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JetBoil (PCS) Personal Cooking System, anyone fancy a cuppa ?

Posted: 28 August 2009 Views: 662 One Comment Modified: 29 September 2009 at 3:41 pm
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JetBoil (PCS) Personal Cooking System, anyone fancy a cuppa ?

Description: (From their site) Fortify yourself in a flash with our ultracompact 1 liter unit. Ideal for dehydrated meals, coffee or tea on the go, remote work sites, and emergency kits. Travel light and prep easy. The Personal Cooking System (PCS) is a complete food and beverage multi-tool you can hold in your hand and weighs about a pound.

As seen on the blog: Label : JetBoil

I cook my porridge in the micro. Mix milk and porridge together in a bowl, 1:30, stir, then 30sec extra, then add “flavor”, then eat.

We just got a Jetboil PCS (personal cooking system) and I tested it out this am.

I was sure it would be quite intense heat so I used more water than milk, because milk tend to burn quite fast.

I fired it up and set it at medium blast/heat, the milk/water mix started to steam within seconds. I then added my porridge and continued to stir it. Within 30sec I had nice and thick porridge and after yet 15-20sec it was done.

We used it quite a bit while out hunting for dragons this last weekend. Cooking two cups of tea no problem. Some Pasta’n'Sause wasn’t a problem either and even couscous.

JetBoil (PCS) Personal Cooking System, anyone fancy a cuppa ?

We will probably get the pot support so that we can cook up a storm and invite other for dinner, well cook something that is not just for one person. e.g. a meal not just a snack.

It’s fast and light and fold up to a nice size “tube” which fits just fine into a pannier.

It’s been awhile since I have cooked on a stove, like other stoves this takes a bit of time to get used to. But when you have figured it out it does what it should do.

I like the cleanness of the JetBoil, just simple and solid things. We have cooked food for 3 days on it now and it is still running on the same gas canister.

As of now I have managed to cook on one gas canister. 9 cups of tea, 4 portions of porridge, 4 portions of noodles, 2 portions of Pasta’n'Sause and one lot of couscous.

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Cooking up a storm is now never a problem :)

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  • Here be dragons, Chapter I | woollypigs said:

    [...] were following Stephen Fry? We got up at around 8am and cooked up a storm on our newly acquired Jetboil. The menu was two teas, porridge with raisins and some quick noodles. Nom. After packing up we [...]

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