Anyone use chopsticks in the bush?

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Got to thinking that a pair of chopsticks would be easy to make for eating over a spoon. I hear alot of people talking about spoon making. If you need to scoop some liquid out, you could just tilt the cup or bowel and drink it that way. Quick to make and disposable. Just a thought.
 
Yeah I have a set of Snowpeak Ti chopsticks I used on my AT section hikes. They worked well for ramen.
 
Loosearrow said:
Got to thinking that a pair of chopsticks would be easy to make for eating over a spoon. I hear alot of people talking about spoon making. If you need to scoop some liquid out, you could just tilt the cup or bowel and drink it that way. Quick to make and disposable. Just a thought.
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Hey Loosearrow, did you learn this from Bear Grylls? :D

Awhile ago, I thought about the utility of making and using chop sticks in the bush, so I have been practising using them ever since. Another factor is the ease of cleaning after use as compared to a fork.

Also, they can be used to pick up something dirty or hot, or otherwise uninviting to handle by hand.

Doc
 
I generally take a spoon and a knife camping.
make my own chopsticks while things cook, burn them after the meal if day hiking.
 
Not something I'd take... I'd certainly make some if I was eating something that they were appropriate for.
 
I've got Ti chopsticks and knife-fork-spoon set for traveling. Can't always count on plastic utensils. Chopsticks should be easy enough to whittle.
 
It always impresses me to see someone using the extremely large chopsticks while cooking. I have tried but my dexterity isn't to their level.
 
a fast easy way to make some bush chopsticks would be to cut the ends off of a cattail, right under the "Bulb" to size. straight easy to make chopsticks! i have been doing this for a while.
 
gifted with a pair of ti chopsticks
but rarely carry em
as its so fast easy simple to just make em
personal fav eating utensil
 
i love eating with chopsticks and use them often, at home and on the trail/camping.. i need to get some of those fancy Ti ones...
 
I swear by chopsticks in the bush (and out, for that matter). My ritual upon arriving at a new camp site is to take care of fire prep, get some water boiling for a coffee, and start working on a new pair of chopsticks.

Here's a shot from an excursion to Algonquin Park this past summer. These 'sticks are about halfway complete. I usually use my little EDC scandi for this sort of thing, but my 7" Hudson Bay from JK Knives was responsible for the shaping of these ones.

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All the best,

- Mike
 
When I was in the military I used them almost exclusively in the field. Cut a couple of appropriately sized twigs, shave the bark off and you have 1 minute chopsticks. Works great for ramen and for reaching into the bottom of MRE pouches. Works great for manuevering small coals, etc. too.

I have the Snowpeak take-down chopsticks, but it's a little tiresome assembling and disassembling all the time.

Now I usually use one of my Ti sporks, especially the folding ones, because they makes me feel more manly using titanium...I'm a sad, little man. Actually I seem to have some weird obsession with camping utensils as I'm always buying new ones when I find something cooler.
 
Ah, so, have used chopsticks many time.

Generally prefer my big plastic spoon, though. Okay, it's not particularly bushcrafty — so, sue me: it shovels food into the maw just fine.

I do use what amounts to large chopsticks for moving things around in the fire, though.
 
I have some Ti chopsticks get some funny looks when i pull out to use in a public place also have a pretty good point on them just in case the food trys to run or to defend yourself, easy to clean.
 
I love chopsticks. I use em all the time when camping, and alot at home..I just made a set of Osage ones last weekend.

Saw a dude making some G11 ones, glow in the dark I believe, on the makers side. I really want a pair of those.
 
I always use them, I carve them as needed but lately I've been using a set I made out of fat lighter. In this set it was an accident that the ends turned out the way they did but when I hold them backward with the two ends together it makes a good shovel/like spoon. Now when I make up a set I incorporate this feature.

Fatlighter chopsticks
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With the ends together for shoveling food down :)
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