Orikaso Bowl

As a freezer bag user I do not use a bowl, but the Orikaso Cup is perfect for my morning caffeine and my evening cuppa.

It packs flat and is UL IMHO.

I carry Orikaso bowls when I know I will be sharing food with other hikers in my group. several orikasos take up less weight and volume than titanium of a comparible volume. Of course I could take disposable foam or paper plates but these are more eco friendly. People enjoy trying to figure out how to assemble them, too.

I've had one of these since they first came out, and they are amazing. They don't take up any space, but are still rigid enough for anything. I wouldn't put hot stuff in a freezer bag… but with this it's ok. Not to mention they use non-PVC stuff and offset their carbon emissions. Great products from a great company.

In my opinion, only the bowl is worth it. The cup can only really be used for a cup, and the plate is just a wider bowl. Just get the bowl and use it for plate/cup/bowl in one. Mines the regular size and only 1.1oz.

I have both the new stuff and the older version. The new stuff is lighter…but, I loved the old plate with the snaps. It made a perfect summer cozy for a freezer bag. It folded flat and I could use it as a prep board for making sandwiches, cutting fruit, etc.
Still, the new bowl is nice and also works great as a summer cozy. It gives just enough heat retention and allows you to hold a full freezer bag comfortably.

As with both versions, if you do eat out of them, cleanup is very easy, as the surface is pretty much nonstick.

Now I don't know the exact explainataion of this, nor do I know exactly what your freezer bags are made from… but if you are using hot foods in a plastic bag you are essentially sucking in some great toxins. I certainly would not reccomend it. I think the Orikaso are better because they are non-PVC, but who knows, you can get cancer from everything these days.

I have both the plate and bowl. Increibly easy to clean, very lightweight, and they can be slipped into almost any place in your pack.

Hard to beat

These bowls are good. They make good dip cups. If going ultralight in the spartan/light-tech/share mode espoused on other threads at BPL, they are pretty much ideal.

First they can satisfy multiple functions: bowl, cup, and dip cup, as well as cutting board and pack stiffener. They are high tech and clever, above all.

Second, I don't want to carry one. I want to carry the cookpot and eat out of that and drink out of my 1.25 L Nalgene flat-tech Cantene, using the lid as a sip cup when the drink is too hot to guzzle.

Third, I want my not-so-spartan partner to carry/use the Orikaso bowl, so they feel more civilized, clever, and important becasue we need it as a dip-cup, too.

Not to intrude on the thread but…

->> BRETT did you get your archeryshoppe wool longies? You like?

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/xdpy/forum_thread/4897/index.html

Thanks for the responses. I will be picking them up for my next trip.

>I have both the plate and bowl. Increibly easy to clean, very lightweight, and they can be slipped into almost any place in your pack.

I have the bowl and agree with Mike's comment. However, I quit carrying any servingware except my pot: I eat everything out of that and use it for a cup too.

Andy, to answer the off topic question: FB's are made of food grade materials. There are a number of studies on plastics online you can research. The danger of bags are about the same as Lexan used in bottles. You are not boiling the bags. Freezer bags are microwave usable, which quite often exceed any temperature of water used in the bags when cooking in them on the trail.