Plastic Lids for Pots

Ever thought of making one out of flashing (the stuff for windscreens)? Just cut it a bit bigger and crimp around. And you can use it for cooking as well! It is what Rand of Trail Designs did for us, for our Caldera System for the GSI Glacier mug/pot.

The Snowpeak Cook'n'save pot I bought on gear swap arrived today. It's a nice bit of kit. 2 litre Ti pot with Ti lid which can double as a skillet, and a snap on plastic lid for transporting food. 8oz complete, which is not U/L, but when you consider the weight of a separate plastic box for keeping food in, it starts to make sense. The big diameter pan makes good use of the heat of a small woodburner or stove too, meaning less fuel used, and quicker boil times.

600ml pots are cool for dehydrated packet food, but when you have to fall back on locally available stuff, a big pan comes into it's own for a big cookoff which will keep you fed for several main meals.

I'm curious about this as well and have been looking for a lid for the Snow Peak Ti Bowl (D = 5 1/4") especially. The potential advantage of the plastic lid, among other things, is the ability to seal well, compared to a MYOG foil/flashing lid.

…Although I wonder about using a silicone gasket + Al lid.

I will post if I find any plastic lids that work for what I have.

I found the dog food lids from petco fit on my tibetan titanium 450ml mug. they are made to fit on different size cans so it may work for more then one application.

So far, all I could find was the Glad Ware size 4 (4 cups) + Glad Ware size 5 (1 3/4 cups) and one was about 1/4" too big and the other about a 1/4" too small for the SP Ti Bowl.

I know a Jetboil lid fits pretty well on a Snow Peak 700. Not a weight savings there, but they fit.

Silicone lids would be excellent. Has anyone made any silicone molds?

Make your own. Cut a circle with diameter 1/2 inch wider than your pot from an old closed cell sleepmat. Place this over the top of the pot and press down on the centre. It will grip the pot sides and stay in place. It can be pressed down as far as necessary to stop the contents (stove, fuel bottle, spork etc.?) from rattling around while you walk.
When you cook it becomes a coaster to go under the pot and protect your knees or, for those of us in the UK, the tent floor.
In cold weather, use it under the stove or gas canister as insulation.
If you cut it from a corner of your regular sleepmat you get all this for zero extra weight.

I suspect that it would require a stiffer pad. I was planning on making a cozy for the Ti bowl, so perhaps I'll sink the lid inside, rather than over top. Good suggestion.

I thought about making one out of Silicon foam so that it could take more heat and be safer for food contact. Has anyone worked with it before or know of a good source?

OK, this is what I found so far.

Lid from Planters 10 oz. container: fits the Snow Peak Solo Mug perfectly, a nice snug fit. You could probably carry water in it without leaking.

Lid from Newman's Own (as in Paul) 15 oz. container of Organic Raisins: fits the Snow Peak Solo Cup, but a tad loose. Lid stays on, but you'd need a rubberband to keep heavy items inside the cup from knocking it off.

And the quest continues, especially for the MSR Kettle…

Found one for the Snow Peak Bowl:

Spectrum Naturals Organic Shortening = 0.4 oz.

Now if I can just get my wife to make a couple more batches of cookies so that I can have it.

A Folgers coffee can (27.8oz) lid fits the 1.5L pot from the MSR Titan Mini cookset.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ffCaHl08Y
In the above video, I turn hot coffee upside-down without spilling.

5g lid from Lay's Stax (like Pringles chips) US$1 at Walmart, very tight seal.

13g factory lid. OK lid, but I have damaged 2 with heat.
http://www.antigravitygear.com/evernew-sipper-lid-eby275.html

I also have an aluminum one, cut from a soda can. I cannot recall its mass. I have successfully cooked 1/2 cup (dry) of white rice under it.

The 300 ml double wall mug has the same rim dimensions, according to spec.

Tom,

I HATE my JB plastic lid. It has a horrible coefficient of linear expansion and shrinks like mad in cold weather. Then I can't force it on my 1 L. JB pot when I pack it up. I've had to scrape a lot of plsatic off the inner ridge with a knife to get it to fit when cold and still it's a bit of a struggle to get it on.

In fact I now leave the plastic lid home in winter and use a new aluminum non-stick skillet/lid since I like to eat pancakes and sausage on winter trips. Works for me.

PS. You can make a lid from Lexan plastic and a small hardware store drawer pull knob. Wood or plastic will work fine. Also screw on 3 aluminum L shaped tabs on the top edges of the lid in a Y configuration so the tab hangs below the lid and catches the pot edges. Small, short aluminum or stainless self tapping screws will hold the tabs in place.