Double Duty Uses for Cups - Creativity Challenge

Last Friday, July 1st, I came across on Twitter a good article on Overland Gourmet. It was a camp kitchen tip on the double duty uses of a camp coffee cup. Always trying to be an advocate of re-use/recycle, I re-tweeted the link via @norcalfj as did Adventure Vehicles. One thing led to another and we decided to come up with a week-long "creativity challenge" to see how many other double duty uses we could come up with by fielding suggestions from our own readers, members, etc. And, so, here we are.

I posted up a discussion thread on NorCal to field some suggestions and folks got pretty creative. Here is the list, in no particular order:

• Cereal "bowl"
• To mix up pancake batter
• Meal "bowl" to hold such delicacies as opg4759's cherry cobbler. Yum!
• "Basin" to wash your utensils
• For playing Liar's Dice
• To rinse a shaving razor in hot water
• For brushing one's teeth (e.g. to rinse the tooth brush and water for the gargle)
• Napkin holder
• To douse a campfire with water
• Prepare meals such as rice, oatmeal and ramen noodles
• To warm a baby bottle
• Hold a multitude of beverage types throughout the day (see: cocktails)
• Encase fragile items by putting two cups together and securing them
• Bacon fat catcher for re-use on skillet potatoes
• and...marmot party hats!

I learned a few extra uses for my Coleman coffee cups I had not considered before. I now look forward to reading what Overland Gourmet and Adventure Vehicles came up with. Links to their blog articles will be updated here when they become available.

• Overland Gourmet's list of creative double duty uses for camp coffee cups (link coming soon)
• Plastic Drinking Cups, More Than Meets the Eye? by Adventure Vehicles

So, if you don't already have one, go out and get yourself a handy, trusty camp cup that can be re-used in a multitude of ways and cut down on single-use cups!

Reference links:

Original article on Overland Gourmet: Camp Kitchen Tip: Double Duty

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