crawford
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Post by crawford on Dec 1, 2016 17:14:48 GMT -8
I'm tired of looking at TPA so I was just checking out an old Shug vid on YooperTube, or was that YouTube...Anyway, got me thinking, what is the average cook kit that you take on the trail? I'll assume it may vary when you have others with you or when seasons change, so what does yours look like? Is it ultra minimalist, or are you a trail version of Emeril? Are their certain items that always go with you, while others you drop in and out of your kit? Do you like a good boil, or are you trying to cook it up out there?
I suppose my standard is a 25oz pot with lid (it is steel not Ti so it sometimes makes me feel like it actually weighs 25oz) that I fit a simple, self-priming soda can stove into. I have a small plastic 6oz cup with the handle cut off that fits inside the pot, with the stove inside the cup. I carry a light my fire spork and often an additional longer handled plastic spoon for mixing food in a bag or just as a back-up. With that is a 10oz flask that carries my denatured alcohol.
When I'm with others, I will also add a small, extremely thin, aluminum bowl. When it is just me, I will eat out of the pot for certain meals, when with others I will use the bowl. I also sometimes will carry a different stove that holds up to 3 oz of fuel in it and has a simmer and snuffer ring. This provides opportunity to cook instead of just boil water, which I do like in later season hikes when it gets dark early. I sometimes switch out to a 30oz pot when with a group so that more water can be heated at a time.
My son, on the other hand, likes a Jetboil to heat the water and then carries a small handled steel cup from boy scouts, a similar aluminum bowl, a small lighter, and a light my fire spork. Doesn't matter who he's with, that is always his kit.
Obviously, we aren't ultra-light or minimalist, but I don't think we are over the top either.
As Captial One would say, "What's in your cook kit?"
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Post by trinity on Dec 1, 2016 17:27:06 GMT -8
I carry a Snowpeak Trek 700 mug, which boils water and serves as a coffee and whisky cup. To that I add either a Snowpeak Gigapower, Kovea Spider, or Caldera Cone, depending on the circumstances. That's it, other than a long handled lexan spoon. I eat exclusively out of bags on the trail.
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Dec 1, 2016 17:41:10 GMT -8
MSR Titan Kettle, little red plastic cup from an old mess kit, Orikaso folding cup (serves many purposes), long-handled Ti spoon.
Heat comes from either an alcohol stove (Caldera Cone) or a Snowpeak Gigapower.
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Post by zeke on Dec 1, 2016 17:44:10 GMT -8
I carry a White Box Stove and this all of the time. I also carry a long handled spoon similar to link Doesn't matter if I am cooking for 1 or 2. FBC only. No hot meal other than dinner usually. I chop and cook at home, and see no need to do that in the field.
I use an 8 oz water bottle to carry my fuel, with a wrap of tape around it with a skull sharpie'd onto the tape. Only thing I carry anywhere near that size, so I don't end up drinking the fuel.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 18:22:07 GMT -8
Pot with lid 4.25 stove w case 3.95 Fuel Can 5.9 Piezo Ignighter 0.45 Stove carry bag 0.9 Spork 0.3
All weights in ounces. The pot, lid and spork are Ti. We eat FBC.
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Post by reuben on Dec 2, 2016 4:04:47 GMT -8
Some sort of small pot with lid (water boils faster). I think it's an Evernew 600ml. A double wall titanium cup (yep, went all out). About 400-500ml. Long handle plastic spoon. As for a stove, I've got a few canister types from MSR, Optimus, and others. Also an Optimus Nova multifuel stove when it's needed.
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Post by JRinGeorgia on Dec 2, 2016 4:36:54 GMT -8
For FBC only:
Foster's beer can pot, Caldera Cone, base sheet, Starlyte stove, caddy, DIY cozy, DIY stove stand and LightLoad towel - total weight = 7.4oz.
Mini bic = 0.4oz. Long-handled ti spoon (Optimus) = 0.75oz.
