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newToThrough
06-12-2015, 03:03
I'm almost decided on a cook kit but the cup I'm thinking of taking is the Olicamp space saver that fits under a Nalgene bottle. I'm not doing it to mate with a Nalgene bottle but because it's a good fit for a fuel canister.

The thing is 500ml (one half liter). I see that most commercial cups for solo backpacking are 650ml.

Can anyone think of a situation where I'll regret not having something bigger?

Not sure if it makes a difference but I'm also planning on cutting the top off of a coffee can, maybe a full inch. I think I can use that as a lid and also flip it over and make pancakes (large ones, one at a time.)

MuddyWaters
06-12-2015, 03:43
Most dinners take about 2 cups water, (500ml). if you want a little freeboard not to splash over, you need slightly bigger pot.

But, doing fbc generally get by with less water, 1.5-1.75cups because it doesnt absorb as well. So some can get by with the smaller pot.

If you want to cook in pot, probably not.

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 03:49
But, doing fbc generally get by with less water, 1.5-1.75cups because it doesnt absorb as well. So some can get by with the smaller pot.

If you want to cook in pot, probably not.

What's "FBC?" I'm planning to cook oatmeal, ramen, pankakes (probably using the lid I mentioned?), and tea.

MuddyWaters
06-12-2015, 04:08
Fbc is freezer bag cooking. You add hot water to a ziplock with dehydrated or dried food to rehydrate. No wash pot. To cook in a pot will take a larger pot id say.

Lyle
06-12-2015, 06:04
I used a 450ML cup for my water heating vessel on a three week trip last summer. It worked well enough, but I had to heat water in shifts for cooking/beverages.

I also carried a two cup round plastic bowl with a screw-on lid for re-hydrating my dinners or pre soaking home dried food. A freezer bag could have worked for this function as well.

That said, for the next trip I plan to increase to a 750ML pot. I use Toaks titanium pots/cups. Light/strong/relatively inexpensive, available on Amazon.

I'm sure you can make a 500ML work, but you will sacrifice some convenience and pretty much eliminate actually cooking in the pot as others have said. You may find a somewhat larger pot more suitable.

Do some practice runs at home with a smallish pot. Try cooking some of your proposed trail meals the way you will on the hike, never fill the trial pot with more than say 450ML and see how it works for you.

daddytwosticks
06-12-2015, 07:13
Depends on your style of hiking. I use a 600ml Snow Peak pot/mug and it works fine for me. I mostly eat Mountain House type meals, but divide the two serving size into two, so a lot less water is needed. I also heat water for an occasional hot drink. That mug you want to use also tends to be a bit heavy for its size, if it's the stainless steel one I'm thinking of. :)

12trysomething
06-12-2015, 07:17
If you want to eat out of the pot, I have found 650ml is the smallest you can go for most dinner meals. At least the ones I eat.

pauly_j
06-12-2015, 08:25
Depends on your style of hiking. I use a 600ml Snow Peak pot/mug and it works fine for me. I mostly eat Mountain House type meals, but divide the two serving size into two, so a lot less water is needed. I also heat water for an occasional hot drink. That mug you want to use also tends to be a bit heavy for its size, if it's the stainless steel one I'm thinking of. :)
I have the anodised version. It's not so bad.

Starchild
06-12-2015, 09:00
I use a 550 pot for a quick overnight. I like it because it is a pot and a mug (I like to have something mug shaped to drink from - just how I am). However I would not want to use that for more then a night or perhaps 2 on the outside. Just too small, too limiting and too much care needed to make sure it's level and doesn't boil over. Also for FBC it's hard to use such a small pot, a wider pot usually helps too.

HooKooDooKu
06-12-2015, 09:50
I use the MSR Titan Kettle spec's say is 850L. I've found it to just barely be large enough for some of my meals.

Miner
06-12-2015, 12:29
I've been using a 550ml pot for years, but I freezer bag cook. It's large enough to boil the water you need, but you certainly can't cook food in it.

