guys today we are outside in the great
big wilderness because we’re gonna be
testing out ten different life hacks
designed for camping these are all
things that I’ve seen online that seem
like they could be really cool and I
want to put them to the test
the first life hack we’re gonna be
testing out is using plastic drinking
straws to make yourself single serve
containers of spices to start off we’ll
take a pair of pliers or a multi-tool
and pinch one end of the straw really
near the end using a lighter melt the
end of the straw and it should seal shut
once you have one end of the straw
sealed decide how much spice you want in
it and cut the straw there now just take
the straw and kind of push it down into
the spice until it’s as full as you want
it to be be sure to leave enough space
at the top that you’re able to pinch the
top of the straw without it binding into
the spices now just like when we started
use your lighter to seal it off at this
point we have a waterproof container
that might even be airtight full of the
spice of our choice when we’re ready to
use it we can just cut it open and pour
it over our food I would say that this
definitely does work pretty well I’m
doing it while I’m already out here in
the wilderness whereas this is really
something you want to do at home to
prepare to go camping if you’re already
out here and you have the spices then of
course you don’t need to put them in
smaller containers they’re already in
you already got them you don’t need to
bring them out with you but this does
definitely work I’m gonna be using this
in the future our next camping hack is
supposed to help you carry firewood as
you’re walking around trying to gather
it all up it involves taking two sticks
and tying two or three lengths of
paracord in between them to then form a
sort of carrier that you can put the
rest of the wood in now I don’t
anticipate this working any better or
worse because I have a neon rainbow
piece of paracord but this is possible
[Music]
you
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I’m good at knots got a bunch of pieces
of firewood I tried to make sure that
they’re all long enough that they span
from one string to the other let’s give
this thing a shot oh it’s pretty neat
and that’s probably more than I could
easily gather up in my arms so this a
this works pretty slick next up we’re
gonna test a hack that lets you have a
bar of soap near your washing station
and fit it into the foot on a pair of
nylons and you’re then able to lather up
right through the material without
having to take the bar up soap and then
set it down on something dirty or grungy
that’s a that’s stretchy now I’ll hang
this from a table next to a jug of water
and we should be able to use it to wash
our hands the soap and a nylon might
look a little bit strange but it works
pretty well I’m able to lather up my
hands right through the cloth and then I
don’t have to set the soap down on the
ground or anything covered in dirt our
next camping hack teaches us a way that
we can dry off our shoes if we’ve
unfortunately stepped in a stream or
something like that
by letting them sit overnight with a
t-shirt filling the shoe and in theory
by morning it should be dry so this one
we’re gonna let go overnight and see how
it works of course if it gets completely
dry is gonna append on the temperature
and the humidity and everything else
going on around you but we should be
able to see at least if one is more dry
than the other the next test is for a
camping hack that’s been floating around
the internet for about as long as I can
remember and the idea is that you can
take a headlamp
strap it to the side of a jug of water
and it will provide a lantern that will
just beautifully light everything up
we’re gonna try that out so there’s our
headlamp attached to the jug of water
and it’s putting off light kind of all
around which is what we are hoping for
the question is whether this is actually
worth doing here’s how much is going
right now it does provide some light
maybe if you were playing cards on this
table would be enough to play by but if
I would say we actually have quite a bit
more light just using the light bulb
itself
so here’s my thought if you have a
headlamp instead of taking it off and
strapping it onto the milk jug just wear
it on your head and you can see
everything you need to I don’t think
this life hack is worth it
next up is how to take an aluminium can
and a tea light to make a lantern that’s
supposed to light up a large area we’ll
start by cutting a slit from near the
bottom of the can to near the top and
then moving sideways kind of cutting a
big letter eye into our can well then
take the two sides and fold them open
we can now see a side-by-side comparison
of a candle in our little cam and a
candle that’s just sitting on the table
I’m not sure if there’s a lot more light
coming out of the one on the can but
there are a couple advantages I can see
the light is a little bit more directed
and if you’re trying to do something
specific that might be really helpful
but I would say the best use is that
this candle is flickering a lot and when
there’s any gust of wind it almost gets
put out and if there’s any strong wind
