![]() Some things like windscreens and cozies don’t like to be smashed and bent. Soft goods can be mashed together to get good use out of pack volume, but hard objects like pots are difficult to fit snugly with other stuff. Time on the trail teaches that it is not just about weight, but also volume. The ZipLoc bowl with its watertight tight lid, adds that flexibility as well as being a good bowl for mixing dough, cozying or serving. When carrying dehydrated food, the ability to soak the food for a few hours on the trail before supper improves the quality of the meal and lowers cooking time and fuel use. On a leisurely outing with time to cook and enjoy the view, I might include the rest of the kit to permit baking biscuits or cup cakes, or cooking meals that involve pasta, rice or potatoes and a separately prepared sauce. At breakfast I heat water for instant mocha in my mug and then cook oatmeal in the Ti pot. Then I clean the pot and mug and heat water for a hot drink. for a half empty gas canister.įor my typical cooked meal routine, I make a one pot meal in a Ti pot, and 1 cup of instant pudding in my plastic mug. It’s just half the weight of the comparable canister minimalist set of 12 oz. That’s a complete kitchen for a simple overnight at only 9 oz. ![]() Here it is with the Snow Peak mug, ground sheet, Flat Cat Epicurean Esbit burner, Coke can Esbit snuffer, custom aluminum split cone windscreen/pot stand, Bic lighter and a smaller stuff sack. The last couple of ounces are really specialty items for baking, mixing or prehydrating foods on the way to camp.įor an even more minimalist approach, copying my friend, I can go to a solid fuel package for a comparable total of just over 7 oz., with each fuel tablet adding only 1/2 oz. ![]() Adding the second pot gives me some flexibility to have a dirty pot and still heat water for drinks and wash up. If I wanted to cozy meals to save fuel, add 1.6 oz. Al baking cup formed to be a pot liner or baking cap.Īs a minimalist package, I might take the stove, ground sheet, the 750 ml Ti pot, stuff sack, cross band and lighter for a total of 12 oz.Blue foam insulating pad for the canister on cold ground.2 cup GSI mug with lid and neoprene sleeve.Flat Cat Snow Leopard wind screen for the Kovea stove.600 mL Snow Peak Ti mug with DIY tomato can lid and modified handles to nest inside 6.2 cup ZipLoc container for hydrating, mixing or serving.Reflectix cozy that will fit any container in the set.Further, by swapping out the stove and windscreen combination, it has multi-fuel capability. But of course you only need to bring the parts you are planning to use with that trip’s menu. ![]() All together, without fuel, it weighs 22 oz., and is about the volume of two 8 oz. With it I can boil, simmer, bake, mix, hydrate, cozy, measure, prepare multi course meals, serve and clean up. It is versatile, light, compact, complete, and rugged. So here is my 16 piece compact, complete kitchen, all packed up sitting beside two gas canisters for scale. This post presents the current state of that quest. As I have accumulated kitchen stuff, the goal of having it all (or most of it) in a light weight, compact package has been an itch. Sometimes this is a good answer, and sometimes you want more. By the end of a trip he is pretty tired of it, but his set weighs little and he doesn’t spend a lot of time cooking. He pretty much always cooks the same one pot meal. I have a friend whose backpacking kitchen is only a single small Titanium mug and a folding Esbit stove.
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