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 15:32
I'm sure you can make a 500ML work, but you will sacrifice some convenience and pretty much eliminate actually cooking in the pot as others have said. You may find a somewhat larger pot more suitable. Do some practice runs at home with a smallish pot. Try cooking some of your proposed trail meals the way you will on the hike, never fill the trial pot with more than say 450ML and see how it works for you. Good suggestions all around. You're right that I should do some test runs but I can't bring myself to eat the crap that I'll have to bring on the hike. I find pasta, oatmeal, and other carbs to be disgusting. I haven't had rice in 20 years. But your message is a good wake-up call that I have to bite the bullet on that before I get on the trail. Thanks for the other suggestions, too.

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 15:40
I use a 550 pot for a quick overnight. I like it because it is a pot and a mug (I like to have something mug shaped to drink from - just how I am). However I would not want to use that for more then a night or perhaps 2 on the outside. Just too small, too limiting and too much care needed to make sure it's level and doesn't boil over. Also for FBC it's hard to use such a small pot, a wider pot usually helps too. This is what my thread is asking about. What do you mean by "too small, too limiting?"

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 15:49
Fbc is freezer bag cooking. You add hot water to a ziplock with dehydrated or dried food to rehydrate. No wash pot. To cook in a pot will take a larger pot id say.
If you want to eat out of the pot, I have found 650ml is the smallest you can go for most dinner meals. At least the ones I eat. Aha! I see that I left out an important detail. I'll be putting my entire cook kit, including stove and windscreen, in a 1Liter Nalgene Jar (not a Nalgene bottle but a 1L Nalgene JAR.) That will be my "bowl." It's heavier than a freezer bag but (a) I'll be out for 30 days and a freezer bag won't hold up that long (?) (b) it's BPA free and (c) it will double as water-tight water storage for a few very dry sections of the CT (assuming I leave my cook set loose for those sections) So I'll just be using my pot/cup to boil the water. Then I'll pour it and the disgusting goop that I'll be eating into the Nalgene bottle so I can season and eat it. Then I'll make another cup of water, while I eat, for my tea. In the morning, I'll reverse that and make the tea first so I can drink it with my meal. I guess what I have to do is prepare a couple of meals at home and make sure that 500ml is enough. But if anyone has any experiences with this sort of thing where it's not enough, I'd love to hear why.

BirdBrain
06-12-2015, 16:00
So many people misunderstand the most basic item in fbc methods. You do not reuse the freezer bags. Each meal is in its own bag. The meal has to be in something. The freezer bag is the lightest container for storage. Lose the nalgene. It is too heavy. 500 ml is too close for my comfort and I only boil 2 cups per boil. A KMart grease pot makes it so you don't have to balance things perfectly and all your cook tools fit inside it for storage. Not saying it is only or best way. It is one way that works.

BirdBrain
06-12-2015, 16:15
Water storage in a platypus or evernew bag is a better plan. A freezer bag cozy can weigh less than an ounce. Fbc method is lightest and most efficient way of cooking on trail. Some think it creates more trash. That is because they don't realize that the original packaging does not go out on the trail. Meals are repackaged in town into freezer bags.

Maui Rhino
06-12-2015, 19:01
A few times you mentioned the "disgusting goop" you'll be eating on trail. There are many choices out there for food... Not all is disgusting. It sounds to me like you need to spend a lot of time reading the cooking sub-forum and get some ideas on meals that you will find appealing. That will determine how big a pot you need. Worse comes to worse, you can dehydrate your own meals using your oven (if you don't want to buy a dehydrator). To answer your original question, IMHO, a 900ml pot is my go-to size for solo hiking and a 1.3L pot for two. A 900ml lets me heat water for my dinner and hot cocoa for FBC in one go, and I have enough room to cook (and stir without spillage!) in the pot if I choose to. A 500ml pot is only good for a coffee cup to me. What's the point of saving weight with a smaller pot, if you gotta burn (and carry) twice as much fuel to heat your meal and coffee for a meal?

