Occasional Cooking?
 

I'm on the road in South America (Peru now, riding south) and do not carry cooking equipment or food (just a small stash of emergency food). Overall this has been a perfect choice for me, but there are a few places I'm headed that will have to change. Such as the lagunas route from Bolivia (Uyuni) to Chile. This will likely be only for a few days, then weeks or months with no cooking until some other isolated location.

My first thought on this is to make a "tuna can alcohol stove" and buy a cheap 1 liter pot. For food, whatever I can find locally, but likely mostly rice, beans, cans of tuna, spices, and a whatever else I can find. All one-pot meals.

Any wisdom from experienced travelers, either on temporary cooking setups or food to look for?

One of these, Pocket Stove | New products | Wild Stoves a Crusader cup, it's lid and the rest of the space filled with hexamine tabs, a small bottle of meths, tea bags, cuppa soups and sachets of milk stolen from McDonalds lives in an ex-army pouch strapped to my engine bar.

Boils water in 10 minutes on the trangia burner, 11 minutes on hexamine and eventually using sticks. It's fine as a way to get a cuppa in the wilds or avoid dieing if you are out all night, but I wouldn't really consider it cooking.

Andy

get a really cheap screw on burner for a throw away gas canister. The burner will fit in a pocket. makes a quick cup of tea and will simmer better than the most expensive liquid fuel stove.

like this

Campingaz Bleuet Micro Plus Stove: Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Outdoors


I prefer it to my £100+ omnifuel