Cooking

Cooking to vary the pleasures

Nutrition on treks as in all outdoor sports is extremely important. It allows you to regain strength with often high-calorie and nutritious meals. It's strongly advised not to skip any meals and even to snack in between! For snacks, there's no need to cook. However, at breakfast, lunch or dinner time, cooking allows you to bring variety to your meals. It also allows you to enjoy a good hot meal that will warm you up during your high-altitude bivouacs or during cold seasons.

Current cooking equipment is high-performing. In other words, it's both lightweight so as not to weigh down your rucksack and efficient so as not to waste too much time. Perfect for regaining strength and boosting morale with good hot meals!

Cook set or food container?

A cook set is a small saucepan made for cooking at a bivouac, whilst camping or in your van. Able to be placed on a stove or a wood fire, it's perfect for cooking or heating water for your freeze-dried meals. They're available in all materials. Titanium is a fashionable material for its properties: it's ultra-lightweight and strong.

As for the food container, it can be insulated which proves useful for carrying hot meals. Moreover, it can be used in everyday life for lunch at work. It's a good alternative to the stove-cookset combo for those who don't like cooking.

Wide choice of stoves

To cook with your cook set, there are several options. Make a small fire (which can sometimes be complicated) or opt for a stove. It's simpler and faster. There are numerous stoves:

• Wood-burning stoves: for using small branches or pine cones
• Gas stoves: compact, lightweight and powerful. These are the most used by outdoor enthusiasts
• Alcohol stoves: they work in all weather conditions
• Multi-fuel stoves: also working in all weather conditions, they're also very efficient

We could also have mentioned self-heating systems or solar cookers which are an alternative sometimes sought after by certain enthusiasts.

To learn more about which stove to choose, we recommend reading this guide. You'll know which type of stove is perfectly suited to the use you want to make of it.

Finally, apart from stoves, Freezedried & Co offers a complete range of stove accessories such as gas canisters, tripods, suspension kits and spare parts. A broken stove doesn't necessarily need to be thrown away!

The best brands for outdoor cooking

Sea to Summit, Jetboil, MSR, Goal Zero, Toaks... the most well-known brands are stocked in our online shop. You'll definitely find the right accessory, from the small stove to heat your water for freeze-dried meals to the complete cooking system for your bushcraft outings.