About this product
Salt, pilau masala, oil and chilli have a way of escaping into a camping box. This Naturehike set is the tidy answer: a roll of food-grade polypropylene bottles, each sized for a different kind of seasoning, held in a PVC-backed polyester bag that keeps them upright, dry and in one place.
There are two kinds of bottle in the set. The liquid bottles, at 65 ml and 135 ml, use a knob cap that pours a controlled stream rather than emptying half the oil into the pan at once. The solid bottles at 100 ml take a double flip lid – one side opens a shaker for salt and ground spice, the other lifts wide so you can spoon out something coarser like rock salt or dried chilli. Each lid seals into its own compartment, which is what keeps the contents dry and stops the whole bag smelling of masala after one trip.
Polypropylene was the right choice here: it is food-safe, it does not hold flavours between refills, and it survives being dropped on a rock in a way glass does not. The bag itself is PVC-backed polyester, so a splash of rain or a wet cooler lid does not reach the bottles inside, and it rolls closed small enough to sit in the lid pocket of a camping crate.
For Tanzanian trips this is most useful on anything longer than a night – a safari camp, a Zanzibar beach house, a Kilimanjaro climb where the cook needs seasonings that are not in kilogramme sacks. Refill it at home from your own spice tins and it goes out and back without repacking.
Naturehike Portable Seasoning Bottle Set - 8pcs