What do you have in your panniers
08-29-11, 05:12 PM
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What do you have in your panniers
I just stumbled across a cast iron cooking set in the bicycles section of the local CL and thought to myself "how absurd would it be to carry cast iron cookware on long trips" but this is C and V and I have seen crazier things. So what do you carry on your long touring rides? anyone actually carry cast iron pots?
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I once carried a full teapot service for four 185 miles over three days to a friends house as a wedding gift. They still actualy use it, cause my friends wife(who I had never met) was so amazed that someone could be that stupid. All my super minimal gear was in a bar bag and a rack bag, everything else was ceramic and padding.
And yes, If I am cooking for freinds on a short trip I will carry a real eight inch skillet.
And yes, If I am cooking for freinds on a short trip I will carry a real eight inch skillet.
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While I have done a little touring on a vintage Trek 520, my camping equipment is modern. I carry a Jet Boil as my only cooking utensil. It has the French press accessory for morning coffee. My cast iron dutch oven weighs more than most of my bikes.
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I confess that I'm always trying to lighten the load, either by cutting weight or cutting stuff. My tent is ultralight, as is the change of clothing I pack. Cast iron? No thanks. I'll poke a stick through my food and hold it over the fire!
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I once carried a full teapot service for four 185 miles over three days to a friends house as a wedding gift. They still actualy use it, cause my friends wife(who I had never met) was so amazed that someone could be that stupid. All my super minimal gear was in a bar bag and a rack bag, everything else was ceramic and padding.
And yes, If I am cooking for freinds on a short trip I will carry a real eight inch skillet.
And yes, If I am cooking for freinds on a short trip I will carry a real eight inch skillet.
. The same trip I ended up carrying 4 pounds of potatoes, a bottle of wine and other weird gobbledeegook.Kinda this. I can tour out of two panniers (+tent), fully self supported in the winter. It takes very little to keep me going, and anything else tends to be fluff.
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I own plenty of cast iron cookware, but have never hauled any on a bike tour. I have one cast aluminum camp style dutch oven that has been hauled a couple of times. I also routinely take my Storm Kettle which garners a variety of comments, however living on the well wooded east coast and in light of the amount of debris that Irene left behind I have a multi lifetime supply of free fuel. 
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"Steel: nearly a thousand years of metallurgical development
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