WEBVTT - Elevating Your Camp Cooking with Camp Yoshi’s Rashad Frazier 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.080 Hello, and welcome to the Overland Journal podcast. I'm your host, 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.039 Ashley Jordano, and today i am joined by camp Yoshi, 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.000 co founder Camp Chef and author of the new cookbook 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:20.000 Cookout Recipes and Tips for the Great Outdoors for Shad Frizzer. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:21.720 Thank you so much going. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:26.640 On, yay man, I'm hontor to be here. Man, really 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:28.320 good it can reconnect with you guys. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.720 So happy to have you on the podcast. I'm also 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:37.440 very stoked because in our Overland Journal issue Summer twenty 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.879 twenty six you were ov chef profile and you have 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.520 a recipe in there, and so this is perfect timing. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.480 Yes, yes, yes, yes. 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Let's start from the beginning. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.200 So, for folks who aren't familiar with camp Yoshi, what 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.560 is it and where did it come from? 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:14.600 So? 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.560 Camp Yoshi is a six year old outdoor outfitter guide company. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.440 My background is a chef. I was a New York 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.880 City chef for quite some time and once COVID kind 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.800 of happened, uh fell in lovel to outdoors Man, Pivoted 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.400 outdoors are cooking for friends and family, and Kime with 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:35.080 this crazy idea around guiding and hosting clients for trips 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:36.920 to place state know they needed to go to and 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.200 camp out it and experience. And so the thought was, 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.519 even if you're not laying outdoorsy or a camp being 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.239 type person, you do love to eat. You do love 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.720 good vieues. So pairing those two together, we've done pretty 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.880 well for ourselves over the past six years is hosting 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.120 folks and amazing places and cooking amazing meals. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.239 It's been such a journey watching the growth from twenty 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:03.680 twenty till now and just seeing more trips and different 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.399 destinations and of course this new cookbook coming out. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:07.679 What a ride it's been. 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.919 Yeah, it's been. It's been amazing, man. I mean, honestly, 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.840 I never thought it would evolve into what it is today. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.000 I mean, I guess the initial launch of Campyo sheet 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.639 was kind of is to buy time because I wanted 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.480 to get back into the food business, and it's thinking 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.920 that the state called COVID would be temporary, but it 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.200 actually led to being one of the best pivots ever 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.560 in my life. And I have zero regrets. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:30.079 Man. Yeah. 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.160 At this point we do about three trips a year. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:38.000 We're primarily based here in Oregon, so the alber Desert 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.960 Central Oregon, the ben region around here in Portland, but 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:48.680 then we also branch out, you know, the Lacelle Mountains 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.200 and the Utah or the Sanwa Mountains in Colorado. We're 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:56.800 in Montana around Glacier National Park. We're heavily in Moab. 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.000 I don't know. I feel like it's a lot of 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.960 city folks that want to touch and we've been able 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.000 to kind of position ourselves a brand that we offer 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:10.520 more outdoor hospitality, software, landings for the newbie camper if 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.040 you will, and it works well. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.080 I love that it's providing. From what I've seen, I 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.479 can't wait to go on a trip one day when 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.800 we're in an area where you are, but providing an 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:27.880 opportunity for people like you said, who need that soft 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.080 space or that sense of security to being outside and 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.640 being at the of doors and maybe they haven't had 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:39.320 that experience before or can do so in a safe space. Yeah. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.280 Absolutely, they get to just show up and show out. 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:46.039 I mean all the gear, provisions, guides, vehicles, I mean, honestly, 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.839 I'll get to bring to your clothes. That's how turnkey 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.800 the productions are. And I think too Listen, there's levels 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.800 of obviously getting outside and guide companies. I think for us, 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.320 the gap we feel is more so that softer landing around. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.000 If you just want to show up, not think about anything. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:00.920 That's where we've done it. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.800 What have you heard back from clients in terms of 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:10.119 what's been kind of the most impactful part of these trips? 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.640 Ooh, there's so much, man. I feel like the feedback 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.560 from our trips is it's always powerful. 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:16.680 Man. