Freezer Bag Cooking

This is what my girlfriend and I do.

We each have a Super Gram Weenie stove from End2End Trail supply. (you have to specially order that one; its bigger that the regular gram weenie. That with its windscreen and tray to light it on is 1 oz.

We each have a Snow Peak ti mug. 2.12 oz

Ti Spoon for each of us. .25 oz

Alcohol bottle- varying sizes, about .5 to 1 ounce

mini bic- .25

homemade food cozie each- .67 oz

That's under 10 ounces for two complete setups, so for your wish list that'd be around 7-8 ounces.

I'm not saying it can't be done, but for a stove, windshield, pot, fuel bottle, and two cups, 6 ounces is pushing it. You'll save weight just boiling your water in a ti-mug rather than taking a separate pot, but cooking like that is a personal preference.

Thanks Travis,

I think you are right – 6 Oz is unrealistic.

Something like this might work – it's just over 13 Oz, but still about 20 Oz lighter than the Trangia.

Caldera Stove 0.60 Oz
Caldera Cone 1.50 Oz
Evernew 1.3L Ti Pot 4.58 Oz (might get away with smaller)
Caldera Caddy 2.60 Oz
Fuel Bottle 0.60 Oz
Pouch Cozy 1.58 Oz
Pouch Cozy 1.58 Oz
Spork 0.33 Oz
Spork 0.33 Oz

Total 13.2 Oz (rounded up – I use grams)

When travelling solo, I'd probably ditch the caddy, a cozy and a spork.

I haven't seen a gram weenie in the UK – I'll keep a look out for it – I'm pretty clumsy, so putting together something stable like a Caldera cone might cost me an ounce or two.

not sure if you could get away w/ a smaller pot or not- most freeeze dried meals for two require ~ 500-600 ml, another 500 or so for two cups of hot drinks puts you right at the 100-1100 mark (realizing you probably won't fill it to the very brim for boiling)

I guess there may be some homemade meals that require less water, if so you might be able to move down one size in pots

that's still a pretty darn light "kitchen" for two :)

> Is it unrealistic to aim for something sub 6 oz? (Stove, Windshield, pot, fuel bottle, two cups).

Since you mention the Caldera…..the closest you are going to get in the Caldera space for the sub 6oz mark is the Caldera Keg-H that comes in right at 6oz and includes everything you list and a few other gadgets. Or, you could go with two stripped down Keg-H units with just the cone/keg/stove at ~3oz each.

Rand :-)

this is the system my fiance and i use!

generally the meals we make aim for just 2 cups of water so we use a .6 liter evernew titanium pot, 2.4oz without the 1.1oz lid, we just use foil.

if your gonna do drinks as well id try something around the .9 liter range

the alcohol stove we use is a supercat. just a fancy feast cat food can with a bunch of holes around the rim.
just 6 grams!!! andrew skurka uses this stove and has a video how to make it on his website. crazy cheap and easy to make. and its a plus that it is its own pot stand!

and for the wind screen we just use foil but if you want something a little more durable try the titanium sheets sold at suluk46.com. <1oz

and fuel bottle we use to use a 16oz little nipper platy but soon realized we never need that much fuel even on big hikes. now we just use small listerine bottles from the travel size to 8oz bottles.

heet for fuel.

SUL!

peace

.maestro.

My husband and I do FBC dinners with hot drinks, also, but use a smaller size pot since we prefer to do 2 boils. We boil 2 to 2 and 1/2 cups for the FBC meals and fix the coffee later, otherwise, by the time the meal is cosied up and ready to eat the coffee is cold. We generally prefer to have the hot drinks a little later in the evening, anyway.