Orange rolls cooked in oranges over a fire

The OP’s screen name is “nobody”

Yes you can do them in an oven but go camping.  Everything tastes better camping.

That’s what campfires and kindles are for.

try this… Go on your social network of choice that your friends hang out on. Post something like this: Hey I want to go camping this weekend, who’s wants to go with me? Grab the friends that respond and go camping this weekend. Take a Friday off if you need to. It’s just that simple and you will be the cool friend who made it all happen.

Well, they were a hit at last years camping trip, have already been hearing requests for them at this years!

I was a bit surprised to see your remark at the end about crazy commenters suggesting you were wasting oranges and endangering kids. I was curious, so I looked at your comments, scrolled through all 221 you had so far, actually, trying to find what you were talking about, and I found ONE person concerned about the knife usage and about a hundred people defending it, plus three people asking if oranges were wasted. You edited in a complaint at the end of your story to address 4 mildly negative responses out of hundreds? Sheesh, talk about seeing the glass as half empty, your glass is more than 98% full and you’re still not satisfied.

Oh my word… I came for the recipe but stayed for the comments… they had me laughing like a crazy woman. Seriously folks, lighten up…. knives are an important part of childhood. I’m 50 and used a knife when I was as “youngster”… still have all my toes (Mublety-peg), and fingers (whittling wood next to my grandpa)… and the scars all lend to the telling of the most excellent stories. Ben, you should have thrown in some pics of children around the campfire…. FIRE BABY! Kids and fire… an absolute MUST. As for the oranges… even if they did get thrown on the ground I am certain some colony of ants, a labor of moles, a flock of seagulls, a dray of squirrels or a nest of vipers enjoyed them…. so not wasteful at all. Thanks Ben for the recipe, will be trying it out next week…. and thanks to those helicopter parents for making me REALLY laugh out loud…. not just the lol kind of laugh. p.s. my 20 and 24 yr old daughters survived knives and fires and much, much more.

Do you know if this will work on a Coleman stove?

In Cub Scouts the boys have their Knife Class (as I call it) during 3rd grade. If they pass the (stringent) requirements, they are allowed to both carry and use knives on camping trips (with consequences for mishandling). 8-9 years old is a perfectly reasonable age to learn knife-handling skills.

That said, if people are sooo bothered by a few oranges possibly being wasted, I’ll tell you what: When we try these (and we’re gonna try them!), we promise to toss the orange chunks into a container to be combined into fruit salad for lunch that same day.

Problem solved

It’s never too late to create some fun memories.  Plan a camping trip and just go.

Love it!

I heard Fruity Social Police is playing the side stage at Coachella this year.

The only thing I would say in the knife training is something most people don’t know anyway but is a important saftey tip.For kids knife skills instead of straight fingers need to learn curled fingers holding to cut technique. Is safer since as speed and confidence increases if you don’t have curled fingers as your muscle memory way to hold and guide for cutting more likely for that look up while cutting and cut yourself. I know, lost tip of my finger to not paying attention. That is one I always stress to my son who like NORMAL kids got his first Swiss Army knife at 10. Seriously these people freaking out over her cutting an orange scare me. Heck I have had some moments with my kid asking something that I feel like a failure as a parent that he doesn’t know something like where to sign a check to cash it at the ripe old age of 15. But I guess we sometimes forget a lot of that “common sense stuff” we did at some point have to learn and we live in a world where kids really don’t get checks very often what with gift cards and paypal and online account transfers. Every chance you can teach your child by allowing them to complete the task with supervision and if needed demonstration/guiding you should jump at those learning moments. Great job having your daughter learn some skills as well as learn to think out of the box on using a orange as a baking tool and dish.

Wise words, Tricia. I have been so disappointed with young people and grandchildren who should be totally capable of doing things for themselves and WANTING to do things for themselves and just don’t bother or yell for Mom or Dad to come do it for them or they will quit. It is sad. It needs to change. Parents need to take away and make them earn things, like we did. Or learn to go without.

If you’re worried about a kid using a knife – stay out of my neighborhood because my kids use guns.

Cover them with tinfoil??

Where do you manage to buy tinfoil? I always have to buy aluminum foil.

all those people are from Massachusetts. Don’t worry, they will eventually become extinct due to lack of survival skills