Saturday, December 12, 2015

New camp stove for the river! My review of the Cook Partner.

It's the off season and what better time to get new gear and figure it out. We needed a new camp stove for next summer and after shopping around we chose the Cook Partner four burner break apart from Partner Steel of Pocatello Idaho. 

This four burner break apart stove is made of stainless steel and looks extremely durable. It folds up into the size of a fat briefcase. The hose that connects the stove to the propane tank can easily store inside of the stove. 

With kids school in full swing and not being able to get to the river for just a meal. So, I took the stove to the toughest meal critics I know. I took it to work at the fire station. If you want the most honest and blunt critics stop by your local station. 

I told the guys that I was making breakfast I didn't say how, they were excited to cook outdoors.  First thing I did was to make the meal plan. I wanted to choose a traditional breakfast we would serve on our overnight trips.Large omelettes with peppers, onions, mushrooms, and pepper jack cheese.  To be served with orange crescent roll bacon wrapped French toast. 

After prepping all of the food, I set up the stove. It was easy to break apart and hook the hose up I had it done in two minuets. A lighter was needed to get the flame going as here is no spark started on the stove. Which was easy and no problem to get going. Bacon was tossed into the large 20" lodge cast iron pan. With the bacon going charcoals were started for the Dutch oven to bake the rolls. A few minuets later the bacon was done and the coals warmed up. The crescent rolls were unrolled and rewarded with bacon on the inside, and placed into the Dutch oven. We then got the eggs broken and omlett ingredients diced up. After 15 minuets we pulled the rolls and got everything ready to cook. 
Sine the large cast iron would be on top of each other we are lucky that the stove can easily be taken apart and make a larger cooking area. The hinges that connect the two sides easily slide out when pulled in opposite directions when the stove is half opened. 

The eggs were dumped in with the rolls dipped in egg and vanilla mix for the French toast. 
Hash browns were added at the last minute. 

Once the cooking was all down everyone grabbed a plate. We had plenty of leftovers as I am in the habit of making sure no one goes hungry on my river trips. Dishes were super easy to clean as we had a dish washer and not the river bucket system. But when it came to cleaning up the stove it was a snap. The burners are attached to the grates the he pots rest on. And once they had cooled (ten minuets) we pulled the out and wiped down the inside of the stove and we were clean. The hose was stored away and everything was put away in just seconds. 

The Cook Partner is a great adition to any river kitchen. And we can't wait to make some amazing meals for our guests next summer on the Salmon river. 



Thanks for reading

Zach Mason 
H2O Idaho

Anything for the river you would like to see reviewed please let me know. 


Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Hello!



WOW what a great time of year!  Its the day before thanksgiving, and we have just become official for a rafting company.  My wife and I started this process over one year ago.  There were many ups and downs, and with a strong perseverance we made it.  A conversation that happened up in the mountains of Idaho two summers ago turned into a rafting company.

Right now we are trying to pull together the best guides in Idaho for the 2016 season while putting together some awesome specialty trips, that include a specialty school, a top dutch oven chef, and one of the premier breweries in the north west.

Check us out on the web at www.h2oidaho.com