What does your complete "kitchen" weigh?

[Engine]

After the big 4 and clothing the heaviest items are usually kitchen related. I wondered what peole are carrying and what the combined weight works out to. For me it works out like this for my wife and I:

Pepsi can stove
60cc milk of magnesia measuring cup (for fuel dispensing)
Small pack towel for handling pot and cleanup
MSR windscreen
5" round cutting board ( cut from thin flexible sheet available at WalMart)
1.5L MSR Blacklite pot and lid
2 Light My Fire sporks
2 cheap plastic bowls
1 small Bic lighter

Total weight 1 lb. 2 oz.

Fuel bottle is an empty 12oz. Gatoraid bottle - 1/2 oz. empty and 11 1/2 oz. full. So, counting a full fuel load I'm at 1lb. 13 1/2 oz.

I forgot to mention my pot cozy, made from blue foam pad and duct tape, is included in that weight.

I think my old Coleman Peak 1 stove weighed that by itself back in the day...

[garlic08]

Back when I used to cook, the set-up my wife and I used weighed about half that. For instance, one of us used one cheap plastic cup and the other used the pot. No cutting board. No measuring cup. Alum. foil windscreen. No pack towel, bandanna instead. Once we forgot the spoons and used twigs as chopsticks.

It sounds like you might be more serious about cooking than we were, though. On our first long hike together, we gradually migrated to cookless hiking and haven't carried a cook kit for many years.

[whiterockjock]

ZERO..went cold food on my thru last year...no problem!

[Red Hat]

Garlic, mine is pretty much like yours was. I have a .9L ti pot, a starlyte stove, a bic lighter, a foil windscreen, a 1 inch sq pot scrubber (added after I kept burning the bottom of my pot), and a spork. (no cup, cutting board, no pack towel) I use a plastic walmart cosmetic squeeze bottle for 8 oz of fuel. Everything but the spork and fuel fit inside the pot. Guess I need to weigh it to see how heavy it is, but I bet I'm around 1 lb including the fuel.

[Red Hat]

checked out listed web weights:
4.14 Evernew .9L Ti pot
.52 Starlyte stove
8.00 fuel
.30 bic lighter
.10 potscrubber (estimate, cut from larger scrubber)
.20 spork

13.26 oz total

But that is just for me. Considering yours is for two, Engine, you are doing pretty well.

[CowHead]

jetboil stove, xtra ignition switch for stove,fuel, spork and collapsible bowl 1.6 lbs

[CowHead]

Back when I used to cook, the set-up my wife and I used weighed about half that. For instance, one of us used one cheap plastic cup and the other used the pot. No cutting board. No measuring cup. Alum. foil windscreen. No pack towel, bandanna instead. Once we forgot the spoons and used twigs as chopsticks.

It sounds like you might be more serious about cooking than we were, though. On our first long hike together, we gradually migrated to cookless hiking and haven't carried a cook kit for many years.

What was your meals being cookless do you have your menu somewhere. thx

[Kanati]

ZERO..went cold food on my thru last year...no problem!

Ditto. I sent my kitchen home because I was too tired or too lazy cook, and the food was so boring. There was nothing that I could do to make it interesting. But that may have been my lack of imagination.

[rainmakerat92]

Wal-Mart grease pot & lid
soda can stove (homemade)
windscreen (homemade)
pot support (homemade)
cut-down aluminum pot lifter
cut-down plastic spoon
8-oz. plastic cup
matches / bic-type lighter
silnylon carrying bag

total weight: 10.25 ozs.
12-oz gatorade bottle with fuel: 11 ozs.

[Pootz]

19.6 oz

Alcohol Stove
wind screen
5 1/2 oz fuel and bottle
Pot Cozzy
Pot handle
Lighter
Matches
small cleaning patch
plastic spoon

[garlic08]

What was your meals being cookless do you have your menu somewhere. thx

Whatever I can find at the store. Ideal case is: muesli made of oats, walnuts, raisins and powdered milk; tortillas; cheese; fig newtons; crackers; cashews; instant potatoes rehydrated cold in pouch; peanut butter; fresh fruit and veggies every day. I'm vegetarian, but cured sausage works for most.

