Solo Camping in DARK MODE - Katsu Curry

Hello there guys. Walking through the woods to get to a spot today. A spot I know well that you've seen before. Hang on am I getting lost? I know where I need to go. And yeah we've got a theme to the camp today and as you probably would have seen we're going dark mode. Inspired by the Japanese and other Asian kind of Instagrammers and YouTubers where everything kind of matches and stuff. So I may not be able to do it to their level but as you can see I've dressed the part. So uh yeah we're doing that and we're going to do a bit of campfire cooking or maybe camp stove cooking we'll say. And there'll be some Japanese food as well. So let's get this to camp and I've got a few other things to uh grab and bring to camp as well. Right before I start setting up a little bit of a thanks to OneTigris for sending over one of their tents from their Black Orca range. Had this idea for the dark mode camp a little while ago and I sent them an email and sent me over the tent and the chair and also Full Circle Brewco. The t-shirt that I'm to arrive with the beers I'll be drinking tonight. Very helpful because I don't have many black clothes. Can't remember where this bag come from it's from one of my Chinese camps like AliExpress or Wish or one of them but I kept hold of it and it's come in handy. Right so here's the tent in question it's the Nebula which they also do I think like a polycotton version or something. Never set up one of these but it does have instructions inside here and there's a lot of poles. Guys it's aeroplane city out here today. I think before I start actually setting up I'll go through all the different poles and just get them together ready because there's a few. I'll figure out the order here. There's all eight poles for this and a couple of kind of water stopper things to go on the top. All right time to peg her out. Okay pegs are fine sort of tri-lobed ones. Number one. After the corners I have to peg out the ends and they have kind of like a little bit of a floor reaver end. Apparently I'm to put these kind of framework poles in before I put the poles inside so I'm going to put that there's four of them on each corner. They're in the loops and now you just hook it on and this coming through here is why these are necessary. I want to peg these out nice and taut. That looks pretty good to me. Now it's just for the poles on like the awning porch area so I'm just going to get that up. I think I'm as good as I'm going to get there because I'm not perfectly straight and flat on the ground here but it looks pretty good. I'm happy anyway so I'm gonna have a little look inside. I think there's a ground sheet as well. Blooming aeroplanes. I'm assuming this is the ground sheet and I'll have to peg up this net first. This bug net. Oh we've got loops here. I'll tell you what if I open the other side we'll get some light in here won't we. All right this side can be pegged out as well if you wanted to. Well that's a bit better. Let's try this out. I'm assuming it's a ground sheet at least and we've got clips to plug into. That's basically clipped in and all ready. So this isn't everything but I've got this is where I put my keys and stuff in wallet and that when I'm in tents. It's like a water bowl for dogs. I've got the Obsidian One Tigris Max. It's black. The black chair they sent me and the Queza sleeping bag which is probably a little bit warm for this weather. We'll see how it goes. It's a bit cooler today and this is just a small pillow. Well some of you are going to recognize the infamous box from the review channel. This was a bit of an inspiration for this camp. If you've seen these systems where everything's kind of set up and integrated. Not the most practical of things but they do look cool when set up. So I'm going to get this set up and some other bits and bobs and we'll kind of come to a bit of an arrangement here. If you did see the review channel video nothing's really been touched here since but I have added some stuff. So I'll get this set up and we'll get going. I've got two potential stands for this. A really simple one and like a table type one. I'm going to try this simple one first. I can't even remember what one we tried last time. I don't think it was either of these. Right. Why didn't I do this first? It's so hard. Right let's take these off. That's going to make life easier. It's a little on the slidey side but that's because the ground's uneven. I did get another table. I completely forgot to bring that one but I've got this thing as well. So I'll try this out because I want to use something just as a table as well. There's that. I've also got my Mission Mountain table as well because it is flat. I believe this is the other table. I didn't think I had it with me but I forgot it was so compact. Just to decide what table where and for what. So many tables and surfaces and things. It's going to be quite