[pct-l] Mountain House #10 tins - breaking them up into zip locks?

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

That is exactly what I do, too. It's so easy and I don't have to  
carry around wet and gross trash. I can reuse my zip-locks, too. I  
barely used any zip-locks on my 2009 trip. Some of them are still in  
use. It also helps keep me hydrated as I have a tendency to not drink  
enough water late in the day.
On Jan 19, 2012, at 9:09 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

>
> Isn't it just easier to use your pot to cook in?  I'd rather wash  
> out a pot
> then try to clean the inside of one of those foil pouches.
>
> Your pot also gets sterilized each time you fire up your stove,  
> whereas the
> foil pouch doesn't.
>
> As for cleaning pots, I scrape as much food as possible with my  
> spoon, add
> water, scrape some more, drink water, repeat until clean.  I keep a  
> bandana
> with my pot for a final wipe of pot and spoon.  The bandanna gets  
> washed in town.
>
> I don't use soap on the pot nor do I throw out the water used to  
> scrape/clean
> in order to practice leave-no-trace where I'm cooking.  Some hikers  
> seem
> to have a hard time with the 'drink the water' but it is exactly  
> what I
> just ate with dinner, just more water, so it doesn't bother me.
>
> Radar