it would go out so the can really does a
good job of shielding the candle from
being blown out by a slight breeze I
don’t think it’s gonna make a huge
difference in terms of how much
brightness is getting put off but at
least it protects it from the wind and I
say that’s an advantage worth knowing
our next camping hack is one that
intrigued me quite a bit it involves
using a hollowed out half of an orange
and some vegetable oil to make an oil
lamp candle kind of thing and why you
are camping and having orange and some
oil but not say a lantern or just a
normal candle I’m not sure but I still
really want to try this out our orange
is cut in half and the goal is to remove
all of the fruit but leave this fibrous
Center stem and portion that’s actually
what we’re going to try and use as the
all right we’ve got our orange pretty
much cleared out now we’ve still got the
center fiber stem bit so now we need to
try filling the orange with some
vegetable oil the life hack didn’t
specify if there’s a good way to keep
your orange from tipping over
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hmm
well so far I’m definitely having a bit
of trouble getting that to light maybe
it’s still too full of orange juice you
we had to dry out the wick and then it
took I’d say at least two minutes of
concentrated lighter fire to really get
that to catch so you’ve got that you
might have all of your light covered but
it does seem to be burning now not very
strong thinking good sneeze and put it
out now we’re going to test a method of
making some campfire popcorn using
popcorn oil
aluminum foil and a stick the idea is
that we’ll pour some popcorn and some
oil into the foil fold it over into sort
of a pouch and then we’ll use two of the
corners to reach up and connect onto our
stick and then we’ll be able to put that
whole contraption into the fire over
some coals and we should be able to get
some popcorn popping inside the pouch
probably still not gonna be anywhere
near all the way popped lookie at that
there are still some unpopped kernels
and the ones that stayed near the bottom
did get fairly singed but I would say
that’s more of an issue of my technique
than anything else I think with a little
bit more practice I could make this work
out pretty nicely
so we’ve got the one shoe that had the
t-shirt stuffed down into it and we have
the one shoe that did not have anything
in it feel the difference between them
we’ve actually been sitting out here in
a fair bit of sunshine for a couple
hours now as it was both of the shoes
were mostly dry but the shoe without the
t-shirt in it was definitely a little
bit more wet down along the seams both
of the upper portions of the shoe were
just the same they both felt dry inside
and out but the one of how the shirt
definitely had more water you know
pooling down in these areas where there
isn’t as much circulation I think the
t-shirt really did do a good job of
helping absorb that portion of the water
because the shoe with the t-shirt in it
felt more uniformly dry even though both
of them were doing pretty well
the next camping hack we want to test
once again involves half of an orange
and it’s to see if we can cook a
cinnamon roll inside the orange peel in
the coals of a fire
and now we’ll take this let’s put it in
some coals and just leave it there and
see how well it cooks
[Music]
the cinnamon roll might be expanding
beyond the boundaries of our orange peel
I don’t like putting things in orange
peels it doesn’t work well people need
to stop having this idea update on the
cinnamon roll it very quickly expanded
beyond the boundaries set by the orange
peel parts of it sticking out started
burning and a lot of it in the middle is
still completely raw I’m not liking the
look of this one taking a look at our
cinnamon roll cooked in an orange peel
honestly I came across a lot of issues
with this one first off the cinnamon
roll quickly began to expand and accrue
to the point where is much larger than
the orange peel it was sitting in the
parts that reached over the edge of the
orange peel very quickly started to burn
and the middle is still just incredibly
doughy this is not ready to eat this
part over here is just burnt to straight
charcoal that’s that’s completely
inedible right there scoop it out of the
orange the bottom of our orange peel has
started to burn right through so that’s
not providing much of a barrier there
that’s been burn bits we probably do
have some parts of this that are edible
Oh
[Music]
tastes like charcoal and orange in the
end there may be a great way to cook a
cinnamon roll inside of an orange peel
but I don’t think it’s worth it the
method I chose just failed in every
possible way and I would not eat this at
all I would rather just take the dough
and wrap it around a stick and carefully
cook that over the fire it’s a lot more
likely to work our next camping hack is
for if you find yourself in the
situation where you don’t have quite
enough dishes to eat off of the idea is
that you can take aluminum foil mould
them around something else to those
dish-shaped
making this dish out of foil we’re just
wrapping around the bowl but one of the
key elements is that you’re supposed to
take all the extra foil and sort of
