Cooking Gear

Cooking includes a spectrum of cooking skills that range from heating up water for dehydrated bag meals on remote backpacking trips to putting together gourmet meals on car camping trips.

To make meals outside of a kitchen, you need the right gear. 

While our troop has stoves and other cooking gear for camping use, Scouts will need to provide their own mess kits.  Scouts heading out to high adventure may also wish to bring better gear for cooking and there are so many options out there.  That said, before you run out an purchase fancy cooking gear for your Scout, come talk to our Hiking and Backpacking Team.  We can point you in the right direction.

Mess Kit

Every Scout will need a personal mess kit for site/car camping.  This can be something really simple or something fancy. 


Example Mess Kits


See our Mess Kits Page for more on this gear.

Stoves

There are many types of stoves to consider 

Of the different types of stoves used for camping and backpacking, isobutane stoves are the best choice for backpacking and propane stoves are the best choice for car camping.  

Backpacking Stoves Recommended for Scouts


Camp Stoves Recommended for Scouts

Pot


Mug/Pot

Some people like to use a mug/pot combo for cooking.  Obviously, you can't cook or boil much water in it.  That said, for some types of minimalist cooking this may be adequate. 

Examples: