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Food & cooking

• On the grounds of safety, as far as possible always cook outside the tent. Stoves on lighting particularly petrol & paraffin can flare up if they haven't been preheated enough. If the weather is bad then sit in the shelter of the awning with the stove just outside within easy reach.
  
   
• Make sure that the stove is on a stable surface, you don't want the stove to fall over with pan of boiling water on it!
  
   
• Stoves are much more efficient if they are shielded from the wind, we use a light weight aluminium sheet wind shield which came with our MSR stove.
  
   
• Make sure that you do your washing up in the evening and get rid of your rubbish, as the smell might attract nocturnal visitors, such as hedgepigs or foxes.
  
   
• Keep food sealed to prevent ants and other insect life from munching on your food. We use one of our Ortlieb rucpacs for food, the roll top closure makes them quite slug and ant proof! Make sure the lid of you milk carton is well closed, as slugs love milk!
  
   
• Don't strain the hot water from pasta etc. directly on to the ground as the heat will kill the grass. Strain the water into something, we have an Ortlieb folding bucket which we put any waste water in. When we've finished the meal all the washing up goes into it and we then take it to the washing up point. The waste water can then be tipped out before adding clean for washing up.

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