nice If I get this chair up I'll figure out where that's going. I've just had a thought. Being a YouTuber I like a nice thumbnail but this will be facing the wrong way around won't it? We'll see. I don't mind saying I'm glad it's not hotter today. It's quite a pleasant day 20 something degrees. So there's sun. There's a breeze. It's actually quite perfect for camping. But yeah I'm getting hungry doing all this. Right I think right under the awning area here, right at the edge, would be a nice place for this. So I'll kind of arrange my tables. Oh I've got one more thing. This is a bit of a fire pit. A portable fire pit. I say portable. Portable if you're close enough to your truck or car. And it is black as is the fire grate. This was off Amazon. This was like 20 pounds maybe even less. Could come in handy in the future. Right let's talk stoves. Now some of you remember I've got this panel in here and it's supposed to work with this and you know all go like that with the gas can under here. Now I got quite confused last time and I realized after that video that this system was originally for tables not boxes. It's been adapted and with a table you can just reach under the gas canister and turn it on and off etc. So that's why it doesn't really work with this. Yeah a bit of an oversight. Well on their part not so much mine but it is what it is. So I have two of these kind of tactical covers for gas canisters. Match the whole setup here. And sadly I did actually paint a gas can before I got this. I'm such a loser. When I get sank in my head. But I've got two stoves with me for doing stuff later for dinner. But for now I think I'm just going to use this one and just do myself a spot of lunch. And yeah of course there's more to it than that. I got a stand for this particular gas canister because it doesn't fit in there in this whole box system. And it will kind of go over like this. So if I get this gas can on first. Where do we go? There it is. Get that tightened. And this goes over here. And this kind of grill wind deflector which is pretty you know solid steel will go on top of the burner. Like yay. We should have access to the controls over there. It's on my little black plate here. Got some bread and some pre-grated cheese. And we're just going to have a simple cheese toastie for a very late lunch. No butter today. Just a little oil in the pan. Okay I've just drizzled a bit of oil on the bread there. Oh nice. There's the flame. Everything is metal so I can put the pan down anywhere. Doesn't matter. Put it on the diagonal. Right I may not be fully set up but I've got my lunch. Happy with that. Just nice to use a gas stove and have surfaces and stuff. It's not always that way for me is it? That was good. This does of course mean I'm going to need to buy another panel for here that isn't this. And use this in that table I've got or I don't know. I don't even know. So here we are so far. There's a few more bits but I've got some kind of measuring cup things here which I do actually need later. The little stove lantern thing that I reviewed on the review channel recently. My black kettle. Knife and a light and scissors and stuff on here with the light up the top there. The other stove. The other gas tank. Some plates and stuff and on the front here is the kitchen towel and here is a toilet paper dispenser. We got it all. Cutlery and stuff I'll get that out. I've got my lantern stands which I guess I'll kind of put here on the other side. See how that looks. These are the lanterns going on the sides and yeah I've just bought them to be honest so I can't say how good they are. They're white here to reflect the light and they're rechargeable. This is going to be my kind of desktop lantern for this evening. I don't think the leather needs to be black does it? Okay so I do have one thing that is not black well it's not all black and that's my cot bed so I'm going to get that out set that up and then cover it up with the black mat. Easier just to do this outside of the tent than carry it in. What I've actually done is roll back the ground sheet just so I've got ground sheet at the front and at the back the bed can just rest on the ground. I may have to dig out a couple of little holes to level it a bit. We'll see how it feels. We appear to have a hook up in here so we can have the lantern. There's that black Queza sleeping bag which is quite a warm one so let's see how that goes tonight. You forgot my water bottle. So my water bottle that happens to be black is a Grail. This is a filter purifying bottle. You may have seen me use a friend's one on a canoe trip in Wales. Have I used this in a video? I do not know. But yeah it's absolutely brilliant. Love it. Probably my favourite filter so far that is filled up with tap water at the moment. I do need to say like I said in the kind of review video for this box how daft I am for the amount of money I spent. Well the fact that I had