| What type of camping cookware is best for you? | | | | to help reduce hot-spots and for ease of |
| Camp cooking and clean-up can be easy or a | | | | cleaning.Remember that most camping cookware |
| hassle, it all starts with great camping | | | | handles can get hot so bring something you can |
| equipment.Camping cookware, like any camping | | | | use to protect your hands. For quicker boiling and |
| equipment, should be versatile and tough. A lot of | | | | heating look for camping cookware with black |
| campers have a set of cookware just for | | | | colored bottoms because it will absorb heat better |
| camping because they don't want to risk | | | | and save you some fuel.Backpackers: One liter |
| damaging their good kitchen set and/or it's easier | | | | pots are a good size for two people who don't |
| to keep all your camping gear organized and | | | | eat much, if you and you're buddy have a normal |
| ready-to-go in big plastic bin(s). Kitchen cookware | | | | appetite you'll want to use a 1.5 liter pot. A two |
| usually won't last long in the field anyway. Camp | | | | liter should supply about three hikers with a bigger |
| cooking outdoors can be a lot more demanding | | | | appetite each with a good-size meal. If you're in a |
| than what most kitchen utensils are made | | | | bigger group you'll want to bump up the |
| for.Heavy duty camping cookware is not only a | | | | size.There are several different types of camping |
| good idea, it's almost a necessity. If you're camp | | | | cookware and they have different advantages |
| cooking and your only pan cracks or burns | | | | and disadvantages...Aluminum pans and cookware: |
| through making it unusable, you're either going to | | | | Advantages: Lightweight, heat quickly, and cheap. |
| have to find a way to use tin foil creatively or eat | | | | Disadvantages: Possible link to Alzheimer's, food |
| cold sandwiches the rest of your camping | | | | has a tendency to stick, hot spot heating can |
| trip.Remember to get camping cookware with | | | | easily burn food so you'll want to stir it, hard to |
| tight-fitting lids to help heat food on your camping | | | | clean, can taste bad, pans can get bent/dinged |
| stove more quickly and to help save fuel, this is | | | | easily, and aluminum has a tendency to react with |
| especially important to hikers that carry | | | | foods. I've seen tomato sauce eat through...If |
| everything. I'd stay away from non-stick coatings | | | | you'd like more information on camping cookware |
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| I'm not sure how healthy it would be for you. | | | | use.Marc Wiltse learned how important good |
| Non-stick surfaces can also scratch, it's hard | | | | quality hiking equipment and camping gear were |
| enough keeping them in good shape at home let | | | | after his pup tent flooded with over 3 inches of |
| alone camping or hiking.Some pots/pans come in | | | | water forcing him to sleep in the front seat of his |
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