$9.9 for ALOCS CW – K02 Outdoor Backpack Camping Kettle

.8 liter capacity. Thanks May.

Their website says 100 grams. Apparently with lid.

According to Amazon, a 0.9 L Trangia kettle weighs 190 g. I replaced the steel wire handle on mine with a Ti wire handle, but even so it still weighs 176 g. Interesting: thinner harder aluminium maybe?

Cheers

I think the weight is off by at least 50%

But WTH, it only costs $10 to find out for sure, right..:)??

It's another NON EXCLUSIVE TO BPL deal Roger doesn't take issue with !

Is it a rule, or just for Mike's tents ?

Cheers
Roger Caffin
Online Community Monitor
backpacking Light

I tracked down what I believe to be a more accurate weight ~185grams.

My assumption is that the 100g weight is based on the shipping weight that several sites list of 0.1kg.

Screen grab obtained at:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/1-4L-ALOCS-Aluminum-CW-K03-Outdoor-Camping-Kettle-Picnic-Water-Teapot-Coffee-Pot-Cookware-185g/2037293340.html

I also wouldn't be that surprised if it came in over 185grams (6.5oz) with the lid and handle, as the weight seems lower than most commercially available items. However I wouldn't lose all hope of hitting 185grams as items such as the Kmart Grease pot and Imusa mug hit incredibly low weights due to their thin walls.

Anthony

There are identical kettles to this one all over Ebay for about $11 shipped. The only difference is the color of the rubber handle coating.

They dont list weights, BUT closely examining the photos of the boxes shows 150g listed on them.. Thats about 5.5 oz..

Not all that wonderful for a 800 ml vesselthat you cannot even eat out of..

Try again, May :)

Any thoughts on the pros vs cons? Why use a kettle instead of a usual pot?

I figure the pot can boil or cook, while a kettle is intended only to boil. The kettle has a wider bottom so maybe it catches the stove heat better? Thoughts?

Pots are much more versatile. Kettles are tea culture artifacts.

A 3 cup Hard Annodized Open Counrty pot is made in.the USA and is just as wide at the bottom as the kettle.

The 3 cup weighs 3.6 oz with no handle and another ounce with a pot grabber. Less weight the kettle and far nore versatile.

If you are boiling water only, kettles are fine, but none of them are as light as a pot of equal volume.

"It's another NON EXCLUSIVE TO BPL deal Roger doesn't take issue with !

Is it a rule, or just for Mike's tents ?"

That's a very good observation. There is a coupon code posted, maybe that is exclusive to BPL? If not, then this post is in clear violation of the "current" BPL Gear Deals posting rules.

I assume the issue is bullet number 3 in the list of conditions that posts to Gear Deals must meet.

That condition is useless without some technological means of proving one's BPL membership to a 3rd party web site (think oauth). Absent that, I suggest that that "rule" be interpreted as requiring that the coupon code only be posted to BPL (vs, for example via banner ad on the vendor's page). After all, the intent can only be to make this site (BPL) more attractive to visitors.

As the late, great B.G. asked for a while back, some examples of good and bad posts would help immeasurably.

IMHO, this post is good (even if the item doesn't meet your purchase criteria).

An example of a misplaced ad (just move it to Gear!) is anything along the lines of ""xxx is back in stock" or "yyy is now available in chartreuse."

Put another way: posts here should be about the *deal*, not the gear. Vice-versa in Gear.

P.S. Any recent instance of requiring the vendor to verify BPL membership should be ignored; that's just plain silly, as recent discussion proved.

I typically don't waste my energy making posts like I did above. Honestly I could care less what the BPL rules are and who does/doesn't follow them. I'm not a moderator, I'm not a self appointed post police.

I guess the reason I did post is that I do find it rather annoying that the mods here tend to pick and choose when they choose to enforce the rule set. If you are going to have rules fine, then have them but be consistent.

I have seen wholesalers like Gearbest treated better than the cottage guys here in Gear Deals. That is lame.

I think Rogers rule is wrong.

I also think Roger is wrong to call this deal exclusive.

This appears to be the same kettle, from the same vendor, with the same code.

It's a crap rule that does nothing for BPL.

Bump, great deal !

Hi Chad

> I have seen wholesalers like Gearbest treated better than the cottage guys here in
> Gear Deals.
You comment concerns me. If you have actual cases with URLs I would appreciate it if you could email me the URLs.

Cheers
roger@backpackinglight.com

3-July-2015:
You comment concerns me. If you have actual cases with URLs I would appreciate it if you could email me the URLs.

13-August-2015:
No replies received, no URLS seen.

Cheers
Roger Caffin