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mug’s ideal uses include: “Keep coffee hot, brew
coffee and tea, cook freeze-dried food, sterilize
water, charge devices, heat soup, boil water.” The
optional Cauldryn Blender Attachment
($39.99) is strong enough to crush ice (if you’re
lucky enough to find any). An optional Vehicle
Base ($9.99) lets you recharge the Fyre Mobile
2.0 from a 12-volt outlet.
LOKSAK’s aLOKSAK flexible, re-sealable
storage bags (starting at $8.49 for a 2-pack of
3x6-inch bags) offer 100 percent protection of
the contents – including firearms or electronics
like phones, tablets, and flash drives – from
water (depths of up to 200 ft), dust, humidity,
sand, snow, and most other things Mother
Nature can throw at them. Even more
impressive, touchscreen devices work while
contained in aLOKSAK bags, including making
and receiving cellphone calls. LOKSAK’s
OPSAK bags (starting at $9.49 for a 2-pack of
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7x7-inch bags) are similar, except they’re
specially designed for food storage and
preparation in less-than-ideal situations. Each
re-sealable OPSAK bag is made from BPA-free,
FDA- and NSF-approved food-safe materials
and can withstand direct heat up to 170 degrees
(F). That means you can pour boiling water
straight into an OPSAK bag to rehydrate food
or make hot beverages. In addition to being
washable, they’re odor-proof—so food stored in
an OPSAK bag won’t attract wildlife (or, in a
seriously apocalyptic scenario, other humans).
They can also be used to transport body waste
(diapers, for example, or worse…) without the
accompanying stench or possibility of spreading
disease.
Burning Desires
You can take your survival cooking to the next
level with BioLite’s CampStove 2 Bundle
($239.95). In addition to letting you grill, boil,
(Clockwise from left) The
Platypus GravityWorks 2.0L
Complete Kit is a pump-free,
ultralight water system that
can filter up to 1.5 liters a
minute. After filtration, you
can kill any gut-busting stuff
that might remain with the
help of the Steripen Ultra UV
water purifier. The Cauldryn
Fyre Mobile 2.0 Smart Mug is
a mobile, modular, personal
survival kitchen. It includes
an optional Cauldryn Blender
Attachment (right).
and cook using sticks, wood scraps, pellets,
pinecones, or other biomass as fuel, the
CampStove 2 can generate 3W of electricity
from the heat of the fire to charge devices in
real-time or store the energy in the unit’s
onboard 2600mAh backup battery. The
included KettlePot can boil one liter of water in
less than five minutes, and the Grilltop fits up to
four hamburgers (or other, um, meat patties…).
The company’s Energy Bundle+ ($439.65)
includes everything in the CampStove 2 Bundle
and adds a five-watt solar panel with a built-in
2200mAh storage battery, and an extensive
multifunctional lighting package incorporating a
dimmable flashlight, a lantern, packable
overhead lighting, and a 4400mAh rechargeable
battery pack.
As long as the sun is shining, you don’t have to
pick up sticks or find other fuel to cook with the
GoSun Go Portable Solar Cooker. Using two