It is not made for people sitting at a camp site, it is made for distance hikers. You get up in the morning, cook breakfast as well as your lunch, then hours later you can stop and eat with no fuss. It is made to save cooking time, cook one big meal and carry half of it for later.
I agree on a 5 day canoe trip each breakfast you get the fire going for coffee anyways. its convienent to have dished stowed already holding your cooked lunch.
When I'm hunting from base camp, hiking out a mile or more planning to spend the day at my stand, perfect. Cook up grub at camp, go to the stand and have a hot lunch to tide you through till back at camp. Love it.
I have a theory. If you are on a multi-day trip and you want to have a hot meal at lunch you can prep the meal while you make breakfast, seal it up and have lunch when the time comes. That makes sense to me and I think it would be welcome if you like cool weather camping. Thanks for another great review.
Ready Magazine save some daylight on the Run, or a Hot drink to go. chicken soup powder in the Lid and im ready to go. I use a thermos and a Cook Set with this i think I will save wight. greatings from Germany have some nice days
"Thermal cooking is awesome" Most people just completely missed this point - with the exception of Silhouette Park Farm. This Stanley Cooking System (not food system) is very energy efficient (always a bonus when living off grid). Just bring contents to boil and then seal in the vacuum flask to slow cook until required. Wake up to a hot breakfast, or prepare an evening stew earlier in the day. Would I use it for hiking/back-packing? No I agree with Donny here, but would I use it at base camp or in my vehicle? Yes, definitely
Been using thermos for winter camping since the 60's. Due to cold temp s and limited daylight. Cook supper at lunch time, and breakfast at supper time or before turning in for the night. I hadn't seen that configuration before at my Wal-mart. I use the drinking cup as my measure for the pot. Thanks for the review.
Ever hear of thermal cooking? Bring water to the boil. Pour into the vacuum bottles Bring temperature of vacuum bottle up. Then start to cook a meal in pan that requires an hour or so of cooking. Pour out hot water and pour in simmering food, cap it off and food will continue to cook in this device. This work for foods such as stews and whole oats. Look up Shuttle Chef. My guess is that this device is designed to do the same thing at a fraction of the cost and without the bulk.
Not just thermal cooking. Rice or pasta needs only 1/2 the fuel if you let it thermsl cook, but when fuel is short this would sllow you to boil water once, make hot (breakfast?) and put away the hot dinner to slow cook. Really cut fown uour fuel needs.
Thermal cooking is awesome. Cook a stew in the pot. Quickly cook up the ingredients at breakfast time, put them in the pot hot. Then by dinner time it will be tender and amazing. I also put in a couple of small bread dumplings to cook all day. One fire two meals. It’s basically a mini version of the dream pot cooking it’s self all day.
It's alot of excess weight to carry around I can't see it,unless like you said for a day hike but still to heavy! I'd rather cook on an alcohol stove or something like that. It gives you more options. In my opinion
A good use for this would be as a "luxury/(heavy) item" for an ultralight backpacking scenario with multiple full days worth of walking and no time to set up a quick camp. I don't recommend using the vacuum container on the fire because it's probably a double wall which is dangerous to heat directly.
The idea is heat the water, put your dehydrated food in the thermos and add the hot water. The thermos contains the heat and cooks the food while not wasting fuel. "Mountain" is in the name because water evaporates at altitude and wastes huge amounts of heat/ fuel.
It's a great item when I was 26 yrs old and thinking a normal pack weight 90+ lbs ha ha! 40 yrs later still great if I had a mule when I hiked.....I wonder make that two mules, great video and it nice if I'm own my UTV but good imformative and smart video. Thanks!
As one other comment mentioned, there is such a thing as thermal cooking. If you boil extra water during a meal, you can put the ingredients for your next meal in the container along with the right amount of hot water, and it will cook your next meal as you hike or sleep. For backpacking, it makes for quicker/easier lunch breaks, or lets you pack up faster in the morning. It works pretty well, you still get a hot meal but without having to take the time to cook it. However, you can purchase much lighter containers that are the exact size you need for that purpose. The Stanley looks huge and all that extra plastic adds unnecessary weight.
Yeah it looks like it’s for thermal cooking mate, I’ve just been doing some experimenting with it and think I will be using it a lot this year, I do a lot of motorcycle camping and think this will be very useful to me, get up in a morning, quickly chop some potatoes carrots and broccoli, drop them in the pan with a stock cube and bring to boil, poor in flask, pack your stuff away, set off on your day’s journey with your food cooking in the flask as you are riding around, when you stop for dinner you’ve got a really nice stew waiting for you and you haven’t used a full canister of gas to cook it, also makes great rice pudding and I have a flask full of semolina pudding sat right next to me as I type this, should be ready in an hours time, gunna rip the lid off a portion of strawberry jam and drop it in there👍🏻 😆 could also use it for pasta bolognaise, spaghetti etc anything that requires a bit of gas to cook, this system will be useful 👍🏻
06:50 you’ve got it right there. Excellent bit of kit for a blue collar worker. And for the office workers, it would save having to fight for fridge space and microwave time.
I think a food thermos is a good alternative to bringing 2 stoves. Then i can boil enough water for maybe some rice and gravy, before i add it all to the food thermos, shake it up really good, and let it prepare itself, while i have the stove free to cook meat. Of course you can just make the meat and rice first, and heat it up in the gravy, but this will take a lot longer than if you can prepare it all simultaneously.
I was in Target today and picked Up a Stanley 24 oz. Camp Cook & Cup Set on Clearance from $ 15.19 Marked Down to $ 7.58 ..... Then at the Check out , it Rang Up at $ 4.55 with .27 cents tax , Grand total $ 4.82 Well I am Cool With That !! Add that to my Pack of Neat Stuff . Cheers to all Y'all Happy Campers !!
Thanks for this video. Subscribed. One could boil water for breakfast, plus enough to cook a freeze-dried meal, put the freeze-dried meal (plus boiling water) into the thermos, then eat breakfast, break camp, start hiking, and enjoy a hot lunch on a cold day on the trail with no need to break out the stove. Just sit down, open the thermos, eat, and get back on the trail. Whether the convenience justifies the weight is someone else's call. Just my two cents...
I use mine for freeze dried meals when car camping. Boil the water, add to food in thermos and stir, replace lid and let soak while you continue what ever other camp activities you are doing. Keeps the food hot if you're not going to get back to it right away.
It’s good for a day pack kit or when you’re driving in your pickup truck to go fishing. Thank you for the video. I didn’t know Stanley made a gadget for truck drivers.
During my conscription service we got issued a 1,2l food/drink thermos so that on the field exercises if needed, we could get given our meals straight in to our thermoses and then continue in to the "operation area", and enjoy our hot meals without the need for the cumbersome food logistics to follow up during an offense or anything. Another use for a thermos system like in the video could be to fill it with hot water at a basecamp, then use the hot water for a trekking meal and while waiting for the trekking meal to get good, boil more water in the pot. This way you would make the whole process a lot faster. We did that in our NCO training with our trangias and thermoses, (Although usually we carried one trangia per 3 soldiers, 1 person carried trangia and 2 persons had extra fuel for it.) when we were eating trekking meals that we got in our combat rations. So, I could in a way see this as a one mans substitute for the thermos/trangia combination that we carried. Just add a small gas stove and you'd be ready to rock!
