Cooking Badge

Outcomes

Cubs learn outdoor and home cooking knowledge and skills, and learn how to safely cook nutritious meals under adult supervision.¹

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Requirements

To earn the Cooking Badge, with the help of an adult, describe some safety rules for cooking on a stove, microwave, or around an open fire. Then, do any five of the following:

1. Make some hot oatmeal.
2. Cook a hotdog or hamburger.
3. Use a tinfoil cup or orange half and bake, a muffin in it.
4. Wrap a potato in tinfoil and bake it in a fire.
5. Boil water and cook some pasta of your choice.
6. Make pancakes or French toast.
7. Make biscuit or bannock dough and cook it on a stick or in a cup.
8. Cook a baked apple, banana, or a tinfoil dessert of your choice.
9. Make a campfire treat, such as SMOR's or popcorn.
10. Cook a meal of your choice while at camp.
11. Make a shish-ka-bob of meat and vegetables and cook over a fire.
12. Cook an egg.

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Cross-Badge linking:

• Green Star B2
• Camping Badge5b
• Winter Cubbing Badge 5d

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Program Suggestions

• Outdoor Skills - Cooking

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Footnotes

1. Taken from MEASURING SUCCESS - THE SCOUTING WAY