On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:32:13 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wrote:
BJ Conner wrote:
If you got to take meat, make it spam. When your done burn the can in
the fire along with the paper plates you eat it out of.

Please don't "burn" cans in your campfire.....or plastic
or aluminum foil or.....

It's OK to burn a can to remove all the food and grease so
long as you take it out of the cold ashes the next morning
and pack it out with the rest of your garbage.


Indeed. I've camped a lot in bear country (pretty tame bears in most
of MN, though) and I always burn out my cans after opening them and
eating from them. Next morning, I dig through the ashes to find the
cans and lids and put them in the trash. This also lets me know the
fire is absolutely out. Out. Done. Dead. Caveat. If it's a
regular campground where I've got my fire, I use a stick rather than
my hands to dig. It's astounding what folks think is appropriate to
toss into a fire pit. Ugly, too, in a way that's often unsafe and /
or unsanitary.

My food, if I take more than I'll be eating in one night, goes in a
bear canister after being put in baggies.

Bear canisters remove all worries about anything larger than an insect
or a raindrop. Latter can be avoided by turning them upside down.
They make pretty good seating, too.

Now back to the original question: Yes, I've used a little cheap
vacuum packager. Works fine. Never took anything along camping,
though, as I use it for the freezer meats, and sometimes veggies.
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