Thread: Cooking systems - Light vs cost

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Yeah I've got one of those they're really good

Originally Posted by stretch

Cooker stashed in the concave base of the canister. Probably room on top for racing spoon, lighter, pot scrub. Mine is a 650ml. 650ml is full right to the brim. 500ml is about an inch below the top.

I have the same set up and it works a treat I think I got the 750ml cup.

Originally Posted by GravelBen

Coffee-wise, I got one of these the other day and it does the trick. Weighs 17g, the (pretty pointless) lid adds another 9.

Brew Basket | Equipment | Clearance | Macpac New Zealand

Thats what I use. Spent $50 buying the msr one a decade ago and then just picked up a new one for $5 from macpac....

Life is too short to drink instant.

Originally Posted by stug

On a cold morning if you do have some liquid water in a small bowl and sit the gas canister in it. It will make a big difference.

Take the lid off your billy, put the gas can\cooker in the lid. Pour some warm\hot water from the billy into the lid and that warms up the gas canister. Of course to do this you need the cooker to work well enough to warm up some water first...

Originally Posted by stug

On a cold morning if you do have some liquid water in a small bowl and sit the gas canister in it. It will make a big difference.

Also if there are two of you with a cooker, heat one of the gas canisters over the flame of the other one for "a little bit" to warm it up & then use it, gets them cranking, good for getting the last bit out of a nearly empty one

All this talk about Meths cookers has me thinking. Any pictures?
Who uses Jetboil?

Here's a little one I made from a Red Bull can. Fit's into the 450ml cup pictured. The little container fits 60ml of meths & so makes me 2-3 cups of coffee depending on wind.



Always wanted this one but I can't imagine it works too much better than mine & it probably weighs more. Looks cool though.



Ti Stove

Do the meths cookers work just by burning the meths as it evaporates through the holes?

yes but for it to vapourise it has to preheat - meths is ok but its slow and not very windproof. the system is simple and the stoves can be made easily. the downfall is that by the time you bring enough fuel and all the crap to use it, you might as well have a proper gas cooker/jet boil setup.

got a new msr reactor. will be testing it over the holidays

What crap to use it?

U have meths a stove & a lighter.

I can tell you that it weights a shit load less than a MSR reactor which is like half a kg.