crumple that and pinch it down to be a
rim that will help reinforce the
strength of the dish there’s one let’s
try the same thing using our propane
canister we’ve now got two small dishes
made of aluminum foil and we need to
test how well these will actually work
obviously they hold their own shape I
think it’s just a matter of how useful
they are at this point let’s take a
smaller one and fill it up some water to
see how it does that way we can see if
we’ll work as a cup maybe a small bowl
if you’re eating soup seems to be
holding up okay
it is warping a little bit as I’m
holding it kind of give it some support
from beneath really but he had soup
maybe a can you heated that up in the
fire didn’t have anything to eat out of
this could probably work for that I was
thinking I was gonna try and put this
container in the fire to see if I could
get the water to boil in it but I think
even if I got it to boil there’s no way
I would ever be able to get this
container back out of the fire at that
point the foil would be too hot for me
to grab and this is far too flimsy of a
container to try and pick up with
something like sticks using our bigger
container we’re gonna use this little
dessert moon pie and see how well this
dish works just for eating out of I
think the problem arises when you want
to use it as a normal plate this isn’t
exactly something you can use utensils
on I’m pretty sure it’s just gonna cut
right through the bottom now this cookie
dessert that I’m cutting up is actually
extremely soft and I could just cut it
with a spoon but using it with a normal
fork and knife I think you can see that
I’ve managed to stab some holes right
through the bottom of this plate this is
just a lumen employ it’s extremely thin
even with the double layer that I made
so while these aren’t terribly practical
you may very well find yourself in a
situation where it’s exactly what you
need it’s just something to put food in
that you can scoop back out and eat
rather than having to use your hands or
something like that 10 camping life
hacks put to the test
some works great some didn’t work at all
if you know any other camping hacks or
life hacks do you want to see us put to
the test let us know down in the
comments guys that’s not all we’ve got
more for you to see that little box up
at the top will transport you directly
to our last minute
you should go check that out the box at
the bottom will show you what YouTube
things you need to be watching next and
this bomb here in the middle will
subscribe you to our channel so you
never miss a video don’t forget to ring
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big wilderness because we’re gonna be
testing out ten different life hacks
designed for camping these are all
things that I’ve seen online that seem
like they could be really cool and I
want to put them to the test
the first life hack we’re gonna be
testing out is using plastic drinking
straws to make yourself single serve
containers of spices to start off we’ll
take a pair of pliers or a multi-tool
and pinch one end of the straw really
near the end using a lighter melt the
end of the straw and it should seal shut
once you have one end of the straw
sealed decide how much spice you want in
it and cut the straw there now just take
the straw and kind of push it down into
the spice until it’s as full as you want
it to be be sure to leave enough space
at the top that you’re able to pinch the
top of the straw without it binding into
the spices now just like when we started
use your lighter to seal it off at this
point we have a waterproof container
that might even be airtight full of the
spice of our choice when we’re ready to
use it we can just cut it open and pour
it over our food I would say that this
definitely does work pretty well I’m
doing it while I’m already out here in
the wilderness whereas this is really
something you want to do at home to
prepare to go camping if you’re already
out here and you have the spices then of
course you don’t need to put them in
smaller containers they’re already in
you already got them you don’t need to
bring them out with you but this does
definitely work I’m gonna be using this
in the future our next camping hack is
supposed to help you carry firewood as
you’re walking around trying to gather
it all up it involves taking two sticks
and tying two or three lengths of
paracord in between them to then form a
sort of carrier that you can put the
rest of the wood in now I don’t
anticipate this working any better or
worse because I have a neon rainbow
piece of paracord but this is possible
[Music]
you
[Music]
I’m good at knots got a bunch of pieces
of firewood I tried to make sure that
they’re all long enough that they span
from one string to the other let’s give
this thing a shot oh it’s pretty neat
and that’s probably more than I could
easily gather up in my arms so this a
this works pretty slick next up we’re
gonna test a hack that lets you have a
bar of soap near your washing station
and fit it into the foot on a pair of
nylons and you’re then able to lather up
right through the material without
having to take the bar up soap and then
set it down on something dirty or grungy
that’s a that’s stretchy now I’ll hang
