Detour Stainless Steel Utensil Set

The Sea to Summit Detour Stainless Steel Utensil Set is the cooking partner to Detour cutlery: a serving spoon, a slotted spoon, a pair of tongs and a spatula, all in 430 stainless steel, nested together and held by a silicone keeper. It is the set you reach for when dinner is being cooked for the whole campsite, not stirred in a mug.

Who it's for

Campers who cook properly at camp. Turning sausages on a two-burner stove at a national park campground, lifting pasta out of the pot at a beach camp on the Sunshine Coast, flipping pancakes for the kids on a long weekend. These are full-size tools with real steel in them, sized to live in a camp kitchen box rather than a hiking pack.

• Serving spoon for stirring, tasting and dishing up
• Slotted spoon for lifting pasta and vegetables out of the water
• Tongs for anything on a hotplate or grill
• Spatula for eggs, pancakes and burgers
• Silicone keeper that holds the nested set together

Materials and heat

The spoons, tongs and spatula are 430 stainless steel, and by weight the set is 95% steel and 5% silicone, the silicone being the keeper. Steel shrugs off a hot pan, will not melt against the side of a pot and does not hold on to last night's curry the way plastic does. The handles have a matte finish that stays easy to hold with wet or greasy hands, and the working ends are polished so food slides off cleanly. Each tool is shaped to follow the curve of Sea to Summit pots and bowls, so it reaches into the corners.

Packing and nesting

The four tools stack on top of each other thanks to the profile of their handles, and the silicone keeper slips over the bundle to lock it together. The set weighs 580 g and packs to 29.2 x 7.7 x 4.6 cm, and once the keeper is on, nothing slides around or clatters in the kitchen box. It sits alongside the rest of the Detour stainless steel range in the same finish.

Cleaning

Every piece is dishwasher safe, so the whole set can come home from a trip and go straight into the wash. At camp, hot soapy water and a scrubbing brush do the job.