I have a hard time keeping my backpacking spoon or spork clean between meals because I store it in my Ursack or bear canister, which contains all my food and garbage, as well as the dirt and duff that clings to my cooking gear and other smellables. While I use plastic bags to keep the contents separate and organized, somehow my spoon often gets dirty between uses.
But then I saw Aardwolf’s Dyneema DCF Spoon and Spork Covers on Etsy and instantly knew that my dirty spoon days were over. These spoon and spork covers are tiny stuff sacks that cinch closed over the head of your camping utensils or even your toothbrush and keep them clean between uses.
Plus, they weigh nothing! How can that be? When I place two of these spoon/spork covers on my digital postage scale, they weigh less than one gram (the scale remains at 0g).
I’m normally immune to all of the faddish accessories that are popular in the ultralight backpacking community (that frequents Garage Grown Gear, at least), but I couldn’t resist picking these up from Aardwolf’s Etsy Store. They let me replace a disposable item, like sandwich bags, with a reusable one (and I’m hellbent on getting as much plastic out of my life as possible.)
However, these spoon and spork covers do not work with all of my backpacking spoons. While they are perfectly sized for long-handled titanium spoons and sporks, they’re a wee bit too small for the big GSI Plastic Spoon I like to use, and I expect they’re probably undersized for the bamboo spoons some hikers use too. If there’s one change I’d recommend, it would be to make the covers a little larger for larger spoons.
Disclosure: the author purchased this product.
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