10-K
06-12-2015, 19:09
Think about what you're going to cook and decide. The flip side to that is that pots aren't so crazy expensive that you can probably afford more than one. Buy a few different sizes and see what you think.

Then you have the option of taking a smaller pot or a bigger pot, depending on your hike.

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 20:37
So many people misunderstand the most basic item in fbc methods. You do not reuse the freezer bags. Each meal is in its own bag. The meal has to be in something. I'm totally confused. Can you point me to a site where I can read about this? It's totally new to me and not really making sense.

BirdBrain
06-12-2015, 20:44
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IUbkJbDhu_E

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 20:45
A few times you mentioned the "disgusting goop" you'll be eating on trail. There are many choices out there for food... Not all is disgusting. It sounds to me like you need to spend a lot of time reading the cooking sub-forum and get some ideas on meals that you will find appealing. dra Ha, sorry if my venting was annoying. I guess I'm really not looking forward to a lot of things, and the food is one of them. I'll look at that sub again but I actually had a thread on here asking people what they ate. I got lots of suggestions, all of them very friendly and helpful, none of the suggestions are for stuff I'm excited about eating, but that's life. I skipped anything that mentioned dehydrating my own food, because I don't have access to an oven. I did look at thrift stores for a dehydrator and maybe I'll still get lucky. Anyway i'm not sure if you can dehydrate salad/ But also I'm being stupid in not testing what I'm going to eat before I go out there. I can't be sure what pot I need until I try making the stuff. I'm really interested in the FBC thing people keep mentioning. I'm doing a search for it now.

BirdBrain
06-12-2015, 20:51
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UzXZIH7SGYA

This is the one I meant to post.

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 20:58
Water storage in a platypus or evernew bag is a better plan. I'm doing that, too. Some platypus thing I've had for a decade and never used actually. But this way I'll have 3liters with me on the dry stretches. I usually drink about 3 liters per day in town and this will be Colorado, which is uncomfortably hot and dry, and there are stretches where it's 22 miles between water sources so this seems safest to me.

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 21:02
I use the MSR Titan Kettle spec's say is 850L. I've found it to just barely be large enough for some of my meals. Are you eating out of the pot or do you have a separate bowl?

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 21:03
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UzXZIH7SGYA This is the one I meant to post. Great, thanks! I'm looking at that now. I'm also checking out http://www.trailcooking.com/trail-cooking-101/freezer-bag-cooking-101/ This is brand new to me, not something I've ever heard of. I wonder what I shall find....

BirdBrain
06-12-2015, 21:05
I notice you are exploring a few subjects on this site. Just a word of advice. There are so many right ways to do things. Everyone has their "right" way. There is seldom a "best" way. Find what works within your preferences. Those preferences will change as you gain experience. In general I seek the lightest function necessity within my budget. It is always a dance to find the sweet spot to best fit those 4 thoughts.

Starchild
06-12-2015, 21:46
This is what my thread is asking about. What do you mean by "too small, too limiting?"

2 cups is basically a standard amount of food, if you need to stir or mix having a pot that is just about 2 cups does pose some problems and can limit food choices. If you are just boiling water you still have issues with getting it level, carefully removing it as not to spill any and boilover possibility. And mixing foods in that small of a pot is sometimes difficult. This limits the choices of foods I can bring. This includes situations where it is boil in bag foods, the pot is just too small to work for that.

Again for a quicky overnighter I will deal, but for much longer I don't want to.

CarlZ993
06-12-2015, 22:12
To actually 'cook' in a pot, I'd say the smallest I'd consider is 800 ml or so (I personally use a 900 ml Evernew Titanium Pot). As others have stated, it is possible to use a much smaller pot (500 - 650 ml) to do Freezer Bag Cooking (FBC). In FBC, you boil the amount of water needed (1 1/2 to 2 C normally) & pour it into your freezer bag of dry food (only use good freezer bags). You stir up the food (preferably w/ a long-handled spoon) & place the baggie in a Freezer Bag Cozy (made out of Reflectix & sized to fit the full 1-Qt freezer bag; Reflectix is available @ Home Depot/Lowe's etc or commercially purchased online). You wait 10-15 min & your food finishes 'cooking.' You open the baggie & eat your hot food. Only your spoon needs to be cleaned.

