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non-stick pan
Ultralight pans don't have the thermal mass for even cooking, so non-stick doesn't help very much. Trangia Duossal pans or similar are the ticket
Eat out of the pan with a ti spork.
Can't do that as it'll scratch the coating off, that's why non-stick pans are for wooden utensils only
Clean the pan with your fingers.
The detached head of a silicon spatula, used as a pot scraper, actually works and is hygenic
3 spoons of coffee
The lightweight way is to stop being addicted to caffeine
folding twig stove
These are a novelty item only, no end of practical issues. Anyone doing it regularly uses gas or alcohol
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stop being addicted to caffeine
Lol sure, why not just advise me to roll over and die?
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Excellent tips!
Trangia Duossal
So my One Pan to Rule Them All would be a 1 litre Duossal. 150 grams. 5.9 cm diameter. Just enough for bacon and eggs. https://trangia.se/en/shop/saucepan-1-l-outer/ With the separate Trangia handle, which I've always liked. 48g. https://trangia.se/en/shop/handle-th25/
folding twig stove a novelty item only, no end of practical issues
I would very much like not to carry gas or liquid fuel, so perhaps I could overcome these issues -
- Fire bans and concerned locals telling you not to have a fire: screen the stove behind bike/panniers/clothes (also works as a wind screen)
- Actual risk of setting fire to the undergrowth: clear a bare patch to put the stove on. Be nice to have an implement for this. Preferably something which I'm already carrying. Can't think of anything.
- Starting the fire in damp conditions: pack some dry tinder, e.g. a tampon. Then add lots of wood shavings, made on the spot. (I would pack my best knife. Any excuse to use it.)
- Lots of black smoke which attracts concerned locals: cook supper after dusk. Cook breakfast after most of your packing is done, so if a local approaches you'll be about to leave
- Masses of soot on the pan and the outside of the stove: don't clean them. Pack them v.v.carefully in cloth bags to stop the soot migrating in your panniers.
- Lots of wood needed: the food I cook doesn't take long (fry the bacon 'n eggs, or boil water for pasta)
- Poor control of cooking temperature: I can live with this for the v. basic cooking that I do. I don't mind holding the pan above the stove.
- Fire bans and concerned locals telling you not to have a fire: screen the stove behind bike/panniers/clothes (also works as a wind screen)
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The lightweight way is to stop being addicted to caffeine
Or just accept petrol station coffee (and a shit)
Eejit
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Bacon and eggs for breakast is hard to beat. Especially up a mountain with a view above the clouds and some goats for company. That's my all time best camping memory.
A non stick pan is essential. I hate camping pans which aren't non stick. I might get this Evernew 0.9l non-stick ti pan as my only pan for future trips. Wide enough for frying and deep enough for boiling things. 140 grams. No plate. Eat out of the pan with a ti spork. No washing up. Clean the pan with your fingers. https://ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/eca422-titanium-non-stick-pot-2-0-9l/
Pasta with a tin of tuna is my usual standby. Sounds boring but it's so fast and so easy to buy and carry, and it's always delicious outdoors after a day of riding. Maybe add cream, cream cheese, nuts. Yummy. And I always pack sea salt flakes and tabasco.
I've tried lots of portable coffee gadgets but I don't like that cafetiere taste. My favourite result so far has been from a v. small camping moka pot with ground Illy. Quite light cos it doesn't have an upper chamber. Just a pipe to shoot the coffee direct into your cup. You can save a few more grams by cutting off the platform and replacing the pipe with a plastic tube. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Single-Tube-Operate-Latte-Coffee/dp/B0BCCC46SJ?th=1
But I'm not sure it's worth the faff and the weight. I might force myself to adapt to v. strong instant coffee with powdered milk. There are lots of posh instant coffees these days. Maybe 3 spoons in a small cup would give me the caffeine hit? If so it's 100 times better than no coffee at all. I shall do some testing at home.
I got an omnifuel ti primus stove for my last trip https://www.outside.co.uk/primus-primus-omnilite-ti-stove.html?utm_source=googleads&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googleshopping&gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwoK2mBhDzARIsADGbjepbiVdQO9EyI0M2e_N5oEFXlnW1mIA76Pr_jEtk_7_uK_uJxN7uofsaArPREALw_wcB and used petrol in it, which was horrible. Nasty fumes. And trying to buy minute quantities of petrol at filling stations. 341g exc. fuel and fuel bottle. Probably 800g total? The bottle needed its own cage so that it didn't make everything stink. Never again. Next time I'll burn twigs in a folding pocket stove like this. 114 grams. https://ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/titanium-wood-burning-stove/
My next trip might be with my cat, but she's easy to feed.