Exploring The Great Outdoors

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Sure, a lot of people say that camping is not camping if you are using some sort of electric stove instead of the good ole’ gas or over the fire methods. I personally would object to seeing someone use some sort of a “cooking made easy!” device if they were simply at a campground for their leisure. However, when you are climbing with a purpose, hiking, or doing some other sort of extreme exercise where food is an essential necessity, I think that being able to make dinner in a short amount of time could be very useful.

I recently was researching a company whose founders had the same frustrations as some people have experienced. Dwight Aspinwall and Perry Dowst were sick of dragging around their heavy vacuum bottles and clunky stoves, so they formed a company called Jetboil. At first I thought it would be some sort of an aircraft company, but it turns out that this company makes products that will make outdoor cooking much easier.

One of their newer devices is the Flash. Flash is an all-in-one design, and it is a combined burner and cooking vessel in one compact unit. This product features a 1.0 Liter FluxRing® cooking cup with insulating cozy and color-change heat indicator. Do not worry, the cup clips onto the burner, so you do not have to carry around the burner while you are enjoying your soup, coffee, hot chocolate, or something else. Just think, with the click of a burner, you could be eating gourmet freeze-dried right in the White Mountains.

Another type of product that people use is the group cooking system. This pot has a 1.5 liter system, and it heats evenly throughout the whole material. What this means is that you could cook something like a scrambled egg right on there!

There are a lot of other places that sell outdoors equipment. These are just two of the examples of “cooking gone easy.”