It is also possible to make a pot cozy for your pot. You simply boil the amount of water needed, stir in your dry ingredients, turn off the stove, & place it in the pot cozy. If your recipe says to simmer for a period of time, just simply double your wait time with your pot in the cozy.

A pot cozy will add a small weight penalty (~ 1-2 oz or so) but will undoubtedly reduce your fuel usage. This is the way I've been cooking for years.

I'll give you an example of one of my backpacking meals - Mac & Cheese - using the pot cozy method. I boil 1 3/4 C water. Pour in the pasta & stir. Turn off the stove & put the pot inside the pot cozy. Wait 15 minutes or so. Then, pour in the cheese powder & 1/4 C of Nido Powdered milk & stir. After a few minutes, everything should be disolved & creamy. Add some protein (chicken, Spam, tuna, etc) & maybe some olive oil. You're set. A lot of food for one person.

There is a lady (Sarah?) that has a website called Trailcooking.com. She has written books on FBC. There are a lot of recipes on her website. I've used them before on many occasions. Find your a few recipes that you like & rotate them on your hikes. You buy regular food & not the expensive freeze-dried stuff.

BirdBrain
06-12-2015, 22:22
Great advice above. I would suggest 2 things. Use pint size bag instead of quart. This allows for a smaller cozy and less mess on your spoon. Also, I find 1 cup of water suffices for most of my meals. The water can't evaporate in a bag like in a pot. It had to go into the food.

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 22:27
I notice you are exploring a few subjects on this site. Just a word of advice. There are so many right ways to do things. Everyone has their "right" way. There is seldom a "best" way. Find what works within your preferences. Those preferences will change as you gain experience. In general I seek the lightest function necessity within my budget. It is always a dance to find the sweet spot to best fit those 4 thoughts. I appreciate that. It's really helpful to have this community of people who are so eager to share their experiences, too. I get the benefit of learning from their mistakes, but I'm sure I'll leave plenty of room for my own.

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 22:31
To actually 'cook' in a pot... GREAT advice. Thank you. I have some reflectix I just used to make a sun visor for my car ($13 for the reflectix or $20 for the visor - and now I have reflectix left over) and I think I'm going to try this method out this weekend.
Great advice above. I would suggest 2 things. Use pint size bag instead of quart. This allows for a smaller cozy and less mess on your spoon. Also, I find 1 cup of water suffices for most of my meals. The water can't evaporate in a bag like in a pot. It had to go into the food. Makes perfect sense. This might be a real winner, here.... The two questions that come to mind (and which are probably answered on that website and in that video) are: (1) Is a freezer bag safe to eat out of once it's been heated? (2) How do you dispose of your freezer bags? Burn them? Carry them out with you?

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 22:33
2 cups is basically a standard amount of food, if you need to stir or mix having a pot that is just about 2 cups does pose some problems and can limit food choices. If you are just boiling water you still have issues with getting it level, carefully removing it as not to spill any and boilover possibility. And mixing foods in that small of a pot is sometimes difficult. This limits the choices of foods I can bring. This includes situations where it is boil in bag foods, the pot is just too small to work for that. Again for a quicky overnighter I will deal, but for much longer I don't want to. Ahhhh... yes, this is all adding up now.

BirdBrain
06-12-2015, 22:35
GREAT advice. Thank you. I have some reflectix I just used to make a sun visor for my car ($13 for the reflectix or $20 for the visor - and now I have reflectix left over) and I think I'm going to try this method out this weekend. Makes perfect sense. This might be a real winner, here.... The two questions that come to mind (and which are probably answered on that website and in that video) are: (1) Is a freezer bag safe to eat out of once it's been heated? (2) How do you dispose of your freezer bags? Burn them? Carry them out with you?