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.640 I guess it gives us a lot more emotional drive 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.680 and want to keep doing what we're doing. I would 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.400 say the most common responses, I never knew I needed it, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.440 Like I never knew I needed that experience. I never 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.440 knew that this would be so impactful. What else? I 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.719 never knew the f mills. I never knew eating outside 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.200 could be so glamorous and luxurious. Not luxurious, but more 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.440 so like so where there are oftentimes questioning do I 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.440 eat better outside with Cambyoshi or with or when I'm 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.400 at home in my apartment, if you will. I think 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.120 the community aspect is a big part of what we 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.160 do as well. People always read around and just to 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.600 folks come on our trips we have We've been very 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.560 lucky to attract just good people across the board man, 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.360 and I think even from not just to campus, even 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.760 our guides and mentors, like, there's been so many amazing folks. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.600 So it kind of helped shape Campyoshi's ideology kind of 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.440 how we show up the places we explore. It kind 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.159 of helping us figure out what's the best spot. It 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:05.960 really kind of chase the. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:11.000 Vibe amazing And obviously, as you've been mentioning, a big 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:12.240 part of that is the food. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:13.880 How have you. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.440 Gone from moving into this role that isn't new for 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.279 you anymore, but in twenty twenty coming into this and 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.880 camping and cooking outdoors for other people. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.200 So I would say in twenty twenty, my ego was like, 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:31.080 you got to make all these amazing technical mills, and 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.000 you get humbled very quickly that you know, you can't 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.680 bring a lot of gear on these spaces. You don't 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.599 have a lot of time. There might be a fireband, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.960 there might be something that disrupts the schedule. So I 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.159 think at this point, fast forwarding six years later, I've 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.760 gotten more intentional with the mills. I've gotten more I've 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.719 gotten smarter around making meals that really aligned for schedule 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.760 and not beaten down our crew or exhausting our staff 0:06:55.839 --> 0:07:00.440 also too, I think the mills have now reflect kind 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.000 of the journey of the trip, so kind of going 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:04.440 into the trip, we're kind of giving you a little 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.480 more experimental items, and then by like the last day, 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.760 we're serving up like an amazing smash burger, you know, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.800 because I feel at that point your body is just 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.000 kind of yearning something familiar and just something very just 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.000 you know, you just want to just dive into it. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.239 So we always joke that the itinerary and the mills 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.440 are built around like the reward for your work. So 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.480 during the day quick fast, we don't do lunches. It's 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.120 always like charcooteries, something very light. We just want to 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.400 have the dish. We don't have the uh, the washing machine, 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.240 dish washing crew to keep all that stuff clean. So 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.760 typically breakfast and dinner the main event, and then lunch 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.880 is always charcuterie beverages, something kind of quick in light 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.680 to kind of keep you going, but it makes you 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.760 really year up for that big, amazing dinner at the 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:47.320 end of the day. 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.880 Are there any favorites like recipes that you. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.440 Make time and time again that you just really enjoy 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.880 or everyone compliments this is gonna. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:04.520 Sound so like not exciting, but breakfast tacos this tend 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:09.120 to always smack. I mean, it's just one. The variations 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.880 are always abundant, but it accommodies everyone's diet. We a 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.680 lot of people have different dietary restrictions, and I think 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.880 in the morning, man, we just want something very just heavy, 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.200 but not like weight. You down a good taco. What 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:21.960 a Friday ead goes a long way. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:24.800 Excellent. 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.200 I like that because it's so simple, but not like 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.240 you can add other things what you have. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.839 Yeah, it's so simple also too, Like you know, where 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.079 we're camping at, where we're exploring, there's not a whole 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:38.600 foods out there. You're not getting a lot a variety 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:42.640 of ingredients and whatnot, you know, so working with what 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.880 you have a lot of these local markets and stores 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.600 tends to kind of dictate the menu oftentimes, and so 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.480 you know, I would love to do more, but I 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.760 think it's kind of been fun to use what's available 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.760 and make it the most creative item out of that. 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.319 Yeah, I was wondering how much do you prep ahead 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.360 of time for the trips and stock up back at 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.320 base camp or base before you head out? 