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Camping is a recreational outdoor activity which involves overnight stays away from home in a shelter This recreational activity dates back to 1880’s and said to be popularized in UK on the river Thames. Later it evolves to many areas and presentday camping may be combined with hiking as in back-packing and is in conjunction with outdoor activities such as canoeing, climbing, fishing, and hunting. To be regarded as "camping" a minimum of one night spent outdoors is required and this involves in getting the meals prepared for overnight stay at the camping site

This project is about designing a portable camping kitchen which will enable to prepare a meal for two persons, who are camping partners. The other person is responsible for providing shelter and drinking water and will carry the camping gear and water for both people I have the responsibility of cooking one meal for both people. The camp is at a place away from human settlements and shops and we have to walk about three hours to reach to a village. A water source will be available for our portable use. We will be camping there for one night and I need to prepare a simple meal for ourselves. The meal will consist of Rice, Dhal curry and Tempered canned fish I need to carry the essentials need to prepare the above menu, including the utensils which need to prepare the meal and serve it to two persons. So the task is designing a portable camping kitchen, which I can carry for one night camping at a remote area.

Being Eco-Friendly is my concept and was inspired by a butterfly Chrysalis I did a research about food preparation methods and requirements related to camping, how should I carry them and how to design them according to my Anthropometrics and ergonomics. Then I designed the Portable Camping kitchen to accommodate.