These comments like yours have been very educational for me. Great viewers like yourself have taught me a great deal about thermos cooking/ meal rehydration. Thank you brother!
Looks interesting, thanks for the review. I like your idea of carrying your favorite hot dish and making tea or coffee on location. You can also make a two person meal and eat some now and save some for later. Certainly something different. Thank you for sharing.
I could see this being good in fall or winter when it’s cold and you might want to keep something hot and ready but in my opinion I’d use something like this more for my lunch break at work rather than camping
If you pour water from your Nalgene bottle you will know how many ounces of water you pour into the cup. I have Type 1 Diabetes and I have to keep food in me if I'm hiking, I'd totally use this just like you said, I'd cook my meal in camp and put a second meal in the thermos for a second meal while out on the trail later or cook it at home and take it with me in my day pack. I wouldn't take it for bushcraft but I am a big hiker and this totally fits the bill for me runnin around in Red River Gorge in my home state of Kentucky.
I can see someone making a meal and eating a serving and keeping the meal hot for future meal times. We used to hike all over the mountain and would have been nice to have made a meal in the morning before breaking camp and heading out to our next location. Downside... eating the same meal all day.
So I have lots of different set ups and use this one as my backpack set up. But your are correct on many items. What I do is only use the pot to boil water or else it’s makes everything dirty and messy when you put the dirty pot back over thermos. Boil the water when you have time pour into the thermos with your dehydrated meal. Then continue on while it cooks your meal then when ready stop and eat. Also I only put food only in the thermos so the cup is always clean for a drink and tea bags go in the storage spot. The pot works good over the fire or stove. I tossed the spork in place for a long handle one
Bring your hot coffee ready to go in the thermos, drink it all morning. Rinse out the thermos at lunchtime. Then use the pot to heat up water to make something like hot noodle soup in the thermos. Thermos keeps it hot while you're eating. Too bad the lining of the lid of the thermos is plastic, otherwise, it could have been used as a lid for the pot. If it was silicone, it would have been fine. I don't know if this needed a "wtf" though.
Hikers.... Base camp cook and take it on the trail. Hunting too. You can just cook in the normal thermos too without the extra pot. I could see this being great for hot cereal and make the coffee like you suggested.
Useful for hiking over a few days , when you get up in the morning and make breakfast , you could also make your lunch (or even just not coffee) to carry , then at lunchtime , rather than getting your cook gear going , just eat from the vacuum part , then hike to your next camp ... When you think about it , it's useful
If you're heading to the duck blind or deer stand for the day it's a good way to take your lunch and have hot, instant coffee/hot chocolate, etc. (keep the powder in the storage in the cap you showed) to go with your hot soup or stew and that's about it. To serve as a multi-purpose camp/bushcraft kit, I fully agree. No bueno. That said, seems stout and will probably serve it's purpose for a long time.
Why not just use a regular thermos? Why would you need to bring a pot with you to a deer stand. The question being asked is, "why is this a system that makes sense?" I get wanting hot food in a duck blind or on a deer stand. You can't use the pot in those places (or there is no need for the thermos). So why spend the money for it/why spend the weight for it?
Everett Vinzant ... Bring your preferred hot drink, to sip on throughout the day. Pot is to reheat it if you need to, or to cook some food. Cook your Lunch. Leftovers go into Thermos. You now have dinner too...
I ment to add i was reading a older hunting book on moose hunting (Jack Oconner) I think and he said to his woods guide it was time for coffee the guide thought it would be to hard to make coffee in the rain and wet woods. Well the hunter pulled a thermos of hot coffee out of his pak and they had a cup of coffee. The Indian guide looked the thermos all over and Jack explained it would keep things hot and cold. The guide looked at Jack and asked how does it know. Jack gave him the thermos as a tip t the end of the hunt some 20 years later Jack went back and the guide was still careing the same thermos
As noted below one fire = two hot meals, especially hiking, cook dinner and breakfast, wake up to hot meal in the morning with out effort or fire, good way to start and get energized, or cook breakfast and dinner, that way you have a hot meal to eat before you build your nights shelter, and you have more time and energy to build a better shelter
Personally, I could see having one of these in my car/truck kit. Not that I'll run out and buy one, but it does have some versatility. Not something I would normally carry in a pack, though. That said, Stanley DOES make some durable, good stuff ... and I do own and use some of their products.
I like the possibilities. My thought: boil water, add rice or pasta, let soak as you travel. Cook in AM, have hot lunch without stopping to cook. Yes, stainless is heavy. Maybe try a plastic version and use to supplement canteen cup cooking. Need a true leak right seal. Insulated Tupperware, so to speak.
Thanks for making this video. 6 years ago when you made it, for seeing today’s political and world turmoil was harder. You day pack idea is excellent. My need will be for a more dire situation. I looking for something similar to store a warm meal if you need to be on the move. The idea is to cook once and eat twice. Peace
Aloha! Great vid! Thanks. I knew I couldn't be the only one who initially thought "WTF" when I picked this up. The weight prohibits it from being used on long trips on foot. Like you said, I use it to take lunch to work, along with a Hydroflask of coffee.
If it would work as a slow cooker? I use a insulated Mr Bento jug for day trip bike trips, along with a insulated thermos cup for coffee and/or cool insulated jug for ice. Fix it, toss it in the trailer, ride, eat, ride back.
I hike a lot and can see some situations where cook first eat later might be handy. Torrential rain on the way and no way to cook a hot meal. Nothing like a hot meal to warm the core. Nice review!
when I buy ready to make meals like mountain house, or mountain aire, I try to get the larger "two portion" size. One, because I may be making a meal for my wife and me while on an outing. 2nd and most important, if I'm trying to be highly mobile like in a SHTF situation, now I only have to stop one time to prepare my meal, I get to stash the second half in the thermos to eat a second warm meal later as i stay on the move. I have the other Stanley cook sets as well and couldn't believe my good luck when I found this new kit. I agree, Volume marks like on their other kits would have been helpful, but it's Dremel time till that day. Also that handle does get too hot on an open flame to touch bare handed. Thanks for the Vid work Donny, just now aware of you for the first time, looking forward to seeing more of your impressions.