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.079 So I would say prepping food is probably ninety percent 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.720 of our entire menu. I would advise anyone getting into 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.959 this business or cooking for friends and family for a 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.240 camping trip, if it's just you or maybe one other person, 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.480 go out there and have some fun, get crazy. But 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.800 cooking for a group, there's just too many variables. 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:25.040 Man. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.000 So having things where you can just pull out of 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.200 the medic refrigerator and just go at it and cook 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.480 it quickly and like rehydrate it, re reheat it. It's 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.320 always a nice little play to kind of have. I mean, 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.440 even now it's like chef in year six, I tend 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:44.280 to have more like in the event of emergency, break glass, 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.679 make this dish. You know, it could be a bull 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.480 of knese. It could be some type of soup or stew. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.679 It's been pre made. All of these requires is to 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.760 be reheated up. I've definitely been the guy trying to 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.800 make something from scratch out there, buying a whole chicken 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.120 spatch cocking it than trying to grill it. It's just 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:06.440 in your mind you think it's gonna go a certainly 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.319 have a way with things. It's always come up. You 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.640 know what I'm saying a camper, you know, are hungry now, 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.720 or car breaks down, or there's a fireband, or you know, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.920 the wind's blowing so hard you can't even get enough 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.800 of a flame and heat to tap into the actual grill. 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:26.240 So I'm always, I will always try to flex and 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.640 every mill we do. But I'm also very wise now 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.680 that as much as you can prepare a home, the better. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:33.360 Nice and do. 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:38.920 Your meals for the clients also are sort of similar 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:40.680 if you go with your family or do you have 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.079 a different kind of menu. Are you more casual or 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.680 you want more on the fly on a trip with 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.080 your friends or family. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.400 So I have kids, man, they they're kids, so they 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.480 want the basic things, man, peeb and jays, some chicken fingers. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.960 I'll hook those up as far as from scratch. But 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:00.360 I don't get as creative as I do with clients 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.839 with my kids. My kids are pretty much like dead. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.840 That's cool. And then you get some duck comfeet and refrigerator, 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.600 but can I just have a taco? Like seriously, man, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.160 So it's kind of humbling. It's very humbling, but at 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.719 the same time, as like, your families don't really see 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.520 you the same way. As your clients might do sometimes. 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:17.720 For sure, for sure. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.840 So I have a question for you. So, traveling around 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:26.040 you always find the ubiquitous onion, tomato, cucumber, pepper. I 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.600 feel like I've been able to find those ingredients almost 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.280 anywhere and maybe throw some cabbage in there. What are 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:39.640 some ways to use those ingredients multiple ways and multiple recipes? 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.560 Yeah, well, I think off jump, you could do some 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.920 type of like stir fry or just something super simple 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.960 sanwich ooh that on like some really really good like 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.920 brioche bread, or like a loaf that's been grilled to 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.640 be nicely, like layering around that you do almond in 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.560 the mornings, never for tata do have fun there? Or 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.000 just charcooter? You mean, those are all items that go 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.200 really well for just little bites, not the onion, but 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.199 more so the peppers and whatnot. But to your point, though, 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.360 I love ingredients to have three, four or five uses, 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.880 like I think for getting the most bandwidth and runway 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.439 out of cooking on trips is you want to have 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.520 multiple multiple uses out of one thing per se. And 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.520 so to your original question, yeah, man, stir fries go 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.800 a long way. I love a good sandwich, man, like 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.080 I'll go out there with a love of bread, like 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.120 a really good Dnse level of bread. It's freshly made, 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.440 and I'll grill it off and butter it up and 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.840 then maybe salty off the vegetables and topping around that 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:36.600 kind of a kind of an open face kind of 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.680 sandwich if you will, what else you know? I would 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.959 stay away from stews. I feel like stews take so 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:45.880 much time to cooks. Oftentimes you want quick fast, you know, 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.640 you don't want long, long drawn items. One my personal 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.320 philosophy is how do you have more time sitting down 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.960 and joining your beer, Like that's the goal of being 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.360 out here. It's not to be slaving cooking over a 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:03.680 kitchen the entire time. Wrong, Like you get points for cooking, 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.040 she don't get any extra bonus points for making boring 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.280 cooking the hearts hard things. You know, I'm saying, prepping ingredients, 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.520 chopping up vegetables. Do that at home, man. But like 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.520 you said, if you only have access to those items, 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.320 definitely go stir fry Omelets love a good breakfast toast 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.439 with just an open face sandwich, throw a Frida egg 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.000 on top, keep it simple. 