this from a table next to a jug of water
and we should be able to use it to wash
our hands the soap and a nylon might
look a little bit strange but it works
pretty well I’m able to lather up my
hands right through the cloth and then I
don’t have to set the soap down on the
ground or anything covered in dirt our
next camping hack teaches us a way that
we can dry off our shoes if we’ve
unfortunately stepped in a stream or
something like that
by letting them sit overnight with a
t-shirt filling the shoe and in theory
by morning it should be dry so this one
we’re gonna let go overnight and see how
it works of course if it gets completely
dry is gonna append on the temperature
and the humidity and everything else
going on around you but we should be
able to see at least if one is more dry
than the other the next test is for a
camping hack that’s been floating around
the internet for about as long as I can
remember and the idea is that you can
take a headlamp
strap it to the side of a jug of water
and it will provide a lantern that will
just beautifully light everything up
we’re gonna try that out so there’s our
headlamp attached to the jug of water
and it’s putting off light kind of all
around which is what we are hoping for
the question is whether this is actually
worth doing here’s how much is going
right now it does provide some light
maybe if you were playing cards on this
table would be enough to play by but if
I would say we actually have quite a bit
more light just using the light bulb
itself
so here’s my thought if you have a
headlamp instead of taking it off and
strapping it onto the milk jug just wear
it on your head and you can see
everything you need to I don’t think
this life hack is worth it
next up is how to take an aluminium can
and a tea light to make a lantern that’s
supposed to light up a large area we’ll
start by cutting a slit from near the
bottom of the can to near the top and
then moving sideways kind of cutting a
big letter eye into our can well then
take the two sides and fold them open
we can now see a side-by-side comparison
of a candle in our little cam and a
candle that’s just sitting on the table
I’m not sure if there’s a lot more light
coming out of the one on the can but
there are a couple advantages I can see
the light is a little bit more directed
and if you’re trying to do something
specific that might be really helpful
but I would say the best use is that
this candle is flickering a lot and when
there’s any gust of wind it almost gets
put out and if there’s any strong wind
it would go out so the can really does a
good job of shielding the candle from
being blown out by a slight breeze I
don’t think it’s gonna make a huge
difference in terms of how much
brightness is getting put off but at
least it protects it from the wind and I
say that’s an advantage worth knowing
our next camping hack is one that
intrigued me quite a bit it involves
using a hollowed out half of an orange
and some vegetable oil to make an oil
lamp candle kind of thing and why you
are camping and having orange and some
oil but not say a lantern or just a
normal candle I’m not sure but I still
really want to try this out our orange
is cut in half and the goal is to remove
all of the fruit but leave this fibrous
Center stem and portion that’s actually
what we’re going to try and use as the
all right we’ve got our orange pretty
much cleared out now we’ve still got the
center fiber stem bit so now we need to
try filling the orange with some
vegetable oil the life hack didn’t
specify if there’s a good way to keep
your orange from tipping over
[Music]
hmm
well so far I’m definitely having a bit
of trouble getting that to light maybe
it’s still too full of orange juice you
we had to dry out the wick and then it
took I’d say at least two minutes of
concentrated lighter fire to really get
that to catch so you’ve got that you
might have all of your light covered but
it does seem to be burning now not very
strong thinking good sneeze and put it
out now we’re going to test a method of
making some campfire popcorn using
popcorn oil
aluminum foil and a stick the idea is
that we’ll pour some popcorn and some
oil into the foil fold it over into sort
of a pouch and then we’ll use two of the
corners to reach up and connect onto our
stick and then we’ll be able to put that
whole contraption into the fire over
some coals and we should be able to get
some popcorn popping inside the pouch
probably still not gonna be anywhere
near all the way popped lookie at that
there are still some unpopped kernels
and the ones that stayed near the bottom
did get fairly singed but I would say
that’s more of an issue of my technique
than anything else I think with a little
bit more practice I could make this work
out pretty nicely
so we’ve got the one shoe that had the
t-shirt stuffed down into it and we have
the one shoe that did not have anything
in it feel the difference between them
we’ve actually been sitting out here in
a fair bit of sunshine for a couple
hours now as it was both of the shoes
were mostly dry but the shoe without the
t-shirt in it was definitely a little
bit more wet down along the seams both
of the upper portions of the shoe were
just the same they both felt dry inside
