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Brian Andrews was kind enough to give me one of those Ikea canisters which he converted into a twig stove in an earlier thread. I was happy to follow through and produce one as well and like the robustness of the stainless steel even if it doesn't fold down like my other stove pipe one does.
Brian's set up involves nesting a zebra pot with the stove. Zebra pots are nice, but I'm too lazy/impatient to mail order out of country so I did the typical thing of scrounging around for a suitable pot. First I made a coffee can billy, but Magnussen reminded me how they sort of poop out on you at the least opportune times. So I wanted something either in aluminum or SS.
I looked at a couple of dept. stores and good will shops. The problem is most pots are designed to work on a proper stove and have the wide/shallow dimensions to them rather than tall and small diameter. Finally, in a kitchen supply store called Williams, I found the perfect thing. It supposed to be some kind of ornament on a bar to hold your little umbrella's or something. But it is brushed stainless steel, nests in the cannister stove and has a nice wide lip that makes it really easy to rig up a simple wire harness as a bail.
It gets better though. While in the bar section of the store, I come across this 'wine bottle coaster'. The intent is that you put your bottle in the coaster which catches all the sweat of the bottle and doesn't ruin your hoity-toity finish on your table. Afterall, only an ignorant uncivilized type would have a water proof surface on their kitchen table!!! Well this little coaster is also brushed SS and just so happens to fit right into the bar cannister just like one of them zebra pot inserts!
Here they are nested...
So, now I can stick a couple of cups in there, nest the insert pot and I have a nice little cook kit.
Just so happens that my trangia stove fits right in that little coaster well so I can use the set-up with the alcohol stove or as a twig stove.
So here we go:
Stove:
Set-up:
I'm still working on a lid. A CD-fits it perfectly, but I'm working on getting a bigger sized can to make the lid. As for the lid, that isn't so important to have SS.
Before I was a bit hung up on the nesting kit fitting my maxpedition water bottle holder and water bottle. I also have a snowpeak mini-solist kit which includes titanium cup, 750 mL titanium pot & lid that fits a 1L nalgene and nests in the maxpedition water bottle holder which works well. However, after using it for my last camping trip there were a couple of things that I ultimately found not to my taste for the set-up.
1) Exterior attachment of the maxpedition water bottle holder to my molle pack. The molle clips just aren't working that well for me. I had my waterbottle ripped off my bag twice. Thankfully I heard it happen each time, but it got me to thinking what a disaster that would be. Loosing both my water bottle and pots would have wreaked havoc on my ability to process water and cook. I've decided that water bottle and pot should go inside the pack not exterior to it. Its fine to have an extra water bottle, but I don't want my whole kit tied on to the pack anymore.
2) Insufficient volume. The last trip I was boiling water as my water disinfection method. The titanium pot only holds 3/4 of a nalgene. I was also stupid enough to only bring one water bottle. It was a PITA having to refill my pot twice to fill my full nalgene bottle. I promised myself I would at the very least get a pot that held 1 L or slightly more water and that next time I'd have a way of storing 2 L of water. I may not lug around 2 L of water, but if I take the time to process it, I want the capacity to store what I've processed.
So there you have it. My new nesting pot set meets all these criteria. The total cost (excluding trangia burner) was $23. Thats 1/3 cost of the mini-solist titanium pot. Yeah, this is heavier but its reasonable!
Brian's set up involves nesting a zebra pot with the stove. Zebra pots are nice, but I'm too lazy/impatient to mail order out of country so I did the typical thing of scrounging around for a suitable pot. First I made a coffee can billy, but Magnussen reminded me how they sort of poop out on you at the least opportune times. So I wanted something either in aluminum or SS.
I looked at a couple of dept. stores and good will shops. The problem is most pots are designed to work on a proper stove and have the wide/shallow dimensions to them rather than tall and small diameter. Finally, in a kitchen supply store called Williams, I found the perfect thing. It supposed to be some kind of ornament on a bar to hold your little umbrella's or something. But it is brushed stainless steel, nests in the cannister stove and has a nice wide lip that makes it really easy to rig up a simple wire harness as a bail.
It gets better though. While in the bar section of the store, I come across this 'wine bottle coaster'. The intent is that you put your bottle in the coaster which catches all the sweat of the bottle and doesn't ruin your hoity-toity finish on your table. Afterall, only an ignorant uncivilized type would have a water proof surface on their kitchen table!!! Well this little coaster is also brushed SS and just so happens to fit right into the bar cannister just like one of them zebra pot inserts!
Here they are nested...
So, now I can stick a couple of cups in there, nest the insert pot and I have a nice little cook kit.
Just so happens that my trangia stove fits right in that little coaster well so I can use the set-up with the alcohol stove or as a twig stove.
So here we go:
Stove:
Set-up:
I'm still working on a lid. A CD-fits it perfectly, but I'm working on getting a bigger sized can to make the lid. As for the lid, that isn't so important to have SS.
Before I was a bit hung up on the nesting kit fitting my maxpedition water bottle holder and water bottle. I also have a snowpeak mini-solist kit which includes titanium cup, 750 mL titanium pot & lid that fits a 1L nalgene and nests in the maxpedition water bottle holder which works well. However, after using it for my last camping trip there were a couple of things that I ultimately found not to my taste for the set-up.
1) Exterior attachment of the maxpedition water bottle holder to my molle pack. The molle clips just aren't working that well for me. I had my waterbottle ripped off my bag twice. Thankfully I heard it happen each time, but it got me to thinking what a disaster that would be. Loosing both my water bottle and pots would have wreaked havoc on my ability to process water and cook. I've decided that water bottle and pot should go inside the pack not exterior to it. Its fine to have an extra water bottle, but I don't want my whole kit tied on to the pack anymore.
2) Insufficient volume. The last trip I was boiling water as my water disinfection method. The titanium pot only holds 3/4 of a nalgene. I was also stupid enough to only bring one water bottle. It was a PITA having to refill my pot twice to fill my full nalgene bottle. I promised myself I would at the very least get a pot that held 1 L or slightly more water and that next time I'd have a way of storing 2 L of water. I may not lug around 2 L of water, but if I take the time to process it, I want the capacity to store what I've processed.
So there you have it. My new nesting pot set meets all these criteria. The total cost (excluding trangia burner) was $23. Thats 1/3 cost of the mini-solist titanium pot. Yeah, this is heavier but its reasonable!
