This is a new piece of kit I got a while back. It is an Eat'n tool from CRK&T. It is a light weight ( 1.5 ounces) combination of spoon, fork, and a few tools combined and made of 3CR13 stainless steel.
It works well for the more mundane things like MREs...
and it comes in handy for tinned foods too, even if the pull tab breaks off.
However, and more importantly to me personally, it also works well with actually cooking and eating "real" foods.
Even when using hot grease that would melt any plastic tool the eat'n tool did great.
The on-board tools are... A Bottle opener for one.
A slotted screw driver
And, rather than just cutting random round holes to reduce the weight of the tool they took the opportunity to make those holes something useful... three sizes of wrenches that could come in handy; 6mm, 8mm, 10mm.
Of these it was the 8mm wrench that really caught my attention from a previous use for a wrench that size at work. An 8mm wrench fits the shaft on the quick-connect coupling I keep in my cordless drill box. So, by that the potential was there for this eat'n tool to also become a handle for a small but diverse tool kit with various types and sizes of bits all in a compact space.
I can have better leverage to tighten or loosen screws, and using the long extension I can reach screws in hard to get to areas
With the socket adapter I can loosen and tighten nuts.
I can put a drill bit in it to bore some small holes. This could come in handy for quietly making screw holes or holes for wire or cordage to make a shelter frame at a time when hammering might not be the best idea.
In testing the steel to see how durable it would be in such use I ran a 3 inch decking screw into a hard Cedar post with no distortion at all as far as I could tell. It's not a very thick steel so I am sure there are limits to what it could take but I am impressed with it so far.
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It works well for the more mundane things like MREs...
and it comes in handy for tinned foods too, even if the pull tab breaks off.
However, and more importantly to me personally, it also works well with actually cooking and eating "real" foods.
Even when using hot grease that would melt any plastic tool the eat'n tool did great.
The on-board tools are... A Bottle opener for one.
A slotted screw driver
And, rather than just cutting random round holes to reduce the weight of the tool they took the opportunity to make those holes something useful... three sizes of wrenches that could come in handy; 6mm, 8mm, 10mm.
Of these it was the 8mm wrench that really caught my attention from a previous use for a wrench that size at work. An 8mm wrench fits the shaft on the quick-connect coupling I keep in my cordless drill box. So, by that the potential was there for this eat'n tool to also become a handle for a small but diverse tool kit with various types and sizes of bits all in a compact space.
I can have better leverage to tighten or loosen screws, and using the long extension I can reach screws in hard to get to areas
With the socket adapter I can loosen and tighten nuts.
I can put a drill bit in it to bore some small holes. This could come in handy for quietly making screw holes or holes for wire or cordage to make a shelter frame at a time when hammering might not be the best idea.
In testing the steel to see how durable it would be in such use I ran a 3 inch decking screw into a hard Cedar post with no distortion at all as far as I could tell. It's not a very thick steel so I am sure there are limits to what it could take but I am impressed with it so far.
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