24 April 2010
Oceanside, CA
If you think no spoon is worth $10, you have not lived the life of a backpacker. I bought this lengthy wonder just before setting off on a sixty day bicycle tour. It became one of my most essential items.
The good: Despite the length, the spoon weighs a feather weight .3 oz. This is achieved by coating an aircraft-grade aluminum frame with an anodized shell that makes it safe for eating and tough enough to scrape pots and pans with. Unlike shorter utensils, the long handle allowed me to stir deep pots of boiling water or soup without singing my gloves or hands, and to eat without making a constant mess of myself. At first glance the bowl seemed shallow for soup, but worked out great, especially for boil-in-a-bag stews.
The bad: Well, it's long. Some thought might be necessary for stowing it in compact kits. Also, it's a wee bit dainty. In the first ten minutes I accidentally bent the bowl where it met the handle to a severe angle (I don't know how) but after bending it back, the only damage was a cosmetic line or crease where it had bent.
Anyways, I highly recommend such a lengthy spoon to anyone who spends a good deal of time cooking outdoors. Nine out of ten of my meals required no other utensil.
More info from Moosejaw.com:
Oceanside, CA
If you think no spoon is worth $10, you have not lived the life of a backpacker. I bought this lengthy wonder just before setting off on a sixty day bicycle tour. It became one of my most essential items.
The good: Despite the length, the spoon weighs a feather weight .3 oz. This is achieved by coating an aircraft-grade aluminum frame with an anodized shell that makes it safe for eating and tough enough to scrape pots and pans with. Unlike shorter utensils, the long handle allowed me to stir deep pots of boiling water or soup without singing my gloves or hands, and to eat without making a constant mess of myself. At first glance the bowl seemed shallow for soup, but worked out great, especially for boil-in-a-bag stews.
The bad: Well, it's long. Some thought might be necessary for stowing it in compact kits. Also, it's a wee bit dainty. In the first ten minutes I accidentally bent the bowl where it met the handle to a severe angle (I don't know how) but after bending it back, the only damage was a cosmetic line or crease where it had bent.
Anyways, I highly recommend such a lengthy spoon to anyone who spends a good deal of time cooking outdoors. Nine out of ten of my meals required no other utensil.
More info from Moosejaw.com:
The AlphaLite Cutlery by Sea To Summit uses a durable hard-anodized aircraft grade aluminum combined with a sleek-yet-strong shape to create an extremely lightweight utensil at a surprisingly affordable price. By hard anodizing the aluminum it forms a kind of ‘exoskeleton’, so the shape of the utensils can be slimmer and lighter. This hardened “shell” also encapsulates the aluminum, so there is NO risk of the alloy “leaching” onto food. The long-handled spoon design is perfect for eating out of individual camp food-packets and using tall pots now popular with the Jetboil shapestove / pot kits.
* Features:
* Ultra-light & strong 7075-T6 aircraft aluminum alloy
* Hard anodized aluminum for safe, life-long use
* Smooth matt finish
* Lightest metal cutlery on the market
* Weight:.3 oz (9 g)
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