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| Do you wash your plate/bowl/pot/utensils when backpacking? |
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| I wash bowl/plate/cup. |
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| Everything but spoon/fork/spork/whatever. |
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| It depends (explained below). |
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| Once more you have failed to include my option, which I detail below. |
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Spotly
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Spotly
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 Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:03 pm |
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We usually have just one stove and pot for the group so no pot cooking - just boiling water. Same when solo.
I lick the spoon clean then rinse well with water.
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Wolfeye
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Wolfeye
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Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:48 pm |
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I don't take much, but I wash everything with biodegradable soap after breakfast & dinner.
| Malachai Constant wrote: | | Horsetails (the green kind) contain micro SiO2 and scrub out pots well. |
^I do this too, but not if the pot has teflon. Used teabags are also handy for getting stubborn schmutz out of cookware.
"Come let us climb a mountain, holding on by low scragged limbs." - Roger Zelanzany
"Come let us climb a mountain, holding on by low scragged limbs." - Roger Zelanzany
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mthyer
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Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:12 pm |
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| Malachai Constant wrote: | | Horsetails (the green kind) contain micro SiO2 and scrub out pots well. They used to be called scouring reeds. They also grow back quick. |
Most conifers make excellent scrub brushes with integrated cleaning agents. Can make a very little bit of water last a very long time.
The question of washing or not to me ultimately comes down to what I'll be doing with that gear in the immediate future. An overnight bivy won't require much washing because I'll have the pot (if I even carry one) at home before I use it again.
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jmfp
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Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:40 am |
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| Malachai Constant wrote: | It always amazes how people are able to carry an orange up something but are unable to carry the peel out  |
i climbed up Lady Peak in BC a few years back, which is right next to Mt. Cheam, a much more popular hike due to there being a trail? they're both at the end of a 20+ mile primitive road, and overlook the Chilliwack Valley.
found at the summit? corn. lots and lots of corn cobs.. not too surprising considering how much corn gets grown in the valley, but not what i expected to find after that hike..
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DIYSteve
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Sat Jul 31, 2010 9:31 am |
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skookum olympus
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| Yana wrote: | For the purposes of this poll, licking something clean does not count as washing.  |
Oh, well then... never mind. 
..... to be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.
~Wm. O. Douglas
..... to be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.
~Wm. O. Douglas
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jimmymac
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Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:46 am |
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My sole dish is washed, rinsed, sanitized, and dried a minute after I empty the boiling water out of it.
"Profound serenity is the product of unfaltering Trust and heightened vulnerability."
"Profound serenity is the product of unfaltering Trust and heightened vulnerability."
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Stefan
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Mon Aug 02, 2010 9:50 am |
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Old food is seasoning for your next dish. Kinda like a wok.
Even this weekend I had Phad Thai mixed with granola for breakfast.
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Malachai Constant
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 Don't like curry in the next mornings coffee 
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Sennin
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Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:45 am |
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'camping clean' is our term.
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