Does anyone actually make what I'm looking for?

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Everyone knows the old stories of soldiers cooking in their helmets, right? And pots are one of the harder things to pack...:(

Does anyone make a thin steel or aluminum hat/helmet with a removable liner for use as a cooking pot? In order to prevent it from getting too hot while being worn in the sun, a white cloth cover would be in order methinks. The ideal would be something like a "rice paddy" hat, or a British/French "Chapeau de Fer" or "Kettle Hat," but not something heavy and thick since we're not in the middle of a war zone after all.

The idea kind of struck me the other day, and yet I haven't been able to find anything like this after an hour on google. :grumpy: Does such a thing exist, or am I the only one who thinks it would be handy? :foot:
 
Don't know if such a creature exists or not, but it probably wouldn't be too hard to make or have someone else make. Personally, after I got out of the army, I vowed never to wear a helmet again, ever, for any reason.
 
I like that you are thinking outta the box but personally I'd sooner struggle with a small pan in my pack or hanging from my belt that sitting on my head !!!
 
I'd be thinking of a super thin one, so the weight wouldn't be bad, and it could also be a functional hat. :)
 
Redicliously hot in the summer, redicliously cold in the winter.
I too would rather battle with a pot or pan strapped to my back.

Even if you have adequate insulation on both sides of the "pot helmet", it will still radiate heat in the summer, and sap your warmth in the winter.

Arn't the "steel pots" of earlier wars like 3lbs?
I would rather deal with a set of aluminum cookwear on my back than wear that on my head.

But hey, maybe you can find someone to make one out of Titanium. That would be different.
 
I'd love to find something like that out of titanium:D I didn't really start wearing a hat until a few years ago when I got into oilfield work (had to wear a hardhat!) and then started wearing hats outside of work. When I get out for some dirt time, I've got an Australian outback style hat I wear for sun protection, but whenever I get into area with overhangs the brim just cuts out enough of my vision that I'm always running my big ol' cranium into something even harder than it is:o I've thought a lot about buying one of the carved aluminum hardhats (you can find 'em on ebay). Super stylish:p and a ton of protection, but I don't know if you could eat out of 'em;)
 
SamuraiDave said:
Arn't the "steel pots" of earlier wars like 3lbs?
I would rather deal with a set of aluminum cookwear on my back than wear that on my head.
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That's the thing--I'd want one that was THIN so it wouldn't be heavy. It wouldn't be intended as a helmet. It doesn't have to be heavy to cook in. Hence aluminum would be fine. Titanium would be unnecessary since it's actually heavier than aluminum.

Clearly it doesn't exist though. Oh well. Time to find an aluminum fab. shop. :)
 
I think this is a great idea and it would be worthwhile investigating its practicality. Maybe if it was reflective so that the sun didn't heat it up from the outside and was thick enough and a good enough conductor of heat it might actually function like a heat sink, kinda like on top of your CPU :D

I think I would feel like Gomer Pyle wearing something like this but than I'm really, really not a hat person.
 
I think with a padded cotton or 3D foam liner it would more than breathable. :)
 
Actually, maybe if you glued a whole ton of heat sinks to the outside it would keep your head cool. LOL. People would definitely leave you alone on the trail :eek:
 
Hah! Now THAT would be interesting! Maybe rig up a few computer fans in it too. :D

There's a metal shop just a half-hour drive from where I live, and I'll be near it tomorrow. Maybe I'll check in with them. I'm poor at the moment, so I doubt I could afford to have it done up, but I'll at least know if they can! :)
 
shouldnt be too hard to make (as long as you arent to worried about looks :D). I would get a peice of thicker aluminum and then find/make a form of some sort. The form would need to be a somewhat accurate negative of your melon, then get a ball-pean hammer and hammer the aluminum until it fills the form. (I am thinking that this is much more easily said than done, however)
 
or one of these
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I know I said thin, but not THAT thin! :p

Besides, the government wouldn't be interested in ANYTHING floating around in MY head! It'd just give them the heebie-jeebies. :D :D :D
 
Thanks for the link! Looks like it has a removable suspension, so that's pretty much exactly what I'm looking for!

How do you strap pots to your bag? What attachments do you use and how do you prevent them from swinging around and banging into stuff? I ask this as a genuine question, not as a challenge.

I like the concept of a "cook hat" from the standpoint that it can keep the sun out of my eyes while it's on my head, yet use as a pot when I feel the compulsion or need without needing to carry it around on my bag where it could impede my movement or make lots of noise. :)
 
If I were going to strap anything as oddly shaped as a pot to the outside of my pack, I would probably use a piece of netting. It stretches around almost any shape.
 
I figure a Brunton Flex stove and a set of Brunton IB pots are the trick, along with a comfy Jungle Boonie hat. The stove stashes in the concavity of the fuel canister inside a padded bag inside the pot. Add a titanium foil wind screen from Ti Goat and a Ti Spork and you have it all covered for about 2 lbs. And its easy to pack.
I was liking your thinking though, but my head is way bigger than any pot I need to have out backpacking, LOL.
 
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