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Post by Lamebeaver on Dec 4, 2016 17:09:29 GMT -8
I always carry a Coleman Peak1 Stainless Steel cup and a plastic spoon and a small billy pot with a lid and a pot holder handle. I usually carry a MSR pocket rocket, though I sometimes carry a Super Cat alcohol stove instead. I often frequently cook over a small fire.
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Post by cweston on Dec 5, 2016 11:05:14 GMT -8
I use a Primus stove (don't remember the model) which can burn several different fuels--I usually use isobutane canisters. Beyond that, my kit consists of a small aluminum pot and a long spoon. When my son is with me, he carries a plastic coffee cup that we also use for measuring water. Everything is FBC style, eaten out of the bag. I cook adventuresomely and eat well at home--BPing it's all about simplicity and convenience for me. (Lately I eat mostly packaged meals from Mary Janes Farms.)
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Post by rebeccad on Dec 5, 2016 15:19:37 GMT -8
1.5L aluminum pot with lid, regardless of if it's 2 of us or 4. White Box stove, fuel in a used water or soda bottle. Matches, UL pot lifter (mine is much smaller an lighter than the one shown a few posts up!). Each person gets a spoon, and maybe a bowl (we eat FBC, so the bowl isn't essential. Sometimes I pack crackers in a super-light zip-lock container and use that for a bowl when needed). Cups for me, the spouse, and Eldest Son, but not for Second Son because he doesn't drink hot things. In my pot I pack the stove, matches & lighter, an old can that works as an "off switch" for the stove (snuffer), and a half an old cloth diaper for a towel. Also a tiny bottle of soap just in case. I should do some photos to show this, as this question comes up regularly.
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Post by crawford on Dec 6, 2016 6:29:26 GMT -8
I'm absolutely loving this. I hike alone, with my son, or with various groups of Boy Scouts (including some Boy Scout Leaders) and cook kits are something I've found to be very individualized. I think many backpackers are "gear junkies," many work on various set-ups depending on season, number of folks in the group, are they going UL or not, or are they foraging/hunting/fishing along the way. I always like to take note of what someone includes in their kit.
Thanks for the input so far.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 7:56:00 GMT -8
There is a "classic camp stove" forum online somewhere. Pretty cool stuff, but don't even try to make conversation in there unless you "know your stuff". Camp stoves are SERIOUS. Haha
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Post by markskor on Dec 9, 2016 1:23:55 GMT -8
Cook kit related - RE spoons
After perusing the above kits mentioned, noticed a spoon paradox - Ti, plastic or Lexan, how long a handle - short or long, folding, bamboo, single item or "kit", spork or spoon, chop sticks?...(Boggles the mind.)
Plastics - while light and cheap, IMHO, seems that if you look at them wrong or happen to sit on one, they snap way too easily... and they have a tendency to melt and burn too.
Another spoon conundrum...short vs long handled. I prefer the longer ones as dislike getting food on my knuckles, especially when digging deep into a community Freezer Bag pouch.
A lot of old timers swear by long-handled spoon and Ti...had mine for decades.
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Post by zeke on Dec 9, 2016 3:00:28 GMT -8
I've had my long handled lexan spoon for about 10 years. I bought 2 and still have both. In fact, have yet to break any of the lexan utensils, and sold off my short handled ti sporks because I wasn't using them.
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Post by rebeccad on Dec 9, 2016 10:20:38 GMT -8
I wouldn't mind having a little longer lexan spoon, but my efforts with long-handled spoons haven't gone real well (maybe I'm too uncoordinated?). As for breaking--if you keep them long enough, Zeke, they will get brittle. We broke one on a trip 3 years ago. It was probably 20-25 years old, though, so I'm thinking the per-use value was pretty high I didn't really like the newer ones at REI, though--they seemed more flimsy. I have one ti spork that I found in a bush by a campsite at JTree. It doesn't get a lot of use. I don't like sporks--they aren't very good at either job.
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Post by reuben on Dec 9, 2016 10:47:09 GMT -8
@tdale - that doesn't look like an GSI kettle. What brand is it, and do you prefer it over the MSR kettle, or is it just what you've used for lo these many years?
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Post by crawford on Dec 9, 2016 11:36:06 GMT -8
@tdale I like that set up. Everything fits in and it looks pretty bomb proof.
I do like a light my fire spork (spoon on one side and fork on the other).
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Post by jazzmom on Dec 11, 2016 7:19:06 GMT -8
I've settled down to a Toaks 900ml Ti pot. It's a wider pot, so works as a bowl to eat right out of and fits a fuel canister. Weighs 3.6oz with the lid. I use a canister stove, the Monatauk Gnat. 1.9oz and just the right diameter flame pattern for the Toaks pot.
For utensils, I don't like sporks either. I really like an UL aluminum set I have from Sea to Summit - spoon and fork are 0.6 oz together. I don't always take the fork. Usually also have chopsticks, the light wooden ones you get with takeout, in the 0.2oz range.
After several Ti mugs, I accepted the fact that I don't like drinking out of metal. I take a separate insulated GSI plastic mug, 2.9oz. The Gnat fits inside.
9oz plus fuel canister for the above.
If I'm sharing, I take a 2L Open Country aluminum pot and a folding plastic bowl. Adds 3.5oz to the above.
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Post by talus on Dec 11, 2016 12:02:49 GMT -8
Solo I use a 700 ml Snowpeak mug and a BRS-3000 stove along with a ziplock screw top container with a cozy. When I go with my Wife, I'll use a Evernew 900 ml Ti pot with a Snowpeak Gigapower. A long handled REI Ti spoon is my only utensil.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Dec 25, 2016 1:45:18 GMT -8
Hmmm.currently; GSI Al. Kettle to boil water to dump into a FD dinner or my morning oatmeal in a plastic grocery store bowl. Lexan soup spoon, medium small wooden spoon for stirring FD meal. Plastic cup with volume markings for volume measuring and holding my coffee or cocoa. MSR Dragonfly stove, extra fuel container if needed. Two Bic lighters. That's it.
Fromj my simmering and stirring days I've a collection of Sigg pots and some ti pots from REI and another kettle or two from MSR and who knows that sit alongside my Optimus 8R and a pair of XG/Ks and a Sierra Cup, but the above is what I take out.
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Post by Semi on Jan 1, 2017 16:35:59 GMT -8
When we first started dipping our toes into the hiking scene, we used the good ol' GI-friendly MRE kits. Talk about heavy! After fiddling around with other options, we settled on the JetBoil Zip with freeze-dried food packages. For utensils we bought a 4-pack of plastic MSR foldable sporks. They're lightweight (.35 oz) and are long enough to eat the food straight out the bag. We only take one out on trips since it's usually only 2 of us and we've swapped spit plenty of times to have no shame in sharing the same eating utensil. We're still learning though and this thread is super helpful!
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Post by rebeccad on Jan 2, 2017 20:28:43 GMT -8
We only take one out on trips since it's usually only 2 of us and we've swapped spit plenty of times to have no shame in sharing the same eating utensil. You guys are obviously much more patient than we are. A spoon for each of us is definitely a must (though we survived 2 nights with just one spoon in 2013, after one broke...the wise spouse let me eat first). It sounds like you are ready to start dabbling with DYI instant meals!
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