If you use quality freezer bags, yes. Carry your trash out. Some burn them. I would not. Your first bag from your first meal becomes your first trash bag. You need a trash bag for other things. The used freezer bags will fill that need.

newToThrough
06-12-2015, 22:36
T I'll give you an example of one of my backpacking meals - Mac & Cheese - using the pot cozy method.... This makes sense. Do you drink coffee/tea? If so do you have a separate pot to heat that water or do you clean the pot that had the Mac and Cheese and *then* make the coffee?

BirdBrain
06-12-2015, 22:39
This makes sense. Do you drink coffee/tea? If so do you have a separate pot to heat that water or do you clean the pot that had the Mac and Cheese and *then* make the coffee?

I boil 2 cups. A tad over a cup goes in my freezer bag meal. The rest goes in my coffee. Okay.... I am out for a bit. I will let others explain their methods. There are a few good ones.

Starchild
06-13-2015, 06:49
This makes sense. Do you drink coffee/tea? If so do you have a separate pot to heat that water or do you clean the pot that had the Mac and Cheese and *then* make the coffee?

That was not my post, but to answer anyway, I plan my messy meals (ones that may have residual food stuck to it), with my next one. I would not have a 'messy meal' if my next use of the pot was for coffee. Yes I could wash out the pot, and sometimes did, but if that residual could work with the next one and would not spoil then sometimes I would leave it. Often that was some sort of either cheese or grease*, both were usually fine for adding to dehydrated meals later and that would clean the pot in the process.

* Aside: One of my favorite back country breakfasts was the ham, egg and cheese on a flat bagel sandwich. which sometimes caused the above to be in the pot. After coffee I would line to bottom of the pot with ham to create a 'boat', slice up a hard boiled egg and some cheese and place in the boat, place the top slice of the bagel properly on top (the bottom 1/2 could also be placed on top of the top, but I usually had this as a open sandwich). Cook slowly and covered, check to see when the cheese is melty. Then with the lid on quickly flip the sandwich upside down onto the lid and remove the pot. A breakfast sandwich on a plate :), that ham grease and sometimes if the boat leaked, the cheese would be in the pot till dinner. When I did this I stored the pot empty for travel.

Just to add some extra after a while (read when I got to Maine), I got very creative with my backcountry cooking for more variety and more 'home cooking', and made things from raw ingredients, or at least some raw combined with dehydrated 'helper' sides, so I can have some real food out there (usually only practical the first night out due to spoilage). This put a much larger need for a larger pot then the 550 (which I didn't have at that time anyway) so what one plans to do could change along the way.

newToThrough
06-15-2015, 04:19
Thanks for all of the advice. Since you all helped me so much, I thought you might want to know what I decided on: My main cup/pot is not going to be the 500ml Olicamp but instead will be my ol' trusty blue enamelware cup. It's about 800ml. (I know that lots of people think this is foolish because of its weight and if those people would like to give me a free titanium version, I'll take it. But this is what I've got and it should work.) I also have a tomato can lid that I cut off with a side-cut can opener and put a little heat tape on for a handle (so long as I don't touch it for more than two seconds when it's hot.) This fits over the enamelware cup as a lid. I cut the handle off the enamelware cup and made a coozie for it out of Reflectix (love that stuff!) So I put the cup in the coozie and the coozie on top of the tomato can lid in my 1Liter Nalgene jar. (Again: you may criticize the weight of the Nalgene jar and you're not wrong but I'm concerned about the 22mile stretches of the CT with no water. If the recent rain and late snowpack suggest that there *will* be water, I'll use a Crown Royal bag or some other free bag instead.) In the cup (which is in the coozie which is on the tomato lid which is in the Nalgene bottle) goes my fuel canister. On top of the fuel canister and upside down goes a tuna can that I've burned the plastic lining off of. I won't start with this on my trek but will mail this ahead with my potato pancake mix and use it to make large potato pancakes, which I plan to eat a lot of for the 2nd leg of the trip. When I pick up my second mail-ahead (and start my third leg) I'll discard the tuna can because I'll be back to boil-and-eat-in-cup meals. On top of the tuna can goes my cheapo Made in China piezo-ignition stove, and a piece of a mesh bag that oranges come in. That mesh is my brillo. Then I put the lid on the Nalgene bottle, throw it in my pack, and I'm off. I don't think that anyone suggested this system but I'm happy with it and I wouldn't have come to it if not for everyone chiming in, so I really appreciate the help. Seriously, this is a great forum.

