Anyone cook in there 1L SS bottle?

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I used to think of my water bottles as being for water boiling and carry only, but in watching some of Dave Canterburys newest vids he is constantly talking about how every piece of kit has to have 3 or more uses. I guess if you want to travel light you cant carry a water bottle, cooking pot, coffee pot and mug, water bottle and a bowl, for every extra use you find for a peice of kit there is one less thing you need to carry. This idea popped into my head last week at wal-mart while looking at packets of Knorr soup mix. "Add 4 cups of boiling water" Hmm, 4 cups is a lot of soup, what do I have that will hold 4 cups....... later that day it occurred to me that 4 cups is 1 litre!! brilliant, the next day i figured out that a 1 litre bottle would hold 4 cups, I went back to wal-mart and got some soup mix and threw it in my kit. Well, yesterday at camp I was going to make some soup to go with my steak, I looked at my MSR pot (thats still clean) and my Escort SS bottle (that is already black from the fire). The reason I have never tried this was that I figured I would burn food to the inside of the bottle and would never get it clean again, but I said to myself "Self, this is why I take my little trips to camp, to attempt failure, this is how we learn." So my soup required simmering for 10 minutes, I put the bottle in the coal to get it boiling, then added the soup mix and set it on the grill above the fire for as close to a simmer as I could keep. The soup was good, thicker and heartier than I expected from a little package. When I went to do my dishes I found that most of the crusty soup parts were in the top inch of the bottle inside and out, I scrubbed it out with a little dish soap and one of those little green scrubby pads that I keep in my mess kit anyway, I didnt come off easy but it did come clean, so I suppose it would be sustainable in the field. This did make a convenient snack in the field, it could be a small meal but it would be nice to have something with it, I will cook it again. So, I know this isnt actually cooking, more like preparing, do you cook in your SS bottle? why or why not? do you do anything special?

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This is dad flipping steaks with our bottle of soup above.
 
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I use one to heat water. Haven't cooked with it yet, but you are inspiring me. What knife is being used in the pic?
 
I like them for that purpose. You could always bring two so that you always have one for water and another for cooking. But if you're limiting what you carry, one is fine.
 
Its a Tromantia... thing that I bought at a gun show years ago, F&F on it is good and its seems to hold up to some decent work but its a wall hanger for scaring the city folk. If someone knows exactly what it is please let me know. I offered the old man my Bushlore for the day, he insisted on using that, he even knocked my steak in the fire with it... sigh.
 
I use mine a lot for soups and raman noodles. It's easy with them and no real mess that has been a problem. I love the ss bottles for the multi-purpose use
 
Forget the bottle! Just seeing that steak on that outdoor grill being tended to with a large blade just brought a tear to my eye.... This pic belongs in the best pic thread!
 
I have many many times. I never used to carry a stove, even on multi day backpacking trips. I dehydrate my own meals so it's easy to heat and rehydrate them in a stainless bottle over the fire. I picked up a jetboil stove a couple years ago and don't use the SS bottle for cooking much anymore though. SS bottles are a pain to clean and eat out of too. I did it for a long time but now that I have a jetboil it's great I don't burn my hands eating anymore and clean up is as simple as swishing some water around in the cup and dumping it most of the time.

I cooked a sausage one time in an SS bottle :)
 
Hell, I've "cooked" in a ziploc bag. Army thing. Fill a ziploc with water and soup mix, some jerky if you have it, and put it under your jacket next to your body. Body heat, water, and motion, and you have a meal when you get to it. You could do it in anything really, why not a SS bottle?
 
My favourite cold weather day hike meal is lipton soup jazzed up with a handful of alphabet noodles and 2oz of home dehydrated chicken.

I have used my klean to cook it a few times the past couple yrs with good results, nice to be able to eat half and cap it for later. Stays warm for an hr or so wrapped in cloths in the pack. I do bring one of those folding rubber coghlan cups to eat out of, thing gets way too hot to eat or sip out of.
 
Something to think about. I've found a few stainless bottles in my trunk that had science experiments growing inside them. :eek:
 
Thats a Tramontina bowie. If its an old one its carbon steel with a 9-inch-ish blade and about 3/16 thick.
I have three of them, i have no idea of what they cost new in the 70's-90's but used i paid in the $5-$20 range.
The handle/hardware on them are kinda low-end to almost o.k but they can be a really good general purpose knives if one mods/rehandles them.
Steel wise they actually hold a decent edge and are pretty tough.
Althought the tang is hidden it is 3/16 thick and pretty wide. You can still occasionally find them on ebay for a decent price.
The first one i found in a pawn shop in the late 80's/early 90's, cost me $5. Got two on ebay in the past three years for $10-$20 each.
At some point Tramontina stopped making them in carbon steel and switched to stainless, i have no info on the quality of those.
 
Basically the same, I boil water in mine, but have yet to cook with it. Maybe rice, oatmeal or something could be easily done in it.
 
I don't cook in it as I need to carry water somewhere.....I do heat and boil/purify water in it though. I have a snowpeak Ti solo cup that fits perfectly over the bottle like the military canteen cup and canteen that is the ever present water carrier. I will stick with the cup for now unless I am surviving and don't have one.
 
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