Good job with the vid. To sum it up, equipment"s usage or application is just as important to consider as the units quality. it may be built well, but used in the wrong application can make it useless or alternatively considered junk. Thats why it's important that we have people make these videos, to offer perspective and provide realistic application to counter cleaver advertising, that targets genre specific groups. Like with terms ( extreme mountain food system ) for only the REAL mountaineers. first thing that comes to mind is weight. I live in Alaska and when out cruising friends trap lines and or clearing trails for days on end in snow shoes. Weight becomes the first, middle, and last thing you consider. Everything is about weight. Snow shoe 12 miles a day and you will understand. I think your analysis is right on as to the products use, a good day rig or if you have an atv or other means to carry that doesn't impact your ability to be mobile. For me I carry the a small jet boil and keep the fuel can inside my arctic gear. I carry light dry foods and never cook to much, just enough to keep the hunger at bay ( don't want to be bogged down with to much in the tank). Plus heading out on the trail with a big pot full of food ads a lot of weight, rather than an empty vessel and then stopping to quickly cook. I do however carry a small insulated bladder thermos filled with chicken broth.....it's warm, helps to replenish the salts lost during heavy exerting when clearing trails, also helps to keep the core warm verses cold water for when the temps drop to that minus 45. Any way, I am rambling now, keep post vids, they are helpful.
Or.... You camp for the night. You get up in the morning and cook your breakfast, clean up and cook lunch to pack away for later. That way, if you're hiking and you want to cover a lot of ground, you don't have to take time to cook lunch. Just eat and go. I would think you could put that one together. You're better than that.
In all honesty, at the time I made this video, I knew nothing of thermos cooking. I still think it's bulky and heavy, but I certainly see it's validity in certain scenarios.
I watched this during a break at work, so I don't know if this was addressed in the comments or not (I didn't have time to read them all): this might work if you are on a multi-day hunt with a base camp. Cook and eat your breakfast like normal and prepare a hot lunch with this at the same time so that you don't have to worry about heating anything while you are on the hunt. I'd have to spend some time with it to see if it would work like that, but its just a thought.
I was thinking of using it when on a long distance fishing trip. Make a hot meal at the base camp and take it for a shore lunch. Use the pot to make coffee and eat right out of the thermos. I don't see it as a work place food system, most businesses have microwaves to reheat food making the thermos unnecessary.
It's a prototype. Would be cool to see an all in 1 system you can cook with and store as well and a bowl and pan that fit in an enclosing foldable structure would be great for hiker/backpacker/all.
a lot of hikers when they stopped for lunch like to take all the dry ingredients for their dinner and throw it into a freezer bag with hot water and then put it into a insulated pouch then throw it back in their pack so at the end of the day when they're done hating their dinner is already done I see this being useful in that kind of situation just throw your ingredients in it was some hot water and then by the time you stop for your next meal it's ready to eat and hot
I could live with just the thermostat really. Cook a big batch of whatever, eat half, stick the rest in the thermostat and go on. The pot is cool, but I'm not convinced it's big enough for what I envision.
What would make sense to me, is that during a hike or hunt prepare meal out in the "woods" in the removable boiling container. Then place contents into thermos to be consumed over a multi hour period/ not all at once.
Maybe cook lunch when you're making your breakfast or coffee? Carry it around til lunch and have a hot(ish) meal midday? Or cook at lunch and have a hot dinner to save some time when making camp for the night?
This would be good for multi day trips in cold climates. heat up soup or coffee/tea, and be able to sip on it all day to keep warm as well as hydrated. It might not be the first thing I grab, but I do see the merits, and if I owned one, it might change my mind...
How about taking that kit with you, adding a dehydrated meal product to the thermos, fill it with water you just boiled in the pot, seal the lid and let it cook. While it's steeping boil up some more water and have coffee with your meal. Just a thought. Nice review.
I have one and think it's good if you have one fire, cook your meal then while the fire is hot cook another so and store it in the vacuum container, then later in the day you have a hot meal available without having to start up a fire again. It will not suit everyone but it does have some benefits
Yeah that is interesting. It is like a spin on the age old thermos stanley has made for years but with a pot and spork attached. Interesting. Maybe a nice thing for a hunter to bring a hot meal in the woods ready to go and then have the option to heat up more as the day goes on....or in my neck of the woods it would be good for ice fishing! Hope you guys have a Merry Christmas my fine Southern Brothah! 🤘🎅🤘
+Windham Woodcraft Thank you my Maine Man Chris! Yeah man, it's kinda funky but strangely enough, has some real possibilities. I hope you fine cabin folk have the absolute best Christmas ever! ROCK ON BROTHER!!!
Because of weight, I had a similar thought. A hunter working from a base camp where there is a fire or a wood stove. Take a hot lunch along to the tree stand or blind. Or if they want an early start, fix supper and then cook breakfast oatmeal or whatever and have a hot breakfast perhaps cooking that lunch while you finish the oatmeal. But the idea is someone who is not walking around or staying in one place all day but has two stationary locations and at least one location where a fire or stove would be inconvenient or give away your position.
I'm on the fence On this one . The use I can see for me is making coffee in the morning over the fire, and one cup is never enough for me, so I'd pour the remainder into that thermos to bring me with on a morning scout. Heck I'd probably brew up an additional pot's worth while drinking the first batch, just to make sure I had that thermos full of black gold. Honestly tho, I'm probably gonna stick to my Zebra billycan, and my old school, full size Stanley thermos. Like ya said tho, another option. And we all love our gear options. God bless ya all.
If it's a food that requires soaking in hot water it would more than replace a cozy. So boil your water and pour it in with the dehydrated food. You do have a point of heating up water, pour it in and heat up more water.
Danny-seems to me it would be nice to carry meat to the woods and hold it for 10-15 hours, if frozen. So you could have fresh meat the following day.. Bob
As some others have said, the only redeeming version of Stanley's concept of use is that it would be a nice way to rehydrate meals, especially in the winter.
"You’re a go-getter, itching to hit the trails with only what you can carry by your side, nothing bulky weighing you down. You don’t have the time or the space for a whole fancy cookware set, pots and pans clattering around as you show the great outdoors who’s boss. We gotcha, bud. This all-in-one system has everything you need to cook, store and eat a tasty and nourishing meal on the go. Sturdy enough to stand up to a butane torch or campfire, compact enough to toss in your bag until you need it. Everything you need, nothing you don’t." -Stanley (Mountain Vacuum Food System) Lol, all you had to do was read the description for the product to know what they were thinking. This isnt for prepping or survival. This is for weekend campers and day hikers who want the ability to keep food either hot or cold for extended periods (13 hours hot, 11 hours cold). The Cook pot acts as a third layer of insulation. Helping to keep the temp consistent and dissipation low. This is for people who carry all of their own food. Dont finish all you cook? No worries, just store in jar and have up to 13 hours of it still being warm. As other commenters have pointed out and even Stanley points out you can keep food cold but in terms of food preservation it would be kind of pointless to use this for prolonged periods with the hopes of, say.. Getting you through winter. Pure novelty, but still cool nonetheless.
3 hot meals one fire. I actually bought a small wide mouth thermos to bring along with me for exactly this purpose. I can eat a hot meal at home in the morning, lunch time I will have a hot meal in the thermos towards late afternoon I will cook food and then put the rest in the thermos for later. You can go all day one fire. Saves lots of fuel and fires. People working in the field or bush don't need a packsac full of gear so this is most likely designed for them
I think we're this would be handy is when out camping on the river fishing or hunting . especially in the winter before leaving camp make hot lunch to eat on boat great review thanks.
