Cookware and Accessories: What you need, what you don’t
Cookware and Accessories: What You Need, What You Don’t
The essentials
Pot
Pot lifter (if your pots don’t have handles)
Cup or other drinking vessel (potentially your pot or water bottle)
Lightweight eating utensil (fork, spoon, spork, chopsticks)
Small knife
Very useful, not absolutely necessary
Small sponge for cleaning
Windscreen for the stove and pot
A plate or bowl if you don’t want to eat from your cook pot
A coffee-making device
Somewhat useful, definitely not necessary
Biodegradable soap
Spice containers
A small rubber pot-scraping tool
Insulated mug for hot drinks
Spatula for pancake makers
Waterproof “kitchen sink” container or tote bag for cleaning and carrying water.
Marginally useful at best
Miniature cheese grater
Micro cutting board
Collapsible whisk
Ultralight garlic press
This column originally appeared in the print edition of
AMC Outdoors
along with the column
"Pot Luck: How to choose the right backcountry cookware."
(Photograph by Ryan Smith.)
Labels:
Backpacking
,
Camping
,
Cooking
,
Stoves
