Honest, field-minded reviews of outdoor and safety gear.
A hot meal and a hot drink do more for morale in the backcountry than almost anything you can carry. The MSR PocketRocket 2 is the stove we point most hikers to first: it is tiny, it is fast, and proven after years on the market. For simple boil-and-go cooking, it is hard to beat.
The cheapest and most frequently purchased of the Coast Guard-approved ration bricks: 3600 no-cook calories that sit in a pack or car for five years. Our value pick.
The best-tasting and most temperature-tough of the ration bricks: a Halal and Kosher certified 3600-calorie brick built to ride out a car trunk.
The lifeboat classic: 3600 calories in 18 individually wrapped 200-calorie bars, for anyone who wants to ration a survival brick into small, exact portions.
