The Main Staple of my Backpacking Kitchen!
Review by Rebecca K. on 11 Sep 2018 review stating The Main Staple of my Backpacking Kitchen! Whether you are cooking food in the pot (hello, Ramen Bomb) or just boiling water to pour into an expensive Mountain House meal bag, a great cook pot is a must. Enter the SnowPeak titanium pot and lid.
After reading countless reviews and deciding that I’d spend the extra money for lighter weight and higher quality, I bought the SnowPeak Titanium mulit-compact cookset. It has a large pot with a lid (holds about 1 liter) and a small pot with a lid (holds about 780 ml). The small pot and lid nest inside the large pot and lid, which is convenient. For backpacking solo, I only carry the large pot and lid; if I’m with a friend who doesn’t have their own cookset, I’ll bring the small one along. Even with the two pots and two lids, it’s just 11.6 oz.
You can use the lid as a lid, a sauce pan, a fry pan, a plate, and I’m sure lots of other things. The lid has a folding handle, which has its pros and cons. Pros – using the handle to place the lid on top of the pot to boil faster, using the handle to hold onto the lid when I use it as a plate, collapsing it to fit in my kitchen stuff sack. Con – squeezing a little too hard on the lid’s extended handle and having it collapse and dump hot grits down my leg and on the ground. No, I did not eat the grits on the ground. Yes, I did scrape up and eat the grits on my leg. :)
The cookset comes with a mesh storage bag, but I re-purposed that for other storage and just keep the pots inside a stuff sack. The pot and lid are easy to wipe (or lick) clean, and through many, many uses, only have a slight discoloration from the heat; they are still just as strong and cook just as evenly as the day I bought them.
I'm such a fan that I wrote an entire blog article singing their praises! https://firestartersguide.com/2018/08/29/gear-review-snow-peak-titanium-cookset-and-spork/
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