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TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.An environmentally friendly way to cook
Fri 05 Oct, 2012 12:59 pm
Thinking about the conversation we were just having about fire rings and pondering on the merits of wood fires and gas stoves, is there a better way to cook.
What about an alternative where your meals were either pre-cooked - so just add hot water, or uncooked. There is a thread on "no cook" meals. For the "just add hot water" alternative, how about a "solar kettle" (also see). Weighing in at less than 1kg to heat ½ a litre and requiring about 30 minutes of sunshine to heat the water which then remains hot for a while. One kg is not too heavy since you'll save some weight by not carrying a stove and cooking pot.
Set your kettle up, do some photography or a short side trip, come back and have lunch.
500ml might be a bit small, but is it possible to go without a stove?
What about an alternative where your meals were either pre-cooked - so just add hot water, or uncooked. There is a thread on "no cook" meals. For the "just add hot water" alternative, how about a "solar kettle" (also see). Weighing in at less than 1kg to heat ½ a litre and requiring about 30 minutes of sunshine to heat the water which then remains hot for a while. One kg is not too heavy since you'll save some weight by not carrying a stove and cooking pot.
Set your kettle up, do some photography or a short side trip, come back and have lunch.
500ml might be a bit small, but is it possible to go without a stove?
Re: An environmentally friendly way to cook
Fri 05 Oct, 2012 1:13 pm
Might have to consider the availability of sunlikght first. Is there sufficient to warm the water? If not you are still stuck with cold food. Might be fine in the tropics in the dry but.....
Re: An environmentally friendly way to cook
Fri 05 Oct, 2012 4:18 pm
I suppose it would be difficult to get even close to the speed of fuel stoves with solar. Even the extra time taken using metho gets a mention in stove choice topics.
I had a cappuccino in a can. Heated by a built in pad/chemical mix. Not sure whether it meets any criteria other than being convenient.
I've always liked the idea of incinerators for toilet waste modified for remote use, met a German park manager who had experience with and raved about them. (Turd Burners- http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2011/05/ ... g-toilets/ )
Perhaps if the power source was efficient, a portable drier/stove combo might serve multiple uses (lol .. Out there I know but...)
I had a cappuccino in a can. Heated by a built in pad/chemical mix. Not sure whether it meets any criteria other than being convenient.
I've always liked the idea of incinerators for toilet waste modified for remote use, met a German park manager who had experience with and raved about them. (Turd Burners- http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2011/05/ ... g-toilets/ )
Perhaps if the power source was efficient, a portable drier/stove combo might serve multiple uses (lol .. Out there I know but...)
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