to buy, well I didn't have to buy, but I decided to buy the new stand and everything for this stove since it can't go in the box. Yeah I spent another 100 pounds on this and that's the grill, the wind guard and the stand with kind of one wooden side. I'll say it again. Call me an idiot in the comments. I'm still loving this though. I've got no regrets with that. It's so cool. Tiny tiny refillable gas canister. I'll link it below but I did a video as well and yeah I reckon, what did I get? About 18 minutes of burn time out of it. So you could do boil in the bag and a couple of teas or coffees like on a single overnighter or something. It's the igniter. Oh that's good. Oh it's taken an hour me setting all this up. It's taken like three hours, over three hours. I guess I did make lunch as well but oh bugs are coming out. Finish this tea quickly and I've got something with me for that. So this is the flex towel kind of bug deterrent thing. It's also a power bank I believe and these are the inserts for it. It heats them up and I don't know emits something or other. So there's an old one in there and there's one for the other side. I'll get that hung up. I wonder if this can take the weight. Yeah it's fine. How do I switch it on? Where is the switch? It's nice and relaxing as it is. There's a lot of bugs coming out. I even sprayed as well as having the electric debris on. I guess I'd better get a little bit of firewood for later. I'm not gonna have a big fire. I'm probably gonna cook my dinner on the stove and just have a fire to chill with once the sun goes down and just sort of kill the evening. So better get the saw. Oh just about. I think there'll be plenty plus what's just laying around the place. I've definitely been bitten at least twice. I feel an itchy knee as well. I think one might have got up there. Oh it's because I've been going away from the electric deterrent thing, repellent, whatever they're called. I might sit down and have a beer. All right where are the beers? So like I said Full Circle Brew sent me some beers just to have on the channel and just to try them out and this one needs more dinosaur double IPA. Picked it just because I just love the cover, the can art on it. 8.1% though so I probably shouldn't have started with this one but cheers everybody. Yes that's nice. Oh god that's so nice it's so cold. It's been in the cooler. I usually do rice in cups and half cups. I'm kind of assuming this is a cup. It looks like it might be a bit big but let's guess. I forgot to hit record but I've got some panko bread crumbs and I've just cracked an egg into this small bowl. Now these bowls are a little bit smaller than I remember in this set but we'll do what we can. So I don't have any flour with me. Didn't think about it but go straight in that egg and then hopefully with no mess we'll go into the breadcrumbs there. Look at that enormously coated. That rice is well on its way so time to put the chicken on. With the rice off just to steam away I'm putting on my kettle which actually has like a pouch of katsu curry sauce. I couldn't be bothered to make my own today. Right another full circle brew coat. This one is actually a session IPA repeater so a bit more sensible after the double IPA. Oh nice. Slice our chicken a bit and verify that it's cooked. Looks beautiful. That is beautiful. Here is that rice that's finished steaming. Looking pretty nice and we've got our katsu curry over there and I'm going to put a bit on the rice because the plates are so small and all right first up let's try the rice. Lovely. Still aeroplanes. Bloody summer. Let's try some of that katsu chicken. I love it. I used to have a job where I lived off this stuff because it was like three places that were the nearest free places to that work and they all did katsu curry. Worth the effort and in this kind of setup in this kind of weather which isn't that often um yeah a delight to cook really. Obviously a bit harder work with the camera but um without a camera I could have just sat here done everything within reach. That was really good. That sauce was really nice actually. Oh god I am stuffed. Just been watching the sunset. Beautiful. Really nice from here. We're on quite high ground here but uh getting pretty dark in here. Soon be dark dark and I'll uh get the fire going for a little bit before kind of trying out this tent which I've not really talked about yet. Like I said it's the Nebula. Very interesting design and it is quite big but it's a lot bigger than I thought it was gonna be. So that should be quite interesting. I should probably zip up the inner. That smoke should help with the last few bugs that are around. Still quite light out like outside of the woods you can see in the sky. Just entering a dusk now. Twilight. My little lantern's holding up well. I mean everything's holding up well really. I actually quite like this setup. Yes obviously you can't walk somewhere with