PRIME CUT

You don’t spend hard-earned money on grade-A biltong only to try and slice it with a puny pocketknife. Get yourself something decent.

Paraffin as well as the consumer.

When it comes to plastic containers, we often use red ones for petrol and yellow for diesel, the way the Californians intended, but again we use the blue ones for water because we wouldn’t know what to do with that much paraffin anyway.

By the way, if the blue plastic container makes your drinking water taste like plastic, try the following: fill it three quarters with hot tap water (not boiling water from the kettle) and add one tablespoon of baking soda per litre of water.

Leave the water to cool (about an hour) and then rinse it with cold tap water. Repeat when the taste returns.

Paraffin

Water

Various fuels

Is there anything more disappointing than getting comfortable with a big piece of biltong in your camping chair, only to realise you didn’t bring your favourite biltong knife to get through the sinew?

Don’t get caught out there with nothing but a butter knife or resorting to having to use a utensil from the generic set in your camper. Here are a few options to help you make sure you always have the real deal at hand.