Maybe Stanley has a point, you cook your meal and eat it. Then you cook the next meal and take it with you for the next time you want to eat but you have no option to cook because of the weather ,time etc. Not my kind of kit though. Thanks for sharing.
I would find it useful for when I am out in the snow. I usually find myself needing a meal halfway through the night. I could cook my meal as a double serve eat half out the other half in the jar. Then when I wake up with the hunger I am a screw lid away. At the moment I use a stanly thermos jar for this purpose.
Hahaha..love your WTF intro....LMAO Stay on target sir....you keep going out of frame ...lloll.. I bought one...and agree, good for making oats, and day hiking...keeping the brew warm....kinda bulky though , but tough . thumbs up
You mentioned you didn't know how many ounces it holds/cooks. It's a 20 0unce vacuum container and 20 0unce cook pot, it is printed on the bottom of both container bottoms, both the vacuum insulated bottle and the cook pot are clearly labeled with product information. It is likely printed on both bottoms because with use the cook pot bottom with darken (carbon black) so the information is redundant on the vacuum bottle bottom.The biggest difference in information given is that the cook pot is dishwasher safe, the thermos is hand clean only. The thermos seal plug has a small dry storage area for spices and such on top of it, the green rubber rim pulls up. Hope this helps and have a good day.
Many people cold soak their food. This means they don’t have to carry around a stove and fuel. With this I could see myself boiling water over the fire or with a pocket stove then hot soaking my food while I attend to camp chores. Wastes less fuel as the contents of the thermos cook and stay hot.
I think you're spot on with how most people would use it. One of my favorite things to do when I'm out in the woods is cook over a fire, so it wouldn't be good in that sense. It could be a good option for a TH-camr or photographer that is going out to get some outdoor footage and would like a warm meal without having to spend the time cooking while they're out there.
Nice one brother! I agree that the name makes very little sense. ?!?! It seems best suited to car camping and work lunches. I'd also agree with what Mart said, frozen foods kept that way. Great video as always brother. Stay sexy! Be well Craig
Even though this video was done 4 years ago all the Stanley cup sets that I seen that were for backpacking I'll bet you a lot of them would Nestle together and make a good cook set to take out when your backpacking or hiking or Bushcraft or survival because you got a lot of them out there that Stanley makes and yeah the stuff maybe heavy but it'll last a lifetime so that's just a thought you know combine a few of the pots together and see if it'll all fit if it all fits together then you have a different sizes of pots to cook different stuff in and if you're smart and have canteens you know one quart canteens we canteen cups there's what you drink with and if you got a mess kit a military style Miss kit US military style there's your eating tray and all that he'll just takes a common sense in a little trickery to figure it all out
You are absolutely correct Dale! I often combine Stanley and others together. A cooking set is like clothing. You dress up or pack up for the trip. If you're going to be out a while with multiple people, pack for that if you're going alone for a night, you don't need as much. You know what I mean?
Make hot food in the morning, strike camp. Eat at lunchtime, or when you reach next campsite, and you have hot food before your fire is stabilised or camp set up.
Totally agree. However, you hit the nail on the head when you mentioned dehydrated meals. You could let food rehydrate in the thermos, but reflectix pouches work just as well for that and basically weigh nothing, as opposed to that. I just wouldn't buy it. Thanks for sharing so we don't have to.
HAY BROTHER UNCLEDOUG SAYS YOU ARE RIGHT SPOT ON !!!!! GOT ONE WAY TO HEAVY !! BUT AS ALWAYS STANLEY'S BUILD IS THE BOMB !!! IT'S BUILT LIKE A TANK DAY BAG / OR VAN CAMPING !!
don't combine products. just take a separately made thermos for taking with you backpacking to save weight on fuel and time on fire making, use the hot water to cook your food without flaming up. Or use a cooking system. cook your stuff on the fly. this may be a good way to sneak in some storage when already cooking, that may negate necessity of cooking as often, in this niche I don't mind the premise, could be useful if you plan on cooking less often, like for doing a speed hike through record times from 3-6 days goal time (a typically 10-20 day long hike.)
I use that for thermos cooking, like a slow cooker, hot water and dehydrated veggiw rice meat put in after breakfast throw it in a backpack. Let it cook until lunch time.. wash and repeat for dinner... and again for oats for next morning. With it's weight would work better for truckers or car travelers/campers, though you never told us the exact weight, it might be worth its weight if it's the only cooking unit you carry, and since you are saving on tons of fuel that you dont have to carry, it might even out.
It is not made for people sitting at a camp site, it is made for distance hikers. You get up in the morning, cook breakfast as well as your lunch, then hours later you can stop and eat with no fuss.
It is made to save cooking time, cook one big meal and carry half of it for later.
I agree on a 5 day canoe trip each breakfast you get the fire going for coffee anyways. its convienent to have dished stowed already holding your cooked lunch.
When I'm hunting from base camp, hiking out a mile or more planning to spend the day at my stand, perfect. Cook up grub at camp, go to the stand and have a hot lunch to tide you through till back at camp. Love it.
I have a theory. If you are on a multi-day trip and you want to have a hot meal at lunch you can prep the meal while you make breakfast, seal it up and have lunch when the time comes. That makes sense to me and I think it would be welcome if you like cool weather camping.
Thanks for another great review.
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save some daylight on the Run, or a Hot drink to go. chicken soup powder in the Lid and im ready to go.
I use a thermos and a Cook Set with this i think I will save wight.
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"Thermal cooking is awesome" Most people just completely missed this point - with the exception of Silhouette Park Farm. This Stanley Cooking System (not food system) is very energy efficient (always a bonus when living off grid). Just bring contents to boil and then seal in the vacuum flask to slow cook until required. Wake up to a hot breakfast, or prepare an evening stew earlier in the day. Would I use it for hiking/back-packing? No I agree with Donny here, but would I use it at base camp or in my vehicle? Yes, definitely
Use mine weekly. I've cooked with it, cooked in it. It has kept soups warm for up to 10hrs. one of the best piece's of kit I've purchased in years.
Been using thermos for winter camping since the 60's. Due to cold temp s and limited daylight. Cook supper at lunch time, and breakfast at supper time or before turning in for the night. I hadn't seen that configuration before at my Wal-mart. I use the drinking cup as my measure for the pot. Thanks for the review.
Ever hear of thermal cooking? Bring water to the boil. Pour into the vacuum bottles Bring temperature of vacuum bottle up. Then start to cook a meal in pan that requires an hour or so of cooking. Pour out hot water and pour in simmering food, cap it off and food will continue to cook in this device.
This work for foods such as stews and whole oats. Look up Shuttle Chef. My guess is that this device is designed to do the same thing at a fraction of the cost and without the bulk.
Me Me Thank you! I will check that out.