all this but I do quite like it. I like having tables which I often don't have. Like little surface areas for cooking and preparing and having lanterns on and stuff. It's quite nice. Oh yeah it is something a little bit different anyway. I say that all the time don't I? That is my aim to do lots of things that are very different. This is a nice one. Repeater. Well now I've got one more so I can repeat this. Ah yeah time to have a little chill. I might even listen to the radio for a bit. Good morning. Got a bit noisy last night as I went to bed. I don't know what it was. I've not really ever seen much in the way of deer in here but it sounded like deer. But yeah and the birds that were roosting were making quite a noise as well. But after all of that ruckus I slept quite well. Got up at 7.30 ish which is late for me lately. I've been getting up pretty much at dawn. I did wake up half four because there was I think a crow or something really making a racket. So like I woke up then went back to sleep for a bit and yeah. Tent. I mean I haven't spent much time in it but it's absolutely fine. It's nice to be able to stand up even if you are hunched to move around but I had just left the front open. Why not? The mesh is quite dark being black but you know I'm used to sleeping under tarps and things and being open like that doesn't really bother me. Oh dear. One thing with something like this is you know when it's very rainy what do you do with it? If you've got a big old tent you could take it inside under the awning but otherwise you've got to put it all away again. The fire pit did absolutely fine to be honest. It's not a bad little size. Once you've got some coals you can put a grill on there and cook something you know. Not saying it takes a long time but burgers or something. I'll definitely take this tent out in the winter and try it out in the rain especially with the awning and that as well. Be a good test and yeah quite looking forward to that. Now this is kind of a gas stove toaster which I've not used in a long time and I remember being fiddly with how it collapses and opens up. Could be all overlapped here. Hmm. Oh it's going to come out. So I believe it goes something like that and your bread can lean in. You can have four on but just about. Here's our frying pan and here we have some nice smoky bacon. I forget what ignition is on this one. It may or may not amaze you. I've been trying to eat a bit healthier lately. Things got a little bit out of control especially after I quit my bad habit earlier this year and yeah I need to lose some weight especially when you see yourself editing and stuff all the time. So yeah camping meals are now a treat. Not like a norm. I haven't had bread in ages to be honest. Been eating arepas because they're kind of cornmeal. But yes camping treats. I don't know how well that's doing. I think it needs to be on a gas stove with a wider ring. Maybe a little higher but it's starting to smell toasty. It's kind of toast. I really should have brought butter on this trip. One egg, two egg and some more bacon. Bit of ketchup. Really couldn't be bothered with using that tiny plate. It would have fit one slice of toast. Mmm. Mmm. Salty bacon. It's quite nice cooking here. I quite like it. Especially when you've got two stoves. That's quite cool. And obviously gas is a lot easier to cook on than a campfire or even mefs. So a bit of a treat. So I'm gonna eat my breakfast. I nearly forgot my broth. Because it's really heavy still this. You get some real residual heat there. Oh it's amazing. Oh that's hot. It's nice that I'm not really in a rush this morning. Which is good because there's a lot to back away. It's also good because it's been a very busy week. As I've alluded to I have a launch coming up soon. A big project. And yeah that may even come to a head before this video. I'm not sure yet. So watch this space and look out for some kind of announcement. It's very exciting. Let's start with something easy. I only kind of really even half filled this with gas yesterday. I'm the most expensive gas stove I own now. The whole thing moved. Come on. We're in the right place there. Oh there we go. So my lantern off there. You can go in there. If you've not already seen it this is one of the newer one Tigris chairs with quite a funky mechanism. Like so. And the rest just fold down as usual. I guess we'll just reverse order this and see how it goes. What do you reckon? Easy or hard? That's all four structural poles. It's just the ridge ones now. Well guys I've got to say I did quite enjoy that camp. It's quite nice all being set up like that. I mean unless you've got a tarp or a very large awning that's not going to be possible here in the kind of half a year. But nice on a sunny day when you can drive it most of the way in. Thanks for watching. I'll try and link most of the stuff below but there's so much stuff in this video. I'll see you next time.