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Today I picked up two water bottle holders ordered from Off-The-Map Outfitters. One to go with my Falcon II and the other as a ride alone rig.
I have the Snow Peak Solist titanium cookset on order and this was nicely reviewed by BushcraftBrainTrustover here:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=671404&highlight=Snow+peak
While waiting for that, I decided to try out a couple of gel heat cannisters that I've been looking at for a while. One little cheap system comes with a baffle attachment and two rods to convert your canister into a mini-stove. Clearly, these things aren't the fastest, or the lightest, but they are compact and easy to use.
So I wanted to pack it up in the bottle holder with a water bottle, GI cup, mini-stove and canisters to see if it would all fit. Did so nicely. I was able to put two cannisters in the front pocket and had room for my fire steel and instant coffee packets.
Thats the little stove nestled on top of my nalgene bottle. The GI-cup nests on top of that, or I can nest the GI cup on the bottom of the cup. Unfortantely, I can't get a heat canister in the column unless I go to a smaller bottle.
Well, certainly not the quickest boil times in relation to Bushman5's posts. I pegged 14 minutes to boil of rather cold water. Next time I will put some tin foil in the pack to serve as a pot cover for the GI-cup and see how much that speeds up the time. It should shave a couple of minutes.
Oh yeah...Brian Andrews and I also taste tested the 'NEW' Starbucks Instant coffee. It's expensive at about $1/cup for the packets. But, dang, they taste really good! This doesn't taste like instant at all and I'm pretty much a coffee snob. I don't i.v. it into my veins like Mentor does, but I know good from bad coffee. Even Brian, who usually tells me how silly my ideas are and would have jumped on tramping my expensive yuppy packets for his simpler cowboy coffee was pretty impressed. This stuff is GOOD!
So overall, this is a pretty decent system. I don't really need to put two heat canisters in the front pocket, but it is nice to know that I can get two in. Makes for a compact if somewhat slow cooking method, but one that works good enough when simple is all you want.
I have the Snow Peak Solist titanium cookset on order and this was nicely reviewed by BushcraftBrainTrustover here:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=671404&highlight=Snow+peak
While waiting for that, I decided to try out a couple of gel heat cannisters that I've been looking at for a while. One little cheap system comes with a baffle attachment and two rods to convert your canister into a mini-stove. Clearly, these things aren't the fastest, or the lightest, but they are compact and easy to use.
So I wanted to pack it up in the bottle holder with a water bottle, GI cup, mini-stove and canisters to see if it would all fit. Did so nicely. I was able to put two cannisters in the front pocket and had room for my fire steel and instant coffee packets.
Thats the little stove nestled on top of my nalgene bottle. The GI-cup nests on top of that, or I can nest the GI cup on the bottom of the cup. Unfortantely, I can't get a heat canister in the column unless I go to a smaller bottle.
Well, certainly not the quickest boil times in relation to Bushman5's posts. I pegged 14 minutes to boil of rather cold water. Next time I will put some tin foil in the pack to serve as a pot cover for the GI-cup and see how much that speeds up the time. It should shave a couple of minutes.
Oh yeah...Brian Andrews and I also taste tested the 'NEW' Starbucks Instant coffee. It's expensive at about $1/cup for the packets. But, dang, they taste really good! This doesn't taste like instant at all and I'm pretty much a coffee snob. I don't i.v. it into my veins like Mentor does, but I know good from bad coffee. Even Brian, who usually tells me how silly my ideas are and would have jumped on tramping my expensive yuppy packets for his simpler cowboy coffee was pretty impressed. This stuff is GOOD!
So overall, this is a pretty decent system. I don't really need to put two heat canisters in the front pocket, but it is nice to know that I can get two in. Makes for a compact if somewhat slow cooking method, but one that works good enough when simple is all you want.