Not just thermal cooking. Rice or pasta needs only 1/2 the fuel if you let it thermsl cook, but when fuel is short this would sllow you to boil water once, make hot (breakfast?) and put away the hot dinner to slow cook. Really cut fown uour fuel needs.
@@lyfandeth good idea 💡
That is great, however they marketed this as a different way to get people to impulse purchase.
Thermal cooking is awesome. Cook a stew in the pot. Quickly cook up the ingredients at breakfast time, put them in the pot hot. Then by dinner time it will be tender and amazing. I also put in a couple of small bread dumplings to cook all day. One fire two meals.
It’s basically a mini version of the dream pot cooking it’s self all day.
Agree. What is a bread dumpling? Sounds interesting
@@jackieflynt995 it’s a simple bread dough and you cook it in a stew. Everyone makes them different but it’s awesome in a stew
@@SilhouetteParkFarm ...solike a dumpling? They are delicious. Thankyou for explaining.
You could also cook a meal in the evening and store it hot while you sleep then wake up to hot already prepared breakfast.
***** thanks.
Been thinking the same, especially if I have to get up around 04.30-05:00 and get a move on ASAP, which I have done before.
After your outdoor coffee and some soup meal sleep with it on a cold night might keep you warm
@@fortitude9932 if it kept you warm then its not a very good thermos.
It's alot of excess weight to carry around I can't see it,unless like you said for a day hike but still to heavy! I'd rather cook on an alcohol stove or something like that. It gives you more options. In my opinion
I could see carrying fresh meat, or frozen meat in it. I could see keeping something cold rather than hot. Great review, very informative.
One fire=two hot meals. The math works for me.
sound logic!
Must of the time when I am camping I do prefer to make a small fire for cooking. When hiking the small stove is the preferred option
I am with Forthwith Tx. Cook my breakfast then lunch or dinner and be on my way with a meal ready to be eaten.
Could even make a hot drink for later, then the food. It's a great idea.
A good use for this would be as a "luxury/(heavy) item" for an ultralight backpacking scenario with multiple full days worth of walking and no time to set up a quick camp. I don't recommend using the vacuum container on the fire because it's probably a double wall which is dangerous to heat directly.
The idea is heat the water, put your dehydrated food in the thermos and add the hot water. The thermos contains the heat and cooks the food while not wasting fuel. "Mountain" is in the name because water evaporates at altitude and wastes huge amounts of heat/ fuel.
It's a great item when I was 26 yrs old and thinking a normal pack weight 90+ lbs ha ha! 40 yrs later still great if I had a mule when I hiked.....I wonder make that two mules, great video and it nice if I'm own my UTV but good imformative and smart video. Thanks!
As one other comment mentioned, there is such a thing as thermal cooking.
If you boil extra water during a meal, you can put the ingredients for your next meal in the container along with the right amount of hot water, and it will cook your next meal as you hike or sleep.
For backpacking, it makes for quicker/easier lunch breaks, or lets you pack up faster in the morning. It works pretty well, you still get a hot meal but without having to take the time to cook it. However, you can purchase much lighter containers that are the exact size you need for that purpose. The Stanley looks huge and all that extra plastic adds unnecessary weight.
Yeah it looks like it’s for thermal cooking mate, I’ve just been doing some experimenting with it and think I will be using it a lot this year, I do a lot of motorcycle camping and think this will be very useful to me, get up in a morning, quickly chop some potatoes carrots and broccoli, drop them in the pan with a stock cube and bring to boil, poor in flask, pack your stuff away, set off on your day’s journey with your food cooking in the flask as you are riding around, when you stop for dinner you’ve got a really nice stew waiting for you and you haven’t used a full canister of gas to cook it, also makes great rice pudding and I have a flask full of semolina pudding sat right next to me as I type this, should be ready in an hours time, gunna rip the lid off a portion of strawberry jam and drop it in there👍🏻 😆 could also use it for pasta bolognaise, spaghetti etc anything that requires a bit of gas to cook, this system will be useful 👍🏻
06:50 you’ve got it right there. Excellent bit of kit for a blue collar worker. And for the office workers, it would save having to fight for fridge space and microwave time.
I think a food thermos is a good alternative to bringing 2 stoves. Then i can boil enough water for maybe some rice and gravy, before i add it all to the food thermos, shake it up really good, and let it prepare itself, while i have the stove free to cook meat. Of course you can just make the meat and rice first, and heat it up in the gravy, but this will take a lot longer than if you can prepare it all simultaneously.
Finally a outdoor enthusiast with the familiar accent! great video my friend very good information thank you sir!
I like the idea of bringing the food in the food jar- getting to my location & if I stay longer then expected, the food can be reheated.
I can respect that!
I was in Target today and picked Up a Stanley 24 oz. Camp Cook & Cup Set on Clearance from $ 15.19 Marked Down to $ 7.58 ..... Then at the Check out , it Rang Up at $ 4.55 with .27 cents tax , Grand total $ 4.82 Well I am Cool With That !! Add that to my Pack of Neat Stuff . Cheers to all Y'all Happy Campers !!
Somethings are more for casual camping not necessarily backpacking, scouting, or hunting. Food for thought.
Thanks for this video. Subscribed.
One could boil water for breakfast, plus enough to cook a freeze-dried meal, put the freeze-dried meal (plus boiling water) into the thermos, then eat breakfast, break camp, start hiking, and enjoy a hot lunch on a cold day on the trail with no need to break out the stove.
Just sit down, open the thermos, eat, and get back on the trail.
Whether the convenience justifies the weight is someone else's call.
Just my two cents...
I use mine for freeze dried meals when car camping. Boil the water, add to food in thermos and stir, replace lid and let soak while you continue what ever other camp activities you are doing. Keeps the food hot if you're not going to get back to it right away.
It’s good for a day pack kit or when you’re driving in your pickup truck to go fishing.
Thank you for the video.
I didn’t know Stanley made a gadget for truck drivers.
During my conscription service we got issued a 1,2l food/drink thermos so that on the field exercises if needed, we could get given our meals straight in to our thermoses and then continue in to the "operation area", and enjoy our hot meals without the need for the cumbersome food logistics to follow up during an offense or anything.
Another use for a thermos system like in the video could be to fill it with hot water at a basecamp, then use the hot water for a trekking meal and while waiting for the trekking meal to get good, boil more water in the pot. This way you would make the whole process a lot faster. We did that in our NCO training with our trangias and thermoses, (Although usually we carried one trangia per 3 soldiers, 1 person carried trangia and 2 persons had extra fuel for it.) when we were eating trekking meals that we got in our combat rations. So, I could in a way see this as a one mans substitute for the thermos/trangia combination that we carried. Just add a small gas stove and you'd be ready to rock!
These comments like yours have been very educational for me. Great viewers like yourself have taught me a great deal about thermos cooking/ meal rehydration. Thank you brother!
Got mine for work, got soup always makes a sandwich better. Thx for the vid waiting on Amazon to deliver mine
Looks interesting, thanks for the review. I like your idea of carrying your favorite hot dish and making tea or coffee on location.
