Toasting marshmallows

[Cudzoziemiec]

I have been informed that we are to toast marshmallows over a burning fire. Perhaps a burning forest, I'm not sure yet. The question is, what do we use for toasting sticks? Sticks from the forest, I'm told. This seems unreliable and potentially a hygiene risk* but sporks are obviously out (they're plastic and not long enough). I fancied pointed sticks like for kebabs but are they long enough? I guess something metal would get too hot to hold.

*Hygiene? He's got a mother to worry about that stuff!!!

[Kim]

Your spare spokes.  Ideally for a 700c wheel, and preferably not one of those kevlar things.

[Butterfly]

Throw the sticks on the fire and eat the marshmallows raw? They're nicer like that anyway.

[Kim]

Throw the sticks on the fire and eat the marshmallows raw? They're nicer like that anyway.

Also, this.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Your spare spokes.  Ideally for a 700c wheel, and preferably not one of those kevlar things.

Excellent idea. Unfortunately we'll be sans bikes on this occasion. You don't mind if we raid your front wheel?

Throw the sticks on the fire and eat the marshmallows raw? They're nicer like that anyway.

Yebbut fire beats taste. It's the primordial urge to consume raw carbon.

[Kim]

Your spare spokes.  Ideally for a 700c wheel, and preferably not one of those kevlar things.

Excellent idea. Unfortunately we'll be sans bikes on this occasion. You don't mind if we raid your front wheel?

I don't have many in those weird sizes...   

[nikki]

Kebab sticks are ideal for using over barbecues (and you get to burn them afterwards!), but you may have to scale up in relation to the size of the inferno...

[BikinOn]

Kebab sticks work, but S'mores are the way to go!  I've got fond memories of eating them with 5 cheerleaders on San Diego beach (they were my nieces)

[Cudzoziemiec]

Sophomores?

[mcshroom]

Stuck them on sticks since I was a cub scout and never made myself ill. Take a sharp knife and remove the bark, then sharpen the end.

[frankenthorn]

Take a sharp knife and remove the bark, then sharpen the end.

Sorry, is that the stick, the marshmallow or the cheerleader you do that to?

[clarion]

1.  Throw the marshmallows on the fire

B.  End.

[epa611]

Grandpa's Firefork    Brilliant bit of kit and works really well.

[clarion]

Good design.

[jsabine]

And could be happily bodged from a spoke

[clarion]

So long as you factored in enough spring-apartiness (I'm not gettting too technical here, am I?)

[mcshroom]

Take a sharp knife and remove the bark, then sharpen the end.

Sorry, is that the stick, the marshmallow or the cheerleader you do that to?

Any or all, your preference

[Cudzoziemiec]

I think we'll have to try other toastable delicacies as well. In the absence of cheerleaders, maybe Mars bars. And cheese, that toasts nicely. So cheesey marsh bars it is. Or hedgehogs, they come with their own toasting forks attached.

[Biggsy]

This chap doesn't worry about using a stick from the forest: https://youtu.be/GQcN7lHSD5Y

[Aunt Maud]

We have a Hazel coppice in our garden and that's where our girls get their marshmallow toasting sticks from.

Just peel the bark off the end the marshmallow goes on, if you're worried about it.

[Kim]

Take a sharp knife and remove the bark, then sharpen the end.

Sorry, is that the stick, the marshmallow or the cheerleader you do that to?

Any or all, your preference

Don't mess with cheerleaders with pointy sticks.  Especially after dark.

[BikinOn]

Don't mess with cheerleaders with pointy sticks.  Especially after dark.

They certainly had a lot of energy, I remember wanting to cuddle up with their aunt to watch the sunset, but getting drafted to be one of the bases for their human pyramid! The other downside was every young guy for 5 miles would try and crash our beach party 

But on the original thought of S'Mores - don't knock it until you've tried them 

[nikki]

But on the original thought of S'Mores - don't knock it until you've tried them 

If you've got a proper fire to play with, a square of Dairy Milk on top of a hobnob/digestive and left to linger on a stone near the fire until the chocolate goes squidgey is very satisfying.

I can't remember what we used for improvised s'mores with the CrinklyCubs when we did mallows with them. Jaffa cakes, maybe?

[Pancho]

1. toast marshmallows (on any old stick - I can't say I've ever worried about this until now)

2. take two chocolate digestive biscuits.

3. chocolate side "in", use the biscuits to "pincer" the marshmallow off stick

4. compress marshmallow between biscuits and squidge around a bit.

5. You now have a DIY Wagon Wheel - eat.

6. Repeat.

7. Repeat.

8. Ad nauseum.

[mcshroom]

Otherwise put the marshmallow between the chochy biscuits and wrap in foil. Chuck on fire for a couple minutes, remove and smother all over face eat