My New Solo Lightweight Cookset - 2016

Hey folks, Joe and Scout out here in the woods again. I'm just walking in, I just parked. Road's right there, you can probably see it. And what I'm walking through is a big open field with little patches of woods every now and then. And the purpose of this video, the purpose of this outing, it's 4:45 right now in the afternoon, and I wanna come out here and cook supper. I got a couple new pieces of gear. I got a Bush Buddy twig stove, a real one, a legit one. And I got a Snow Peak 900 cook set. And I'll show you both those once we're all squared away. But, yeah, I want to test them out for an upcoming canoe trip. So we're just walking to the woods right now. I'm just going to grab some of this dead grass on the way in to help start my fire. I'm going to grab different pieces of it too. There's these thin leaf parts and then these stalks. And they can both, the leaves can be tender and the stalks can be kindling. So I put it in my little fall raven pocket, my cargo pocket, and that's more than enough. I'm going with this spot for tonight. I'm only gonna be here for a few hours Maybe till 8 or something And I have a hammock a small hammock to sit in these are gonna be my hammock trees They're a good distance apart And what's the greatest thing about this is these are red oak both these and they have these these hanging dead branches They're like gold man. They're they're super dense a lots of BTUs in this wood So I will have to clear out a little bit so that my hammock can get in here without being Stab with sticks, but those sticks will become my fuel so it's no big deal leave it leave it They come off pretty easy Usually and if you split them like out of Y if you just pull apart it helps it helps a lot The dense wood but they don't don't hang on too much very good best of both worlds really There's a reason I got this I bought both of these pieces of kit, these new pieces of kit I didn't get them given to me for a review or any of that stuff, so this is these are my unbiased opinions regardless I bought it for a reason because I'm going on a canoe trip soon and I want to have a twig stove, right, my twig stove, the only thing it would fit in this is my Bush Buddy twig stove, the super lightweight stuff like very very very lightweight I can get the exact specs on it, maybe I'll pull it off my phone, but it only fit in my Zebra 12 centimeters Zebra, like this, right and so what's the point of having a super ultra light twig stove if you have to put in a Zebra billy pot, it's stainless steel and it's heavy this setup by itself or this setup stove and cup weighs less than the Zebra pot by itself, so weight isn't, isn't, is a factor, is an issue when you're doing a lot of portaging and backpacking and stuff like that, anyways, first time use of the Snow Peak 900 which is this, the lid, the lid doubles as a frying pan which is kind of cool, do my eggs up that way, first time using that, and I've used the Bush Buddy once or twice before I got the Bush Buddy used, and that Snow Peak is brand new so let's get this going, so this Bush Buddy is a gasifier stove, if I'm not mistaken means it burns its smoke a second time, it's super efficient and yeah, it leaves just ash, no, no chunks of half-burned wood or anything like that, so pretty cool, I'm going to start my fire with a lighter, sacrilege actually, pull this out, light it and stuff it in I think I've moved away the leaves right around from the immediate area it is a touch windy today, there we go, twigs on top, we'll let that burn down for a minute before I put the the pot rest on and before I add my bigger fuel sticks okay she's been going for a minute all those sticks have burned down a little bit so I'm gonna attempt to put this on, there we go, almost there's one little stick there we go it should work now so that's good now I can feed right from that little hole like I was showing you and it doesn't matter how long the sticks are any of that business so this cup's nice that the mug part it's got markings on the side and I will eventually get it down to what I where I know how much water I need for what but right now I don't this is my homemade spaghetti um be taking some of this camping on that backpacking trip or sorry that canoe trip i want to put in right now and fill up my container with water just to over top of over top of the flakes over top of the dehydrated food so that i know roughly how much water i need you can do it with warm water for hot water first and then add your food but you might end up with a little bit extra water if you don't know the exact measurements or uh yeah exact measurement of water to put in i guess so now my little fire has gone out a bit i'm just gonna keep stuffing my sticks in i'm i'm new to twig stoves guys i i'm this is all new to me this is like the third time i've used it so i uh i'm sure it takes some tweaking and stuff but i know that this can go back up if i blow this it'll probably just ignite again so lid on this goes on top of there nice and sturdy and i'll have to keep feeding it i'm sure but now i put up my hammock ba-bam Wind's kicking up man. This thing doesn't need a windscreen. It doesn't seem it's burning fine But if it takes a little bit extra because there's wind I'm not too worried about that I've dehydrated this spaghetti by myself. It's actually not really spaghetti. It's spaghetti sauce Dehydrated by itself and then I dehydrated some elbow noodles of macaroni Elbow or macaroni noodles, whatever you want to call them now. I'm sure I'm gonna get comments saying you don't have to dehydrate noodles they're already dry well yes that makes perfect sense you're exactly right and i get those comments all the time but when i'm backpacking or on a canoe trip i don't really have time to let my my noodles cook first and then add my sauce