swmtnbackpacker
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Jan 9, 2017 17:46:57 GMT -8
My trips are getting longer, so Jetboil is the new way to go for me. Have a lighter original Solo, plus a group Sumo and MiniMo. May eBay the latter though.
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Post by Magnus B. on Sept 5, 2017 19:12:31 GMT -8
The stove I use is a little small for my pot. Heat is fine, but stability is an issue. Check out my cook kit review on YouTube here: youtu.be/UV9advMH_WM |
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Post by black0ak on Oct 9, 2017 22:52:09 GMT -8
For long day hikes that I might do a meal or have something hot to drink I just bring my GSI Minimalist.
My multiday kit is a Toaks 1100 titanium pot that fits the plastic, nested cup/bowl set from the GSI ketalist. My alcohol stove fits in the plastic cup and it gives me about an inch of room on top for a few miscellaneous items. With my wind screen wrapped around the pot in the stuff sack the whole kit is around 10 oz or so.
I prefer a bigger pot so I only have to boil once for my meal and beverage.
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Post by bluefish on Oct 11, 2017 3:27:49 GMT -8
Not the lightest by a mile. GSI 2 quart pot w/ strainer lid and cover, 2 GSI bowls, MSR micro-rocket/mini-bic lighter , a small folding knife, 2 Ti long handled sporks, GSI insulated mug, cozy made from Reflectix, and a heavy aluminum foil windscreen. This exact set has got us quick and easy meals for a few hundred nights. I'm not willing to go lighter, as this set up can be used to do more elaborate meals if we want, or just do the usual boil and wait. There's some elements of dual purpose, as the cover to the pot serves to collect dirty water pre-filtering and aids in washing up. The knife is sturdy enough to do repairs or whittle something . The coffee mug is pure extraneous pleasure, as I don't like drinking my morning coffee out of a bowl. My wife/always hiking partner is morning drink free.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2017 5:08:38 GMT -8
My usual for food not requiring actual cooking (i.e. boiling water only)
Whitebox stove- 1 oz
450ml Snow Peak Ti Cup- 2.4 oz
Long aluminum spoon- 0.4 oz
Will carry the following if needed for what I'm planning to eat (i.e. I'm cooking tortellini and reconstituting pasta sauce):
750ml anodized aluminum pot if boiling larger amounts of water- 4.8 oz
Squishy bowl- 2.7 oz
Minimum weight (not including fuel) 3.8 oz
Max weight (not including fuel) 11.3 oz
If I'm planning to actually cook I will carry my MSR Windpro II, a small frying pan, and spatula in addition to the bowl/pot/cup. Those trips usually involve me splitting the load of cooking gear with another person so the weight penalty isn't terrible.
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Post by trinity on Oct 11, 2017 13:01:07 GMT -8
Whitebox stove- 1 oz 500ml Ti Cup- 2.4 oz How well does this combo work? I've considered getting a Whitebox for years, but never have, mainly because the only thing I ever carry for boiling water is a Snowpeak 700 ml mug. It has always been my understanding that Whitebox stoves don't work well with mugs with a narrow base. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2017 13:21:41 GMT -8
trinity, it works well enough. The bloom from the Whitebox sort of envelops the cup. I've never timed the boil for this particular setup but it's not significantly longer or shorter than it is for my aluminum pot. One thing you have to keep in mind is that the handles of the cup will be hot when you go to grab it. I usually wet my small camp towel (sham-wow) or my bandana and use that to grab the cup. Also, I misstated the size of the cup. It's actually the snow peak 450ml.
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Post by rangewalker on Jan 22, 2019 18:01:46 GMT -8
 I deleted my earlier post as I just reworked my Spring-Summer- Fall kit. The stove, not shown, is a SnowPeak Gigapower with igniter removed, micro Bic and Brunton tripod for fuel canister. The poly truck stop watch cap is the cozy. I will cover my new WY_MT winter kit in another post. - Snow peak 600 Ti Cup, primary water heater
- Evernew 900 ml Ti pot with handles: bowl, rehydrator since I won't use freezer bags, decant FD meals in this for hydrating, will hold a can of C-store chili
- GSI lexan cup with foam insulating sleeve and lid. Next best thing to the old Aladdin insulated cup at a third of the weight.
- Snow peak spork. Since I don't need a long spoon, back to the shorty
- The cup lids stay home when I am in Gram Weenie mode.
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Post by BigLoad on Apr 9, 2019 10:37:23 GMT -8
I switched last year from a Gigapower to an Olicamp Ion. I haven't done a scientific comparison of fuel efficiency, but the weight reduction is nice.
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Post by johntpenca on Apr 11, 2019 15:36:26 GMT -8
I've been thinking about going to a bigger pot. The MSR Titan generally works for me, but wondering if a 1L pot might be more versatile.
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Post by rebeccad on Apr 11, 2019 22:33:17 GMT -8
My 1.5 L pot proved inadequate on the Milford Track, where I was cooking for 4–one of them a 6’3” friend of ES. Of course, the problem was that I was cooking in the pot, not in bags, since freezer bags are hard to get here, and the right things to put in them weren’t easy to come by, either.
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Post by Magnus B. on May 3, 2019 12:33:45 GMT -8
woops, already posted in this thread.
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Post by ukpacker on Jul 12, 2019 23:58:25 GMT -8
My kitchen kit is pretty much standard,an Evernew 1.3l pot , ti cup and spoon a Soto micro regulator stove (good cannister top stove for spreading the flame)+ I use fold out plastic cannister support feet. I once lost a ti spoon on the first night of a long walk in Idaho and for several days used a shovel cut from my foil wind shield,I also dropped a spoon into a metre of powder snow and despite major excavation of snow never found it, so now I often carry a spare folding plastic spoon.
I see like me no one carries anything to use when washing up,so how do you clean your pots?
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 14, 2019 7:42:40 GMT -8
see like me no one carries anything to use when washing up,so how do you clean your pots? I don't. My pot just boils water. The "cooking" happens in a freezer bag. As for the bowls, cups, and spoon... I don't wash them either. That's my husband's job :D For the most part, we eat out of the bags, too, so not much is dirty. Lick the spoons clean then rinse and wipe dry. Coffee cup gets rinsed. A few dishes I prepare end up in our bowls, and we carry a tiny bottle of soap in case things get greasy, but for the most part, rinsing is good enough. |
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Post by ukpacker on Jul 15, 2019 10:16:45 GMT -8
I do something similar in winter as I cook pasta meals in a 1 litre Pioneer food flask, takes about 1/2 hr to cook. In the morning I prepare a hot lunch in the flask, muesli and fruit soup or more pasta again. But washing the thing contributes to the seemingly never ending task of melting snow and waiting for water to boil.
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