and out but the one of how the shirt
definitely had more water you know
pooling down in these areas where there
isn’t as much circulation I think the
t-shirt really did do a good job of
helping absorb that portion of the water
because the shoe with the t-shirt in it
felt more uniformly dry even though both
of them were doing pretty well
the next camping hack we want to test
once again involves half of an orange
and it’s to see if we can cook a
cinnamon roll inside the orange peel in
the coals of a fire
and now we’ll take this let’s put it in
some coals and just leave it there and
see how well it cooks
[Music]
the cinnamon roll might be expanding
beyond the boundaries of our orange peel
I don’t like putting things in orange
peels it doesn’t work well people need
to stop having this idea update on the
cinnamon roll it very quickly expanded
beyond the boundaries set by the orange
peel parts of it sticking out started
burning and a lot of it in the middle is
still completely raw I’m not liking the
look of this one taking a look at our
cinnamon roll cooked in an orange peel
honestly I came across a lot of issues
with this one first off the cinnamon
roll quickly began to expand and accrue
to the point where is much larger than
the orange peel it was sitting in the
parts that reached over the edge of the
orange peel very quickly started to burn
and the middle is still just incredibly
doughy this is not ready to eat this
part over here is just burnt to straight
charcoal that’s that’s completely
inedible right there scoop it out of the
orange the bottom of our orange peel has
started to burn right through so that’s
not providing much of a barrier there
that’s been burn bits we probably do
have some parts of this that are edible
Oh
[Music]
tastes like charcoal and orange in the
end there may be a great way to cook a
cinnamon roll inside of an orange peel
but I don’t think it’s worth it the
method I chose just failed in every
possible way and I would not eat this at
all I would rather just take the dough
and wrap it around a stick and carefully
cook that over the fire it’s a lot more
likely to work our next camping hack is
for if you find yourself in the
situation where you don’t have quite
enough dishes to eat off of the idea is
that you can take aluminum foil mould
them around something else to those
dish-shaped
making this dish out of foil we’re just
wrapping around the bowl but one of the
key elements is that you’re supposed to
take all the extra foil and sort of
crumple that and pinch it down to be a
rim that will help reinforce the
strength of the dish there’s one let’s
try the same thing using our propane
canister we’ve now got two small dishes
made of aluminum foil and we need to
test how well these will actually work
obviously they hold their own shape I
think it’s just a matter of how useful
they are at this point let’s take a
smaller one and fill it up some water to
see how it does that way we can see if
we’ll work as a cup maybe a small bowl
if you’re eating soup seems to be
holding up okay
it is warping a little bit as I’m
holding it kind of give it some support
from beneath really but he had soup
maybe a can you heated that up in the
fire didn’t have anything to eat out of
this could probably work for that I was
thinking I was gonna try and put this
container in the fire to see if I could
get the water to boil in it but I think
even if I got it to boil there’s no way
I would ever be able to get this
container back out of the fire at that
point the foil would be too hot for me
to grab and this is far too flimsy of a
container to try and pick up with
something like sticks using our bigger
container we’re gonna use this little
dessert moon pie and see how well this
dish works just for eating out of I
think the problem arises when you want
to use it as a normal plate this isn’t
exactly something you can use utensils
on I’m pretty sure it’s just gonna cut
right through the bottom now this cookie
dessert that I’m cutting up is actually
extremely soft and I could just cut it
with a spoon but using it with a normal
fork and knife I think you can see that
I’ve managed to stab some holes right
through the bottom of this plate this is
just a lumen employ it’s extremely thin
even with the double layer that I made
so while these aren’t terribly practical
you may very well find yourself in a
situation where it’s exactly what you
need it’s just something to put food in
that you can scoop back out and eat
rather than having to use your hands or
something like that 10 camping life
hacks put to the test
some works great some didn’t work at all
if you know any other camping hacks or
life hacks do you want to see us put to
the test let us know down in the
comments guys that’s not all we’ve got
more for you to see that little box up
at the top will transport you directly
to our last minute
you should go check that out the box at
the bottom will show you what YouTube
things you need to be watching next and
this bomb here in the middle will
subscribe you to our channel so you
never miss a video don’t forget to ring
that Bell and we will see you in the
next one talk to you then [Music]
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