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    anyone ever try this if so any tips? i keep getting leaks


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    I had to do it when I was hunting once. I drank all the water I took with me originally, and then I ate a piece of jerky and got it stuck in my throat, or I think it was jerky, anyway. I could still breathe, but it was very irritating, so I got some water out of a stream with a bag, poured it in a tinfoil bowl and boiled it. It leaked toward the end right after it started to boil, but that is becasue I took it off of a fire and set it on a sharp stick. Didn't leak fast though. Got enough water out of it to get whatever was in my throat out.

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    After my first tour of duty in 1970, I started carrying 8 to 10 foot of foil with me, when I was out and about. It has come in handy more times then I can count.

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    Quote Originally Posted by warman87 View Post
    anyone ever try this if so any tips? i keep getting leaks
    Try doubling the foil (or more) before you form it into your bowl.
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    I have found that it can be accomplished though not usually with the amount of foil they usually provide in these prepackaged sk's . I have had my best luck making the foil bowl doubled even tripled in thickness and either placing it on a bowl shaped rock and heating the rock or useing small stones heated in the fire and dropping them into my makeshift bowl it usuallly does end up leaking somewhat anyway in my experience. Which is why long ago I reserve the tin foil for other uses such as reflector cooking heat reflecting etc. and I carry a gi cup always in my fanny pak ie, sk

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    Maybe try heavy duty foil. Its alot thicker then regular cheapo foil.
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    I use a lot of aluminum foil, so I went ahead and bought a roll of the heavy duty food-service foil. It comes on a roll of 18" x 500'. It's made by Reynolds, item number 624c. I haven't bought any lately so I can't tell you the price but it's well worth it.
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    This method comes in handy for the tin foil hat segment of our society.
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    thanks for the tips nifty hat lol

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    Believe it or not, I have boiled water in a plastic pop bottle over a camp fire. I was just messing around and had the bottle 3/4 full, but it was boiling in the bottle. I thought the bottle would melt, but it didn't. Pretty cool.
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    why doesn't some wonderful survival company come out with steel foil, or copper foil or titanium foil, lol, wouldn't that solve the problem?
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    Quote Originally Posted by kx250kev View Post
    Believe it or not, I have boiled water in a plastic pop bottle over a camp fire. I was just messing around and had the bottle 3/4 full, but it was boiling in the bottle. I thought the bottle would melt, but it didn't. Pretty cool.
    Back in my days some of us "Old-Timer's remember a kids morning show called "Captain Kangeroo". On one of his shows he boiled water in a pan made out of card-board over a gas burner. Ain't Science wonderful? All that being well & Good; I still cook with a cast-iron skillet and stain-less steel cook-pot. However PGVoutdoors makes a lot of sense with the "Food Service" foil. It's the same thickness the "Civilian" stuff used to be years ago before they cheapened the product. I'd keep one of those in with the trash bags & Duct tape; you just never know!
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    I remember Captain Kangaroo.....
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    Sounds like tinfoil has a limited number of uses, like use it once to boil water, and it might leak or get punctured. I would just carry an empty clean tin can and put some of my survival stuff inside the can.

    It just sounds like tinfoil has drawbacks.

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