The caddy protects the cook kit from being crushed and serves as two separate vessels (two bowls or bowl+cup).
I carry alcohol fuel in a repurposed 8oz water bottle, weighs 0.3oz (or 12oz bottle for long trips).
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Post by sarbar on Dec 2, 2016 8:53:45 GMT -8
I have a lot of options....but overall? A 2 Liter wide/shallow pot, that is HAA, usually a GSI or MSR version. However, it is just me, I use an MSR HAA pot that is 1.7 L I want to say. Sometimes I go smaller, but over the years, this is what makes me happy. Bamboo spoon. Cup. Paper towels.
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Post by hikingtiger on Dec 2, 2016 11:03:44 GMT -8
SuperCat stove, 1L kettle, a plastic cup, a cozy, and a spoon. Small bottle for the alcohol fuel.
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Post by swiftdream on Dec 2, 2016 13:21:58 GMT -8
Simple is good. The Whitebox stove in this image has been used over 1000 times at the time of photography and has been used a lot more by now. It is so simple and indestructible that it has become our mainstay stove. The Snow Peak 600 mil double wall cup has been in my kit for more than 15 years now. It is my cup and bowl. While the Toaks spork is pretty good, I've gone back to a spoon and have always liked the Snow Peak spoon the best, keep one for my home use but found a folding snow peak ti long handled spoon that I carry now for eating and cooking. The pot is an Evernew 1.3L ti. Lots of simple water boils but lots of fresh soups too this time of year. We will chop up some combo of zucchini, sweet potato, carrots, shallots or others and add some kind of canned meat and maybe some butter or cream with spices for a revivifying, hot soup. Just about anything will cook in a minute or two if you chop it small enough. We've even made real chocolate pudding with eggs, cream and chocolate on the Whitebox by making a double boiler with a 2L ti Snow Peak pan and the 1.3L ti Evernew. Stir vigorously.
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Post by markskor on Dec 2, 2016 18:10:33 GMT -8
Like some (old farts) here, now primarily hike to fish, usually Sierra off trail...normally including a few layover days on route. Also enjoy me some real cooking, and as such my system has evolved - a slightly more complex cooking system (important - one that all fits together) is required than if just boiling up water. Above timberline - no fires allowed - thus a hot, wide-flame stove needed - (canister?)...stable...and something to cook the trout in helps too. How about a 10 inch Ti fry pan? Standard 1.7 liter aluminum grease pot inside holds (safely cushions?) stove (MSR Windpro II), reel (Shimano Symetre), spare spool, scrubbie, Bic, hot pad...spices. Custom made stuff-sack, (room under pot for stowing heat shield, foil squares, fire stick, misc.) keeps all together when packed. Long-handled Ti spoon, plastic cup, and smallest SAK tethered to hemostats (used fishing - prevents losing either) completes my kit.
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Post by drilldaddyo on Dec 2, 2016 20:07:52 GMT -8
Hi,
Jet boil sol in Ti (I have a lighter in case the piezo isn't working well)
Long handled Ti spoon
Done!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2016 9:48:16 GMT -8
I carry a 1980's stainless steel Coleman/Peak 1 cook pot, with an MSR Whisperlite. I eat out of an Aladdin thermal mug to keep the food hot. I just carry a plastic spoon that I saved from some fast food restaurant.
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Post by reuben on Dec 3, 2016 11:32:11 GMT -8
I just carry a plastic spoon that I saved from some fast food restaurant. Looks like you have two plastic spoons. Your UL cred just vanished... And yeah, I have one of those pot gripper thingies, too. Oops, my UL cred just vanished...
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Post by johntpenca on Dec 3, 2016 15:34:48 GMT -8
Over the years I've run the gambit, from multiple pots and pans and MSR XGK in my BC skiing heyday. It all depends on what type of cooking you want to do. Now days I only do boil and bag. A .75 Ti pot and a pocket rocket knock off and a lexan spoon get me by.
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