[nuclear_eggset]

I made my own potatoes o'brien with scrambled eggs and dehydrated them - those actually turned out quite tasty once I figured out the right amount of water to add. Otherwise I'll do some variety of hot cereal with flax meal or hemp seeds and freeze-dried fruit. Gotta have the fruit (and a touch of brown sugar ).

[Slugman]

Reading the Hulkster's description of the Packit Gourmet dried scrambled eggs in the dried eggs thread is making me wonder what is the lightest-weight skillet? I would be willing to cook for a real breakfast, since I have the stove set up for coffee anyway.

[sarbar]

Sluggy, I use the metal top of my GSI Backpackers set. It is non-stick so eggs are slick on it. This is me making pan biscuits in it:

[Allison]

Another option is the lightest cake pan you can find at Goodwill.

[Slugman]

I know the lid of one of my MSR steel cook sets is thicker than it needs to be and is flat, so I believe it is meant to be used as a frying pan. I'll have to see what it weighs. Hey, good idea, Allison.

[Allison]

Works great for certain things, be sure to bring some skid grease so's you don't end up with a sticky mess. I believe I inherited that idea from Brian Curtis. We all like to think we came up with all these smarty farty ideas, but a lot of them's as old as the hillz. I don't think I've ever come up with an original gear idea.

[Conrad]

Grape-nuts, water, sugar. Yum. I would never cook for breakfast. Actually, I never cook (don't bring a stove) backpacking at all.

[Navy salad]

Bran buds with Milkman milk powder and maybe some chia seeds (wikipedia them) and/or hemp seeds (while you're at it, wiki them as well) and maybe dried currents or whatever. Or if it's a rest day, then hot slow-cook oatmeal (I think the slow stuff is worth the extra 4 minutes) with blueberries saved from the previous day's bounty . Concluded with the much-heralded spoon lick followed by pocket insertion. Oh, and I prefer eating out of bowl, so after finishing my cereal, I pour a little clean water into my bowl, swish it around and drink it straight from the bowl (like real men do). Repeat, then give the bowl a little shake and call it good. If it's an oatmeal day, then I use a paper towel to wipe off the bulk of the gooey stuff first.

[Hulksmash]

Sluggo, i've been using Jet Boils fry pan.......

It weighs in at 10oz, with the plastic clip on plate on the bottom. That orange plate doubles as a heat sink protector, when transporting. The heat sink on the bottom of the pan works incredibly well at distributing heat evenly. It's also non stick Only down side is with that heat sink it's kind a bulky.

[Slugman]

For trips to the beach or other flat hikes, where I might be cooking up a whole breakfast, that thing would be awesome. The steel lid of my MSR cook set weighs 6 ozs, still too heavy for a real mountain bp trip, but the aluminum lid of my REI $13 cook set weighs just 2 ozs, and has an upturned edge, and seems just large enough to use for a couple of scrambled eggs of the Pack-it Gourmet variety. I am definitely going to try a real cooked breakfast on my next bp trip.

[nuclear_eggset]

You could always get those plastic cases that will store fresh eggs. They are good out of the fridge for a few days.

[bonobo]

I know you can freeze egg whites, maybe you can freeze already scrambled uncooked eggs as well. If so, they might be a good option on a shorter trip.

[Allison]

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[nuclear_eggset]