Cooking, Eating, & Drinking Utensils. Show us what you carry in your pack.

[Keith]

Long term post shtf we will be cooking over an open fire, but what will we be cooking in? Show us your pots, cooking kettle, fry pan, cup, & eating utensils you carry in your pack.
Keith.

 

[Keith]

Small light tinned iron cooking kettle with a kettle bag, a wooden spoon, my cup with tea bag inside, & my legging knife that I use for cutting & eating meat. If I am only roasting small pieces of meat then I do so on a pointed stick & eat from the stick.
Keith.

 

[hodgson]

Kelly kettle, a few tiny twigs, a bit of dry grass, maybe a pine cone and you have hot water. Also have a little pan to go on the top. I have a large one but am looking for an individual size one.

 

[MikeR]

I have an oblong mess tin that I've had since a child, hexi stove, spork, kuksa folding cup, several means of fire lighting and a salt and pepper pot. All that fits in the mess tin. It's kit from when I used to go backpacking so I suppose I could shove it in the bag, but in all honesty it takes less than a couple of hours to walk to the bolthole and I don't plan on camping short term.
These days, if we had to leave our home to never come back we would be at the lake and there is sufficient kit tucked away there to make a permanent outdoor kitchen, including pots and pans big enough to cook food on an industrial scale and purify water. We regularly have a fish off and cook out after so the kit is already there.
I've already put in a firepit, and I've been thinking of building a brick rocket stove.

 

[Harry Palmer]

I've a lot of pots and pans (in store just now) but I am not a fan of cast iron pans and prefer stainless steel or Aluminium; cast iron is by comparison high maintenance and very heavy. A Trangia 25 or 27 (with kettle) does me well or even trusty British Army mess tins and a Crusader mug will do me on a solo trip

 

[MikeR]

I've a lot of pots and pans (in store just now) but I am not a fan of cast iron pans and prefer stainless steel or Aluminium; cast iron is by comparison high maintenance and very heavy. A Trangia 25 or 27 (with kettle) does me well or even trusty British Army mess tins and a Crusader mug will do me on a solo trip

I have some cast iron, but I rarely use it. At the Lake there's a selection of large enamelware pots and pans and a good steel paella pan (for the fish-off fry-ups)
and Paella, obviously

 

[Harry Palmer]

Those steel paella pan's are fantastic value for money and you can cook all sorts of meals in them.

 

[38thfoot]

Technically you can only cook paella in a paella pan.....

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[Harry Palmer]

In the real world you can cook what you want in a Paella pan 'We' use a couple of big ones to cook a full English for a dozen people.

 

[38thfoot]

As soon as you drop the ingredients into a paella pan it becomes paella; sausage egg and bacon flavoured paella but paella all the same!!

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[Harry Palmer]

I am guessing that you don't cook a lot 38 LOL

 

[38thfoot]

No I do and paella is one of my favourite things to cook. paella is named after the pan it is cooked in so technically EVERYTHING cooked in the pan is paella!!

But I'm just being an ass so feel free to cook what you want in it

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[Ystranc]

Sorry 38th, I think you're overextending logic a little. That would be like saying that anything that you put in a hat becomes a head.
You are absolutely correct though, paella is the name for the pan as much as the food basically meaning something cooked and slightly smoked in a pan over an open fire.

 

[MikeR]

Whatever it's called, it makes cooking breakfast for many a doddle. From the great British fry up to Huevos Rancheros it's the pan of choice if you don't want to still be cooking breakfast at lunchtime.

 

[Ystranc]

Basically it's just perfectly designed for cooking over the coals of a fire whatever you want to cook

 

[38thfoot]

Sorry 38th, I think you're overextending logic a little.

I know and it was deliberate

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[Woodlandwanderer]

I carry this plus a Hobo stove made from a stainless ikea drainer copy

 

[Denidoom]

Nice collection, Sooty! I have one of those Russian doll style, pan collections and it's marvellous, even got a little kettle. Purchased it for a camping trip abroad so needed something really light. Didn't think it was going to be very good, but I use it every time now and it's all I need. That said, I'm talking use it with a Gas burner. If weight isn't an issue and it's a camp fire, then I'm using cast iron pans.