[at-l] BakePacker field test

["Kenneth R. Knight" <krk@home.msen.com>]

I've been thinking about taking this little "oven" on the AT section 
hike. It opens up a lot of eating possiblities though it would also make 
my kitchen 7 or so ounces heavier:

  1.3L titanium pot (evernew)
  BakePacker
  0.4L mug  (evernew)
About 11.5oz

  0.85 titanium pot/cup (msr kettle can be used to boil water and as 
"mug")
  couple ziplock bowls which don't weight much at all
About 4.5oz

The BP would also require more fuel when using it to bake things, but so 
far the things I've made have really been quite good. I meant to do two 
recipes this past weekend, but since Mark and Beverly brought so much to 
eat I never did make the biscuits. However, the pizza worked quite well 
though in the future I'm going to divide that in half so it is a bit less 
crusty. It probably consumed 2-3 ounces of alcohol, but I wasn't paying 
very close attention. I was using the Adventure Foods prepared meal which 
makes 2 seven ounce servings (I suppose that means the whole pizza was 14 
ounces). You get a big deep dish, not crispy but not overly soft, pizza 
with plenty of sauce, cheese, and some veggies. It could have had more 
zing, but was pretty good. I could not finsih it. Perhaps if I had just 
come off a hard day of hiking isntead of mostly just playing passenger in 
the drive to the Clark campground (is that right Damian?) I could have 
eaten more. Entire cook time from putting the food on the Trangia to 
getting it into my mouth was probably somehwere around 30 minutes. Some 
of that time  is, of course, the Trangia heating the water. It also took 
a few minutes to prepare the dry ingredients, but that doesn't count for 
much.

  ** Ken **

ps- Has anyone succesfully made boil-in-bag omelets in a pot as small as 
MSR's Titan Kettle?

**  Kenneth Knight    Web Design, IT Consultant, Software Engineer  **
**        krk@home.msen.com           http://home.msen.com/~krk     **


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