Posts Tagged ‘camping’

Thanks to Chris over at Mountainize.com, for sharing this hack with us, you can now have fresh ground coffee in your EDC, BoB or on any camping trip. This could also be good for tiny house living as well. Chris uses a peppermill to grind coffee beans into a course blend.

When I came home from church on Sunday I was very hungry. I ate some left over chicken and started thinking about grid down survival. I decided to give the Esbit stove a try. I had some left over soup in the fridge and decided to give that a go. For this experiment I cooked outside on the ground of my patio. I used two petroleum cotton balls for fuel and my mess-kit to cook in. I did not time the experiment, but I would say that the soup was nicely simmering after about 7 minutes. That’s an assumption. But let me tell you there is something special about open fire cooking. I felt like I had earned that soup. Read the rest of this entry »