In this series of projects, we try to use items on the snow that seem to make snowy mountain time and skiing comfortable and enjoyable, and try to verify how it actually works, and report from the user's point of view. This time we will pick up "high-spec magic bottle water bottle". The STEEP editorial department took this to the high season backcountry.
What about lunch in the backcountry?
I am overwhelmingly a fan of making cup noodles with hot water in a thermos bottle.
Lunch while enjoying the superb view in a place that can only be reached on foot.
This guy is exceptional. In my case, Cup Noodles on the mountain. Seriously, I wonder why it's so good to eat on the mountain. I'm sure there are people who feel the same way. If the weather is good even in winter, having lunch on top of the mountain feels really good.
Speaking of lunch in the backcountry area, it is natural to bring nuts, bars, bananas, etc., or bring rice balls and bread, and drink tea or soup with water or hot water. However, I am overwhelmingly a fan of making cup noodles with hot water from a thermos bottle. Warm noodles on a cold mountain feel even more delicious than in summer.
because, but
Of course, if you want to enjoy hot water without fail even on the mountain, you should definitely use a stove + gas can + pot, and water (well, you can boil the snow around there, but that would take a lot of time). right.
In fact, sometimes I see a brave person making a snow table and a bench with a shovel and having a hearty pottery lunch using a stove. It looks like a lot of fun, but this makes the luggage heavy and bulky, and it takes a long time to boil the water. Also, depending on the weather, you may not be able to use it.
On the other hand, a magic bottle can be taken out immediately when you want it and can be used immediately. The advantage is that it is not bulky or heavy. Really easy. However, there seem to be many people who doubt that ``the thermos bottle's hot water has a weak heat-retaining ability, so you can't make cup noodles.''
So, I filled four thermos flasks with hot water and took them out to the snowy mountains to see how long they could stay hot and how long they could make cup noodles. Verification was conducted in the side country area from Niseko Grand Hirafu. Let's introduce the results along with a photo of the blissful lunchtime in the snowy mountains.
How hot can a thermos keep temperature?
Please take a look at the table below.
(Enlarge by all means) Four thermos bottles, each weight and temperature inside the water bottle are like this. After pouring hot water in the morning and putting it in a normal backpack, this is the temperature after carrying it around for 6 hours. (Outside temperature is around -8 degrees)
*The heat retention effect indicated by the manufacturer is for hot water at room temperature of 20°C and 95°C.
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Outside temperature at the time of this verification: around -8 Personal equipment purchased around the age
In conclusion, both the Thermos bottle and Montbell that I brought this time kept the heat retention of nearly 90 degrees Celsius, which is necessary for making cup noodles, even after 6 hours!
Let me show you the verification process
The flow of the day when I went out to the backcountry from Niseko Grand Hirafu was like this.
AM7:00 Boil water in an electric kettle and put it in a water bottle
Verification starts at 7am. Boil water in an electric kettle and pour it into a thermos flask. At this time, there is a little trick to increase the heat retention effect.
Tip 1 : First, add a little hot water and turn it evenly to warm the inside of the stainless steel.
Once you throw away the hot water and add boiled water, the heat will be much different. Tip 2 : Pour hot water into the pan so that there is no gap inside the water bottle. If there is a gap, the hot water will sway inside while you are carrying it, and the heat retaining power will decrease.
AM 8:30 Let's go to the snow, outside temperature is -8 degrees!
PM13:00 Lunch on the mountain
After hiking and skiing for a while in the morning, lunch time arrived. Immediately measure the temperature in the water bottle. First, I measured it with a Montbell Alpine Thermo Bottle 700mm.
The temperature of the water bottle is about 84 degrees. The temperature has dropped by about 9 degrees, but it's still hot enough to be used for noodles. Lunch spot environment with a temperature of minus 7 degrees and a snow temperature of minus 0.3 degrees. The noodles look like you can see (bottom photo). A little longer than 3 minutes waiting time is just right. The soup is hot and warms the body.
By the way, the 500mm capacity is for one person who makes cup noodles and enjoys tea or coffee with the remaining hot water (about 150mm). 750mm is just the right size for two servings of noodles. The large-capacity 900mm is often used by guides. Occasionally I see him serving warm tea to his guests.
By the way, many advanced climbers call high-spec thermos flasks Termos. This is because of the remnants of the time when reliable thermos bottles were called "Thermos", the name of the manufacturer, in the early days of thermos bottles. In English it is "Thermos" and in German it is "Thermos". The English reading is "Thermos". Termos = Thermos.
After returning from the mountains, take your temperature again in your room.
More than half of the hot water was gone, and the temperature was kept at 67.3°C even though it was in contact with the air in the water bottle. The mug type is 55.2℃.
amazing. It was a surprising verification result.
It used to be such a big load
I used to bring a stove, outdoor gas, and a steel pot (bottom photo), even in winter, to boil water and eat noodles at lunch spots. How about that? After I met the high-spec thermos water bottle, the turn of the stove completely disappeared in the one-day winter mountain.
The above is the verification result and story that the magic bottle water bottle is very good.
If you haven't used it yet, please do.
Photo/Diceman, STEEP Editorial Department Text/Snowman
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