Camp Kitchen. My Cooking Gear for Camping and Canoe Trips. Food Barrel. Wannigan.

[Applause] [Music] um [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Music] morning folks welcome back this video is all about my kitchen kits after just about every camp video and video where i'm cooking i get a load of questions in the comments about the gear i use uh you know where you can get hold of it what it is etc so i thought i'd just do a video showing the gear i use specifically for canoe camping but there are also gear items that i use on other trips and things as well and hopefully it'll explain a few things and point you in the direction of where you can get hold of them we'll start with what i'm carrying my gear in today like i said before this is um something i'll use for canoe camps uh i wouldn't carry this if i was you know having to carry any distance for portaging and for short hikes to camp if you're canoe tripping or canoe camping then it's fine this is a 50 liter canoe barrel it's actually a food barrel specifically for importing chutneys so if you do a search on google or on ebay for chutney barrel you'll find these 50 liters it's got a screw top lid two handles on the side so they're easy to carry even if it's not on the frame which i'll talk about in a minute and it's good thick durable plastic i like it because i can keep all my gear in there it'll take the knocks and bumps so i can keep fairly fragile things in there as well breakable things like lanterns i also like that it's weatherproof so i can leave this out in the rain i don't have to worry about putting it under cover at night and you know nothing's gonna no harm is gonna come to the contents but the biggest bonus about this for me is that it doubles as a bit of camp furniture i can use this as a seat and it's comfortable to sit on uh around the fire if you if you're not planning on taking another chair with you and it's a really useful table for preparing food for chopping on for washing up on as a washing up stand anything you might want to just keep things up off the ground it's ideal i've got the barrel strapped to my lk35 frame this is the frame that comes with a swedish army 35 litre rucksack popular within the sort of bushcraft community but that pack comes off it just hooks on at the top and straps on at the bottom and you can remove it and you're left with a frame which is really useful for carrying awkward items this barrel straps on here really nicely there's a little lip at the bottom of the uh of the frame here where you can see that so that kind of catches the bottom edge there and then just by pulling all these straps tight it holds it in place it makes carrying your barrel a lot easier if you've got long portages and because it's on your back you've got your hands free so you can do the portage in one hit you know canoe on your head barrel on your back the way i've got the barrel strapped onto the frame means that i can slide other items down the side here long awkward items to pack like a folding saw axe anything like that now today i've just got this loaded up with kitchen related items but it is quite a large barrel it's 50 liters and i've used this as my only pack on on overnight camps you know i can get everything in there i need if i don't take all the things i'm going to show you today if that makes sense but if you were going on a longer trip or you didn't have far to carry your gear you could take a dry bag or something to take all your camping gear in and that would free up space in here to take extra items so you can keep all your food and all of your kitchen gear in here i've just sort of tried to include a bit of a range in here a bit of variety to show you some of the things that i use but it really depends on what i'm going to be cooking where i'm going how far i'm going to have to carry things you know there's loads of loads of factors so first now is my food bag i bought a load of bags recently from a chap called david fryers and he makes these cordura bags all handmade here in england just superb quality this is the food bag that he sells and it's got a kind of roll top closure like you'd have on a dry bag you just roll it up clip it around and secure it with a snap buckle but what i really like is it's also got a velcro closure at the top and i'm sure i'm sure you will know you know what i'm talking about here you get back from camp you open up your food bag and nine times out of ten it's full of earwigs if you live here in the uk um and it just does my head in this stops the ear wigs stops them getting in there stops any other insects and bugs getting in into your food i'm a big fan of these plastic nalgene bottles i have loads of these in all different sizes they've got a good secure lid they don't leak they're pretty much crush proof and they're just i can i know that if i put something in these i haven't got to worry about it leaking they're really good bottles and they come in a range of different sizes so i've just put one in here as an example i might carry um eggs in there i might carry milk in it i might carry well any sort of wet or dry food stuff really they're also fuel resistant so you can carry methylated spirits in them you can carry paraffin in them they're really good really good little bottles um there's another one there