You can also make a two person meal and eat some now and save some for later. Certainly something different. Thank you for sharing.
I could see this being good in fall or winter when it’s cold and you might want to keep something hot and ready but in my opinion I’d use something like this more for my lunch break at work rather than camping
If you pour water from your Nalgene bottle you will know how many ounces of water you pour into the cup.
I have Type 1 Diabetes and I have to keep food in me if I'm hiking, I'd totally use this just like you said, I'd cook my meal in camp and put a second meal in the thermos for a second meal while out on the trail later or cook it at home and take it with me in my day pack.
I wouldn't take it for bushcraft but I am a big hiker and this totally fits the bill for me runnin around in Red River Gorge in my home state of Kentucky.
I can see someone making a meal and eating a serving and keeping the meal hot for future meal times. We used to hike all over the mountain and would have been nice to have made a meal in the morning before breaking camp and heading out to our next location. Downside... eating the same meal all day.
So I have lots of different set ups and use this one as my backpack set up. But your are correct on many items. What I do is only use the pot to boil water or else it’s makes everything dirty and messy when you put the dirty pot back over thermos. Boil the water when you have time pour into the thermos with your dehydrated meal. Then continue on while it cooks your meal then when ready stop and eat. Also I only put food only in the thermos so the cup is always clean for a drink and tea bags go in the storage spot. The pot works good over the fire or stove. I tossed the spork in place for a long handle one
Bring your hot coffee ready to go in the thermos, drink it all morning. Rinse out the thermos at lunchtime. Then use the pot to heat up water to make something like hot noodle soup in the thermos. Thermos keeps it hot while you're eating. Too bad the lining of the lid of the thermos is plastic, otherwise, it could have been used as a lid for the pot. If it was silicone, it would have been fine. I don't know if this needed a "wtf" though.
Love it! Great for hicking or camping, and an emergency situation. Store a hot meal for later.
Hikers....
Base camp cook and take it on the trail.
Hunting too.
You can just cook in the normal thermos too without the extra pot.
I could see this being great for hot cereal and make the coffee like you suggested.
Useful for hiking over a few days , when you get up in the morning and make breakfast , you could also make your lunch (or even just not coffee) to carry , then at lunchtime , rather than getting your cook gear going , just eat from the vacuum part , then hike to your next camp ... When you think about it , it's useful
If you're heading to the duck blind or deer stand for the day it's a good way to take your lunch and have hot, instant coffee/hot chocolate, etc. (keep the powder in the storage in the cap you showed) to go with your hot soup or stew and that's about it.
To serve as a multi-purpose camp/bushcraft kit, I fully agree. No bueno. That said, seems stout and will probably serve it's purpose for a long time.
Why not just use a regular thermos? Why would you need to bring a pot with you to a deer stand. The question being asked is, "why is this a system that makes sense?" I get wanting hot food in a duck blind or on a deer stand. You can't use the pot in those places (or there is no need for the thermos). So why spend the money for it/why spend the weight for it?
simple answer is you don't need it, but it may be a nice luxury. weight isn't as significant when you you are sitting all day in a blind.
Everett Vinzant ... Bring your preferred hot drink, to sip on throughout the day.
Pot is to reheat it if you need to, or to cook some food.
Cook your Lunch. Leftovers go into Thermos. You now have dinner too...
I ment to add i was reading a older hunting book on moose hunting (Jack Oconner) I think and he said to his woods guide it was time for coffee the guide thought it would be to hard to make coffee in the rain and wet woods. Well the hunter pulled a thermos of hot coffee out of his pak and they had a cup of coffee. The Indian guide looked the thermos all over and Jack explained it would keep things hot and cold. The guide looked at Jack and asked how does it know. Jack gave him the thermos as a tip t the end of the hunt some 20 years later Jack went back and the guide was still careing the same thermos
+cabotbluegill Now that's a great story brother!
As noted below one fire = two hot meals, especially hiking, cook dinner and breakfast, wake up to hot meal in the morning with out effort or fire, good way to start and get energized, or cook breakfast and dinner, that way you have a hot meal to eat before you build your nights shelter, and you have more time and energy to build a better shelter
Personally, I could see having one of these in my car/truck kit. Not that I'll run out and buy one, but it does have some versatility. Not something I would normally carry in a pack, though. That said, Stanley DOES make some durable, good stuff ... and I do own and use some of their products.
I like the possibilities. My thought: boil water, add rice or pasta, let soak as you travel. Cook in AM, have hot lunch without stopping to cook.
Yes, stainless is heavy. Maybe try a plastic version and use to supplement canteen cup cooking. Need a true leak right seal. Insulated Tupperware, so to speak.
wow you really don't no shit about thermoses
Thanks for making this video. 6 years ago when you made it, for seeing today’s political and world turmoil was harder. You day pack idea is excellent. My need will be for a more dire situation. I looking for something similar to store a warm meal if you need to be on the move. The idea is to cook once and eat twice. Peace
Thanks for introducing us to this here jar of the stanley! Have a good'nnn
+geargriden19 Lol! Thanks brother!
Aloha! Great vid! Thanks. I knew I couldn't be the only one who initially thought "WTF" when I picked this up. The weight prohibits it from being used on long trips on foot. Like you said, I use it to take lunch to work, along with a Hydroflask of coffee.
Lookin' for the follow up.Hope you and your family have a Big Christmas and a safe and outdoors New Year. ZZ.
Thoughtful critique, thanks.
+Seamus3051 Thank you!
My pleasure, we learn when we share knowledge and experience..be well and stay strong.
If it would work as a slow cooker?
I use a insulated Mr Bento jug for day trip bike trips, along with a insulated thermos cup for coffee and/or cool insulated jug for ice. Fix it, toss it in the trailer, ride, eat, ride back.
You can slow cook with thermos
you nailed it. that was what i thought right off the bat. bring a meal and make coffee on sight.
I often don't finish an entire mountain house. Might be nice for the second serving.
I hike a lot and can see some situations where cook first eat later might be handy. Torrential rain on the way and no way to cook a hot meal. Nothing like a hot meal to warm the core. Nice review!
when I buy ready to make meals like mountain house, or mountain aire, I try to get the larger "two portion" size. One, because I may be making a meal for my wife and me while on an outing. 2nd and most important, if I'm trying to be highly mobile like in a SHTF situation, now I only have to stop one time to prepare my meal, I get to stash the second half in the thermos to eat a second warm meal later as i stay on the move. I have the other Stanley cook sets as well and couldn't believe my good luck when I found this new kit. I agree, Volume marks like on their other kits would have been helpful, but it's Dremel time till that day. Also that handle does get too hot on an open flame to touch bare handed. Thanks for the Vid work Donny, just now aware of you for the first time, looking forward to seeing more of your impressions.
rjr49631 Thanks brother! I can truly see your side of this. Seems reasonable to me!
