tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post3015226084903380392..comments2024-02-11T01:14:21.904-08:00Comments on SURVIVING IN ARGENTINA: EDC: Get yourself a good water bottleFerFALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578136334334588454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-4687401956839076632015-11-13T10:34:08.796-08:002015-11-13T10:34:08.796-08:00Not to push a website, but http://canteenshop.com/...Not to push a website, but http://canteenshop.com/cooking.html has some great options for this, including accessories for the Kleen Kanteen. The wide-mouthed canteen pot (BOT) is nice, but mostly if you're camping and over fire--can't imaging unscrewing it all day. More useful are the Nalgene options. I can recommend getting a squeezable nalgene, which not only negates unscrewing the top, but is more tolerant of hard freeze. These have associated gear like the bag, a cup/pot, stove, lid, but also more useful items like the MSR pump filter or dromedaries that screw on. --We have to be realistic about how likely a fire is in a city or near your car. If you can have open fires, you may be in a Sarajevo situation with water problems beyond what a canteen can solve.<br /><br />The army canteen is also useful, heavy, but durable and has a lot of gear, cups, stoves, lids, bags available, and are better able to be knocked around and forgotten in the back of a truck or under the seat. <br /><br />Although we all love modern kit, it's fragile and expensive, don't overlook reenactment gear from the bronze age to WWI. It's heavy, durable, multi-use, and often better than modern. Wineskins and horn cups and spoons come to mind, although my favorite are corn boilers (lid is required in cold climates) and Squirrel cookers, which is just the short version of a spit. <br /><br />Speaking of wineskins, one of the best water bags is the 5l mylar bags from any box wine. They are sterile, flexible, can freeze, and are free. Keep one under the car's bonnet. They sell bags to sleeve them, but it would be easy to make one yourself from old jeans. Probably could boil water in one as well, using the same principle that lets you boil water in a leaf or cook eggs in a paper bag--the water caps the temperature at 100c. Natives used the same premise to cook soup or boil water in a skin bag over an open fire, but more generally using heated rocks. This would be true of any canteen system: with a little water in the pot/cup, you could heat/unfreeze the water in the bottle. Not a problem in Ireland or Spain, I wager.<br /><br />Anyway, thought you might like the clever offerings from the site.Professor Diabolicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13402375050948458735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-59414903394867852942015-11-03T10:45:19.259-08:002015-11-03T10:45:19.259-08:00Ah, forgot to add - KRU 82 Vodka comes in a steel ...Ah, forgot to add - KRU 82 Vodka comes in a steel bottle container. I don't know the bottles features, but if it is used to store vodka, plain H2O shouldn't hurt it much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-73824209091771265842015-11-03T05:06:52.405-08:002015-11-03T05:06:52.405-08:00Excellent points made. I have a Kleen Kanteen, bu...Excellent points made. I have a Kleen Kanteen, but it seems very one task specific. I like the 1 liter soda bottle, coupled with a large food can DIY cook pot - water sterilizer. I can carry the pair together in a pouch, or separate and use the pot as a container / food carrier too. A rubber band with wrap secures a lid. I also have a smaller metal can for a magazine pouch Bug Out kit I have - very small capacity though, maybe a pint.<br /><br />Our area is flat, but I've read that many don't like chasing round objects down hill so secure those round bottles!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com