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Hi ya Walkabout,

Try eating a Steak with a spork

The most entertaining thing I've cooked in the field was Chicken with Small Baked Jacket Potatoes and Carrots even made Bisto, all in an earth oven using a Crusader cup and a mess tin (Germany in 1985 while on exercise).

I've also used the METAL Chopsticks as a make shift Grill to keep stuff out of the fire, like Chicken and Pork Chops they also make a good Kebab rack.

The best way to pack (10 Years in the Army 4th Batt. Royal Green Jackets) is to look at your kit, and see if it can

1. be used for more then one job (versatile)
2. survive a good fall, so pretty tough
3. easy and cheap to replace
4. be used again and again
5. be used in all Climates

If it and meet the above then pack it if not then it's not worth its weight in your pack. Now if you’re driving or riding then the weight isn't so much of a factor so bring a few luxuries.

My mess kit is as follows

1 * Knife (peeling chopping cuting)
1 * fork (eating with and poking stuff with to see if it's cooked)
1 * spoon (coffee, food, stiring)
1 * Metal Chop sticks (grill, kebab)
1 * Metal Crusader Cup (boiling food, drinking and eating from they even do lids for them now)
1 * Trangia Frying Pan (it's also a lid for frying and simmering)
1 * Trangia Bowl (matches the lid, also boiling and eating from)
1 * Little tongs for turning meat and taking things off the stove
1 * Salt & Pepper
1 * Hot Sauce
and Drinks/Soup kit

and my Favorite a Coleman Sportster Stove that burns Petrol.

If you can find anyone with a better thought out set up that you can buy on a tight budget then let me know as I'm always open to new ideas.
And its all held in a Blackhawk Gasmask Pouch, so it doesn't get lost.
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Hi ya Walkabout,

Try eating a Steak with a spork
Now, try baking a steak with my light weight pan set! Thats never going to happen either
so when i got a steak i'm in a restorant i guess..
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I would back Juddaredd up, his packing list is pretty much exactly what I would recommend too, so he has pretty much negated this post, making me as useful as a soup fork.

But one must remember - 'if you can't hack it - be a jacket.'

Happy riding.

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Hi Joel,

No your not a waste of bandwidth matey

It's nice to get good verification as feedback, you know when you ride you look for the people with the same kit as yours and see if they like theirs as much as you like yours, it's just to make sure you have the best stuff.

I normally go right back to basics if in doubt and then build on the foundations that I know work, and actually living the army life teaches you a thing or two about what you carry. So forget the Spork and go for the things that are of best use, build up a small mess kit like mine and then see if it works for you if it does then great, if not then alter it to suit.

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Spork and a pen knife perfect for me

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Eating bread: tear the loaf in to two bits - scoop out the soft inner with both hands and eat it - if you are still hungry, then stuff the lump of cheese between the outer bread halves and you have two sandwiches, also eaten by the hands/teeth. Don't bother with the butter.
100% agree
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'It's nice to get good verification as feedback, you know when you ride you look for the people with the same kit as yours and see if they like theirs as much as you like yours, it's just to make sure you have the best stuff.'

Haha, so obviously an ex-soldier; can't resist checking everyone elses' kit out. I'm willing to bet you probably chastise people who have undone pockets or badly packed sacks!

All correct though, I see exactly where you are coming from, and I go the same route of 'back to basics.' If you wouldn't want to stick it in a bergen and carry it - don't take it.

So in conclusion - more wasted bandwidth - I haven't actually added anything to Lee's post or the topic in general!

So er yeah...I don't carry a spork.

The combat spoon though - that is a whole different story....

Happy riding.

Joel
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Firstly: Karter no offence but what's the longest you have been out in the field cooking for?


Secondly:
Undone pockets = Loosing things, very bad
Badly packed sack = Sores, bad back, tiredness

If you wouldn't want to stick it in a bergen and carry it - don't take it. = Exactly right

I wonder if he bought the SPORK, oh NASA didn't do as good a job with packing those solar panels as they did making the SPORK, now if ony they had me on the team to pack their kit right.

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Try eating a Steak with a spork
A spork aint supposed to replace a knife... the clue is in the name

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