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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2016, 09:51:07 PM »
Sporks and forks are nice, but when I'm in the back country, 90% of the time I eat MH's, instant oatmeal, Idahoan's, and premade snacks, bagel sandwiches, and wraps. A long spoon is all I need. :twocents:

Besides, a hangry guy can clean out a MH cleaner with a spoon rather than a spork. :chuckle:

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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2016, 10:22:01 PM »
I usually pour them into my pie hole when they cool off enough. Anything on my fingers gets licked clean. I'm a pig anyway but get me in the woods and I'll start eating your pack if you leave it sitting around.
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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2016, 10:27:04 PM »
Spork makes an ok spoon but a lousy fork.   Eating backstrap with a havalon and spork is just wrong......... :dunno:

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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2016, 10:31:44 PM »
$2:  https://www.rei.com/product/895376/gsi-outdoors-pouch-spoon.

Put the Mtn. House meal in a quart Ziploc bag at home and leave the Mtn. House bag in the trash at home.  its a lot less garbage post-meal and you can heat the meal up in the Ziploc.

You pour boiling water into a ziploc bag?
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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2016, 11:22:13 PM »
Put the ziplock full of food into the boiling water.
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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #20 on: August 24, 2016, 07:10:05 AM »
Put the ziplock full of food into the boiling water.

Oh gotcha. That didn't occur to me because I don't carry a pot most of the time. I was going to say, those sandwich bags don't love to be boiled
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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #21 on: August 24, 2016, 12:08:27 PM »
$2:  https://www.rei.com/product/895376/gsi-outdoors-pouch-spoon.

Put the Mtn. House meal in a quart Ziploc bag at home and leave the Mtn. House bag in the trash at home.  its a lot less garbage post-meal and you can heat the meal up in the Ziploc.

You pour boiling water into a ziploc bag?

Yes. Been doing it for years.

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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #22 on: August 24, 2016, 08:25:49 PM »
Take the MH out of a bag and put it into a bag.  Brilliant!!

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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #23 on: August 24, 2016, 08:44:37 PM »
Long handled spoon is all I use and my 1st freeze dried meal is my garbage bag with a Ziploc so I don't cut them down (at least the 1st one) and  Backpackers Pantry is better than Mountain House :)

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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #24 on: August 25, 2016, 06:35:54 AM »
and  Backpackers Pantry is better than Mountain House :)

You just lost all credibility  :chuckle:
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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2016, 09:48:38 AM »
$2:  https://www.rei.com/product/895376/gsi-outdoors-pouch-spoon.

Put the Mtn. House meal in a quart Ziploc bag at home and leave the Mtn. House bag in the trash at home.  its a lot less garbage post-meal and you can heat the meal up in the Ziploc.

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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2016, 10:06:42 AM »
I got a long titanium spoon a long time ago. I think it was Sea to Summit.. Super light and long enough to get every last morsel of MH

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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #27 on: August 25, 2016, 05:34:26 PM »
and  Backpackers Pantry is better than Mountain House :)

You just lost all credibility  :chuckle:
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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #28 on: August 31, 2016, 01:51:21 PM »
cut the bag shorter and/or use an MRE Spoon.  If you are eating an MRE, flip the pouch sideways and open it lengthwise (can't do that with a Mountainhouse bag though). 

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Re: Spoon Fork or Spork
« Reply #29 on: September 01, 2016, 07:44:40 AM »
$2:  https://www.rei.com/product/895376/gsi-outdoors-pouch-spoon.

Put the Mtn. House meal in a quart Ziploc bag at home and leave the Mtn. House bag in the trash at home.  its a lot less garbage post-meal and you can heat the meal up in the Ziploc.

You pour boiling water into a ziploc bag?

It works just fine, but we're talking about quart-size freezer bags, not the lighter weight sandwich bags.  Ultralight backpackers have been doing this for years.  I don't think it's all that big of a deal, but the Zip-loc bags are smaller and not as stiff as the bags the freeze-dried food comes in, so they end up taking less room whether full or as trash.

BTW, I almost never take anything but a spoon when backpacking.  I have a Sea to Summit Alpha Light long-handled spoon and it works great.

 


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