I just got back from a quick overnight camp with my motorcycle. It’s much cooler than truck camping but one must adapt their gear big time.
For truck camping I use a crude bulletproof old school Coleman Dual Fuel single burner camp stove. I also bring my Coleman Dual Fuel Lantern, which is a delightful luxury. For motocamping (and prior to that many years of canoe camping) I nope out from heavy liquid fuel and use lighter (and more high tech) iso-butane canisters. In my case, I use a Jetboil. It’s mostly for boiling water (though I do have a special Jetboil fry pan for fish).
One bummer is that “lightweight trips” a super bright lantern is out of the question. I’ve gotten used to having a stationary lantern around which the campsite seems to orbit. It’s a pleasant way to camp. There are funky little “butane candle” type lanterns by Firemaple. I think they might bridge the gap between LED efficiency and warm flame light… but I don’t own one.
My Jetboil is battered (and not exactly like the modern version in the link) but it’s two decades old. I have an accessory French Press that goes with it. The press and stove combine to make darned good coffee.
All Jet Boils have a removable bottom cup. This can be used for eating but I never needed it for that. It’s mostly to cover the delicate heating fins. My cup is battered nearly to death.
When I first got my 3d Printer I was noodling around making an “improved” cup. (In case you’re missing the idea, I made the red part.)
There’s unused space around the fins in a Jet Boil. I got clever and 3d printed a container to fit in that very specific space.
I used it for coffee!
Cool eh?
My coffee container fits loosely but precisely in the Jetboil base. The red cup goes over everything. I feel like the Jetboil company should already sell an accessory which does precisely that. (I’m not a dumbass, I know to let the heatsink fins cool before putting plastic near them.)
Given the little coffee stash and the ridiculous bright red base, there isn’t a single JetBoil on earth like mine. That’s the kind of obscure utilitarian use for which I bought a 3d printer.
Someday I’ll tweak the design even more. It sounds like a mid-winter project. In the meantime, it’s pretty cool having a bespoke campstove.
A.C.