Alternative to 'pour & store'?

[Bowlin]

Hola,

Continuing on my quest to sort out/ refine my Wildcamp / short trip cooking......I've found that the Poly-Lina 'Pour & Store' bags are very good, they are robust (thick, food-grade plastic), they seal very well and do not seem to 'leech' plastic taste into the food/ water/ contents.

However, they are the wrong shape/ orientation (for me anyways) I wish they did them with the opening on the shorter side, and they are also relatively expensive.

So, can anyone suggest an alternative 'baggie' that can withstand the heat, doesn't leak has 'the correct' orientation and is made of food grade plastic? I've experimented with Asda brand 'zip lock' bags but they proved inadequate for the task.

Could you please let me know what other brands/ bags work?

Cheers
Steve

[GadgetUK437]

Keep an eye out in Lidl for their vacuum sealer, good strong bags and boilable.

[Bowlin]

Ah...will do thanks

[Meadows]

Can you reuse the pour and store? You could cut the side off to eat out of but would need a long spoon.

[Bowlin]

Oh yes I use mine a few times over (eventually they do become discoloured) but because the opening is on the 'long-side' I use a 'normal' length spoon.

[GadgetUK437]

Definitely re-use pour n stores, especially on short trips. I bag everything out anyway. They wash fine, think they are dishwasherable, if that's how you roll.
Are you a long spooner then? Used to ratpacks? I was one of those perverts who opened ratpacks on the "wrong" side, for ease of access with a short spoon (and easier to lick out, when not in mixed company).

[Bowlin]

Me too....but I didn't realise that made me a pervert!! :-)

[Meadows]

Me too...
Long spoon user and not pervert

Sea to Summit long Alphalite for food and a Toaks Ti foldable spork for brews, even a 5ml medicine spoon for fitting in my 350ml mug/pot😊

Pervert...No
Spoon nerd...Maybe?

[craige]

I have sainsburys ones and they are pretty good, much cheaper too. I quite like the shorter wider bags, no food on my hands or folding the bag over to see to the bottom.

[GadgetUK437]

My mission for today:
Grab some of those Sainsburys bags and make a dedicated cozy-pouch with bottom gusset (smirk).

[Bowlin]

I too shall try the Sainsbury's ones on Craige's recommendation (no pressure Craige).

As a cozy-pouch I'm currently using a reflectix envelope which seems to work Ok and only cost me 99p

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shiny-Bubb...uDNZIGX_anLpww

But will probably (i.e. when I get the time) make one from bits of a reflective car-windscreen / sleep mat to see if one material works better than the other. (Unless Gadget does the work for me so that I can shamelessly use his results to make a decision). :-)

Cheers
Steve

[craige]

Ha, I'm sure the cheap bargain stores have similar too, I only have the sainsburys ones is cause I pinched them from my mum.
Reflectix/thermawrap work ok. I wanted to have one that I could fit in my pot so I made one with insulbright covered with ripstop.

I'm pretty sure there have been loads of tests and ccf came out as a much better insulator. Simple and easy to use the reflective stuff though.