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.080 I love those and I like the way that you're 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.439 you got so lit up when you're. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.120 Talking about that was so fun. I could see the 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:33.280 creative wheels turning. 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.160 And those were great tips because I'm like, oh, another 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.679 salad that's kind of like a Greek salad but a 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:44.679 little different, you know. So yeah, I'll definitely take those 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.240 with me as I travel. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.080 Salads don't travel well for cooking. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:49.240 Man. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.120 I feel like, well, salad could, but I don't know. Man, 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.959 you want hardy, you want hearty things that if the 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.000 refrigerator a cooler breaks down, if something goes left, they 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.920 can kind of hold their wait for the next day 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.040 or half until you get ice or some type of 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.200 chill environment. So it's a little tip there. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:08.439 Yeah, I love that. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.439 And to that point, do you have some favorite cooking 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.040 gear camp cooking gear? 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:20.200 Oh? Absolutely so. Lately I've been really big on my 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:25.880 hand wash station with the kids with campers. I can't 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.080 remember the name of the product, but it's the demetic 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:34.200 dispenser you've seen me before, the jug with the little tap, 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.440 the little tap button, whatever, the top. I don't know. 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.080 There's something psychologically powerful about having ability to wash your 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.880 hands a camp you know, And I think most of 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.080 our clientele women in eighty percent. It's kind of cool 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:50.800 to be able to have like obviously have the camp 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.880 restroom per se, but having a hand washed station it 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:57.040 just kind of reiterates like we're not savages, Like here's 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.480 nice little little treats and make you feel more cozy, comfortable. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:00.640 Man. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.800 So that was some good soap. That's been a really 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.000 good play for us lately, especially with having so many 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.160 campers on our trips, it gets a little weird having 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.560 multiple hands dip into the charcot re tray. So washing 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:14.040 your hands before it is kind of extensive signal that oh, Okay, 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.440 we're doing this together and I don't feel nasty or 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.320 I'm being that, you know, disrespectful camper, just kind of 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:25.680 just digging into all the food. What else? I love 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:30.080 my Oh I gotta get no shouts to do metic Man, 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:35.080 they're coolers. My CFX fifty five, I run a seventy 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.720 five and a ninety five keeps a beer hole. We 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:42.600 keep food frozen for those multi day trips. But yeah, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.000 my dimetic CFX is one of my go tos. We 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.880 typically run three of those. And my off road truck. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.240 We have a truck called Jenkins is a built out 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.080 van keeps everything kind of cool with the beer and 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.280 the provisions. My Apron's been a really big fan lately. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.320 From the friends of our Earth Studies, we got an 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.080 Apron for the whole crew, so it's kind of cool 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.200 to see us all in uniform. When it comes to 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:08.520 mill service, laste, I'm gonna give an oodated like chef Life. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.200 I don't really recommend plastic in any place in these spaces, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:18.640 but shout out to core containers, cork containers to prep food, 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:28.040 stored away sauces, stews, you know, garlic conefee just all 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.040 the things that makes my pantry really pop is the 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.040 core container system and whether it be the full court 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.840 half court, I have those all day every day. When 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.600 it comes to gear, it's not really a typical overlanding 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.160 camping tool you would see in the store, but from 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.360 the chef lands, it'd be a cool little hat to 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.400 kind of integrate into what you're doing as far as 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.160 host seeing, camping and cooking for yourself. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:48.960 Nice. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.880 I remember so we were speaking, supposed to have been 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.480 a couple of years ago. Uh, when I was in 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.760 Morocco and we were doing the OV Chef profile and 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.920 you're talking about crocs and you're like, these are not glamorous, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.160 but the crocs are amazing for being a camp chef 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:05.400 at your feet all day. 