Cooking with Vaseline

No photo for this one, but I flunked cooking merit badge as a boy scout when I cooked pork chops in vaseline petroleum jelly while on a canoe trip. I forgot the cooking oil and figured vaseline was slippery like the oil so I put some in the pan.  Hind sight says I should have roasted them on a stick over the fire or done them on a grill grate. I was 13 yrs old. I boiled coffee grounds in water for a half hour to make coffee. The counselor spit it out. He was attempting to reduce the taste of burnt vaseline ( tar ) from his mouth. It didn't work. I flunked.