What is needed to cook and eat depends, like so much else, on all sorts of things. except outdoor kitchen as we wrote about here, a little or a lot of accessories are needed.
How much you think you need (want) can vary a lot like most things.
Minimal and light kitchen equipment
An example of minimal kitchen and dining equipment has a friend who paddled more and longer than most others who often made do with a knife, wooden spoon-like mojeng, small cutting board and one (1) small titanium pan. Worked for cooking and eating. The wooden spoon functioned as both a butter knife, spatula, stirring spoon, etc. and the saucepan as a plate. Simple and effective and worked for many years and on up to a month-long paddling trips. Total weight of maybe half a kilo.
Fill the kayak with queue stuff
At the other end, you can of course bring double or triple kitchens or perhaps two-burner kitchen options, a couple of knives, deep and flat plates, dessert bowls, salad bowls, a couple of cutting boards, frying pans, various cutlery, whisks, frying pans, battery-powered kitchen gadgets, baking ovens, grills, wine glasses, schnapps glasses, tea mugs, coffee cups, champagne glasses, white wine press, potato press, etc. Everyone of course takes what they like and hopefully use. Total weight of 10-20 kilos and volume that takes half a kayak may not be very common, but it definitely occurs.
We almost always have relatively few kitchen and eating utensils with us as shown below.
Two pots, usually one of barely two liters and one of one and a half litres, are also in there Tage/tamoj as well as some spices, lighters and matches. If we are out by ourselves or want to pack light, we have a kit with one (or two) one liter pots with less tage/tamoj and smaller spice packs. We usually have at least one pot with a not-stick-so-easy coating to be able to fry more easily or in any case wash up easier 🙂 In addition to that often a light titanium pot. Every now and then you get one frying pan join us on our excursions.
For cooking and cooking, we usually carry a classic plate box or lunch box with us, where the lid and bottom function as, each a plate. In the box we have a folding knife (right now Opinel), two spurs/goats. In addition to this, we each have a mug to drink from. Not ultra light but not ultra heavy either. Long enough for us and probably most mills if you don't want to fill in too much.
