Which Pizza Oven Is Right for You?
One of the main reasons my wife and I got married is because we’re on the same page about pizza consumption: on average we eat a pie once a week. We frequently order from the joints around Santa Fe,...
View ArticleA NOLS Instructor’s Favorite Backcountry Meals
After a long, hard day on the trail, the body doesn’t just crave fuel. It wants a warm, delicious, and nourishing feast. “Eating well in the backcountry makes such a world of difference,” says John...
View ArticleHow to Cook a Whole Chicken on a Campfire
The outdoors is the best place to enjoy good food. And you don’t need a whole lot of equipment to make a great meal either—just a hot campfire, a decent cast-iron pan, and some quality ingredients....
View ArticleThese Are Our Favorite Cheap Beers
The one constant to a good après tailgate, backyard BBQ, or summit celebration? Beer. While you may have a go-to brew to mark these occasions, here at Outside, we posed a very scientific question:...
View ArticleHow to Make (Good) Coffee on a Campfire
Wes Siler sits down with Taylor Wallace of Bozeman, Montana’s Partner Coffee to learn how to up his camp coffee game. Taylor walks Wes through coffee basics—beans, grind settings, and temperature—then...
View ArticleHow to Eat Delmarvelously
Blessed with rich soil, abundant rain, and a long growing season, the Delmarva peninsula—a tri-state area sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay—was known as the breadbasket of the...
View ArticleHow to Cook Big Hunks of Meat in Your Backyard
Before bagged charcoal or propane grills, big joints of meat were cooked outside with more elemental materials: burning logs, ashes and coals, hot stones. If you can procure a few easy-to-find...
View ArticleHow to Cook Big Hunks of Meat in Your Backyard
Before bagged charcoal or propane grills, big joints of meat were cooked outside with more elemental materials: burning logs, ashes and coals, hot stones. If you can procure a few easy-to-find...
View ArticleWhy I Sent Myself to Vegetarian Boot Camp
In October 2017, my mother-in-law was hospitalized for a week. When she was sent home, I started cooking dinner every night for her, my father-in-law, and my wife, a routine I’ve kept up ever since....
View ArticleCan Kelp Be Trendy? Farmers Are Betting on It.
You may not often encounter “burgeoning” and “kelp” in the same sentence, but the seaweed is truly having a moment. With its high levels of B vitamins, potassium, magnesium, iodine, and more, kelp has...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Hard Kombuchas
In recent years, alcohol-infused seltzers like White Claw and Truly have become popular alternatives to beer, preferable for their easy drinking and modest calorie count. It’s inevitable, then, that a...
View ArticleHow Bow & Arrow Became the Southwest’s Most Innovative Brewery
It was a typical beautiful spring afternoon at the Bow & Arrow brewery in Albuquerque, warm and dry under vibrant blue New Mexico skies. The brewery, which is located in an old warehouse near...
View ArticleAthletic Brewing Just Reinvented Beer
When you pull up to Athletic Brewing Company’s taproom in Stratford, Connecticut, you’ll see a familiar scene: a warehouse flanked by a large fermentation tank and a scattering of picnic tables crowded...
View Article11 Times Polartec Revolutionized How We Dress
It’s hard to imagine a world before fleece and other technical fabrics. In large part, that’s thanks to Malden Mills—the textile company you know today as Polartec—which revolutionized the outdoor...
View ArticleHow to Make (Good) Coffee on a Campfire
Wes Siler sits down with Taylor Wallace of Bozeman, Montana’s Partner Coffee to learn how to up his camp coffee game. Taylor walks Wes through coffee basics—beans, grind settings, and temperature—then...
View ArticleThe 6 Best Fall Cookbooks
Quarantine, for all its irredeemable qualities, made some of us better cooks. From nurturing a sourdough starter to transforming feta and tomatoes into a TikTok-worthy pasta sauce, the months at home...
View ArticleThe Key to Jump-Starting Oregon’s Truffle Industry? Dogs.
Mycologist Charles Lefevre was always taught that Oregon truffles were no good. As a PhD student in mycology at Oregon State University (OSU) in the late 1990s, he put himself through school by...
View ArticleUpgrade Your Base Camp with These 5 Cooking Tools
Another autumn has arrived, and with it, another complicated set of narratives regarding the safety of visiting crowded hotels and restaurants. Planning a vacation in the great outdoors to get away...
View ArticleMeet the Creator of the Outdoor Wok with a Six-Month Wait List
In Chinese cooking, achieving the elusive wok hei flavor can be challenging, especially for home cooks. It’s not a seasoning that comes in a bottle, and it can’t be extracted from a spice. Literally...
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