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:10.520 M No, crocs are such a great little footwear flex. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.040 I mean the reality is, and there was so many 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:16.040 different slide options for just letting your dogs breathe. Folks 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:17.800 on with your dogs, house your feet, but let your 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.760 feet breed. Man Like, obviously you're working, but you should 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.600 be able to also feel full little resort energy as well, 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:28.080 you know, like you know, between you going from service 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:29.919 to sitting down and join the camp fire, leting your 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.320 feet kind of slide out. It's a nice little play, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.280 you know. And also too, I mean listen, getting in 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.560 and out of a tent, you know, not bringing dirt 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.719 into the tent. It's a much easier play to kind 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.040 of pull off some crocs versus putting on some sneakers 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:43.080 and tying them. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.680 I love that. That was a fun one. I remember, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.280 Yeah you were saying that. I'm like, that's great. 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.280 Yeah, I love my crocs, man, Yeah, that's one of 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.200 my I got a croc collaboration with a brand called 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.560 Up actually is a designer and in's Lady Dembri. But 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.000 he's a collaboration with Crocs. They've been on for a while, 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:04.720 but they're like, why go to show? I got like 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:06.119 a few colorways. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:10.879 Amazing. So do you have a camp chef vehicle setup? 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:12.840 You were talking about the van? I feel like I 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.400 saw did I see a riv Yeah? 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.119 So our main system is Jenkins. He is a for 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:28.199 all will drive two fifty transa van. He has a 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.280 white foundation, but we wrapped him in black so he 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.280 looks really tactical. Gave him like a three years lift kit. 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:38.160 He's mom around and you know Ko Two's it looks 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.679 really aggressive, man, But we like it that way. We 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.040 don't have any logos. It's like, you know, we were 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.080 the FEDS or we're just like, you know, a production crew. 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.040 You don't know, you don't know, you don't know went 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.359 inside the van. We booked it out to do to 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:55.760 really just have power to keep all the refrigerators kind 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.000 of going and you know, get the karaoke machine pop 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.239 when we need to beefed up the alternator to kind 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:02.679 of give it more power, to kind of top off 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:07.639 the batteries and solar panel top. Very simple, but very intentional, 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:11.400 built around it getting dirty, it being abused, but also 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.879 handling all the weight of the provisions nice. 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.840 Yeah, I imagine cooking for that many people, you'll need 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:24.240 quite a bit of power obviously, and room for gear 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.560 and things like that. Is this the first built out 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:28.800 that you've done for these trips or have you had 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.960 other vehicles in the past. 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.080 This was the first build out. We had a land 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.439 Cruiser eighty series that we were also inerating into the trips. 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:38.879 I think the problem with that though, is that we 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.080 needed more reliability and we didn't really put the energy 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:47.360 into that truck to make it the most sustainable, probably 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.719 rigged to kind of keep that many trips going all 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:53.199 the time. So right now Jinkins is probably the main tool. 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:57.439 And then also I kind of started chocking the sauce Man. 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.239 Ribban's been a big, big, big, big favor for us 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.280 in terms of just I don't know, for our trips. Man, 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:04.679 especially living on an organ in the beginning, was kind 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.920 of hard to kind of we even with rivne into 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.119 our trips, but with all the power banks, sorry, all 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.320 the power stations to charge the ev it's been a 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:17.640 much better play. And also too, you just can't you can't, 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:19.359 you can't get away in the fact that it's basically 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:21.679 an iPhone and a power power bank, Like you can 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:24.240 plug anything into that truck and everything just kind of works. 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.240 And so it's been kind of cool to have that 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.320 as far as our little go to truck for you know, 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.320 also giving a beer cole but also doing scouting for 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.560 our trips around here in an organ hosting folks, uh, 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.400 I mean most folks who know anything about obviously car 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:40.080 camping and overlanding spend a lot of time on the 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.560 highway trying to get to the trailhead. It's pretty cool 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:43.639 to be able to be able to be in a 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:46.720