The Excellent Tenting Utensil Accent

I’ve a tough time maintaining my backpacking spoon or spork clear between meals as a result of I retailer it in my Ursack or bear canister, which comprises all my meals and rubbish, in addition to the dust and duff that adheres to my cooking gear and different smellables. Whereas I take advantage of plastic luggage to maintain the contents separate and arranged, in some way my spoon typically will get soiled between makes use of.

However then I noticed Aardwolf’s Dyneema DCF Spoon and Spork Covers on Etsy and immediately knew that my soiled spoon days have been over. These spoon and spork covers are tiny stuff sacks that cinch closed over the pinnacle of your tenting utensils and even your toothbrush and maintain them clear between makes use of.

Plus, they weigh nothing! How can that be? After I place two of those spoon/spork covers on my digital postage scale, they weigh lower than one gram (the dimensions stays at 0g).

I’m usually resistant to the entire faddish equipment which are well-liked within the ultralight backpacking neighborhood (that frequents Storage Grown Gear, no less than), however I couldn’t resist selecting these up from Aardwolf’s Etsy Retailer. They let me exchange a disposable merchandise, like sandwich luggage, with a reusable one (and I’m hellbent on getting as a lot plastic out of my life as potential.)

Nonetheless, these spoon and spork covers don’t work with all of my backpacking spoons. Whereas they’re completely sized for long-handled titanium spoons and sporks, they’re a wee bit too small for the large GSI Plastic Spoon I like to make use of, and I count on they’re most likely undersized for the bamboo spoons some hikers use too. If there’s one change I’d suggest, it will be to make the covers a bit bigger for bigger spoons.

Disclosure: the creator bought this product.

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