THE BIG LIST OF TRAVEL HACKS FOR RESPONSIBLE CAMPERS

[cyndi]

Usually, when I read these types of articles I don't expect to learn much.
This one had a number of hacks I hadn't seen before and you don't have to keep  clicking *next*

Camping hacks

https://blog.thedyrt.com/camping-gear/responsible-travel-hacks/

 

[tav-2020]

cool hacks, i learned a few new ones. thanks!!

 

[highdesertranger]

that's cool. highdesertranger

 

[QinReno]

The light in the water bottle works very nicely. I don't think I would put a beer can over a regular stove burner. Besides the metal being exceedingly thin, I believe all aluminum beverage cans have a plastic coating inside. Melted plastic on your popcorn?

 

[highdesertranger]

Reno that had crossed my mind. do beer cans have a plastic coating? either way except for an emergency I wouldn't cook in a can. highdesertranger

 

[MrNoodly]

Some of these hacks are silly.

Beer can popcorn -- and a bowl that's really hot, melted or on fire from being right by the flame.

Mason jars? I would avoid bringing anything made of glass out camping.

"In a pinch, you can turn your soda or beer can into a workable camp stove fueled with denatured alcohol or something like HEET." In a pinch, would you just happen to have denatured alcohol or HEET on hand?

"But if you’re at an RV park or a big campground, there will likely be concrete around." There's more likely to be someone around to borrow a can opener from. Or wouldn't you have already decanted all your canned goods into mason jars?

I would lose little bottles of soap but not little tins of soap?

Sure, chips as fire starter. But don't you already have a wad of lint with you? Or denatured alcohol/HEET to use "in a pinch?"

 

[QinReno]

If I were more awake, I would check it out about the coating. (I prefer Q).

I would eat the chips and forget about the fire.

 

[tav-2020]

The light in the water bottle works very nicely. I don't think I would put a beer can over a regular stove burner. Besides the metal being exceedingly thin, I believe all aluminum beverage cans have a plastic coating inside. Melted plastic on your popcorn?

agreed!  and if i am going to the bother of making popcorn i def want more than can fit into a beer can!  heck, the melted butter takes more room than that

 

[MrNoodly]

Besides the metal being exceedingly thin, I believe all aluminum beverage cans have a plastic coating inside. Melted plastic on your popcorn?

Learn all about aluminum beverage cans: https://www.wired.com/2015/03/secret-life-aluminum-can-true-modern-marvel/

 

[QinReno]

Learn all about aluminum beverage cans: https://www.wired.com/2015/03/secret-life-aluminum-can-true-modern-marvel/

Excellent link, Mr N. Let's give a round of applause for plastic in our beer cans, no more cooking our pork'n'beans in the can over an open fire like the 1930s hobos used to do.

"The resin is usually epoxy, but it may also be vinyl, acrylic, polyester, or oleoresin, and could even be styrene, polyethylene, or polypropylene. The mixture also requires either a solvent, so that the epoxy can cure when baked, or a photo-initiator, so that the epoxy can cure when exposed briefly to ultraviolet (UV) light. The cross-linking agent of choice for the most tenacious epoxy coating is bisphenol-A, or BPA. According to coatings specialists, roughly 80 percent of that epoxy is BPA."

 

[highdesertranger]

yuk. well I guess that answers the question. highdesertranger

 

[lenny flank]

> "In a pinch, you can turn your soda or beer can into a workable camp stove fueled with denatured alcohol or something like HEET." In a pinch, would you just happen to have denatured alcohol or HEET on hand?


You may indeed--it's used as a gas line antifreeze additive. Lots of people probably have it in their trunk.

Of course, in a REAL pinch, you can use plain ole rubbing alcohol instead, though that produces a fair amount of sooty smoke. And if you are utterly insane and sacrilegious, you can burn vodka or rum in a soda can stove, too.



EDIT: BTW, that stove becomes a lot safer if you stuff it full of cotton balls or cloth from an old t-shirt--it absorbs all the liquid and prevents any spills.

 

[lenny flank]

Meh, I've been cooking in the can since I was a Boy Scout. If it kills me in 30 years, I won't mind.

 

[Doubleone]

Mix a little Vaseline into that cotton lint for the best fire starter...

 

[Moxadox]

Doritos as fire starter LOLOL!!!!!! Yep yep yep. A reason for Doritos.

The Dire Wolfess

 

[Canine]

Do you remember Keystone beer advertising, "Bottled Beer in a Can"?

That lady and her dog was so cute! Love that picture.