a smaller one so that's got oil in it this dish here i get a few questions about this is a butter dish which i haven't cleaned this is a german army butter dish and i got this from an army surplus store i've never seen another one like it but i'm sure you know you can get hold of them i'm sure they are available and um yeah it's just got a removable plastic insert so you can wash it up easily it's got a seal and it's made of aluminium this is something i get loads of questions about this is my spice kit now i bought this as it is um from pagan preppers they're on facebook and youtube and instagram but they're no longer doing these um you know they did them for a little while and they've stopped doing them so i thought i'd give you a bit of information about them because they're pretty straightforward to put together yourself the pouch is a bullet or small shotgun cartridge pouch and it has this elasticated strip with 12 little slots to put shells in normally but they also take um these five mil little plastic vials you can buy these off the internet they're really cheap they slot in there nicely and they've got a little closure on the top a little uh push closure on the top so you can put in whatever herbs and spices you'd like to have in them basically it's an inexpensive pouch with plastic files in and i'll put links to where you can get those in the description box down below so that's my food bag next out i've got a kettle i don't always take a kettle with me uh it depends whether i've got room for it but it is nice to have a kettle because water boils really quickly in them and they pour easily and all the rest of it um i'm not going to go into too much detail on my pots and pans and things because i have a separate video on that if you're interested um scroll down through the videos and you'll find it there i've got a bag here with various items that are this sort of shape in basically um so you know anything that is reasonably flat i've got the lid for my pathfinder cup which i'll talk about in a minute i've got the insert bowl out of my zebra billy can i've got maggie's water bowl in there chopping board i get asked quite a bit about this this is a transier chopping board it's designed to fit in either the trencher 25 or 27 cook set and it's just a chopping board with a strainer on it so if you've got a drain water off pasta or rice or anything vegetables you've got a strainer that you can do that and although it's not a very big chopping board it's perfectly big enough for cutting up some potatoes or something like that so that's what that is and again i'll put a link below i do have several other chopping boards that i use i've got larger ones and i even made one to fit in the rim of this lid here but because it's such a big thing it doesn't pack very well so i don't use it very often also in here i've got the frying pan from my transgear which i may use as a frying pan but more likely to use as a as a plate or a bowl and lastly i've got my trusty old titanium plate which is bruised and battered but uh this yeah this is my main plate that i use i sometimes use it for frying in but because it's titanium it's rubbish for cooking in basically a hip flask with something nice to drink in for those cold winter evenings i have a couple of bowls here these are just sort of like plastic cookers i've got a 14 centimetre zebra billy pot here in a wax canvas pouch i'll take this with me if i'm going to be cooking for more than one or if i'm going to be cooking something particularly big or if i'm gonna be baking and i'm not taking a dutch oven with me um you can lay this on its side in the embers of your fire put a grill in here and i've got one in in the barrel i'll get to that in a minute and put food in there and you can bake it or roast it put the lid on um and then with if you've got one of these clips you can close the handle up and it holds the lid in place and load a load of coals up over the top and it's basically an oven yeah it works really well i've also got a lantern in here and i know it's not you know cook kit as such it is related because well you know what it's like you arrive late at camp and um by the time you've got your fire going cooked and getting around to doing the washing up or whatever it's dark or always seems to be with me so having something to be able to see by is a real bonus plus it's protected in this barrel next now i've got a small dutch oven um this is the smallest one i have it's a petromax ft1 and if i'm going to be doing any baking in camp and i can afford the luxury of the extra weight of this because they are weighty items you know they're made from cast iron um then i might take this with me or even one of my bigger ones it just depends on what i'm doing next thing is grills i have a couple that i use i have this one here which is an ingenious folding grill made by a canadian company called bitty big q and it kind of folds out like this it's a really clever design and then the legs roll out like this and lock into place and then you can either use it like that in its narrow mode or you can pull it out and it becomes twice the size it's a it's a good grill and you can adjust the height by just folding a section back on the leg or two sections back on the leg and have it closer or further away from your fire