Packing: cooking systems
As a backpacking enthusiast I have been searching for a highly efficient lightweight portable stove cooking system, where the cooking pot is stable, the system is complete, windscreen, pot, lid, cozy and all, plus it has attractive good looks, while operating and while packed will not get soot all over my pack.
It is important, in the outdoors, to keep food odors off your clothing and your pack.
The cookset would need to be self-contained.
It would "fit" in, ideally, an odorproof OPSak.
There have been significant improvements in the amount of heat and boiling time achieved by stove design and pot height over the stove, together with windscreen design.
The Trail Designs Caldera Cone cooking system integrates stove, pot and windscreen into one system for three fuels: alcohol, solid fuel and wood fuel. Here is only one example:
The Trail Designs website has a comprehensive cookware selection. Trail Designs will also consider a custom order. Their two-piece Sidewinder Ti-Tri available to pack inside the smaller cookware is the result of a special request.
The Ti-Tri ULC is another alternative, that packs inside the cooking pot, resulting from customer request.
I like the Trail Designs Caldera Cone cooking system because it is stable. The hot water, or worse the dinner, is not likely to tip out onto the ground.
I suggest, first, select the cooking pot. Next, select the system.
The cooking pot may be the AlpKit, Anti-GravityGear, BPL, Brasslite, Evernew, Mountain Laurel Design, MSR, Open Country, REI, Snow Peak, Ti-Goat, Tibetan, or Vargo, each one having different dimensions and features.
Trail Designs will also build-to-fit for another cooking pot, you specify.
In addition, Ti-Goat has announced the TiGoat F Keg that utilizes the Classic Ti-Tri and their own Ti-Microtus alcohol stove, or fuel tabs, or a wood fire.
I know I appreciate all the cooperation and continuing development.
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