Good job with the vid. To sum it up, equipment"s usage or application is just as important to consider as the units quality. it may be built well, but used in the wrong application can make it useless or alternatively considered junk. Thats why it's important that we have people make these videos, to offer perspective and provide realistic application to counter cleaver advertising, that targets genre specific groups. Like with terms ( extreme mountain food system ) for only the REAL mountaineers. first thing that comes to mind is weight. I live in Alaska and when out cruising friends trap lines and or clearing trails for days on end in snow shoes. Weight becomes the first, middle, and last thing you consider. Everything is about weight. Snow shoe 12 miles a day and you will understand. I think your analysis is right on as to the products use, a good day rig or if you have an atv or other means to carry that doesn't impact your ability to be mobile. For me I carry the a small jet boil and keep the fuel can inside my arctic gear. I carry light dry foods and never cook to much, just enough to keep the hunger at bay ( don't want to be bogged down with to much in the tank). Plus heading out on the trail with a big pot full of food ads a lot of weight, rather than an empty vessel and then stopping to quickly cook. I do however carry a small insulated bladder thermos filled with chicken broth.....it's warm, helps to replenish the salts lost during heavy exerting when clearing trails, also helps to keep the core warm verses cold water for when the temps drop to that minus 45. Any way, I am rambling now, keep post vids, they are helpful.
Sensible assessment. Thanks for the review.
thank you for your honesty
WALT ASKEW Thank you for watching Walt!
Or.... You camp for the night. You get up in the morning and cook your breakfast, clean up and cook lunch to pack away for later. That way, if you're hiking and you want to cover a lot of ground, you don't have to take time to cook lunch. Just eat and go. I would think you could put that one together. You're better than that.
In all honesty, at the time I made this video, I knew nothing of thermos cooking. I still think it's bulky and heavy, but I certainly see it's validity in certain scenarios.
I can see that as a decent cold weather option. I agree with you about not good for bushcraft.
Great to take to work or car camping.
I watched this during a break at work, so I don't know if this was addressed in the comments or not (I didn't have time to read them all): this might work if you are on a multi-day hunt with a base camp. Cook and eat your breakfast like normal and prepare a hot lunch with this at the same time so that you don't have to worry about heating anything while you are on the hunt. I'd have to spend some time with it to see if it would work like that, but its just a thought.
Jamaison Moore Not a bad idea! Thanks for watching!
I was thinking of using it when on a long distance fishing trip. Make a hot meal at the base camp and take it for a shore lunch. Use the pot to make coffee and eat right out of the thermos. I don't see it as a work place food system, most businesses have microwaves to reheat food making the thermos unnecessary.
It's a prototype. Would be cool to see an all in 1 system you can cook with and store as well and a bowl and pan that fit in an enclosing foldable structure would be great for hiker/backpacker/all.
A really good review and I totally agree with your comments
a lot of hikers when they stopped for lunch like to take all the dry ingredients for their dinner and throw it into a freezer bag with hot water and then put it into a insulated pouch then throw it back in their pack so at the end of the day when they're done hating their dinner is already done I see this being useful in that kind of situation just throw your ingredients in it was some hot water and then by the time you stop for your next meal it's ready to eat and hot
I could live with just the thermostat really. Cook a big batch of whatever, eat half, stick the rest in the thermostat and go on. The pot is cool, but I'm not convinced it's big enough for what I envision.
Cook a meal at base camp to cary on a fishing- etc side trip or a covert or time limited scouting foray...
Tree, land, or duck hunting blind with provided warm food and drink. Can put between legs to keep warm, and as a hand warmer.
John Lord Very good idea John! Thanks brother!
What would make sense to me, is that during a hike or hunt prepare meal out in the "woods" in the removable boiling container. Then place contents into thermos to be consumed over a multi hour period/ not all at once.
Maybe cook lunch when you're making your breakfast or coffee? Carry it around til lunch and have a hot(ish) meal midday? Or cook at lunch and have a hot dinner to save some time when making camp for the night?
This would be good for multi day trips in cold climates. heat up soup or coffee/tea, and be able to sip on it all day to keep warm as well as hydrated. It might not be the first thing I grab, but I do see the merits, and if I owned one, it might change my mind...
How about taking that kit with you, adding a dehydrated meal product to the thermos, fill it with water you just boiled in the pot, seal the lid and let it cook. While it's steeping boil up some more water and have coffee with your meal. Just a thought. Nice review.
I have one and think it's good if you have one fire, cook your meal then while the fire is hot cook another so and store it in the vacuum container, then later in the day you have a hot meal available without having to start up a fire again. It will not suit everyone but it does have some benefits
Yeah that is interesting. It is like a spin on the age old thermos stanley has made for years but with a pot and spork attached. Interesting.
Maybe a nice thing for a hunter to bring a hot meal in the woods ready to go and then have the option to heat up more as the day goes on....or in my neck of the woods it would be good for ice fishing!
Hope you guys have a Merry Christmas my fine Southern Brothah!
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+Windham Woodcraft Thank you my Maine Man Chris! Yeah man, it's kinda funky but strangely enough, has some real possibilities. I hope you fine cabin folk have the absolute best Christmas ever! ROCK ON BROTHER!!!
Because of weight, I had a similar thought. A hunter working from a base camp where there is a fire or a wood stove. Take a hot lunch along to the tree stand or blind. Or if they want an early start, fix supper and then cook breakfast oatmeal or whatever and have a hot breakfast perhaps cooking that lunch while you finish the oatmeal. But the idea is someone who is not walking around or staying in one place all day but has two stationary locations and at least one location where a fire or stove would be inconvenient or give away your position.
I'm on the fence On this one . The use I can see for me is making coffee in the morning over the fire, and one cup is never enough for me, so I'd pour the remainder into that thermos to bring me with on a morning scout. Heck I'd probably brew up an additional pot's worth while drinking the first batch, just to make sure I had that thermos full of black gold. Honestly tho, I'm probably gonna stick to my Zebra billycan, and my old school, full size Stanley thermos. Like ya said tho, another option. And we all love our gear options. God bless ya all.
If it's a food that requires soaking in hot water it would more than replace a cozy. So boil your water and pour it in with the dehydrated food. You do have a point of heating up water, pour it in and heat up more water.
jmtnvalley Very good advice good sir!
As you stated Donny great for a day pack, a Mountain house brand. I never seen this, before. I have used Stanley products before in Combat.
Danny-seems to me it would be nice to carry meat to the woods and hold it for 10-15 hours, if frozen. So you could have fresh meat the following day.. Bob
As some others have said, the only redeeming version of Stanley's concept of use is that it would be a nice way to rehydrate meals, especially in the winter.
Rob Stewart I agree Rob. Thanks man!
