Thread: Cooking systems - Light vs cost

Originally Posted by Smiley

Pardon the stupid question, but are these refillable or throw away?

Refillable. I usually fill mine with water to make coffee or boil rice.

You're referring to the pots? Or the gas cookers? The cooker uses disposable canister fuel. The pot is a...........pot.

you can even refill the throw away canisters from a standard lpg bottle if you like.

Forgetting the boiling water entirely for a minuite. How do you rate the pot as a cooking device for say some back steak or bacon?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Forgetting the boiling water entirely for a minuite. How do you rate the pot as a cooking device for say some back steak or bacon?

Never tried. Only use it for dehy meals, rice and coffee. Mine would be absolutely hopeless. Bacon maybe but its like a big coffee mug, too deep and narrow. Eta do a pan

The ti pots with pan lids I got off you I think? Are pretty good but touchy as to try and cook something on... heat exchanger underneath might even out the temp a bit .

I use a 900ml evernew titanium pot with a fire maple stove. Perfect for everything I need, which is just boiled water really. Dehy meals, boil in bag, soup and hot drinks.


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I'm looking at getting one of these Vargo 1.3 Liter Titanium Pot from Hikelight.com

Just bought one of these to try

Triad Alcohol Stove | The Original, Lightest, and Most Compact | Alcohol Backpacking Stove - Vargo Titanium

think im just going to get this Toaks Titanium 900ml Pot with 115mm Diamater | Trade Me

Originally Posted by gimp

Just bought one of these to try

Triad Alcohol Stove | The Original, Lightest, and Most Compact | Alcohol Backpacking Stove - Vargo Titanium

be interesting to see how it goes, you can make a relatively strong one out of the aluminium red bull bottles

Your choice should be dictated by what it's for. If it's just for boiling water for oats/dehys/coffee, then get a pot no larger than the max amount of water you expect to need to boil - no point carrying extra weight/size. You also need to consider the diameter of the pot compared the flame diameter of your cooker, for max efficiency you want a wider pot than your flame. Wide and shallow is better than deep and narrow generally, more surface area exposed to heat so it heats the water faster.

yeah, hence why i think i'm going with the one on trademe, 115mm wide, 90mm high. 900ml capacity (to the brim) so should be good for 500ml of water which = a couple of dehy meals or heating up some pasta etc without spilling everywhere

I'm just going to quote the advice I gave in another thread about the same topic! Hope this helps:

Originally Posted by MattyP

Titanium pot - 95 grams.

Titanium kovea - 88 grams.

Titanium spork - 15 grams.

Gas canister? 110g from what I can find online, but not sure if those are the ones I use.

So 198g + your gas canister. 308g if that one is right. I don't carry any cleaning stuff as all I do is boil water for the meals I take (Backcountry Cuisine, etc). For more people, add more sporks .

For even the lightest Jetboil setup you're looking at 450 grams and a lot more space. Not to mention paying more, but I was more concerned with size/weight.

The titanium Spork is heavier than the plastic ones and you don't care if you lose the plastic ones.