yeah really clever design and then i have this setup here made by tjm metalworks which is just a superb bit of kit it's a fire anchor so you have a rod here which comes in two parts they go together you push that into the ground next to your fire and then you have a grill with a coiled holder on the end and a pot hook a gypsy hook and they just slide down that shaft there and once you've got weight on there it actually kind of locks that in place and stops it sliding down and you can rotate it so you can put your pot over the fire and when you want to take it off you can just take it out the way like this likewise with the grill which is perfectly sized to take a nice big fat steak you can also rest your frying pan on it and um yeah a really really good bit of kit obviously you can adjust the height just by sliding it up and down the the post which goes in the ground move out of the way really really versatile way more versatile than a normal grille really really love it this is quite a recent purchase and i just can't get enough of this thing it's really good tucked down the back of the barrel here i have a folding table and this is something i also get a lot of questions about it's just a simple metal table with these folding legs so it folds reasonably flat this is a bivvy table so if you search biffy table online i actually bought this from aldi um you know the german discount food supermarket they don't weigh a lot and they pack up small it's really nice just to have another platform to put things on just to keep them up out of the out of the mud when you're in camp you know there's nothing worse than having to put your stuff down in the dirt you know keep it up off the ground keeps it keeps it cleaner and just keeps keeps things a bit more organized i've got another one of my pouches from david fryers here this one i'm using as a sort of possibles pouch for small items that don't have a home otherwise and i don't want to get lost i've got that little grill here which i was telling you about earlier that fits in the 14 centimeter zebra billy pot so thank you richard for that little tip um yeah that fits in and just creates a nice little platform to rest stuff on so that it doesn't touch the bottom of the billy pot when you're roasting in it or when you're baking in it rather otherwise it would just burn and stick to it just keeps it off the off the bottom i've got a folding saw and my belt knife in here um obviously i won't be taking that with me if uh i'm taking my my bigger saw but it's just to give you an example you know if i wasn't taking a a pack saw or a frame you know a buck saw then i might just take a small folding saw if weight was an issue um and my belt knife um we have very strict knife laws here in the uk for uh obvious reasons um and you can't just walk around with a knife on your belt and i like to keep this well buried until i get to camp so in my canoe barrel is an ideal place for it it's buried it's covered over by other things and it's you know it's well outside once i get to camp i'll put it on my belt and use it but um yeah that'll often be in there in this bag here i've got a frying pan again i'm not going to go into too much detail about all the pots and pans that i have because i have a video on them it's got this long wooden folding handle so you don't burn your hands when you pick it up and it's long enough so you don't have to get your hand too close to the flames i'm not sure what steel it is but it is really good quality steel it's no rusting on it at all and yeah you can season it up a little bit like cast iron next out is my utensil roll i get loads of questions about this as well this is homemade and i have a video on how to make these a tutorial video um there's a two-part spreader bar which goes into a sleeve on the top here and that gives it its sort of form so you can hang it up from a tree or from your canoe barrel whatever you like and it just means that all of you your utensils are organized and and stored and out of the mud basically so i have a range of stuff in here there's a little pocket on the end here which takes a small open folding knife for veg prep this is a stainless steel one so it doesn't rust um i've got a a small peeler it makes very short work of peeling potatoes and carrots and things i've got a tiny little potato masher here which was very kindly sent to me by a subscriber i think this is actually an avocado masher so if you search avocado avocado masher you'll find these and it works really really well mashing up potatoes in here i've also got this little device here which i get asked about quite a bit and this works with my pathfinder cup which i'll show you in a minute and it's it's a fish mouth spreader so fishermen use this and you put it in a fish's mouth and it spreads the mouth open so you can get the hook out um and it works really well as a pot hanger and i have a a small plastic spork in there as well [Applause] i've got my normal long handle spoon which you'll have seen on loads of videos i really like this because it will reach down to the bottom of pouch meals if i'm taking a dehydrated meal or even one of those wet boiling the bag type meals um they're quite deep the pouches sometimes and this will get right the way down to the bottom so yeah really good really good spoon