The mess kit interests me. I remember the parents of one scout that came along on a trip to South Manitou Island had a non-stick mess kit. Clean up was a snap compared to regular aluminum surface. <br><br>Heck! I still remember the mess I had to clean up as a youth when we baked bread in our mess kits (we doidn't have DO in our troop). The crust burned to both the top and bottom halves and the outside was caked in soot. Yikes! That's why $32 doesn't seem so bad! ;-)