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Kettle or pot

Weldabeast

Weldabeast

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Which is more versatile? If ur just rehydrating food and making coffee the kettle seems a better choice but I'm just guessing..... If I'm gonna start trying some outta state hunting in coming years I'm gonna try to slim down the camp stuff to a minimum. I got a cook pot already but I really only use it to boil water....I think a kettle boils quicker than a pot?... Not interested in jetboil or anything fancy...regular old kettle or regular old pot
 
With a pot, you could drink your coffee right out of it. Never tried that with a kettle but I’m guessing it would be quite a challenge. Toaks pot for me.


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I use my wife's smediumish Revereware pot and pan for my camping setup unless I'm backpacking. And I like a 2 burner gasoline coleman stove. Anything I can cook at home on the stove eye, I can whip up in the woods. Designated "camp" pots and pans are dooky in my experience. Whatever you end up with, cook with that stuff at home a few times before you hit the trail. Preferably at different temperature extremes. Biscuits take longer to cook at 20° with a 10mph north wind on the riverbank than they do at 80° on the back porch.
 
I have a decent setup now with a fold up double burner and nesting cook pot set and am pretty experience with the truck camp setup but I was thinking of slimming it all down to something a little more packable...if I ride shotgun with someone for an outta state hunt I want to have all camp/cook/toiletries/etc in an Alice pack if possible. Having used that nesting pot system for a while I know I haven't used half of it. Upgrade the double burner and big propane tank for 1 of those small single burners that works with that other smaller style tank and was just brainstorming over the kettle....u were supposed to say " yes the EWO camp kettle is super awesome"....since that the 1 I seen that got me thinking about all this.... @Nutterbuster u a bad employee....hehehe
 
Honestly, I'd rather eat fast food or no-cook food for 2-3 days than use camp stoves and camp cooking gear. I like to cook in the woods, I just like to do it in a way that's enjoyable. I feel like an idget with a dang easybake oven using little burners and kettles.

Problem with cooking is then you have to wash dishes. #2 with a large fry just requires you to toss a bag at a filling station. If I'm feeling healthy I'll get a Subway footlokg with all the veggies hold the dressing, and eat half for an early lunch and half for dinner.

Cooking on the go is highly overrated
 
Nutterbuster said:
Honestly, I'd rather eat fast food or no-cook food for 2-3 days than use camp stoves and camp cooking gear. I like to cook in the woods, I just like to do it in a way that's enjoyable. I feel like an idget with a dang easybake oven using little burners and kettles.

Problem with cooking is then you have to wash dishes. #2 with a large fry just requires you to toss a bag at a filling station. If I'm feeling healthy I'll get a Subway footlokg with all the veggies hold the dressing, and eat half for an early lunch and half for dinner.

Cooking on the go is highly overrated
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Gotcha... Pack in McDonald's

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Weldabeast said:
Gotcha... Pack in McDonald's

Anyway....
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KISS.

If you wanna pot, buy a pot. If you want a kettle, buy a kettle. Aint a dimes worth of difference between them. Kettle pours easier if you're making dehydrated meals in a bag. Pot is easier to eat chef boy r deer out of with a spoon.

Edit: are you gonna be backpacking? That changes the game somewhat. But for deer hunting east of Mississippi food isn't an issue. Just depends on if cooking is cool/fun enough to offset the convenience of paying somebody else for a meal
 
Welcome to McDonald's how may I help u

Hey how ya doing... Going on a 10 day hunt and super excited... Lemmy get 30 big Mac, gallon o tea, gallon o coffee, and 2 apple pies
Haha

So I've never been but the guys I've talked with who are making these trips are going and setting up camp and hunting 10 days....I more than likely wouldn't have my vehicle so store/town runs may or may not happen....idk...I just like to be self sufficient...

Guys that pack in and hunt have experience with that kinda stuff and that is why I asked here in the back country camping section....
 
Get an enamel coffee cup and a steel grate to put over the fire, some chunky soup, bags of fruit, bags of trail mix, dehydrated coffee (it'll do while you're camping), crap for sandwiches, jerky, pre-cooked weiners, etc. Paper plates you can dispose of in the fire.
Eat some trail mix and fruit in the morning, have a sammy for lunch. When you get back to camp at night you can get fancy and make a fire. Open your soup can and set it on the grate or the edge of the fire, use welding glove to remove when hot. Hopefully you'll have some backstraps to grill too.
We've camped this way for a couple weeks at a shot and when you get sick of eating the same crap go into town and have a decent meal.
If you're backpacking, a jet boil and dehydrated food or MREs are the way to go.
 
I think @Jtaylor is giving sound advice. Keep it as simplistic as possible. If you're going with a group that has done this a while, you won't have to cook unless you're just feeling jiggy. There's always one guy who is the chuck wagon. Pay for his gas and help drag his deer and he'll cook you the nice thick steak.
 
Nutterbuster said:
I think @Jtaylor is giving sound advice. Keep it as simplistic as possible. If you're going with a group that has done this a while, you won't have to cook unless you're just feeling jiggy. There's always one guy who is the chuck wagon. Pay for his gas and help drag his deer and he'll cook you the nice thick steak.
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With our group, everyone will pitch in some of their food for a pot-luck a couple of the days towards the end of the trip. Usually we're too tired from a day of hunting and just want to relax by the fire with a brew or two and make something easy and go to bed. For me, cooking and the associated gear over complicates the experience and adds stress to an otherwise fun trip.
 
A small blue enamel wal mart pot w/lid. Light wt and no handle to take up space, just a bail. Canned meat and romaine noodles aren't bad. We don't eat nearly as much in the mountains as we do at home,???
 
There are pots with a pour spout. Kind of a two for one deal.
 
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