Snow Peak Ti Mini Solo cook set

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I had this review for a French forum and decided to share those pictures here too. Ladies and gents, my quest for the perfect, well made, compact and lightweight (5.5 oz !) cook set is now over. For 65 USD you can get a full Ti small 300mL cup, a 840mL pot with a lit, everything packed in a mesh bag. The pot is just as large to fit 2 small gaz canisters or one canister plus a small stove.
You can't go wrong with this item !








 
I've got one. Shopped around a little, and found one for fifty bucks. I've been using it for a long time now. It is my only cook kit. Sometimes I pack a small piece of grill like material for cooking steak or whatever, but the mini solo goes everywhere I go. I ditched the little cup. Too small for my use, as I like a big cup of Irish breakfast tea in the mornings, so I wrote a couple of different measurements on the outside with a sharpie so I don't have to guess when heating up oatmeal or mountain house meals. Who knew that a cup would be my favorite piece of gear?
 
Not really needing the additional weight savings of titanium, and wishing to spend less money, I opted for the $20-25 Coleman Max cook set. It is annodized aluminum, a set of four nesting containers
(•12 oz. pan with handle
•16 oz. pan with handle
•20 oz. pot with swing out handle
•32 oz. pot with swing out handle
•Graduation measurements on side of pots).

Weight of all four pieces in the mesh carry bag is 16 ounces. Heavy but not a problem for canoe camping. The problem is that I am stuck on using my larger stainless Aussie billy pot and this set has sat on my gear shelf unused, so I can't speak to it's utility and durability...

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I would like one of these kits, but I am pretty happy with the MSR Ti pot I have, and the Pocket Rocket stove that packs in it. No real reason to change, but it's what I would buy if I needed a pot that size.
 
I like my mini solo

It lives in a 1 litre belt pouch that is my emergency/survival kit packed with lots of goodies.
Any time I go fishing, dayhiking/camping it is always thrown in the pack or clipped outside it.

It has made many a ramen/lipton soup pick me up on rainy days or impromptu overnighters when the fishing is too good to leave.
 
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