Dive Into Gear For Both Goats and People Kitchen System Gear

Sharing kitchen system gear: kettle, instant coffee, pots, a cooler system with frozen cubes, and food. Tips to keep yourself strong and resilient in the backcountry.

Kitchen System Gear

Kettle

• True mountaineer has a pot always on the fire
• Water going all the time for coffee and cleaning
• Don’t get a percolator kettle (will melt/break)

 

Instant Coffee

• Mount Hagen instant coffee
• Get from Amazon or health food stores

 

Pot 

• Titanium pot system: easy to clean with paper towels
• Store in a bag: black soot will get everywhere, hanging loop is important
• For Large groups: Use an Enamel pot
• One-Pot System
• Eat the same soup 2 times a day
• Add salty protein, broth, hamburger/chicken
• Keep using can get 8 meals out of it
• Chicken curry, stew, chili
• Use a brick of butter (note not a cube a Brick) good for your body fat calories

Did you know

• It takes 6 weeks to acclimate 8500 ft
• Take care of yourself: Good Sleep Good Nutrition

 

Cooler System

• Pre-freeze the cooler the night before in the freezer
• Use the frozen cooler gel brick- good product
• Don’t recommend using ice: creates bacteria and turns to water making a mess
• Soft cooler: don’t buy high-end, too heavy, and bulky
• Hard cooler: used as another seat
• If a trip is over 5 days: use 5 lbs of dry ice (it disintegrates)

 

Food 

• Freeze meat, sauce, and butter
• Dehydrate veggies, use jars of cured meat