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Going camping? Like to eat something a little better than a can of cold baked beans? You could take along the MSR Flex 4, a set of utensils which packs up into a single saucepan and weighs just 3 lbs 10.8 oz. The picture shows the kit in its before and after states, and consists of plastic plates and storage containers and a couple of pots, in 5.3 and 3.2 liter sizes. Those storage cans can also work as dividers letting you cook several things together in the same pan.
The saucepans are both aluminum and have a non-stick coating for easy campsite cleaning, and the big one has a clip to keep the lid on. I could have done with this at the first and last music festival I ever went to. I tried to travel light, but you can probably guess at how much kit I was carrying just by the fact that I took two kinds of salt with me (a jar of Malden sea-salt and a pack of regular). The most useful thing I took? Two bottles of overproof rum. $160.
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