you can't cook the sauce in the noodles at the same time i don't think because it are in the same thing at least because the noodles are starchy as hell uh you ever cook noodles in a small pot you're gonna have to drain the water a few times because it becomes like a thick thick syrupy starch almost um and also it takes longer it takes longer for the noodles to cook than it does for them to rehydrate right uh regardless if they're rehydrated or not from the factory where you what you get it in my experience if i dehydrate them and then rehydrate them or heat them up they they get plump they cook whatever you want to call it faster so it's all about efficiency it's all about making the best you can out of the time you have and on backpacking trip you're not stopping to oh this is boiling you're not stopping um before supper a lot until you get to camp you know what i mean like you get to camp it's getting dark and you have supper and go to bed kind of thing at least the backpacking or canoeing that i've done um of course there's other kinds where you take it a little bit more leisurely and that's totally fine and cool but for the stuff that i normally do my high speed low drag stuff i think this is gonna be ideal anyways this is my whole thought behind this this could all go to crap and not be a good efficient setup at all there's still a little bit of water in the bottom a tiny bit that's going to turn to sauce so i am just going to let that fire down for a sec i'm going to sit this back on there and then we'll be good to go i bought some parmesan cheese too so that's looking forward to that so i do plan on bringing still a pocket rocket with one small canister as my main stove and it should do me fine i'm doing nine days but there is a chance of the stove breaking you can be losing it running out of fuel so as a backup this bush this bush bunny bush buddy twig stove it doesn't weigh much guys like i can look maybe i'll put in this in the description or something but it's not much like i said the the stove and the pot here weigh less than a 12 ounce uh zebra billy so as a backup because you don't run out of twigs right twig stove you're not going to run out of fuel and it's a good idea to have so who knows that's my thoughts anyways I might just nix the whole thing I might not bring this at all I might just rely on the on the pocket rocket and then if that runs out I'll use a straight up fire in the fireplace fire pit who knows but this was my thinking behind this anyway parmesan cheese time oh so cheesy another pretty cool thing about this bush buddy is if you grab it down here by the very base you can hold it this thing if i touched it yeah that's that's super hot it's scalding it's still full of ash and it's cooling down now but the bottom you can touch it it's double walled um i think that's the part of the gasifier all right moment of truth this is a batch i made up a while ago too i hadn't dehydrated them separately before go windy the reason i used the macaroni noodles this time was because the spaghetti noodles were sharp and i found i had to double bag the Ziploc bag to keep transport it and they would poke through the Ziploc bag so i figured the the macaroni or elbow noodles are a good candidate for that because they're not sharp shameless branding man this spaghetti is guten tag i'm super pleased with it good portion amount too um perfect for a meal for me a little garlic bread wouldn't be bad i could make a bannock when camping maybe a garlic bannock to go with this one night you know i gotta live a little bit right in all honesty i hope i'm eating fish every night but uh whenever i've counted on that things haven't come through so almost done my spaghetti now i pulled up some info on the bush buddy i have the bush buddy ultra this stove features the same efficient combustion design as a regular bush buddy but in a lighter weight five ounces instead of 6.5 ounces it can boil one liter of water in eight to ten excuse me eight to ten minutes it will take longer under adverse conditions it says and i assume the container that you're in if you have a tall skinny container. It's going to take a lot longer than a big wide one. That's another reason I wanted a wider one. Size is four and a quarter inches by diameter by three and three quarters high. So very small, very compact. The 900, the pod itself, titanium, it weighs 6.2 ounces. Okay. So it has a capacity of 30 fluid ounce made in Japan. So 6.2 ounces plus 5.1 ounces. so we're at 11.3 if i'm not mistaken 11.3 ounces it's pretty good for your for your cooks up or your cook setup and then i also do get the frying pan like i said so again i can lift this up there's still heat coming off of it but it's not glowing embers i want to show you what it turns to what your final impact like footprint product is i guess all right so this top piece comes off it's not hot anymore at all and then you're left with just this ash if you look there's no watch out buddy there's no nothing just super fine powdery ash i really like that part of it very efficient very efficient stove it's first burn a little blackened the lid honestly could sit on a bit better but but it does come with but it does come with this mesh bag that kind of holds it all in place so it's not so bad this is how i'll be storing it in my backpack i believe yeah the lid kind of sucks to be honest the way the lid fits kind of sucks but that's why i got it that's why i brought it out here to see what i liked about it what i didn't like about it it's it's not enough to for me to say i don't like it because i do all right guys just a quick little video i got that i was excited to come out and play with it so uh thought i'd bring you along thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed it i hope you learned something you have any questions let me know thanks bye