Lunch, Day-Camping Style

 

The Colonel and I planned a little lunch last month to "test drive" some new camping equipment we purchased not long ago. 

There is a little roadside picnic area up the road from us (we have had a little snack there once before. We had driven by the picnic area many times in the past and wanted to finally give it a try) and that is where we chose to have our "experimental lunch". 

The Colonel began to set out the equipment and food supplies.

He set out our new camp burner and filled it with fuel. It burns denatured alcohol.

We had to use the new wind break to surround the burner. It was a bit windy and at times the sky looked a bit dark.

The Colonel got out our new titanium cooking pot, filled it water, lit the burner and began to cook our delicious lunch of rice and chicken (we chose this meal for its ease of cooking for our first test run).

It took roughly 9 minutes to get the water to a boil and then 7 minutes for the rice and chicken to cook. It was very tasty. We were happy with our lunch experiment. After lunch we had fruit and then made instant coffee. Just as we had our coffee made, it began to sprinkle. We packed up quickly and finished our coffee in the truck as it rained.

SUCCESS!