Thread: Cooking systems - Light vs cost

My maplefire 1L heat exchange pot arrived today, did a quick comparison with a normal (wider shaped) alloy pot. Both on the little BRS ti cooker on the same setting, though it wasn't on full power because I didn't think about that until I'd already started. 500ml of tap water.

Maplefire about 1 min 50s
Normal pot about 2 min 20s

So thats about 22% faster/more efficient, and the different probably would have been bigger if the cooker was turned up higher.

Maplefire weighs in at 187g pot only, and 220g including the silicon plastic lid.
My comparison pot is 162g pot only, but if you add its lid (which is pretty solid because it doubles as a bowl or frypan) and pot holder (because it doesn't have a built-in handle) you end up with 419g total.

So I'm happy enough.

One minor downside - the arms of the ti cooker were a few mm too wide to fit inside the heat exchange ring of the pot, but not wide enough to give a stable platform with the ring sitting on them. Problem solved by bending the arms in slightly to fit inside the ring.