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Looks like a nice bag-I gotta measure my Coleman Powerhouse stove to see if it would fit-sadly no Cook Partner in my kit at this point.

I picked up the Campfire a few years ago on their Kickstarter campaign-cripes now I own 5 sizes of the dang things! They are great stoves and Camera Lady and I use the Titan most often for camping as the size works very well for two persons.

The love of the outdoors started with the Boy Scouts and the amazing camping trips that we did in the late 60s and 70s. Never was big on the Eagle Scout thing but never missed a campout. From there it was dirt bikes and camping every chance I could get-often as a platform for drinking and...

If you were not there you don't get to see the pictures!

You are lucky to live in the area where they are still reasonable and plentiful!

I have also been lucky to find some of the older Griswold, Wagner, Wapak, etc at the antique stores and, with a little or a lot of work, have restored them to daily use. The problem I am finding now is that the prices they are asking make them pretty much a deal breaker for me. For a few buck...

I am not sure what might be the issue, I have never used, or seen, the Coleman cast iron. Perhaps there is something in the metallurgy that is hindering the seasoning-I know from taking to some folks that enamel coating has issues sometimes depending on surface carbon (?) so maybe there is...

I bought the larger carbon steel grill, not the stainless. When I got it the skewers were very flexible and I thought they would be pretty useless. Being carbon steel however I treated it like a carbon skillet and ran it through a few seasoning cycles. This not only changed the color but seemed...

I use the Scepter 5 gal for general carry and have rigged up a valve and spout to use for camp. I also carry some sort of filtration (MSR or Platypus) and use those as much as possible to reduce need to carry so much water.

Have a Happy and Adventurous New Year everyone!

There are some newer cast iron manufacturers in the US that are trying to recreate the smoother cooking surfaces of the older stuff, but they all come at a price. Companies I know of include Field (the darling of the new cast iron buyers from what I can tell), Lancaster, Finex, Smithey, Borough...

Yep, rinse and towel dry first, neglected to put that in but I do the same.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the grill. I enjoy mine and just let it stay in the truck since it packs so easily.

You are right, Lodge does have some great information on their site and is most helpful. The only thing that I noticed is that their advice has changed over time, at one time it was Crisco @ 350 and now it is your choice vegetable spray between 350-450. There is nothing wrong with updating...

Lots of factors can impact seasoning and some treat the process almost as if it were a mythical quest. I would start with two tracks-first don't expect the pan to become glossy black and non-stick in a straight line, some seasoning will stick better than other and during the process it will...

Howdy all! I hope that Santa brought some new cast iron cookware to some of you this Christmas and you are ready to get cooking. I know there are a ton of videos out there talking about the best way to season and the opinions are as wide as the Darien Gap but I put up a video showing how I treat...

We just got snow in Chicago and that made us think about a hardier style of food. We pulled out the dutch oven and made some biscuits and gravy casserole. One pot and delicious-I hope you like!

I use either Dark Sky or Weather Bug apps. Like any their predictions can be off but both have radar that is nice to be able to look at.

All that effort and now we spend all of our time trying to figure out how to get off the roads!

Something For Everyone! Hormel's latest earnings call- The brand's owner Hormel said on its fourth fiscal quarter earnings call Thursday that sales of Spam capped off their seventh straight record-setting year. And that definitely doesn't surprise Hormel CEO Jim Snee. "The question is, who is...