cooking in a mug

I use the Snow Peak 700 Ti mug/cookpot @ 4.5oz.
Snow Peak Giga Power Lite Max @ 1.9oz.
Snow Peak Spork @ .06 oz.
Snow Peak Fuel can (full)@ 7oz.

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13.4 oz.
Not the lightest but it is light,efficient,sturdy and quick.On top of that,it all fits inside the mug/pot.I just add two large rubber bands:one around the entire unit vertically and the other around the perimeter to muffle the handles and keep the lid in place.
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I also use a Snowpeak 700 because I didn't really think out what I'd be making in it. To take Mountain House as a generic standard, their single meals require 12oz of water. That's 355ml, so you could get a 400ml mug since you can eat out of the bag. I haven't gotten into Sarah's Freezer bag cooking yet but a dehydrator is on my list for next summer. Once I get and read thru her book and figure out what the average recipe takes, I may readjust my mug size, since for MH I have one with twice the capacity necessary.

You just have to figure out how much water you'll need to heat up on a regular basis and base your mug size on that.

I use freezer bag cooking (FBC) because my pot is a big beer can on an alcohol stove. Boiling water is all that I need. Food sticks in the thin aluminum can, then burns on the next use. Pouring hot water over my food in a freezer bag covered with an insulative cozy suits me.

If you have a non-stick coating in your mug and like tending your pot, that is fine. I just pour, stir, cover, then let it sit for 15 minutes. Cleanup consists of rolling up the dirty bag.

I use a Coleman Max Aluminum 20 oz pot and 12 oz pan: 181g or ~ 6 oz
Most of what I cook is boil 2 cups for dehydrated food in a pouch for 2 people. Coffee in the morning is hard b/c I have to wait about 5-10 minutes for the coffee to cool down enough to get it near my lips. Otherwise, I have been very happy switching to cup/pot double duty.

acronym 7/30/2009 3:16 PM

I use a Fosters Cone from Trail Designs, with a few changes.

I like to eat out of "bowl" and have hot water in progress as I cook and eat. (I know you said 'MUG', but read on…) I replaced the Caddy with the bottom of a one liter water bottle, cut down to three cups, which serves as my bowl, and fits tightly over the Fosters can.

I made a two-part cozy, which serves as a lid when I'm boiling water, and as the bottom of a full cozy when that water gets added to my bowl of "Freezer Bag Cooking" food.

I use a GramCracker or alcohol depending on circumstances. The weight is 3.18 ounces, which includes my .45 ounce bowl/mug. The stuff sack adds .25 ounce, if it goes along.

First post… hope I can add some insight to a great forum that I have learned a lot from in the short time I have been reading, thanks one and all!

A cheaper alternative ($4) to a titanium mug and larger (1 qt) that I have been using is a Bene Casa oil strainer mug. You can get them on Amazon, link is below. It is about 3 oz. without the lid. You can see in the picture on Amazon that the lid is sitting on top of the oil strainer. When you discard the oil strainer the lid does not fit. I have cut the lip off the lid and it is functional but foil is probably just as good. Besides the lid problem it is great and you can't beat the price.

I go with boil in the bag meals and use a 550ml cup, alcohol stove (usually out of small v8 or red bull cans), pot stand, foil windscreen and a foldable spork.

The whole set comes in somewhere between 4-5oz and everything fits in the cup.

I believe it is a good compromise of weight and capability to volume in the pack.

I use the Snow Peak 450 and 600 single wall Ti mugs and they work fine for TWEG and Travel Lunch meals.

They'd work fine as cook pots too, but I just boil water in them at the moment.