that's made by cetera summit i've got a tiny little whisk in here which i think i've only ever used once but it doesn't take up very much room so that just stays in there that's fine bellows so just for getting your fire going blowing blowing an ember into flame it's just a hollowed out bit of elder and i've got a couple of pegs here which i can use as pot supports if i'm using a sort of like a hobo stove kind of deal in the next one i've got a small wooden spoon and this 10 peg type looking thing and i'll come back to that in a minute that has a purpose i've just jabbed it in the ground for now and then i've got um a spatula this is a new addition if you watched that video i'm making it this wasn't on the original it's just elastic webbing which i sewed on got the idea from ginge who makes these incidentally um you know he liked the design of mine and he now makes them to order so if you want one contact him i'll put his i'll put his details below so i've got a small grater in there small cheese grater and a can opener i'll often take my small little nail mat in my canoe barrel just so i've got something comfortable to kneel on when i'm chopping or washing up or whatever and i've got a couple of old sections of tent pole cut down with a hole drilled in one end and that goes with this little tent peg looking thing here i'm gonna come back to that though in a minute this is one of two washing up bowls that i have and it has carry handles on it so it makes a really handy kind of tote kind of organizer that sits down in the bottom of the canoe barrel i can just pull it out and it's got a whole load more sort of smaller items in so i've got my fire kit here in there i've got some tinders i've got my ferro rod i've got various bits and pieces for lighting fire obviously that's all related to cooking so that lives in there i've got a water filter this is the biggest one i have it's the first need xl superb filter it will remove all sorts of nasties out of the water including pesticides and things like that if i'm canoeing i'll drink water out of the river so i need to be able to filter it i could just boil it but you know a filter is a lot easier if weight was an issue and i'm not going to be taking this or my smaller filter with me i might take a mil vamp bag like this one here which is a basically a primary filter primary filtration bag this just removes the sediment out of the water and then you need to boil it to make it safe and then you can drink it so that's obviously a lighter much lighter thing to to carry but the downside is that you have to boil the water so it's always going to be hot so if you want a cold drink of water you've got to wait for that water to cool down before you can drink it with this you're just literally filtering water straight out of the river and you can drink it straight away also in here i've got a dromedary bag which is basically just a big water bladder with a tap on the bottom this holds six liters and it's really convenient if i'm using a filter because i can just filter water straight into this and i've got six liters of water i can just hang up in a tree and use at my disposal whenever i need water i can just open the tap fill up my kettle whatever i need to do and obviously when it's empty it doesn't take up very much space this ingenious little device here was made by my buddy ginge and this is a water collection bag put a stone in the bottom of this bag and chuck it in the river it sinks down and then you just pull it up and it's full of water you can then filter it or whatever so if you can't reach the water if the sides of the river the banks are steep and you can't get down there easily this is a really useful little handy device for collecting water down the back here i have a small collapsible twig stove this is the honey stove from backpacking light and a great little stove if i don't want to light a fire in the morning or if i'm just stopping for a tea break or whatever just want to make a cup of tea then sometimes it's easier just to get a stove out this will run on wood obviously twigs but it'll also run on methylated spirits and this little pouch here another one of david's pouches contains my transgear burner and then i've got some fuel in a little bottle here um in one of those nalgene bottles i really like it it's simple there's nothing to go wrong there's no moving parts nothing to fail or break um yeah this one obviously has been to hell and back as you can see i have a new one of these backpacking light really kindly sent me here sent me a replacement um but it's all shiny and new and i haven't used it yet but um yeah so thank you for that i've got another lantern here this is a uco candle lantern in one of the neoprene cocoons um i made a an oil burner insert for this and again i've got a video on that as well if you're interested uh which means i can run it on paraffin this is another one of my washing up bowls so if i don't want to take the bigger one i might take this this isn't as stable there's no kind of rigid rim or anything around it so when you fill it up with hot water sometimes it kind of like collapses a bit but it's all right it does the job in the front here i've got cups i've got my small wild folder cup i really like these cups you know they fold down they're tiny they're very