review of the 8 inch pathfinder skillet merry christmas to me 

Flinging more cavings! When I was a boy scout ages ago we were always told, "A small fire is a cooking fire." I like that conglomeration, that'll keep you going for awhile.

Good job Blackie! The Pathfinder skillet is better than any other folding stainless camp skillet I have found. The first time I saw that heavy bottom I was impressed. I have eaten many meals out of mine. I too love my carbon steel skillets as they season up so nice and have a traditional look but for stainless, it's the max in my book. One of the reasons I am a proud affiliate :) I know you have the bush pot as well, that thing is about the heart of my kit :) Blessings to you and yours brother!

Most of the world would call that a conglomeration. Us southerners call it scrambled eggs and bacon huntin camp style. somethin about a cold morning , damp morning and woodsmoke that creat the best tasting food 1 GOOD Video Blackie ,thanks for bringing back the memories.

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you using that old timer Coleman!!!!!!!!! Great Channel, been watching for Years!

Conglomeration....looks great to me, country born and raised here...

Thanks for the tips Blackie

By far and away the very best and most comprehensive review I've seen, and I've seen others USE it, but not review it like this. It's the lid that sells it for me, the dutch oven possibilities!

Fantastic review covering real world use with great practical cooking cleaning tips. You have definitely sold me on picking one up. Yes it probably too heaving for long distance backpacking but on the wrong end of 55 after 3 heart attacks I am doing more car camping or short hike camping now anyway.

Great video. Thank you for taking the time to produce it.

I always learn something every time I watch your videos Blackie. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. God bless and Merry Christmas.

I love mine and it cleans up well. I have even cooked a steak in mine with mushrooms and it did great, Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the recommendation, I also love mine, it's quality for sure.

My father-in-law called that campers breakfast. I have a similar pan from Stanley and love it. Grew up with those Coleman stoves. Had one save my life when my truck got stuck on a night that was -38F. Couldn't run the truck all night so that little stove kept me warm enough. Great video, as always.

I've had mine for a couple of years now and I Love it. It's traveled with me from New Mexico to Maine. I've used it on many a campfire and even a few kitchen stoves along the way. It's my favorite all around skillet.

Awesome. Can't wait to see it in full service!

Oh man like I hope you do a cooking series with that skillet that would be so sweet I love your cooking series

Another great presentation nab you made us think.

I've had one of those skillets for about 3 years now and I love it. It stays in my truck 24/7.

I love that stove. I have a colman like that and it's always worth lugging around.

Always enjoy your video,mind opener

Good video and good advice. Thanks!

Good video blackie! The pathfinder skillet can not be beat, I think it's the best out there hands down. Also, I have used it as a duch oven as well and works. Awesome just the same as using a bushpot in conjunction with a small wire rack. I use a few small stones on the bottom of the pan to raise the rack up , the meat cooks evenly all around.

Good video Blackie, thank you. When I was in college I cooked everything in a skillet. Used to take frozen vegetables cook in water, dump out water and put two eggs in and scramble.

well done Blackie, great job with this review, and the tips. Thank you.

Can't wait to see what else you cook with that pan.

Blackie. ComeOn Man! Season your pan three or five times with lard slow & low until you begin to see it smoke..turn off the heat let it naturally cool down then wipe out all fat ..repeat, repeat. Ready to fry..good to go. We Season all our pans each night after work, granted we use and abuse our pans hundredsof time more than the average persons would. Love your channel and your own articulating style. It's no doubt that's why you excel in instructionalship.

Yeah, I need one of those skillets too.

clean after use, clean BEFORE you use it again. Very good advice.

Good advice Blackie, always clean camp cookware before and after cooking. Looks like I need a pathfinder skillet to supplement my cold handle skillets.

Great vid, I love my skillet. I season mine with spray on canola oil. The pan makes great omelets too.

I cook with my pathfinder skillet every weekend. I’ve found a couple pads of butter heated until it’s smoking creates a pretty good surface before you start putting your food in.

"therefore, fry the bacon !" Lol . nicely done. Merry Christmas my Brother !

So good to hear from you. I've wondered how you're doing. Take it easy. When you travel, stop and get out and stand our walk a little ever hour or two. Blood clots are the enemy. Glad you're much better.

