We had a chance on our 8 day backpack to do some comparisons between some stoves, namely my Caldera Cone with a 1.9 L Evernew titanium pot, an MSR Pocket Rocket, a Snow Peak Giga Power, and a JetBoil. The latter 3 stoves are canister stoves, and the Caldera Cone is an alcohol stove. Each [...]
Outdoor Gear, Patents, and Outdoor Trips by Bob Shaver, Patent Attorney
Category Archives: Food and Cooking
Baking Pizza on a Caldera Cone and Stove / Outback Oven
On a July hike to Imogene Lake I tried making pizza using the Caldera Stove and the Outback Oven. These two make a nice combination for baking any bread or cake. This is a view of the ingredients in the bag, and the Caldera Cone Ti Tri assembled. My version of pizza uses a cup [...]
The Outback Oven used with the Caldera Cone Stove and Windscreen
I really like the Caldera Cone Tri-Ti Stove and Windscreen. Its great for cooking meals, heating water, and frying fish. I wanted to add baked breads and biscuits to our meals, so I got an Outback Oven and began experimenting with its use with the Tri-Ti Caldera Cone. The Outback Oven, ultralight version, comes with [...]
Can You use an Alcohol Stove in the Winter?
It is often assumed that you can’t use an alcohol stove in the winter, so I did a little test last weekend. The scouts were going on a winter campout, so I took my Caldera Cone to test in winter conditions. It was 21 degrees in the morning on Saturday, and the stove and fuel [...]
The Ti-Tri Caldera Cone – a field test
Having been a skeptic of alcohol stoves, I was pleasantly surprised with the Caldera Cone on a 5 day backpack in “cool to cold” weather, over spring break of 2009. I used the aluminum version of the Caldera Cone on that trip, and cooked solo. With cold mornings and occasional snowy conditions, the scouts compressed [...]
Food plan for 8 day backpack
Here is a list of the evening meals we took on a recent 8 day backpack in the Sawtooths. These meals are for 2 adults, and they were very tasty. These taste better than freeze dried meals, are cheaper, and are less bulky. Pasta with Pesto Sauce and Salmon Bits, from Prosecutor’s Cookbook At Home: [...]
More on P-38 Can Openers
I wrote a first piece about P-38 can openers a while ago. Shortly I posted another piece with some P-38 patents. Here are a few more P-38 type can openers, the favorite of hikers, GIs, campers, aviators, sailors, and anyone who needs to get a can open. Later, I met Kobie of dogtagrus.com and enjoyed [...]
P-38 Can Opener
In the early days of WWII, the Army designed C rations. What they needed to go along with the canned food of C rations was a very small disposable can-opener. Designed in 30 days by the Subsistence Research Laboratory of Chicago, the tiny folding can opener was perfect. As the troops used it in field [...]
The Press Bot Coffee Maker
The best designs are the ones that make you say “I wish I’d thought of that!” They are also usually dead simple, and probably quite a bit more subtle than they appear. The Press-Bot coffee maker is all that, and it makes good coffee too. Camp coffee is always great, but coffee made from grounds [...]
The TrailDesigns Caldera Cone Stove Systems
I have had the opportunity to test the TrailDesigns Caldera Cone Stove System, and it has turned an alcohol stove skeptic into a believer. I have often wondered if the weight advantage of alcohol stoves was worth it, when a Snow Peak or MSR Pocket Rocket with a fuel canister is so light, and very [...]