cooking pots for WSK, BOB, or PSK

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Hello all,

Starting to seriously put together a PSK, a BOB, a WSK, and some car kits. One thing I've been looking for was a small cook pot to use in the WSK and the PSK. I found this...
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It's a surplus French 3-pc mess kit and contains 2 skillets and a plate. So far I'm using the smaller skillet in my PSK and seems great. It's about the same size as the small aluminum foil baking pans I've seen others use but is a bit lower profile, and of course has a handle and is quite a bit tougher. I figure for a PSK it's mainly just for me and therefore is plenty big enough to boil water, cook, or whatever for me. I haven't measured it's capacity but will woon.

I'm using the larger skillet/plate combo in the WSK. In both instances I have put some basic survival items in their respective kits. So far seems to be just the thing. Big enough to cook up a bit for me and the wife. Might be a bit small for the whole family but we are unlikely at this time to find ourselves needing a family WSK (kid is only 2 so it's car camping for now and in some not-so-remote places).

The overall dimensions of the whole kit is 5"x7"x3". Not sure of the smaller skillet but it's a good bit smaller.

Great thing is that I got it for less than $3. I work for a shooting sports wholesaler and we have a bunch of them squirreled away in the warehouse. They're discontinued so they don't go in our catalog and nobody knows we have them.

I'm now looking for a better pouch for the PSK and a pouch to hold the one for the WSK.

I'm always looking for other peoples input and ideas. Does anybody else use something similar in their kit?


Charles
 
I use the two outter tins as the shell of my WSK. Two zipploc gallon bags and an orange watchcap on the outside keep it from clanking and waterproof.

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A bandana on the top keeps the insides from rattling about.

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And hopefully the rest of it never needs to keep me alive, but I've tried it, and it is pretty complete. The SAK is a Hiker.

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There have been a few minor changes since these photos were taken, but nothing significant.

These are amazing tins, and I can't reccomend them too strongly. They are big enough to hold some significant gear, they can boil a decent amount of water, and you can leave everything in one half while you boil in the second.
 
If I may suggest, line the pot with one or two of those thin, plastic grocery bags and then put the kit contents in it. That way, when you need to use the pot, you have some thing portable and easy to carry to hold all of the contents of the kit,
 
Ironraven:I like your kit a lot. It looks a lot like what I have but smaller.
The tins you have there should fit in a US surplus canteen pouch if its the same as the ones I have found.
I cant tell from the picture but do you have a piece of plastic in there?
a 9'x9' square of 3mm plastic painters drop cloth folds up to the size of two bandannas this will make a nice sized shelter, poncho or if you have ever tried to make a solar still they have to be big to produce any water of consequence. A 9'x9' solar still will make over a pint of water in 8 hours in the high desert area that I'm in.
I have one question whats the sharpie for? You have conserved so much space in your kit that I don't quite get the sharpie.
 
mrostov said:
If I may suggest, line the pot with one or two of those thin, plastic grocery bags and then put the kit contents in it. That way, when you need to use the pot, you have some thing portable and easy to carry to hold all of the contents of the kit,
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Thought about that and was considering if I carry the whole thing in a pouch with a belt loop then that would give me somewhere to put everything as I use it.

Cool to see someone else using the exact same thing. The one I have is definetely used but works great nonetheless. Cool thing is that it has someone's hame scratched into the bottom of it.

Thanks for the comments and suggestions,

Charles
 
Bikermike- I'm not in the desert, and I still can't get a desert still to produce much water. And that is at a point about half way between two ponds that are seperated by about 200 yards. :P With the watch cap around it, I put it into a SpecOps X-6 pouch very happily, although it usually lives in a CountyComm EOD bag with a modified, old-style USGI IFAK, paracord, a couple of 30 gallon contractor bags, an AMK Heatsheet and some granola bars, jerky and Starbursts.

