Put your campground cooking skills to work with a non-traditional cooking utencil and surprise everyone with a gourmet breakfast.

Cooking up eggs benedict is tricky. The hollandaise sauce is one thing and the traditional way of poaching an egg includes a big pot of boiling water with a little vinegar and a lot of luck that you’ll get it out in one piece. It all suggests that you’ll need a lot of skill and a full kitchen to pull it off. How is it possible to enjoy this savory breakfast in the backcountry. Thanks to a little experimenting of an idea my wife read about, we can offer an easy solution.

My wife tested out this new way of cooking up some eggs on Christmas morning using 16 oz beer pints made of 100% food-grade silicone. The pints are from a small Bend, Oregon company called, Sili Pint. They have the claim to the international title of being the world’s-first maker of these flexible pint glasses out of silicone.

They’re bouncy, light-weight and seemingly indestructible which is a great cup to have along at a concert, on the patio and back-country. My wife put three Sili Pints in a small pot of boiling water. Sprayed some canola oil in the pints and cracked an egg for each of them. While she timed out the cooking (which seems to take a while longer than expected) she toasted up the english muffins, fried up some canadian bacon and had a pre-made hollandaise  sauce (we got ours from Trader Joe’s) ready to get warmed up in the microwave. It turned out GREAT!

Now, how to make it back-country style? All you’ll need is a Two-Burner Propane Stove, two small pots and a few Sili Pints. Of course, microwaving the hollindaise sauce is out of the question.

There are a lot of ways to serve up eggs benedict, with spinach and roma tomatos, with black beans and ham and salsa, get creative (oh… did you remember to pack mimosas in the cooler?)

Brian Hinderberger

Publisher and Editor of Off Grid Sound. He’s an artist from Bend, Oregon who started playing the acoustic guitar during his youth then on to his off time at sea in the US Navy on-board a frigate as it cruised the South Pacific . He later explored his interest in storytelling while earning a degree in Electronic Media from the University of Oregon School of Journalism. Today you’ll find him playing both large and small stages all over the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

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