"You’re a go-getter, itching to hit the trails with only what you can carry by your side, nothing bulky weighing you down. You don’t have the time or the space for a whole fancy cookware set, pots and pans clattering around as you show the great outdoors who’s boss. We gotcha, bud. This all-in-one system has everything you need to cook, store and eat a tasty and nourishing meal on the go. Sturdy enough to stand up to a butane torch or campfire, compact enough to toss in your bag until you need it. Everything you need, nothing you don’t." -Stanley (Mountain Vacuum Food System)
Lol, all you had to do was read the description for the product to know what they were thinking. This isnt for prepping or survival. This is for weekend campers and day hikers who want the ability to keep food either hot or cold for extended periods (13 hours hot, 11 hours cold). The Cook pot acts as a third layer of insulation. Helping to keep the temp consistent and dissipation low. This is for people who carry all of their own food. Dont finish all you cook? No worries, just store in jar and have up to 13 hours of it still being warm. As other commenters have pointed out and even Stanley points out you can keep food cold but in terms of food preservation it would be kind of pointless to use this for prolonged periods with the hopes of, say.. Getting you through winter. Pure novelty, but still cool nonetheless.
3 hot meals one fire. I actually bought a small wide mouth thermos to bring along with me for exactly this purpose. I can eat a hot meal at home in the morning, lunch time I will have a hot meal in the thermos towards late afternoon I will cook food and then put the rest in the thermos for later. You can go all day one fire. Saves lots of fuel and fires. People working in the field or bush don't need a packsac full of gear so this is most likely designed for them
I think we're this would be handy is when out camping on the river fishing or hunting . especially in the winter before leaving camp make hot lunch to eat on boat great review thanks.
I would take this to work with me since I can't leave my job location for my whole shift. Cool option
I could see it being of good use for winter hiking/camping.
Maybe Stanley has a point, you cook your meal and eat it. Then you cook the next meal and take it with you for the next time you want to eat but you have no option to cook because of the weather ,time etc. Not my kind of kit though.
Thanks for sharing.
+Martin Outdoors Yes sir Martin, I totally get where you're coming from. It all boils down to personal preferences.
I would find it useful for when I am out in the snow. I usually find myself needing a meal halfway through the night. I could cook my meal as a double serve eat half out the other half in the jar. Then when I wake up with the hunger I am a screw lid away. At the moment I use a stanly thermos jar for this purpose.
Hahaha..love your WTF intro....LMAO
Stay on target sir....you keep going out of frame ...lloll..
I bought one...and agree, good for making oats, and day hiking...keeping the brew warm....kinda bulky though , but tough .
thumbs up
You mentioned you didn't know how many ounces it holds/cooks. It's a 20 0unce vacuum container and 20 0unce cook pot, it is printed on the bottom of both container bottoms, both the vacuum insulated bottle and the cook pot are clearly labeled with product information. It is likely printed on both bottoms because with use the cook pot bottom with darken (carbon black) so the information is redundant on the vacuum bottle bottom.The biggest difference in information given is that the cook pot is dishwasher safe, the thermos is hand clean only. The thermos seal plug has a small dry storage area for spices and such on top of it, the green rubber rim pulls up. Hope this helps and have a good day.
Many people cold soak their food. This means they don’t have to carry around a stove and fuel. With this I could see myself boiling water over the fire or with a pocket stove then hot soaking my food while I attend to camp chores. Wastes less fuel as the contents of the thermos cook and stay hot.
I think you're spot on with how most people would use it. One of my favorite things to do when I'm out in the woods is cook over a fire, so it wouldn't be good in that sense. It could be a good option for a TH-camr or photographer that is going out to get some outdoor footage and would like a warm meal without having to spend the time cooking while they're out there.
+Country Prepper Exactly CP! I completely agree brother! For certain situations, it will be a welcomed kit addition. Thank you good brother!
Yeah, I think too this was just a wild pitch from Stanley :-) Cheers, Marc
Nice one brother!
I agree that the name makes very little sense. ?!?!
It seems best suited to car camping and work lunches.
I'd also agree with what Mart said, frozen foods kept that way.
Great video as always brother.
Stay sexy!
Be well
Craig
+Forestwalker111 Don't Tell Mart I said this but he is a genius! Thanks Craig, and Merry Christmas brother!
Maybe for the work place, or a picnic. Just not for camping, bushcraft, or the bug-out bag.
Even though this video was done 4 years ago all the Stanley cup sets that I seen that were for backpacking I'll bet you a lot of them would Nestle together and make a good cook set to take out when your backpacking or hiking or Bushcraft or survival because you got a lot of them out there that Stanley makes and yeah the stuff maybe heavy but it'll last a lifetime so that's just a thought you know combine a few of the pots together and see if it'll all fit if it all fits together then you have a different sizes of pots to cook different stuff in and if you're smart and have canteens you know one quart canteens we canteen cups there's what you drink with and if you got a mess kit a military style Miss kit US military style there's your eating tray and all that he'll just takes a common sense in a little trickery to figure it all out
You are absolutely correct Dale! I often combine Stanley and others together. A cooking set is like clothing. You dress up or pack up for the trip. If you're going to be out a while with multiple people, pack for that if you're going alone for a night, you don't need as much. You know what I mean?
that would b handy for a quick hunting trip
Build fire at night, cook meal, eat. Cook breakfast, store. Hot breakfast in morning no need to build fire.
Make hot food in the morning, strike camp. Eat at lunchtime, or when you reach next campsite, and you have hot food before your fire is stabilised or camp set up.
Is there any chance to get one now? I'm from Poland and i have very big problem to buy exacly this model.
Totally agree. However, you hit the nail on the head when you mentioned dehydrated meals. You could let food rehydrate in the thermos, but reflectix pouches work just as well for that and basically weigh nothing, as opposed to that. I just wouldn't buy it. Thanks for sharing so we don't have to.
Sinfonian Barelytone I totally understand good brother! Thanks!
I don’t like the plastic spoon and I think your right about the product. Thanks for the video.
HAY BROTHER UNCLEDOUG SAYS YOU ARE RIGHT SPOT ON !!!!! GOT ONE WAY TO HEAVY !! BUT AS ALWAYS STANLEY'S BUILD IS THE BOMB !!! IT'S BUILT LIKE A TANK DAY BAG / OR VAN CAMPING !!
Doug Harker Right on brother Doug!
don't combine products. just take a separately made thermos for taking with you backpacking to save weight on fuel and time on fire making, use the hot water to cook your food without flaming up. Or use a cooking system. cook your stuff on the fly.
this may be a good way to sneak in some storage when already cooking, that may negate necessity of cooking as often, in this niche I don't mind the premise, could be useful if you plan on cooking less often, like for doing a speed hike through record times from 3-6 days goal time (a typically 10-20 day long hike.)
personally I prefer making it through with a larger thermos. I like the 2 QUART Quadvac stanley tumbler. very good stuff Stanley makes.
Very well said buddy! I agree 👍
I use that for thermos cooking, like a slow cooker, hot water and dehydrated veggiw rice meat put in after breakfast throw it in a backpack. Let it cook until lunch time.. wash and repeat for dinner... and again for oats for next morning. With it's weight would work better for truckers or car travelers/campers, though you never told us the exact weight, it might be worth its weight if it's the only cooking unit you carry, and since you are saving on tons of fuel that you dont have to carry, it might even out.