DaleW- I've seen the with French and Norwegian markings, and it is nearly the twin of the British mess tin, so it almost certainly a NATO item. *sighs* I miss the good old days of the Cold War and nuclear brinksmanship.
 
bikermikearchery said:
I have one question whats the sharpie for? You have conserved so much space in your kit that I don't quite get the sharpie.
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Many carry a sharpie or pen to leave messages: "I left this location on <date/time> and I'm going <direction>. Call my boss at <phone number> and tell him <censored>." I carry a little Write in the Rain notebook and a Fisher Space Pen or just a pen refill for the same reason.
 
I thought the french were still using their curaisse for cooking !!
 
DaleW said:
Many carry a sharpie or pen to leave messages: "I left this location on <date/time> and I'm going <direction>. Call my boss at <phone number> and tell him <censored>." I carry a little Write in the Rain notebook and a Fisher Space Pen or just a pen refill for the same reason.
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OK makes sense, If I left a message say where I left my Jeep It could still be a week before any one found the Jeep. I have to leave a map with my location with someone who knows when I,m supposed to be back.
 
I carried a British messkit tin and lid as my X-C survival kit. The tins are very similar to yours. Mine carried an Esbit stove, food, marker panel, etc with room to spare. The tin fit in a pouch made for it.
 
Ach! Mike, I thought I'd answered on the sharpie, oops. Fisher pens are great, I like them. But they don't write so well on skin. If I have a partner who is injured, out cold, and I have to get firewood while we are waiting for the cavalry to show up, my notes on his condition are on his forehead, even if it isn't a tourniquet.
 
Here's the one I use, just a plain jane, I got in a set, this a pan and a cup, for $10?

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And of course what to keep in it? well you need to start a fire to cook on right? you need a knife to cut food? Got it covered ;):D

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I use Stansport stainless steel pots. $6-$8 at Sportsman's Warehouse.
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An Esbit stove fits inside the larger pot.

Stansport also has a Teflon coated version of the lareger pot. I have that one, too, but I don't use it much as the lid doesn't have a nub to aid in removing and I'd likely scratch teh Teflon coating all the heck in one outing. That pot has been relegated to our car camping gear tote.
 
ironraven said:
Ach! Mike, I thought I'd answered on the sharpie, oops. Fisher pens are great, I like them. But they don't write so well on skin. If I have a partner who is injured, out cold, and I have to get firewood while we are waiting for the cavalry to show up, my notes on his condition are on his forehead, even if it isn't a tourniquet.
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I went through Army Combat Lifesaver course with this guy who, when told to write notes regarding his "injured" partner's condition, on his forehead...did it in CCSOAP format...in Sharpie. His partner was so upset that he waited until the first guy went to sleep and wrote "MORON" all over his face with silver nitrate sticks. He showed up for PT the next morning looking like a Maori warrior. The instructors couldn't stop laughing long enough to yell at either one of them.

I had forgotten about this...thanks for reminding me.
 
I tattoed CC and SOAP on my chest and hang a dry erase marker around my neck on some 550 cord.
 
nemoaz said:
I tattoed CC and SOAP on my chest and hang a dry erase marker around my neck on some 550 cord.
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Man, that's funny. I'm having a pretty crappy day and that made me laugh. Wait...oh, jeezle...you meant it to be funny, didn't you? I hope so. I don't want to insult anybody.
 
task force k said:
I went through Army Combat Lifesaver course with this guy who, when told to write notes regarding his "injured" partner's condition, on his forehead...did it in CCSOAP format...in Sharpie. His partner was so upset that he waited until the first guy went to sleep and wrote "MORON" all over his face with silver nitrate sticks. He showed up for PT the next morning looking like a Maori warrior. The instructors couldn't stop laughing long enough to yell at either one of them.

I had forgotten about this...thanks for reminding me.
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Thanks for the good laugh... I had a corpsman show up with T-time-date sun burnt in to his forehead. The company gunny called him out in front of the company so every one could see and announced that this would be the person working on you if you got hurt. Safest field op I was ever on.
 
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