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Backpacking cookware - what do you use?
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Posting this in here hoping for quick replies -

Wondering specifically about the virtues of aluminum, titanium, nonstick, and stainless steel..

Id like something that is:

- able to be used with an optimus nova backpacking stove,
- and on a fire if necessary,
- and is easy cleaning too.

1 pot + 1 pan/lid. Ill be using the pot as a bowl.

So how about it?


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: PDU]
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I use for my stove an MSR Whisperlite International (the one that can burn gasoline, diesel, motoroil, anything).

I'm using some of their standard pans though, just a single large one with a smaller one in the center, and two cup/bowls. Plastic spoons and forks only because they're lightweight. I need to find some titanium silverwear. The main pan has a lid (so everything can be held inside).

The pans are stainless steel, so they're a bit heavier than I'd like, but it's like 80 bucks for a titanium set.


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: PDU]
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I have a small 1qt stainless kettle that I take on every trip. It has a handle a nice little spout so you can easily pour hot water into a cup for tea/cocoa. I don't cook anything in it, though. Solely for boiling water.

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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: PDU]
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I'd recommend titanium... it's more expensive.. but it's light as fuck, and lasts forever, easy to clean as well. Titanium can be used on an open fire, but black soot will get caked all over that nice finish.. which will then transfer onto anything you put it in (ie all over the inside of your pack). One solution I heard was to rub the outside with liquid soap... which then makes scrubbing it off an easy task. Maybe not the most practical thing but just throwing that out there. I've only used mine over a campfire once since I've had it.. it wasn't too hard to clean off the soot though.

Alumunum, I don't really trust. It may or may not be bullshit, but I've heard a lot of people talk about how it leeches excess aluminum into your food and an excess of aluminum in your diet may not be the healthiest thing. Although it is certainly cheap and light. I am just wary of it, I'd try and stay away from aluminum.. anodized or not.

So stainless steel or titanium are probably your best bets.
I have a titanium pot + lid I got from REI a few years ago, it came with a set of 2 pots but I only use one. Both the pot and lid have folding handles on them with rubber, and the lid can be flipped upside down and used as a frying pan. Pretty handy. The pot also has a little spout on it so you can use it for pouring hot water and whatnot too.

It was kind of expensive, but me and a friend went halfsies on it and each got a pot out of it, it has lasted me for 4 years so far and is still in prime condition so I'd say it was well worth it - http://www.rei.com/product/668927
Mine's the same thing as that only it has a nonstick coating.


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: Shroomism]
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www.campmor.com
Cheaper then REI.... SS is a good metal.. A small Lodge Logic 1 or 2 qt. Camp Dutch Ovens.


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: Brainiac]
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Yeah campmor is much cheaper, can find some good deals on there.
I just went REI cause I had a friend that worked there so I got a nice discount


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: Shroomism]
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You don't have to wash the Dutch Oven


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? *DELETED* [Re: PDU]
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Post deleted by niki420

Reason for deletion: Purging all my old posts.


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: Brainiac]
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True. But they also weigh about 500 pounds. Not exactly ideal for backpacking.


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: Shroomism]
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some where around 6lbs for the 1 qt.That's way you make someone else carry it...;)


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: serendipitythenot]
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niki420 said:
whats with all this fancy cookware?



When backpacking, every ounce of weight matters. As well as compactibility.
As well as multi-purpose. My pot holds my entire kitchen while not cooking in it. my stove and fuel, all my spices. My pot is my bowl when eating.. it doubles as a pot for pouring tea/hot water since it has a small spout.. and the lid is frying pan.
And the pot with lid weighs 5.6 ounces.

If you're car camping.. bring whatever the hell you want.. weight doesn't matter.
When you carry everything on your back wherever you go.. that's a different story.


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? *DELETED* [Re: Shroomism]
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Post deleted by niki420

Reason for deletion: Purging all my old posts.


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: serendipitythenot]
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Ah.. well I guess a regular pot is fine. But some backpackers are hardcore about every ounce they carry.. making sure they have the lightest stuff possible. I've met some ultralight AT hikers whose packs weigh about 15-22 lbs total, with food and water. Those extra ounces certainly add up especially if you are hiking 2,000 miles.


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: PDU]
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i got one of these.
http://www.backcountry.com/store/CAS0385/MSR-Titan-Kettle.html

you can cook just about anything (for one person) in it.
a bit pricey but its tough and light and i love mine.

titanium is less toxic than aluminum...

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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: mycosis]
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Aluminum isn't toxic.Its used lot in Pro-cooking.The water you use is more toxic, then that...


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: Brainiac]
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when it boils right down to it all metal is toxic
to cook in.
i agree about the water, and i try not to use those
iodine pills.
my brother loves 'em but they freak me out.

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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: mycosis]
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The Amican heart Ass.Says to cook with cast iron for the iron..
http://www.holidaycook.com/cast-iron/health-benefits.shtml


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: Brainiac]
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toxicity levels at 45 milligrams a day...

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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: Brainiac]
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Brainiac said:
The Amican heart Ass.Says to cook with cast iron for the iron..



been doing that all my life, and my family a hundred or more years
before that, you dont get iron deficiencies when you cook with cast


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Re: Backpacking cookware - what do you use? [Re: mycosis]
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mycosis said:
toxicity levels at 45 milligrams a day...



suppliments


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