ESBIT: Simmering and Ultralight Baking

[Hikin_Jim]

For those of you who were able to attend the Hikin' Fools Potluck last summer up at the top of the tram, you may recall that I baked muffins on site. Well, I've finally gotten around to documenting the process.

I've been testing an ESBIT stove, the Epicurean Ti, that not only can be used for boiling water but also for low, steady heat applications like simmering and ultralight baking.


I've found the Epicurean Ti to be a really easy to use ESBIT stove that simmers well without any trouble.


If you're interested in having a few flame options other than just "high" or you find the idea of ultralight baking intriguing, check out the Epicurean Ti ESBIT stove.


HJ

[arocknoid]

Thanks for another great review.

Until I read your timing strategy with baking/cooking/evening camp, I was mystified at how one could devote the time to *baking* while on a backpack trip. Crikey, who has the time? I thought. But you've found a way to incorporate baking without much interference with other activities. And what a delightful assortment of treats--blueberry muffins, YUM!

Still, I'm enough of a Luddite, nay, Troglodyte, that I'll forgo such luxuries and gourmet indulgences for base caloric sustenance. Uncooked, at least. Perhaps I should post pics of sushi and other rolls I prepare at home for day trip chowdowns. Of course it is easier to maintain proper packed/storage temps on the trail when the weather is cool.

Thanks for the hexamine patisserie how-to, Jim.

kind regards,
Arocknoid

[arocknoid]

like this:

No wasabi for these "sweet" rolls. (just wakame, neh? ;-)

I confess to making them the night before the hike, not freshest in the early predawn hours. Tub placed in a ziplock, with a few cubes of ice, despite the cool weather on this hike. Cold air Sunshine can still provoke a bakepack, and who wants sushi atsui? warui...

(cross connect the Ellen thread, with Toshiro Mifune and C. Bronson... now *that's* resourcefulness in sushi -making.)





onegai shimasu!
mata ashita
Arocknoid

[Hikin_Jim]

Thanks for another great review.

Until I read your timing strategy with baking/cooking/evening camp, I was mystified at how one could devote the time to *baking* while on a backpack trip. Crikey, who has the time? I thought.

Well, to be honest, I haven't taken the baking portion of the kit on any really serious trips.

Usually, I just take the baking kit for day hikes where we're celebrating or on less serious overnighters. Here, I've baked a cake for a friend's birthday:


If I bring my daughter on a backpack, we're not going to be going that far because I have to carry gear for two people -- and often I have to carry her too.


So, when we're not going that far, we need things to do in camp, and baking is one of them.

But I've worked baking in on trips with friends and such. It's immensely popular. Sure beats freeze dried chow.


Your sushi looks pretty darned good though.

HJ