With soap? Without soap? Treated rinse water?

After every meal? Just dinner?

Pot only? Pot and bowl (if used)?

What is your procedure?

I use absolutely no plastic, so I have no grease problems. I wash everything with water (un-treated). I also use untreated water to cookwith, and simply boil my water with the end of my spoon/fork in it before adding food.

I have a tiny little tube (.5oz) of soap that i use to clean things every couple of days. Usually just a rinse is good enough, but sometimes you need that ilttle extra umph. RaginHampsters trick of boiling the fork and spoon is a good idea. Ill have to try it!

Brian

We used all titanium cookware. We just rinsed it out with water after each use, and either dumped or drank the gray water, depending on how chunky it was. Tortillas help to clean out an especailly "saucy" dish really well..mop up and eat what you can.

Since all of my "cooking" seems to be hot water and some other ingredients, I have been storing each meal into heavy duty zip lock bags and adding the water to the bag. Stir it up , let it sit, stir some more, and enjoy.:cool: Since I switched to the stand up freezer bags, I haven't lost a meal yet and the clean up is a breeze, just repack and recycle.:D

Most of the time I would grab some sand or dirt and scrub out the pot and spoon with my hand. Then if need be ,take a little non treated water and rinse.

I typically just rinse with a little of the hot water from dinner, using my finger to get ride of gunk. If things are real bad I'll mix in some sand, resorting to bio-suds if needed.

I too like RH's tip to sanitize my spork in the boiling water before dinner.

Maybe I do things differently. I generally heat up some water and add a few drops of Camp Suds, and use a small sponge scrubber.

I like the dirt idea. Figure you'd kill any bad guys when you boil your next meal.

Typically I use plain water or a bit of whatever I am drinking (Usually cider) and scrub it out with my fingers and drink off the remains. The cider has a bit of astringency to it so tends to help degrease things a bit. Tea and black coffee will also do this. Hot cocoa won't. Boil untreated coocking water good and splash it up on the sides. I dump my entire spoon (lexan) into the boiling water and fish it out with my bare hand (yeah right) I dip one end at a time. Works well. When I cook dehydrated stuff, I use the package to eat out of or I use a seperate plastic bowl (especially useful for winter trips.) As a general rule I carry potato flakes to bulk up overhydrated meals.

When I thru-hiked, I cleaned my pot, lid, water bottles and utensils carefully at every town stop or whenever running water and soap were available. Remember to clean out those bottle threads, especially if you use sugary drink mixes, they breed cooties like mad.