveman can do it?

 

[DB29]

In a place you can make a fire?

 

[Ironman8]

Use the stove to light a real fire and cook over an open flame on a stick

 

[dusky]

Done it many times with a pocket rocket, splash of oil in a backpacking skillet, and a dash of salt and pepper. Catch and eat right there! The skin fries up and I eat it too. Just remove the head, tail, and guts,wash it,and fry it. Little 8" trout are delicious.

 

[wildwilderness]

Use the stove to light a real fire and cook over an open flame on a stick

This was my first thought as well.

Can also put it in aluminum foil with seasonings and bake in the embers of your real fire.

 

[Coveyleader]

Back country, fish???? Reminds me of the saying “one who goes to bed with itchy butt wake up with stinky finger”

 

[dribeerfeht]

Foil on embers. I also carry a small lightweight grate.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Vacuum seal a small amount of butter and another small pack of flour with seasoning. Then coat the fish in the flour mixture and fry in the butter. This will be one of the best back country meals ever.

 

[Maverick1]

I’ve thought about catching and then cooking trout over a fire before. Saw a couple of guys doing it years ago - looked like a good snack idea as a break from trail mix.

But then I got to thinking: do I really want to have fish guts, oil, seasoning, and fish-soaked aluminum foil around my camp, in a high-density bear area????

I’ve had bears stroll through camp before, and even had one walk over and flatten my tarp once….

 

[Pookie]

Just build a small fire, usually about 15 -20 thumb sized sticks, let that burn down and just throw the gutted and decapitated fish on the coals. About 2-3mins/side for a smaller lake trout. I'll then take it off the coals and throw 10 pinky sized sticks on there. Once you get flame throw the fish back on for a minute/side to crisp up the skin. I'll usually have an oz or 2 of S&P and lemon pepper seasoning in my pantry to season it up with. Or add it to ramen with some veggies.

 

[SonnyDay]

Done it many times with a pocket rocket, splash of oil in a backpacking skillet, and a dash of salt and pepper. Catch and eat right there! The skin fries up and I eat it too. Just remove the head, tail, and guts,wash it,and fry it. Little 8" trout are delicious.

^^^ This.

 

[wendogg]

You've got a couple options. If all you've got is a pot, then cut up and boiled works pretty well, just have to pull the skeleton out, and from there add ramen or mac n cheese or whatever else for a proper hikertrash meal but with fresh fish instead of tuna packets.

Otherwise an aluminum backpacking skillet and a small bottle of oil is really all you need, plus whatever seasonings.

 

[def90]

Fillet, salt, pepper and sear in a pan with a bit of olive oil or butter, squeeze of lemon at the end if that’s your thing.

If you want to get fancy pack in a small foilpack of white wine, a shallot and clove or two of garlic and whip up a pan sauce.

 

[willfrye027]

Easier to bring some tin foil and seasonings than to mess with a pan on the jet boil IMO.

Reminds me of a solo backpack hunt I did in my youth. I was very ambitious on my food list (probably 5000 total calories for 4 nights) and brought a tenkara rod and some flies and planned to eat a lot of trout.

Well the biggest trout in that creek was maybe 6” and I think I burned more calories trying to catch a limit every night than those sardine sized trout got me thank god I got into some grouse because I was freaking hungry!

 

[Nickofthewoods]

The following method works in a pinch of you have a pocket rocket style stove. Stack rocks on either side of the camp stove and skewer the gutted trout on a green pine bough. Roast directly over the flames and rotate frequently. This really only applies for very small trout about 8 inches max. Not the best way possible but it works fairly quickly and keeps your cookware clean.

If a campfire is an option my favorite way is to bring aluminum foil, a small container of olive oil (a shooter bottle works great) and some onion. Put the oil and sliced onion in the foil and place trout on top. Slow cook in the coals. The oil and onion both help keep the trout from sticking to the foil and adds flavor.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Every fish should swim three times:
Once in water.
Once in butter.
Once in wine.

If I can’t do that, I will skip the fish. It’s just not that hard or heavy to carry the equivalent amount of protein and fat for a week or two.

But, if you must cook fish, do it in aluminum foil in the coals with salt and butter/olive oil.

 

[sivart]

Theres usually a fire ban in the area i'm in, hence why i'll only use the pocket rocket

 

[Trumpkin The Dwarf]

If there's a fire ban, you need some oil to keep it from sticking. garlic or lemon and salt is the way to go for seasoning with trout!

 

[ss9961]

I know a guy named Armontrout. He couldn’t cook in the field to save his life. That is all.

 

[Tod osier]

Anything easy so a caveman can do it?

I like to make my life as hard as possible and have carried a fry pan in the backcountry many a time (too many times). A cheap nonstick weighs surprisingly little. This one below is custom, handle removed and most of the rim removed for weight savings .

Light dusting of salted flour and fried in butter. Need a leatherman to use as pan handle and if you are good with chopsticks, they work really well to turn fish and are light.