Best Sticks For Cooking Over Campfire?

Bama bluejay wrote:
Just a word of warning. Our son had a freak accident while toasting a marshmallow for a s'more. Our family had been out to dinner to celebrate his birthday. Our granddaughter whispered that we were invited to come over to enjoy a campfire and make s'mores a surprise for their dad.

The big campfire was built, had marshmallows, graham crackers and hershey bars but nothing to toast the marshmallows. Had plenty in our rv but our son said he would cut some from sticks. They worked great until birthday boy wanted one last s'more. The marshmallow started to blaze he jerked it back, marshmallow slid and it flipped dead center to his eye while still blazing. He was very lucky no permanent eye damage but he had a serious burn to his eyelid and around his eye. Weird things can happen.

Burning sugar CAN be exceptionally dangerous. So glad your son's reflexes were good!

As a child attending GS camp on Lake Kanawauke, NY, I had a penchant for burnt to a crisp marshmallows. Received my last 'mallow for the night, lit it afire and it started to fall off the stick. Reached to grab it thus causing 2nd and 3rd degree burns on the palm of my right hand. Later in the trip while walking through a cave a bee stung my right eye which made me look like a member of the Cyclops family. So my mother claimed a one eyed, one handed child with wild looking hair at Grand Central Station eventually. She was expecting the hair but not the rest;).