When cooking at your tent, something in water, such as pasta or vegetables...do you drain the water into the nearest hedge or walk to a water tap/disposal area and tip the water down a proper drain?
Never quite sure what to do as it can feel dangerous to walk to a drain with a pan of boiling ware, but not sure if it's considered acceptable to tip it into the hedge!
Thanks x
We drain the water into a bowl or another pan and leave to cool, before pouring away later when washing up. Much safer than walking around with boiling water and much kinder to the hedge!
Grey waste always in the grey waste disposal, never in the hedge unless it's the last spit of a cup of tea, in which case - guilty! We always drain pasta into the washing up bowl and carry to nearest drain after the meal :-)
We keep a bucket for grey waste and empty as needed. I would never pour grey waste into a hedge - sometimes empty fresh water container there at the end of a trip as long as there is no chance of it running back onto the pitch.
I use a bucket to drain things into, then tip the bucket into the grey waste drain. If you put cooking water into the hedge any minute particles of food debris will rot and given enough of it building up, will smell and possibly encourage vermin. Hot water will damage plants and wildlife too.
Cold tea dregs are just liquid fertiliser though...;)
I use a slotted spoon for dishing up boiled foods and leave the liquid in the pan until washing up then pour it down the sink as I would at home. I am however guilty of rinsing my coffee cup or milk frother and just throwing that in the hedge or on the grass beside the car if no hedge is close by.
we do the same as many have already mentioned...either strain into a bucket, bowl or pan (whichever is handy), leave to cool and then it's disposed of when the washing up is done...
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