Tourist dishes. The agony of choice

Traditional kitchen utensils are not very convenient for use in hiking conditions. What are the reasons and what are the criteria for choosing cookware for travel?

1) Weight is the first way that tourist cookware differs from ordinary home cookware. Experienced tourists try to minimize the weight of equipment that they have to carry. Dishes from Turin are distinguished by their light weight.

2) Material – second important point. If home cups and plates are made of breakable porcelain, glass, ceramics, then during transportation or use they may well break or crack, which even leads to injury to users. The offered utensils for outdoor activities are made of stainless steel; aluminum will not create problems when traveling.

3) The choice of disposable or reusable tableware depends on the preferences of the travelers themselves. For long hikes, both types are useful, since it is often not possible to wash the dishes for various reasons, and then taking disposable ones is the best option.

4) The compactness of dishes is clear to everyone who is going on a trip, so purchasing folding items is an excellent way to reduce the space occupied by dishes.

5) The choice of metal utensils is the most reliable: they do not break, you can heat food, they are strong and durable. But the negative point is that holding a hot bowl or mug in your hands is uncomfortable in the absence of special grips or handles.

6) Sets of plastic utensils can be taken as backup options, and updating them will not entail large financial costs.

A variety of inexpensive tourist utensils included or individual items – best solution while hiking or traveling.

Why is it more profitable to purchase dishes in an online store?

Tourist dishesС5604 RockLand made of anodized aluminum, the set includes two pots with lids and folding lids and folding handles for 2.8 and 1.8 liters. A frying pan with a non-stick coating and folding handles, as well as a 1 liter kettle. All cookware is designed specifically for hiking trips, outdoor recreation, for lovers of fishing and hunting. The set is designed for cooking for 3-4 people. So, if you are not going camping alone, then grab camp cookware from RockLand for cooking and frying camp dishes.

Tourist dishes from the Rockland company is a leader in sales of domestically produced tourist cookware.

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Hi all.

I think for you, like me, more than one more or less long outing into nature is not complete without preparing camp food. This includes rich porridge, smoky-smelling soup or soup, and aromatic tea prepared in nature and therefore acquiring unusual notes.

Firstly, it’s easier for me, I don’t need to look for firewood and kindling, which is especially important in wet weather.

Secondly, you don’t need to take some on a hike.

This does not mean at all that I don’t use the fire.

I make a fire to heat and dry things, scare away midges and have a pleasant evening gathering in a friendly company.

The second thing to decide is number of eaters, for which we will choose dishes.

It is clear that for two or three people a smaller set is needed than for ten, but what to do when the number of eaters is not known in advance.

Here it is better to use Russian - “perhaps we will go to someone or someone will come to us” and look for a more impressive option.

For a couple of eaters, you can always leave the extra dishes at home, but if a large group is going on a hike, the whole set will come in handy.

Moreover, it is a set, and not its individual parts. This is more convenient not only for aesthetic reasons.

All parts of the set fit together very well and fit into each other like nesting dolls: they seem to take up little space, but once you get all the nesting dolls, you can feed a company.

What does a set usually consist of:

• one or more pans (kettles)
• pan
• kettle
• bowls
• mugs
• ladle
• handle - grip for pots and pans

I described a complete set of dishes, but in this configuration, it is very rarely taken outdoors.

The kettle and frying pan are replaced by a saucepan, the lid from the same saucepan is used as a bowl, the fork is replaced by a spoon, the knife is not used from the set, but a regular one.

Yes, spoons, knives and forks are not included in the set or are included very rarely.

Maybe I went too far with something, but in order to save space and reduce weight, this is often done. Even in spoons, holes are drilled to make them lighter (in the handle, of course, where did you think?).

So, we’ve decided on the preparations, now the actual choice itself.

We will choose according to several criteria:

• tableware material
• brand

Material

In not so distant times, materials such as cast iron, steel and aluminum were used to make utensils (including camping ones).

Cast iron has not caught on in camping because of its heaviness, but steel and aluminum are still used successfully.

To the advantages food grade aluminum These include low weight, good thermal conductivity and low cost. Due to good thermal conductivity, food in such dishes practically does not burn.

The disadvantages are that the durability of the cookware leaves much to be desired. Dishes early years release, in addition, it oxidized and released bad substances.

Anodized aluminum , compared to food, has undergone a number of changes. In addition to its light weight, anodizing added greater strength and scratch resistance, and non-stick coating– even less stickiness.

True, the price has become twice as high as that of cookware made from food-grade aluminum.

The disadvantages include the fact that it is not advisable to use such dishes for a fire, only for a burner. Why? Read above.

Stainless steel a stronger material than aluminum, but has lower thermal conductivity and greater weight. Uneven heating may cause food to burn. Steel cookware, compared to aluminum, takes longer to heat up, but also maintains the temperature longer.

Can be used both with a burner and over an open fire.

The price of steel cookware is about the same as that of anodized aluminum cookware.

Titanium cookware – dishes from the field of space technology. It is light, durable, and expensive (infection). The thermal conductivity of titanium is three times less than that of steel and 15 times less than that of aluminum, so heating a liquid in it would seem to be an impossible task.

But due to the fact that the material is very durable, the wall thickness is usually twice as thin as that of aluminum cookware, and the water in it does not boil much longer. In addition, titanium does not burn your lips and keeps food hot longer.

Can be used for both fire and burner. It’s easier to clean soot from steel utensils, and you can even do it with a knife (it doesn’t scratch).

Such a disadvantage as uneven heating is compensated by the non-stick properties of the material and food does not burn in it.

In addition to any metal utensil set, plastic plates, bowls, cups, etc. are often included. I think there is no need to describe them, because no one makes great demands on them. It's in stock, and that's fine.

Weight an important factor for camping utensils, because it, like all other equipment, is worn on the back.

If, for example, we take pots of the same volume, but made of different materials, then the weight gradation will be something like this:

Based on the above, and guided by the table, you can see that anodized aluminum and titanium have the optimal weight/strength ratio. Stainless steel has more weight, food grade aluminum has less strength.

Brand

There are many manufacturers on the travel tableware market today. Here are some of them:

• Expedition (Russia)
• Pinguin (Czech Republic)
• Trump (USA)
• Camping (Ukraine)
• Tatonka (Germany)
• Kovea (South Korea)
• Fire Maple (China)

These brands generally produce excellent products, some are better, some are a little worse, and whether it’s worth pursuing them is a personal matter for everyone.

I’ll just say that the presence of a brand in most cases indicates the quality of the product (although there are exceptions 🙁), and for this quality, each of them wants to get their own price. And the price is different brands may differ significantly.

Price

The table shows prices for a set of dishes of approximately the same composition, from different brands (2 pots: 1.5 l., 1 l., frying pan, not counting plates)

I’ll say right away that the prices are approximate, because it’s hard to find two completely identical sets from different brands, but I think it’s suitable for an example.

Here's a brief summary of everything about choosing cookware.