Wow! Pearls of wisdom... When you talk about cleaning it and assuming that it's contaminated. Honestly never thought about that. yikes! Great video even these years later! Thanks, Sean

Great video!! Corporals Corner mentioned you 👍🏻🇺🇸

Love mine 🤠

Bought this pan few years back its not my cast iron but im very happy with it

I haven’t had much good luck with stainless steel fry pans or mess kits on a fire. I’ve grown accustomed to using my Lodge small (5”) cast iron skillet. Not much more weight and it is seasoned well. Food tastes great. I appreciate you sharing this information on outdoor cooking. A most interesting subject cause I love a good campfire meal. Be safe! - Tennessee Smoky

Merci pour cette présentation. Au usa vous avez toujours le meilleur. En France c'est difficile d'avoir du matériel qui résiste à toutes les situations... Je vous suit et vous soutient. Bonjour de France

Use with the lid Dutch oven style, coals on top, .for bannock, cornbread, PIZZA !!!! Etc. Thanks very much for the timely sterilization tutorial .Mine is arriving any day now.

We just call that an egg scramble meal. Lol😋 been doin it for years. Love your content on all your videos.

keep hoping to make your rendezvous, sooner or later! Many years ago you promoted the knives of Mr. Collins. I kept postponing , holding off , now the prices; which is great for Mr. Collins!, put it out of my league. NEVER PAUSE!

5:36 Seeing that shell dance around in there followed by "Blackie your doing that wrong" had me chuckling, nice and sly of you not to mention it at 8:53.

Intending to buy the Stanley, until I realized that this past finder comes with a lid these days. A game changer. I really appreciate your words on sterilization very much, as I tend to do the same sort of thing myself. Waiting till the end you haven’t noticed that the lid

Blackie I have one of those skillets. I use coconut oil and bring to the smoke point let it cool and wipe it out GOOD TO GO.

That was a nice one !

I have always been a fan of a thick bottom too, Blackie.

I like my pathfinder pan, I bring in some of that field soap for dishes, boil it like you do with it in it and let it rest a bit, then scrub/wipe out and rinse. That pan does tend to stick though, unless you temp preseason like Dave showed.

Nice little size skillets

Good idea. Water instead of oil. I used the MSR skillet years ago and burned the bacon and my plastic spatula.

I don't know, but there is a good chance that Dave designed that lid with dutch oven cooking in mind. "Multi-functional use" Thanks for the video Blackie.

Great point blackie clean your camp gear

Stainless can be seasoned (non-stick), ask any professional cook. I love my cold handle carbon steel skillets.

Spatuler! I'm from Georgia. That's what we call it too. 😉 Great video Blackie. I've wanted one for a while too. Those bacon and eggs need some grits to go with them.

Funny I just got my Pathfinder skillet out today also. Heat treated with oil till smoking 4 times. It is nice and golden brown now. Cooked 2 eggs Over Easy without a spatula, Very non stick. A tip I sanded down an old wood spoon to flat at the tip to move food better in the pan and the round sides of the spoon scrape foods from the sides. Could have bought the Stanley pan ( same thick bottom, both will work on an Induction burner also) but I wanted the lid that the pathfinder has, Plus got mine at 30% off on their Blackie Friday sale. LOL Yes, Shawns Skillet is really nasty. Seems all he uses it for is bacon anyway, except today he actually ate veggies. .

Yes sir you can bake in it like a Dutch oven . I made can biskits in mine the other day. We cooked breakfast in the woods while I was cutting fire wood .

In all my years (52) I have never gotten sick from cooking over a fire at camp. I’ve cooked chicken over campfire for about a dozen family members and friends. The chicken was done perfectly and no one got sick. Out of 20 pounds of chicken I only got one piece it was all eaten. To me that is the perfect test to one’s outdoor cooking skills...and I passed the test👍.

I am batching it for the next couple of days. Now I want some Eggs And bacon. THX

I have never liked stainless steel cookware for frying, but the thick bottom looks very good on the Pathfinder. One product I found in Wal-Mart about a month ago is "Falls Brand Bacon Ends & Pieces, 48 Oz." as an alternative to bacon strips. It is a big pack of cut up bacon, which makes handling of the bacon a snap since you can simply dump it out into the pan, no need to mess up your knife / hands. Cooks and tastes good.

