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Reviews > Cook and Food Storage Gear > Cook Sets > Wildo Eating Essentials Campware Set > Test Report by Duane LawrenceWildo Eating Essentials Campware Set
Reviewed By – Duane Lawrence Initial Review – March 7, 2017 Long Term Report - September 5, 2017 Tester Information Name: Duane Lawrence Email: duanesgear (at) yahoo (dot) com Location: Sparwood, British Columbia Canada Gender: Male Age: 44 years Height: 5’9” (1.75m) Weight: 160 lbs (73 kg) I have been an avid outdoor enthusiast for over 25 years. I enjoy a variety of outdoor activities including mountaineering, day hikes, multi-day backpacking trips, river and ocean kayaking, back-country skiing, snowshoeing, mountain biking and rock climbing. I have climbed throughout British Columbia, the United States and when opportunity presents itself in Europe and India. I carry a wide variety of gear depending on the type and length of trip. I am a search and rescue team member in the Southern Canadian Rockies and am part of the swift water, rope rescue and avalanche technical teams and ground search team. Product Details 
Set Specifications
Campware Set Overview The Wildo Eating Essentials Campware sets is comprised of seven of the Wildo Campware products including a small mug, larger open mug, large bowl, shallow plate, deep plate and two sporks, the ever essential spoon, knife and fork combination. The entire set came in a mesh bag with a little carabiner.  The Fold-A-Cup is a small mug that can bend into itself reducing
its depth from 5.5 cm (2.2 in) cm to 2.7 cm (1 in). The cup
holds about 1 cup (236 ml) of liquid and has a small 2 cm (.8 in) handle. When unfolded the mug has a slightly narrower
opening than when it is folded up. The Fold-A-Mug is made of a malleable food
grade thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) that is dishwasher safe and BPA (bisphenol
A) free. The Kasa Bowl, made of a food grade polypropylene (PP), also BPA free and is dishwasher safe. This stiffer plastic appears to make the mug more resilient removing most of its flexibility. All of the remainder of the products described in this report are made of PP. The Kasa Bowl is small enough to drink from or use as a small soup bowl. The bowl holds about 1.3 cups (307 ml) of water and has measuring lines on the inside of the bowl. Unfortunately it did not tell me what units it was measuring. After a little bit of unit manipulation I figured out that the 1, 2 and 3 represented 100 ml, 200 ml and 300 ml (.4c, .8c and 1.3c). The bowl has a small 3.5 cm (1.4 in) handle. The Kasa XL is a large bowl with an 8 cm (3.2 in) handle and can hold up to 3.8 cups (899 ml) of water. The Camper Plate and Camper Plate Deep are 22 cm (8.7 in) in diameter with the primary difference between them being the depth. The Camper Plate Deep is 4.4 cm (1.7 in) deep while the Camper Plate is 2.1 cm (.8 in) deep. The Camper Plate fits nicely into the top of the Plate Deep. The Campware Set also comes with two Sporks, also made of PP. The handle is about 10 cm (3.9 in) with the spoon, knife and fork portion of the Sport roughly 5 cm (2 in) in diameter. General Impressions and Observations The Campware set is a nice looking camp kit that has enough components to allow two people to eat and drink a meal. The Sporks, always a favorite in my mind, appear to be stiff enough to attack most food with the spoon deep enough to actually scoop up food or soup. The knife edge appears to be sharp enough to cut food stuffs, and the fork tines look like they should be able to spear whatever I am eating at the time. The Fold-A-Cup is kind of neat. It folds down into a very compact unit although it does seem to be a little small for my liking. Even the Kasa Bowl, which can be used as a cup is small for my linking. I am anticipating having to make many cups of tea or coffee to satisfy my morning and evening tea and coffee consumption requirement’s. The good thing about both there relatively small size is that hot liquids won’t have time to cool off as there is not much there to begin with. Both the bowl and cup fit nicely in my hand but the handles are a little too small for my liking. I anticipate just holding both in the palm of my hands rather than using the handles. I can see the handles coming in handy if needed to scoop up something but not for holding onto.  The Kasa XL is a large bowl which is listed as being a multi-use vessel that can be used a bowl, cup or as a large scoop. It actually reminds me of a small cooking pot, not that this would be a good idea being made of plastic. Although I can see that I could drink from this large bowl I cannot imagine it being very comfortable. I foresee using this as a my primary bowl as I can fit enough food into it all at once without having to go back to the cook pot for seconds and thirds if I were to use the smaller Kasa Bowl. Both the Plate and Plate Deep look to be of a useful size. The shallower plate appears to be big enough to hold a small meal and stiff enough that when being weighted down with food it is not going to dump everything on the ground. The Plate Deep looks even more useful with large side walls that will hold food without letting it escape. It should be able to hold most any type of food without spilling off the sides. The only thing I can see that would be a problem would be getting to the bottom of the plate to cut food, the sides might get in the way, but then again that is where the Plate would be perfect. I almost forgot to mention that both plates have a small, matching, hole on the ‘handle’ of the plate (a flat bit on one edge). I am assuming that this is placed here so that the user could clip them together and hang them off of a pack, not exactly sure. I also almost missed that both plates actually have a handle of sorts. It’s a flat portion of the plate, 3 cm (1.2 in) deep, that could be used to make handling the plate easier, will have to wait and see. Over all the set appears to have everything two people would need to enjoy a meal. Two plates, two Sporks, two cups or two bowls and a cup depending on how I would choose to use them. The handles are a little small, almost to a pointless state, but I will just have to wait and see how they actually function over the course of this test. Everything fits rather nicely together making a relatively compact unit and the mesh bag easily fits everything. Individually each piece is fairly light but together, weighing in at about 337 g (11.9 oz), it is a little on the heavy side for my liking.
Test Conditions
Observations
The plates, both deep and shallow, were very nice to use. Each has
a lip on the side which pushes the food away from one edge of the plate which
could them be used as a handle. This was a very nice feature of both
pates and greatly appreciated for handling. The shallow plate was very
good for foods that I needed to cut while being on my plate while the deep
plate contained a nice amount of food wile preventing spillage. There is
really nothing I did not like about the plates. Read more reviews of WILDO Sweden AB gear Read more gear reviews by Duane Lawrence Reviews > Cook and Food Storage Gear > Cook Sets > Wildo Eating Essentials Campware Set > Test Report by Duane Lawrence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
With respect to the individual items I think it will be easiest to go through
them one by one. First, the fold-a-cup. Although very compactable
it is about the only positive thing I can think of when reviewing this item.
It is just so small in so many ways it is not very useful. The
total volume of this cup is tiny resulting in it having to be refilled on a
continual basis. It does not hold any heat for hot beverages and the
handle is tiny. The fold-a-cup needs to be three or four times the size
for me to consider using it. And even then if it cannot keep my coffee warm in
the morning for a good amount of time then it is fairly useless. For
water and cold beverages I would be more likely to dink out of my water bottle
than get use the fold-a-cup. 
