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Doogoon said:
Imagine a BK-5 in this stuff....

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I've seen that c-tec stuff melt from being grinded.
 
Living in the deep South, I've not had much call to melt snow. But I tried it yesterday for kicks and giggles.
I never realized the yield was so low. 10:1 from what I'm reading. In other words, 10 inches in a pot boils down to about an inch of water.
Learned something useful.

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We had just enough snow on Saturday to get in some sledding.
Used my Maxpedition hot chocolate kit with the folding cups that tradewater turned me onto.

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Snarking is so much better than the Superbowl. Watched the last few minutes of the first half and about 20 seconds of the halftime show. That was enough football and hiphop to last me a few years.
 
Hey Biscuit, I'll bet that Kelly Kettle would be a snow melting machine if you could cram enough through the spout.
 
my wife makes them for the deputies shes a dispatcher. she calls them snowman emergency kits lol!
 
so I went camping with a bunck of folks from HF yesterday - Psyop, Duderino was asking where "the guy with a Clark hammock" was.
Dub - saw the snowpeak 900 and 3 piece titanium sets on action as well as a primus anodized aluminum set. the snowpeak frypans would fit in the palm of my hand and scorched eggs stuck to them every try. The guy with the primus never used his frypan, he just boiled water.
for what you're waning to do, I'd look at the Primus and the Coleman Max kits -- both run around the $30 mark.

oh, yeah - food.
bacon and eggs for breakfast -- at 12:30 yesterday.
dinner was duelling cooks with 14" dutch ovens.
one guy did a fry up with a small onion, minced garlic, 5 pounds of potatoes and 2 pounds of kielbasa seasoned with salt and pepper -- when it was all cooked, it was smothered in shredded cheddar.
the other guy minced up 2 onions, 3 pounds of potatoes, and added a pound of ground sausage to 3 quarts of boiling water -- then seasoned with garlic, salt, and 2 or 3 tablespoons of black pepper.
after stuffing myself with 2 servings of the fry-up while waiting on soup, then a mug of soup -- one of the guys opens up a can of cherry pie filling to warm on the fire and breaks out 4 cheesecakes and a rhubarb pie.

sad thing about all of this was that by midnight I was hungry again - but too tired to eat more.
 
1066vik said:
Dub - saw the snowpeak 900 and 3 piece titanium sets on action as well as a primus anodized aluminum set. the snowpeak frypans would fit in the palm of my hand and scorched eggs stuck to them every try. The guy with the primus never used his frypan, he just boiled water.
for what you're waning to do, I'd look at the Primus and the Coleman Max kits -- both run around the $30 mark.
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Were they Primus, or Optimus? The 900's are small, I was watching videos. I was also checking out the aluminum version of the 900. Less than half the cost of titanium, and only 3 ounces heavier. I think my wife has a Coleman. I gave it to her. Got it at Wally, iirc.
 
Considering my two kids, you bet your Beckers I have a hot chocolate kit. :p
 
trade flipped on his blender and the Super Bowl lights went out.
 
The Warrior said:
Were they Primus, or Optimus? The 900's are small, I was watching videos. I was also checking out the aluminum version of the 900. Less than half the cost of titanium, and only 3 ounces heavier. I think my wife has a Coleman. I gave it to her. Got it at Wally, iirc.
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Dubz I don't know if you have one already but the 1.1 liter stowaway is a heck of a good cooking pot that doesn't scorch everything you make in it, plus it seals shut fairly decently as well. It might weigh more being stainless, but it will last, and it works.
 
i took the super bowl fuses. was tired of the noise. they can have them back for 1 billion dollars.
 
The Warrior said:
Were they Primus, or Optimus? The 900's are small, I was watching videos. I was also checking out the aluminum version of the 900. Less than half the cost of titanium, and only 3 ounces heavier. I think my wife has a Coleman. I gave it to her. Got it at Wally, iirc.
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primus.
Wally is where my wife picked up the coleman max kit she gave me for x-mas - I haven't taken it out to try it yet. My wally grease pot is big enough to hold a stove and the big iso-B can, and will boil up enough water for a pint of tea and a cheap lipton pasta based side dish with diced meat for a meal - it's just got a really inconvenient handle.
the Mors bush pots are really nice, too -- but they don't include a skillet on top.
 
The Warrior said:
Were they Primus, or Optimus? The 900's are small, I was watching videos. I was also checking out the aluminum version of the 900. Less than half the cost of titanium, and only 3 ounces heavier. I think my wife has a Coleman. I gave it to her. Got it at Wally, iirc.
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Dubz I don't know if you have one already but the 1.1 liter stowaway is a heck of a good cooking pot that doesn't scorch everything you make in it, plus it seals shut fairly decently as well. It might weigh more being stainless, but it will last, and it works.
 
mmm, heavy iron...

i bet every flea market near me sells cast iron for mega money. too many crafty people.
 
CamH_16 said:
I've seen that c-tec stuff melt from being grinded.
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I certainly hope that doesn't happen to the knife I Ryan Weeks just finished up for me!
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Ryan says good things about the stuff. I think I saw him say somewhere that if it were to crap out he would repair or replace the scales.
 
1066vik said:
primus.
Wally is where my wife picked up the coleman max kit she gave me for x-mas - I haven't taken it out to try it yet. My wally grease pot is big enough to hold a stove and the big iso-B can, and will boil up enough water for a pint of tea and a cheap lipton pasta based side dish with diced meat for a meal - it's just got a really inconvenient handle.
the Mors bush pots are really nice, too -- but they don't include a skillet on top.
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Probaly the Primus LiTech series then.

DerekH said:
Dubz I don't know if you have one already but the 1.1 liter stowaway is a heck of a good cooking pot that doesn't scorch everything you make in it, plus it seals shut fairly decently as well. It might weigh more being stainless, but it will last, and it works.
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Don't have one, but have checked them out. I have a cheapy aluminum mess kit from Wally. I also have the Swedish mess kit. Have a 12cm Zebra pot as well, thought about selling it though.
 
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