Bushcraft Containers: Frying Pan

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A simple titanium plate doubling up as a frying pan.

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are they guys I've been asked a number of questions about a piece of cooking gear I use and specifically this plate just here so this is a life venture titanium plate and they're around about 12 to 15 pounds they're a 2.25 ounces around about 64 grams this is very light weight efficient piece of equipment to carry on you if you don't want to make something or you don't want to sort of substitute any kind of plate made of birch bark for example which can be useful but it does take time to repair so having something on you and you just thank for the day or any prolonged sort of period of time it's very useful but the question I keep getting asked is how do you put the handle on it tops you use it as a frying pan because if you put it in the embers of a fire just like this you're going to burn yourself or make a mess if you try and get it out and it's very very simple and I'll show you how to do it so just looking at this place a little more closely you can see that they've rolled the edge around where the plate is ended where the metals ended they rolled it round like they do on lots of different kind of metal tins and things and that plays a key feature on how this handle really works when you're choosing a piece of wood make sure you don't get anything too soft and you're going for really really soft woods they may have a tendency to burn in the fire even if they're green they'll dry out very quickly and they just won't bite properly on the lip of the frying pan which is the key thing about making this handle

I've got hazel here and Hazel's a great wood to work with and this is green hazel so I've cut it down from life and generally what I do is I use the off cuts of bits of hazel that I'm using to make a camp with to make the handle of the frying pan as opposed to just going out and cutting down a whole limb just to make the handle of the frying pan I'm because it hardly seems worth it in some cases it's a bit unfair on the tree so what you want to do is just take a piece of piece of hazel like this and probably about two centimetres wide or a little bit bigger than your thumb will be absolutely fine and you want to take your saw

you can lock the piece of hazel in between your two legs you can part your legs to stabilize the piece of hazel and then it will lock in place and you can cut in you don't want to go in too far halfway is absolutely fine now what we're going to do is just take the bark away from the end that's going to be in the frying pan simply because we don't want any potential issues with bacteria and things like that and nasties getting into your your pan all day I've never had any issues with that just get sterilized to a degree you just clear away any sort of dirty bits on the end just level it off it should be absolutely fine so you can see the cut just there going in at an angle doesn't have to go in a particularly steep angle that's about 20 degrees 45 might be a little bit better so that's probably a little bit too shy but that's not too bad just take the pan and push it into the notch just like that and then work it in and that's it that's about as complex is just gonna get and what you'll find is the pan won't come out because it locks in to that joint and the weight of the food and everything in it just keeps it actually anchored in that piece of piece of hazel there and if you really want to go the extra mile what you can do is take a small twig for example a green twigs better one that's still alive because obviously it will get burnt very quickly and you can sort of open up the jaw of the frying pan just push the twig in you can see there now that little twigs in there it really locks it in place a little bit better but it isn't exactly necessary I think there are always concerns when you see this or when I let other people use the pan or I'm on a course and they are having to cook their food on it they're concerned that the pan is going to drop out and it never has to date and they've never had any problems with it at all given the design even when the pan is be loaded and you know you're just sitting it on the fire and a good thing about hazel is is when it's on the fire or most words obviously is that all the SAP gets cured out of it because of the heat and it actually grips the pan even more and there's no chance of it coming out so once you've used it on the fire to cook your food and you're sort of done with it a later stage when it's cooled off and you're freeing up the bit of hazel you'll find it's even tighter than when you originally put it on because it's constricted because all the moisture has been drawn out of it because of the heat but um you can put a little point on it and just stand it up in the ground like that

and if you're sort of worried about stirring your food and you're thinking well how do I reach my food I need to move it round just take the bark off another piece of hazel and flatten it off slightly you can sit back from the fire just like this and cook your food and move it around and that's pretty much what I do and you see me do in most videos it just saves you carrying any extra weight really and you've got a very minimal setup you've just got this titanium plate and you can spilled a handle for it when you set up a camp somewhere if you're going to copy some hazel down to make other things out of so I hope that videos answered the question about how to make the handle for the life venture titanium plate it's really easy and it's a fantastic product is given it's very lightweight a 2.25 ounces it's titanium as well I don't really like using aluminium I generally go with stainless steel or titanium and I find to tane iam great obviously because it's lightweight and it's very strong and you don't notice it's there at 2.25 ounces so you know it's worth packing along with the nice and compact and you can cook first sort of to three people with such a small pan depending on what other things you've got going at the same time so you don't always need a gigantic pan to take out with you that weighs a lot but yeah I hope that videos helped and thanks for watching guys and hopefully I'll see you in the next video