Patrol Cooking VS Buddy Cooking

[shortridge 184]

Or do a no-cook weekend and ditch the stoves and pots entirely ...

[Mountaineer 13]

Except summer camp, patrol vs individual cooking is a patrol decision. Unless the patrol has members working on TTF then in most cases they always opt to individual cook. On trips we really have more backpacking stoves then we need but the tradeoff is worth it. Individual cooking requires you to plan how you will actually cook your food and then obviously if you dont cook you dont eat (sarcasm theres always enough food to go around and scouts frequently sample what others have made). In an effort to encourage more than just heating water and pouring it in a freeze dried bag occasionally we have cooking contests for best backpacking recipe.

[acco40 95]

Basementdweller - we would do something similar. When "regular" camping, we would cook by patrol most of the time.

 

On backpacking trips, we'd usually carry our own food and sometimes water and team up with a buddy for cooking. Some meals were one person meals but we tended to go with Jet Boil and a good rule of thumb is a one Jet Boil for every two Scouts/Scouters.

 

Now, when we went to Philmont and Double H, the food was in one big bag so essentially, we cooked in as a patrol depending on the size/portion of the food.

 

When we did Gettysburg - a Scouter would go get fast food due time constraints!

[dennis99ss 10]

wow

first time a thread was spun off of me. I don't know if I should feel honored or afraid!!!