No such thing as meals, I just eat something every two hours, and what I eat depends on how much water there is.

Including the good fresh stuff, there's not a huge weight savings for me, but I enjoy the long hikes more without a stove and fuel.

[Engine]

Whatever I can find at the store. Ideal case is: muesli made of oats, walnuts, raisins and powdered milk; tortillas; cheese; fig newtons; crackers; cashews; instant potatoes rehydrated cold in pouch; peanut butter; fresh fruit and veggies every day. I'm vegetarian, but cured sausage works for most.

No such thing as meals, I just eat something every two hours, and what I eat depends on how much water there is.

Including the good fresh stuff, there's not a huge weight savings for me, but I enjoy the long hikes more without a stove and fuel.

I think I could grow to enjoy that style of eating, but I don't think my wife would be too fond of the transition. We do enjoy cooking something creative and don't seem to mind the extra effort involved, but we've never been on the trail for longer than 12 days at a time. That might very well change when we do our thru hike.

[dpnoll]

For my wife and myself:
gram cracker esbit stove W/ caldera cone, sul 1100 pot, pot grabber, matches, soap, 2 cups, 2 cozies, and 2 long handled spoons = 15.9 oz

[bigcranky]

My lightest kitchen uses fuel tabs, total weight 8.7 ounces:

Snow Peak 700 Ti mug with the handles removed,
Homemade lid from heavy duty aluminum foil (the stock lid is too heavy)
Long handled Ti spoon
Firelite fuel tablet stove
Aluminum wind screen
lighter, mini dropper bottle of soap, piece of nylon mesh as scrubbie
All in a small silnylon stuff sack

My usual kitchen uses a Brunton Raptor, not the lightest canister stove but one that I already own. Same pot, etc, but no lighter, wind screen, etc, brings the total weight to about 11 ounces.

I tried cold food and it was fine, but I prefer to cook most hikes.

[burger]

I'm really happy with my current cooking system, which totals 8.0 ounces:

Evernew 1300 Titanium Pot
Titanium foil windscreen (+ 2 paper clips)
Super Cat stove
Lexan spoon
Bic mini lighter
AntiGravity Gear cozy for the pot
16-oz coke bottle to hold alcohol

[Skidsteer]

4.05 ounces.

Includes:
-pot w/lid
-stove
-potstand
-windscreen
-bottom reflector
-coffeemaker/cozy

[dloome]

Very rarely cook anymore. When I do, it's about 5 oz:

Fancy Feast can stove with heat reflector base: 0.4
0.9L thin aluminum bowl and aluminum flashing top: 3.1
Aluminum flashing windscreen: 0.5
Light my fire mini magnesium sparker: 0.6 oz
Mini, drilled-out pot grabber: 0.4 oz
Plastic popsicle stick for utensil: ?

Fuel bottle varies, usually use one of them mini bottled water guys they give you on airplanes.

[daddytwosticks]

I nominate Skidsteer as winner of this contest...anyone who can squeeze a coffee maker into that light of a kitchen wins! One question...what type of windscreen is that and where do you store it when you hike? It doesn't fit into the storage caddy/coffee maker does it?

[Skidsteer]

I nominate Skidsteer as winner of this contest...anyone who can squeeze a coffee maker into that light of a kitchen wins! One question...what type of windscreen is that and where do you store it when you hike? It doesn't fit into the storage caddy/coffee maker does it?

The windscreen, since it is a pyramid, folds up and fits easily in the coffee maker. I use tooling foil because it holds up to the frequent folding and unfolding pretty well.

[Doctari]

Before I switched to a Jet Boil pot: Fosters beer can "Cook pot" & lid, cat can alcohol stove, Coleman plastic spoon, empty small water bottle for fuel (12 oz I think) net bag to hold it all. Weight 15.5 Oz.

The Jet boil is heavier, but even using the alcohol stove, it boils water faster and is way more sturdy than the Fosters can.
I totaled the Fosters last trip, well, put a sizable hole about 3" from the bottom making fixing dinner a bit more challenging.