Camping hacks - A discussion

[Fuzz]

Plus you can literally salt the earth as you leave your camp site.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Plus you can literally salt the earth as you leave your camp site.

Um, sir, I stay in hotels. I’m not homeless.

I’m just here for the cooler tips and tricks.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Thanks, I’ll give it a shot next time and see how it goes.

Can’t be worse than the bucket of water and melted ice cream I ended up with last time.

That's weird. I would have thought packing ice cream in a cooler for a multi-day road trip would have been a super good idea.

[Sr. Mints]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around why salt water bottles would make much of a difference.

They can get colder without freezing, but whether or not the water inside freezes should make no difference to someone considering it’s being held within the bottle anyway (have a bath of salted water in your colour would make sense, because they the below freezing water is surrounding your food/drinks completely instead of the air gaps left by ice and bottles).

I’ve heard of salt water making things colder faster, but not colder for longer, since wouldn’t salt water lose heat (melt/get warmer) at a faster rate than regular water?

You and me both. I never did get the science of how the ice cream maker Ms. Wallace brought in in grade four worked. Might as well have been magic.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

I saw an outdoors/camping pizza oven at breathe or whatever that macloed trail hiking store is

Sure, why not. Just haul a pizza oven along with you.

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

I saw an outdoors/camping pizza oven at breathe or whatever that macloed trail hiking store is

Sure, why not. Just haul a pizza oven along with you.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

I saw an outdoors/camping pizza oven at breathe or whatever that macloed trail hiking store is

Sure, why not. Just haul a pizza oven along with you.

Sounds dumb, but my buddy brought one out last year with a big group and it was the best pizza ever.

I'm way too lazy to do that myself, though.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Sounds dumb, but my buddy brought one out last year with a big group and it was the best pizza ever.

I'm way too lazy to do that myself, though.

My buddy has one

While we all sit on his deck drinking he’s ####ing around with it and the dough and the toppings and sauce and cheese.

He’s working away in the sun like a new Canadian and we are sitting there drinking beer, often his beer.

Sometimes one of us will get involved and inevitably #### it up which means he needs to clean up a mess and continue cooking pizza for us.

The best outdoor pizza ovens are the ones that belong to someone else

[surferguy]

Well I bought a Yeti Cooler (45). I lucked into a deal and bit the bullet. This past weekend was my inaugural run. My previous cooler was a Rubbermaid (clone of a blue Coleman). In a side by side comparison I would leave home with a frozen 4 l jug of water, a 1 l milk carton frozen with water and a bank of juice boxes also frozen.

The old cooler would be completely thaw by night #2.

Tonight we got home (night #3) and the 4L jug was 80% frozen and the 1L carton was 45% frozen. The juice was thawed out.

I’m happy with the performance, it’s a significant upgrade for us. It should serve us well.


It’s also bright orange - so it’s got that going for it. I might just take to calling it Zoidberg

Now - let’s talk propane fire pits. The fire bans are on and will probably be on all summer now in the parks. I still have a few trips planned so I may invest in one. I don’t have a heap of space to pack one.

What do you have? Have experience with? What to stay away from?

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Costco had a nice small square-ish Outland propane firepit earlier in the year that I wish I had bought. It's smaller so it consumes less room than their older round firepit that I have. It was like $200 or so.

Both do the trick. I like to keep the box to make it easier to pack, though covers are available on Amazon for them to make them even smaller. The dome cover squishes too easy without a box and the lava rock loves to spill out and make a mess.

[gallione11]

https://ca.outlandliving.com/product...e-pit?variant=


This is what I have. Decent size without being too big, and works well enough. First time using it, we did blow through a full propane tank in two nights but it was a cool, windy place and I think we had it on high most of the time.


Now, we usually just keep it on the lowest setting as it's still hot enough for our use. Haven't gone through a whole tank in single trip since. This comes with a lid and carry handle that also keeps the hose in place so it compacts well.