Thanks Blackie! I think I see a new frying pan in my near future. ATB Sam Adler

camp craft makes a great skillet bag for that skillet...

I grew up about 5 miles from where Nessmuk took those kids on that fishing trip. It's a state park now. Unfortunately they damned the creek so most likely the actual site of his camp is underwater these days.

I'm getting one in a couple days. Gonna give the GI mess kit a rest for a while.

Great looking pan. I call it pan scrambled when I do it. I clean mine the same way. What brand vest is that? I wish I had 60 degrees but mid December no snow I'm not complaining to loud.

In your experience, do you find a frying pan or a bush pot to be more versatile? I was thinking since the pan is flat, your boil time is quicker. Plus it's flatter for your pack. Just curious on your take. Thanks in advance. Maybe a video comparing?

Hi Blackie, great video! I have one of those pans; I've baked bread in it a few times on my kitchen stove, but haven't tried it in the field yet. No hot coals on top; I just use a low heat, and flip it over when it's half-way done. ... On another topic: Where can I get a hat like yours? I've been wearing that style all my life, but I like yours better than the one I have now. Thanks!

If you bring more bacon you can have it by the pound every day. Plus add a few more pounds for the obligatory Midnight Bacon. No such thing as too much bacon.

Blackie, what’s the vest you’re wearing sir? I really like that and would like to buy one. Thanks in advance.

We're looking for a stainless backpack type skillet, this just might be it.

Greetings, please tell me about your vest. Looks useful. Thank for the share. Keep up the good work. pac, PL

You will like it alot, like the hell out of mine.

How long are you going to have your Ridgeline for

I wonder if a metal putty knife would make a useable spatula🤔 I'll have to give it a try😊

Silly me, I purchased the Stanley skillet sets lots of plastic accessories but no lid

Really like that vest Blackie, can you tell me what it is? Reminds me a lot of those Korean War era GI wool fatigue shirts

Potatoes would be great.

My Scout Master would have slapped me silly if I cooked the eggs with the bacon. It spoils the bacon. His mantra was bacon first (save the grease). Hash browns next with some of the bacon grease. Then the eggs with all of the remaining bacon grease. We always cooked on an open fire (nobody has gas stoves back then), so we could cook with two pans. I've got one of those Path Finder s/s skillets too. Very packable and indestructible. Good choice. But, my favorite for cooking eggs is a 7" carbon steel skillet that has been seasoned. It surpasses stainless steel in every way. Thanks for the video.

are you going to take oil and season it like you did the GI mess kit?

The bottom on this is because ot os a skillet designed for using on a induction burner.

It’s called deglazing the pan.

Blackie, chefs have dishwashers, so it doesn't matter so much how many pans they dirty. Your way only dirties one pan. Thus, you have more time to do other things.

Like watching info commercial.

You have a small Dutch oven there if you are careful imo

I could not call that mess breakfast, looks like you didn't have much too show to day. I like you're other videos much better.

Why the pathfinder skillet and not the stanley? Is the pathfinder that much better?

I like the pathfinder skillet too. I think your doing it all worng. But thats just my thoughts.

You telling me fo 40 years I should’ve put down Wodda into ma skillets instead of oil 😱

My problem with the entire Pathfinder brand... Overpriced. Great gear, some really great gear, but OP. Sure, small custom runs are expensive, but they run into the problem of the perfect being the enemy of the good enough. I've got a similar pan, that I bought over a decade ago as a "cheap" cook set for camping. Fun set, it had several pots that shared the same handle. The problem with it, it is a car (or bike trailer) camping cook set. It is okay for a brief run into the woods (a few miles), especially using my folding wagon to transport it with more comfort/snivel gear. Hike with it? Bugout bag gear? Oh, heck no! I have lightweight 1-2 person gear for that.

Try baking a homemade pizza on the coals

First cook is always Bacon lol.

i don't think they're thin because people want "light light light" it's because the manufactures want "cheap cheap cheap".

STUCK, you need to season that skillet first

Stil laughing... but WITH you 100% about being CONTAMINATED if it's in your pack. Re Sean Kelly, damn! Laughing AGAIN! The Marine way vs. common sense and time spent!

don't dump the grease it is good for you ! veggie oil is not good for you !

?????? What are you talking about??? lol.

What a mess that pan is garbage