Is there not a problem boiling water in an endangered mug? Not sure I'd want to. Mind you I've got so many light pots to suit many different stoves I'm spoilt for choice.I prefer Vargo Ti-Lite 750ml Ti mug/pot, an alpkit 450no Ti cup and the AGG alu 3 cup pot for the wide burners like white box stove. These pots weigh 97g for the alu AGG pot then 110 g for the Vargo pot. Not sure about the alpkit one but it's not enough capacity for me so only used if I want a second pot for making coffee then having the bigger ones for boiling water for dehydrated food. I usually have double portions because I need a lot of food each day.Fuel is the big weight too. For my use I typically get at least 5 days from a 100g gas can. I've had as much as 7 days once (brews morning, lunch, evening meal and last thing at night. Then noodles at lunch, dehydrated food in the evening and usually porridge for breakfast.) All that and it lasted 6/7 days! Makes a good use of the.gas I reckon and goes some way to negating the weight of the can. Meths is relatively heavy for calorific value but through experience you can burn it very efficiently to make the most.of the energy being carried as meths.
What light weight stove??
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Gosh, I must be doing something very wrong, or you have a most efficient gas burner, I cannot get anywhere close to that on 100g of gas.
Impressed to say the least.
rorymax
Should just say, it's not at all necessary to spend lots of dosh on titanium stuff, it's a bit of a treat if you have the budget, but I replaced all my crusader and zebra billy kit after I took the time to weigh it all and realised that they were quite a significant part of my pack weight and could be reduced drastically and easily. That's not important to everybody though, it's just what makes me happy at the moment !
Cheers, Paul
How much did it all weigh? As anything serious hits the kilo mark in my calculations, for the pot windshield stove fuel and fuel container. If your boiling rice, cooking bacon etc it soon mounts up. I usually use the equivalent of about 6 litres boiled a day. Over 4 days that totals 24, so even with a jetboil I'm looking at more than 1 220 cartridge, plus the stove. Meths I find makes up for itself almost by being carried in a plastic bottle, 24 boils comes in at about 750g in the container, which so does the gas. People wll obviously say a jetboil boils a litre on 6g of gas or something like that, so ok your right I don't care it's not my thread.
I've been looking at these a lot lately I prefer this over the one you've just bought
trangia gel burner by Alan 13-7, on Flickr
I'm not too sure on gel at the moment, a lot of the reviews i've read on it says its not as good as meths/gas but end of the day its each to their own, everyone will always have a favorite fuel to use, i may well try it in the future and find that it works for my needs but for the moment im going to stick to the meths.
Oh well.... if rik recons there rubbish then they probably are, I didn't really like them anyway.
That's me saved a tenner then.
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Oh well.... if rik recons there rubbish then they probably are, I didn't really like them anyway.
you know you are realy not helping here paul! I do have bills to pay,
modern day Swedish army issue cook system
modern day sweedish army issue by Alan 13-7, on Flickr
where can i find this? looks brilliant!
Oh well.... if rik recons there rubbish then they probably are, I didn't really like them anyway.
FWIW - Rik's right.
I recently bought a Vargo Triad ahead of cycling the Sandstone Way. Tested it last weekend and I really quite like it. Not as convenient as gas, but a solid stove for boiling water, so it's ideal for dehydrated rations. If I was going to cook anything more complicated I'd take my little Robens or an MSR Whisperlite.
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