Skills >Cooking >How-to The Viral "Pie in a Can" Camp Cooking Hack Is a Great Way to Eat Charcoal Some cooking hacks are easy. Share Icon Share Bookmark Icon SaveThe premise behind the “pie in a can” camp cooking hack that’s made the rounds on social media is pretty simple: You line a tin can with premade pie crust, fill it with canned pie filling, crimp on a lid, then cover it with aluminum foil and bake it in your campfire. To see how it and other viral camp cooking hacks work in real life, we handed writer and former Backpacker Skills Editor Corey Buhay a bagful of groceries and sent her into the foothills above Boulder, Colorado. In this video, she tries to make her own tin-can pie. Want to read about five more camp cooking hacks and find out which one actually worked?