I bought the titanium version because I was attracted not to the lighter weight, but to corrosion resistance over steel. Right or wrong, I had visions of the steel winding up like a rusted coffee can due to the caustic nature of ash. The ti, at worst, has taken on a mottled blue color like a fire blued gunlock. For me, the light weight is just a bonus. I was concerned that it would warp with use, but it hasn't. Even when I overheated it with hickory wood under an oven. The oven reached nearly 700 degrees before I took it off to let the fire cool down to a managable 450 degree baking temperature.