How do I cook in my mess kit more than once without shitting it up with burnt food, and also without wasting all my water to clean it?
Mess kit
How do I cook in my mess kit more than once without shitting it up with burnt food, and also without wasting all my water to clean it?
So you want to use your mess kit, without making a mess of your kit? Just stop making a mess, kid! Or else, stop messing with it.
Now for real: use lard or oil to cook solids, dont let soups simmer down to dryness, put a swig of water in it after cooking and heat it up, then use a steel wool pad to remove stuck matter.
Use alcohol instead of water to deglaze
havent tried that, but my cooking in general isnt "haute cuisine", more subsitance. Worth a try.
it's not about being fancy, but something acid will work better than water
wine, vinegar, lemon juice...
one the other side of the spectrum, you could use baking soda to clean it
Copper scrubber. Steel wool always rusts up fast and turns shitty if you use it more than a couple times.
The same way you don't burn shit on your steel pot at home. Learn to moderate the heat applied to the cook system and stir your foods. Jesus, do you ever cook anything at home?
Steel wool works wonders.
But a "karhunkieli" (bear tongue) scrubbing sponge works as well and is a bit more gentle for aluminium cookware. We used them in army for washing our issued trangias and messkits. With them you should use hot water and dish soap though.
Unironically, clean with sand.
It’s never failed me in the high deserts near Kanab Utah
Lots of oil or butter when cooking and don't go to high on the heat.
This, as long your not using none stick pans or pots.
Learn to cook properly and then apply it to outdoor cooking. Cooking is an important life skill and applies to outdoors.
Horsetail is sometimes called scouring rush because it absorbs sand grit and can be used to scour pots. Won't encourage rust like steel wool does either. Grows everywhere near ditches and swamps where I live
Get a decent pot instead of some stupid thin Walmart-tier aluminum shit you can easily stab a fork through
Or try using aluminum foil like a disposable liner and just balling it up for trash, no cleaning needed
thats how i do it when cooking from my us steel canteen cup.
after eating, take some moss or grass, press it against bottom and then use a stick to apply pressure and scrape the base of the gunk. use piss to wash it off. after that use lesss grass and scrape the other part of gunk more carefully. rinse with like 50ml of water. now you can scour with sand or just carefully scrape the whats there left over. again rinse with a splash of water and you're good to go
When I was in Scouts back in the 1970s-80s, I had a Boy Scout mess kit which is probably the best design but being made of thin aluminum, food tended to get burned pretty easily. I still have and use my Boy Scout cutlery set though.