Starchild
06-15-2015, 07:41
I think your cook system is great as it will help you nail down the proper size for you before you invest in a new pot. You can do everything in that setup, and see what your food style needs.

CarlZ993
06-15-2015, 07:51
This makes sense. Do you drink coffee/tea? If so do you have a separate pot to heat that water or do you clean the pot that had the Mac and Cheese and *then* make the coffee?
I add a cup of water to the total needed for my meal to account for my drink (tea, hot chocolate, etc...; I don't drink coffee). If the water totals exceed the water capacity of my pot, I make my drink first & then my meal (rarely happens).

pauly_j
06-15-2015, 08:43
On top of the fuel canister and upside down goes a tuna can that I've burned the plastic lining off of. I won't start with this on my trek but will mail this ahead with my potato pancake mix and use it to make large potato pancakes, which I plan to eat a lot of for the 2nd leg of the trip.

Got a recipe? Sounds interesting. Cook it on your stove or a fire?

newToThrough
06-15-2015, 23:42
Got a recipe? Sounds interesting. Cook it on your stove or a fire? I just have a mix that requires water and an egg. I also have a few bags of powdered vegan egg substitute that I got for free, with the free potato pankake mix. Dumpster diving has its benefits - I mean: the stuff is in airtight, sealed bags! I also have a paleo pankake mix that ONLY needs water and which uses almond flour that I'll probably cook in the tuna can, too.

lemon b
06-16-2015, 09:15
I have several. The 500 usually only goes on shorter hikes when I'm just doing FBC or DM's. Always enjoy a hot drink and with the 500 that requires two boils, thus more fuel. If I were limited to one it would be 800.

Dogwood
06-17-2015, 05:15
Umm, I suppose you are talking about the Oilcamp Space Saver stainless steel graduated 16 oz CUP?
http://www.olicamp.com/products-cups-and-mugs/space-saver-cup

Oilcamp also makes the Space Saver 20 oz graduated anodized alumninum MUG with up to 24 oz at the brim.
http://www.olicamp.com/products-cups-and-mugs/space-saver-mug

Know what you have and their volumes as you may have more than the 500ml you suppose.

Folks (http://Folks) took you in one direction based on size of your meals and how you cook(FBC, et). I'd like for us to get back to your statement here: "...the cup I'm thinking of taking is the Olicamp space saver because it's a good fit for a fuel canister." It seems since both the CUP or MUG nest over a 32 oz(1qt) Nalgene or 4o oz Klean Kanteen they are of the same diameter. Either the cup or mug seems like it would fit that same size canister. Most UL 1p cookware these days is sized to fit 100g(about 3.5 - 4 oz) isobutane canisters.

The thing is 500ml (one half liter). I see that most commercial cups for solo backpacking are 650ml.

Can anyone think of a situation where I'll regret not having something bigger?

Not sure if it makes a difference but I'm also planning on cutting the top off of a coffee can, maybe a full inch. I think I can use that as a lid and also flip it over and make pancakes (large ones, one at a time.)[/QUOTE]

newToThrough
06-19-2015, 00:16
Fbc is freezer bag cooking. You add hot water to a ziplock with dehydrated or dried food to rehydrate. No wash pot. To cook in a pot will take a larger pot id say. I just tried this method today. I don't think I'll stick with it but it's good to know something new. Thanks for the info!

gotts63
05-26-2017, 10:09
little small

Francis Sawyer
06-01-2017, 09:00
500 ml BIG mistake.

Venchka
06-01-2017, 10:32
I just tried this method today. I don't think I'll stick with it but it's good to know something new. Thanks for the info!

