Thanks ST.....I like the product you have linked to and will pick it up and give it a go. At a little over 3 oz it can be considered. Of course ounces add up to lbs and I need to be very careful as my tendency is to become a pack mule.

DD I have read a thread where the arguments for and against the bakepacker were much as you have described with various folk weighing in with precisely what you suggest. Others talk about the physics of heat exchange achieved by the grid.

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I am unsure. Is it merely gobbledygook spouted by someone interested in selling a product or does it really work as advertised and superior to placing some rocks in the bottom of the pan. Are both methods doing the same thing? Not sure.......I will probably pick one up and give it a go. I would be interested in hearing from someone who has actually tried one.

And of course the wee little trouts need to cooperate. Hate to lug all this extra stuff for fish which aren't there or are few and far between and unwilling to leave the clear cool waters to view the world from another vantage point (that being the end of a sharpened stick).