the washing up???

[blackfeather]

sooty pans and washing up. hi guys when ive been out and about i always end up with sooty pans etc so before i pack them i end up wahing them till they are soot free. so. who takes their stuff home sooted up.and if you dont does anyone know a way of getting soot off without having to go to the lengths of taking the washing up bowl lol any help guys?

 

[TallMikeM]

used tea bags are pretty good for getting soot of your mess tins (old army trick)

 

[Man of Tanith]

We used to coat the billy cans with washing up liquid before use when i was in the scouts, then when we washed them the soot came off a lot easier

personally now i just put them in a bag to prevent it getting on other kit and rinse at home

 

[Retired Member southey]

I only ever wash the inside, they lie in a bag I made fr them so no need to wash the outside ever.

 

[Teepee]

They get packed in a mesh stuff sack. I never wash the bottom til they hit the sink back home.

 

[Hugo]

I'll have to ask SHMBO, by the time I have had a bath on getting back from camp all my stuff is washed and ready.

 

[ex-member BareThrills]

same here, bung in a stuff sack and only do the insides. I generally try to only use pouch meals when im out and that saves me washing anything apart from my plate and cup

 

[Shewie]

I wipe the bottom on a bit of moss or grass and that's about it, eventually you get a crusty layer which is hard to get off and doesn't muck up everything else.

 

[rik_uk3]

Why bother, just clean the insides and pop in a plastic bag ready for the next trip. Cleaning soot off pans is borderline OCD.

 

[shaggystu]

I'll have to ask SHMBO, by the time I have had a bath on getting back from camp all my stuff is washed and ready.

i believe that's what we refer to as a "keeper" there my friend, well done that man!

 

[bilmo-p5]

...eventually you get a crusty layer which is hard to get off and doesn't muck up everything else.

That's true; you don't need to scrub it back to shiny every time, but you will always get a bit of 'surface sooting', as it were, which wipes off easily enough.

 

[fishfish]

i get the dog to lick the inside and out,comes up quite clean,ready for next time then.

 

[blackfeather]

cheers guys i love the smell of woodsmoke but it tends to find its way in to everything i also know that a blackened layer is good for heat transfer when cooking the coating stuff with washing up liquid works really well on steel not so good with aluminium inho. and the gras / moss one from shewie works so well when you use hexamine going to try the tea bag one next time cheers guys...

 

[Joonsy]

washing up bowl lol

i just clean the inside of my pot and keep pot in bag in rucksack, wash out inside with ash/sand/gravel/tea bags/vegetable matter or what have you.

 

[Squidders]

I just bag mine and clean it when I get home.

 

[Andy BB]

I wash the worst off. Bit of bacon fat and ashes works a treat! (Despite that I'll still bring some washing-up liquid along.......)

 

[Tor helge]

I just clean the inside, and just wipe the worst soot off the bottom of the kettle on some grass or heather. Then I stuff it in a cloth bag (I have made cloth bags for all my cooking pots)

 

[Nigel]

If you want to get them shiny then why not use a Brillo pad.

 

[Lyope]

Cleaning soot off pans is borderline OCD.

That'll be me, then.

Although my partner says I have CDO - it's like OCD, but I'm compelled to rearrange the letters into alphabetical order...

 

[DavidJT]

Just an addition to the "just wipe it off and stuff it in a plastic bag" advice...I have nesting billies and try to put each one in a thin plastic bag, then "nest" them together, so that the soot from the outside of one isn't transfered to the inside of another.
Gets a bit fiddly and messy though.