Welcome to the "FBC doesn't work for me" club.
Wayne


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zelph
06-01-2017, 10:33
Toaks 700 Light...perfect size :-)

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George
06-01-2017, 16:45
I use fuel tabs and boil over is more inconvenient than another 1/2 ounce of cup - so 650 to 750 ml

egilbe
06-01-2017, 21:03
Bumped a two year old thread? For shame!

zelph
06-28-2019, 11:13
Most dinners take about 2 cups water, (500ml). if you want a little freeboard not to splash over, you need slightly bigger pot.

But, doing fbc generally get by with less water, 1.5-1.75cups because it doesnt absorb as well. So some can get by with the smaller pot.

If you want to cook in pot, probably not.

I agree, need that head room to prevent boil over.

OwenM
06-28-2019, 14:23
Have y'all measured the actual capacity of your cups?
As memory serves, my Snow Peak Trek 700 actually tops off ~830mL.
Here's some pics from when I was testing a stove some years ago.
That's 24oz of water, 710mL...in a 700mL mug:-?
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Not a whole lot, but there's a bit of leeway there.

Five Tango
06-28-2019, 20:34
I don't recall anyone mentioning IMUSA cups/pots in this thread.They are cheap and readily available.You might want to research them.They come with or without handles too.

zelph
06-28-2019, 23:13
Got a link to the Imusa without handles? Thank you.ù

cmoulder
06-29-2019, 07:32
I don't recall anyone mentioning IMUSA cups/pots in this thread.They are cheap and readily available.You might want to research them.They come with or without handles too.


Got a link to the Imusa without handles? Thank you.ù

Minibull Designs cuts 'em off (http://minibulldesign.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=125), but otherwise I haven't seen any that were manufactured without handles.


SKU: 090
Units in Stock: 18
This is simply a 10CM imusa pot with the handle removed so it will fit inside a 12 CM imusa pot. These are not pretty but work well.
Price: $10.00

Five Tango
06-29-2019, 08:20
Got a link to the Imusa without handles? Thank you.ù

Oops!My bad! The 10 and 12 cm aluminum "Imusa handleless knockoffs" that I have were actually made by BatchStovez and are sadly no longer available.(I guess mine are priceless now?)
http://www.batchstovez.com/batchstovez-cook-pots.php

Five Tango
06-29-2019, 09:46
While we are on the subject of pot sizes and canister holding capabilities,I noted that AGG has an Evernew nesting pot/mug set on sale that will hold a 230g cannister and it only weighs 5.1 oz.Both the pot and mug have handles too.here's the link https://antigravitygear.com/shop/product-category/evernew-titanium-stacking-set-750400ml-eca278/

zelph
06-29-2019, 15:05
While we are on the subject of pot sizes and canister holding capabilities,I noted that AGG has an Evernew nesting pot/mug set on sale that will hold a 230g cannister and it only weighs 5.1 oz.Both the pot and mug have handles too.here's the link https://antigravitygear.com/shop/product-category/evernew-titanium-stacking-set-750400ml-eca278/



Holds two 110g canisters or one canister and a stove

Five Tango
06-29-2019, 17:36
Holds two 110g canisters or one canister and a stove



I am confused now because their ad says "it holds the 230g cannisters perfectly".(my 900 ml Pasta Pot will hold the 230g cannister but if the measurements on this nesting set are correct,I don't see how it would hold the 230.

Thanks,Zelph,for pointing that out.

zelph
06-29-2019, 20:24
It does say:
AND holds the 230g size gas canisters perfectly!

or one canister and a stove

Maybe the one canister IS the 230

Five Tango
06-29-2019, 22:16
It does say:
AND holds the 230g size gas canisters perfectly!

or one canister and a stove

Maybe the one canister IS the 230
That's what I thot but if the dimensions are 3.7x4.65 for the pot and the mug is 3.74x2.28 then there is no way a 230 will fit.My 230 is about 4 and 5/16ths.It will fit perfectly in a 900 ml pasta pot though.So I guess they have an error and likely don't realize it.I do not see email listed on their site,just a phone number.