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  This is an overall review of Guyot  Designs Squishy bowls, Microbites Utensils, and the 38 oz Standard Bottle.  Let me start off by saying I was highly impressed with these products. The overall versatility and pack ability of these products alone is a great selling point. I have used these products for well over a month now and I have grown fairly attached to them as parts of my overall gear.

  The Squishy Bowls

  Impressive pieces of gear! These are made of a food grade silicone material that makes not only cleanup easy but also seems to retain heat and keeps it away from your hands. However, do not place these bowls into the fire or on any heat source. They will melt. These bowls can also be folded and secured with paracord or a velcro strap for even more compatibility. These bowls can be stored or pack anywhere. This is a big plus when carrying your equipment into the field.

 Above is a photo of the Squishy bowls wrapped with paracord to to make them even more compact.

  The bowls when untied sprung back into shape. These were actually tied up for a week inside my pack previous to unwrapping them for this review.

  I was stirring hot coco in the small 6 oz bowl. The boiling water didn't really even faze me while holding the bowl.

  This is the 16 oz bowl. I used boiling water to reconstitute my freeze dried lunch.

  My finished meal. The bowl took 15 minutes of hot water to reconstitute my meal. I was impressed with the performance of these products. I believe this is a solution to heavy and bulky mess kits. In my personal opinion these products are well worth the money spent. The definitely have a place in your pack. Visit Guyot Designs to see their entire product line.

  These utensils surprised me to say the least. At first I though they were made of nothing more than just plastic. I was wrong. They are in fact made of a nylon impregnated plastic making them much stronger. These are strong enough to pry the lid off of a Sterno can. These are extremely light weight and snap together for easy storage.

  The Microbites come with a hole in the handle to easily place a carbineer to attach to a pack if desired.

                                                     The spork

    The photo above shows a close up of the three in one utensil. It has a spatula, a knife, and a spreader for butter, peanut butter, cheese, or other spreads. These utensils are heat resistant and will more than hold up to any cooking task.

   38 OZ Standard Bottle

  This is the item that caught my attention. This is the most versatile piece of gear I have seen made in a long time.  The stainless steel construction makes this bottle and absolute survival must. This will allow you to boil water as well as cook a meal in needed. It comes with a plastic lid that is secured with cord to hold it to the bottle. This must be removed however if you intend to cook with this container.

   In the photo above you can see the bottle in the fire. This was done to boil the water for my meal.

  To remove the bottle from the fire i simply picked it up with my multitool. This was not a problem. In fact it worked quite well in my opinion.

   In this photo you can see the bottle is quite burned. Cleaning it was easy by using the sand on the ground.

 The fine sand made the cleaning of the bottle easy. The soot left behind by the fire came off with ease. There are other ways to clean this bottle as well. You can add soap to the outside allowing the soot to simply be washed away. The bottle can also be spray painted black with high heat oven or BBQ paint. This keeps the soot from sticking to it as well.

  Above is the cleaned bottle. Ready to be packed and used another day.