really light i've got another small titanium cup in here which doesn't get used all that much but i do have it there i can cook in that if necessary but it is a little bit on the small side and then my pathfinder cut which i use all the time this is the cup that that fish mouth spreader pot hanger works with this next pouch is my brew kit i've only just started using this pouch because it's new and i've now started using nalgene canisters for my tea and coffee and sugar and stuff so tea and it's labeled because i have coffee in here as well which is um you know coffee grounds and obviously tea leaves and coffee grounds look quite similar so i've labeled them and then sugar i use these little tea bags with a little draw cord top and i use them for tea and for coffee so you know a spoonful of loose leaf tea in there and you can put that in your cup and that's your tea bag basically you can just empty it out obviously the tea leaves and the coffee grounds are biodegradable so you can just chuck them out into the into the bushes and they're there to reuse i have one for coffee and one for tea and at the back here i have my 12 centimeter zebra billy this is really my sort of go-to billy pot if i'm on my own um the pouch is in is a wax canvas pouch homemade and in the top of it is another little pouch which contains my washing up kit so i've got scotch brite pads in here i don't tend to worry too much about getting all the black soot off but if you do want to clean them get yourself some of these this is a scotch brite pad and these are used by decorators for as an abrasive pad for rubbing down walls and things you can buy them on on amazon and places and it's basically like the green scourers you can buy for washing up but way more abrasive there's a an abrasive material in them that just cuts through even the toughest dirt and stains so i tend to use those for cleaning my pots and pans i've got some biodegradable washing up liquid and also in here i've got some of these um antibacterial wipes so if i'm preparing poultry for example and i've i've handled it you know you've got to be so careful just give your hands a wipe get all get rid of all that bacteria before you start handling anything else and then in my zebra pot i tend to keep my my gloves uh you know you're handling hot things around the fire you need to have something to protect your hands so a pair of leather gloves is really really a good idea these are marmot work gloves they're not too expensive compared to some and i found them to be pretty good they are lined i mean you know you can't keep your hand in a fire for ages or hold on to a hot pot for too long but it does give you a few seconds just to move something around and put it down without burning your hands and as you can see these have been well used so that is it for the stuff that i brought with me today like i said it is canoe camping based really but a lot of the items that i've shown you i will use for other trips as well you know if i'm going lightweight backpacking i'll probably just take my pathfinder cup and a spork and that'll be about it really you know a couple of dehydrated meals and that's that's that's all i need if i'm in the car in the canoe i've got more space and weight isn't such an issue so i can take a lot more gear with me i've got my utensils there up out of the mud i can pick what i need put it back afterwards i've got places to hang stuff so my gloves for example can hang over the handles of the canoe barrel the spice kit just slips underneath that strap there so it's there at my fingertips when i need it place the chop and prep and stuff on the top if you take another little table with you you've obviously got additional storage as i've shown here uh billy cans anything like that can just hang over the back of the frame of the lk-35 because they sort of stick up and they provide a place where you can just hang stuff and it all just works really well at night time when it gets dark i've just got a post there with a peg through so you can hang up a lantern cast a bit of light down where you're working for for food prep or washing up or whatever it is you're doing and it all packs down into that barrel yeah i i really like it i like to be organized when i'm cooking and um that works well for me well i hope that's explained a few things and answered some of your questions i'm going to get things packed away here and battle my way back along this very overgrown river it hasn't been maintained during lockdown and it's incredible how quickly nature takes back over thanks for watching and i'll see you [Music] soon 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Channel: Simon, a bloke in the woods

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Keywords: wannigan, food barrel, canoe barrel, chutney barrel, portage pack, camp kitchen, camp cooking, camp cooking gear, food bag, Nalgene bottle, spice kit, brew kit, cast iron cookware, dutch oven, zebra billy, camp oven, water filter, Milbank bag, campfire grill, bitty big q, TJM metalworks, fire anchor, bivvy table, Feuerhand lantern, feuerhand 276, uco candle lantern, wash stand, canoe camping, canoe tripping, wild camping, campfire cooking, bushcraft

Id: vcT7XMpwXhg

Length: 30min 33sec (1833 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 22 2020