[Philmont]: RE: Cooking at Philmont

David DeLano writes...

The moral here is that this was a new technique, it was introduced by a
Ranger, and the crew decided to adopt it, not the advisors. BTW, Jeff Knoll
and I we in separate crews and both of our Rangers introduced the method.

Comment...

I missed that the Rangers were teaching this last year. I wrote an e-mail
last night to the guys handling cooking at the upcoming training weekend
for our Council crews describing the procedure, but recommending only
mentioning this technique while teaching "one-pot". We will change that
now, and teach both.

and...

I don't know if no-pot is a good name. You still use pots to boil the water
and sterilize the dishes, and somewhat for cleanup. But, I also can't come
up with any good, short alternatives.

It's going to be called something. I also thought of "in-your-bowl", but
that's three syllables. Both "one-pot" and "no-pot" refer to the number
of pots that must be cleaned - obviously at least one is needed. And
since water boils faster with smaller ammounts distributed in smaller
pots, "no-pot" will save some time and fuel bringing water to a boil if
two stoves and pots are used where one larger pot (necessary to hold
twelve meals) was used in the past.

- Al Thomson, 726P2
  Troop 236, Schooley's Mountain NJ

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Received on Fri Apr 25 07:40:26 2003