Cheap, small cook pots?
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These are nearly free (or, you pay for the pot and the food is free). The one with the red pull tab holds maybe 2.5 cups, and the other one a bit less than 3 cups. Use a side cutting can opener to create the good lid. I added bails to these, for ease of use over a wood stove. The one on the right didn't have a pop top I could use as a lid handle, so I placed a hole in the center, then inserted an "omega" shaped titanium loop with a silicone sheath. These work, they each weigh just 3.4 oz., they're cheap, and they're quite disposable.
(disclosure: beef stew and soup were ravenously consumed prior to the fabrication of these pots)
I can't beat this one, about 3.5 ounce with lid, that's a real lid, that will keep pressure in, 750 ml. I searched, and the only 750ml ti pot that weighed less was the old bpl one, but it didn't have a real lid.
The stainless is very thin, and since steel is stronger for any given thickness, this pot is LIGHT.
I found it at a chinese store, they usually had much heavier walled ones, but for some reason they got a batch of these in.
I got this pot to complete my 'ultralight cook kit on a shoe string' cookset, the cookset weighs less than a ti one, and is pretty close in efficiency to my more expensive stuff.
I'm suspicious of the spot welds that held the original handle on, I wouldn't bet on them holding up over time.
The handle itself is very light, but I wanted a folding one so I modified it.
I'll take stainless steel or ti over bpa coated tin cans any day of the week, I believe all steel / aluminum cans have some type of plastic inner coating, don't want to be cooking in that thanks.
Total cost of cookset, complete, depending on if you got the stove cans free from a friend or bought them, 5.50/6.50. No fragile beer cans for pots, real flashing for screen, real pot.
Not bad.
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