mug/ cup?

This has been on steepandcheep.com lately for $20 and can function as both a pot and a cup: http://www.backcountry.com/backcountry-titanium-cookset-700ml-pot-spork

+1 on the Backcountry 700 mL mug/pot! I like mine.

as long as you arent boiling water with it … use yr sierra cup with pride … lol

you wont save too many oz by spending an extra 50 smackaroos …

sierra cups are pretty versatile … half cup/half plate …. and you can use it as a frying pan … great for open fires

dont go to the dark side and be a titanium wielding yuppie !!!

every dent on that cup tells a story ….

My personal transition towards a lighter weight cup has gone like this:

2.5oz plastic GSI Cascadian Mug:

1.5oz plastic GSI Infinity Mug:

0.84oz 2 cup ZipLock container:

I've been quite happy with the 2 cup square ziplock container. I briefly used a round one (Twist 'n Lock Ziplock), but I find the square ones better because you can easily drink out of the corner, and they are wider so they work well as a bowl also. The wider shape also packs better in my misc. gear stuff sack.

The ziplock containers have measuring marks on the side which is nice. The folded top lip keeps the container rigid when it's filled with hot liquids. I tried cutting the top off to save weight but it made it too floppy/flexy.

I usually eat in my pot and use this for drinks, but if I can't eat in the pot for whatever reason (ie. I want to boil more water for a drink) then this works great as a bowl too. The only thing lighter would be just eating/drinking out of my pot which works sometimes but it's not ideal in all circumstances….like if you want to get water boiling for a hot drink while you eat your meal.

Dan…
How do you drink hot liquids out of the two cup tupperwear? Isnt is really hot to hold?

REI makes a green 8oz measuring cup at(0.6)oz that is sturdy and durable for long trips. I use it with the BPL 550 pot/mug. I use the REI cup to measure out exact H2O measurement for my Mary Janes and Mountain House meals.

I use the 16 oz size Rubbermaid Twist and Seal cup without the lid. It weighs 0.7 oz. I made a 1" wide CCF wrap for holding it, but often don't take this because I can use the handles on the rim.

I drink hot liquids (usually coffee) every day on the trail out of this Ziploc container. I've never noticed hot liquids to be an issue in terms of holding the container, so I wasn't sure how I deal with it until just now.

Turns out it does get pretty hot with piping hot coffee inside. You can hold it normally, but if the coffee is extremely hot it does get uncomfortable after 5-10 seconds. What I naturally do without even thinking about it is I hold this container by the upper walls and brim. This is a 2.5 cup container, not a 2 cup, so with 1 to 1.5 cups of coffee in it there is still enough room to hold it by the upper walls and brim comfortably, usually using 2 hands.

After a few minutes the coffee is a bit cooler and you can hold it normally if you want, but it's quite easy and natural to hold it by the brim/upper walls. I consider it this a non-issue. You could also hold it like a normal mug while wearing my thin gloves if you wanted.

Here's how I normally hold it, but usually with 2 hands. This is 1.25 cups:

Snowpeak makes a Ti version of the snowpeak if your partial to that design- one w/ or w/o a folding handle, weight is 1.4 oz

if you carried it in your pot (protected) I wonder how a styrofoam cup would hold up- it couldn't weigh but a gram or two, you could even put measurement markings on w/ a sharpie :)

Go to Starbucks and ask them for a couple "short" sized cups. they are 8oz, and are made to be used with hot liquids. you can double up the cup to insulate. holds up better than Styrofoam

^ good idea, can stock up on Via at the same time :)

gsi stacking cup. $3, light, perfect for that AM cup of coffee… i'd hate myself if i tried to hold that square tupperware when it's freezing out and i'm just waking up

If it's freezing out, you could hold the 'square tupperware' down where the coffee is and use it as a hand warmer. Holding it either way is very easy and natural. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.

The square 'tupperware' really is an awesome solution that's hard to appreciate until you've used it. I was using a round, cup shaped tupperware container before the square one and only switched to the square one out of necessity when the round one got stepped on…now I'd never go back to a typical cup shape. The square, flatter shape is way more packable because you can fit it upside down over your other gear. I just toss it in upside down into my misc. gear stuff sack and it fits nicely over all my other small items. A narrower round shaped cup doesn't fit over your other gear, so it takes up a lot of volume and it's more vulnerable to being crushed.

Unlike a cup shape, the shallow square dish also works great as a bowl, holding it is easy and natural and drinking out of a corner works awesome. There's really nothing not to like except that it's not very insulating so you can't take all day to drink your hot beverage. This is a problem with most cups though and can't be solved without adding weight. You could make a cozy for this container if you wanted.

I carry these as cups. Disposable, insulated, have a lid, and are extremely light.

REI sells a titanium Sierra cup that is 1.4oz and $14.95— the handle is fixed. I think it is a top cookware bargain, along with the Snow Peak ti bowl.

http://www.rei.com/product/764187

http://www.rei.com/product/720286

I recently bought a GSI Infinity mug that is a simple mug with a lid and insulating sleeve and no handle. Dirt cheap at $6, but a little heavy at 3.2oz. It did keep my coffee and oatmeal hot. Not bad if you use it to stash other stuff in underway– it takes up as much room as my 600ml pot (17 fluid oz/500ml).

I have also used the GSI plastic mug with a handle– the one that looks like an ordinary coffee cup. It is cheap and works fine, but too small for bowl.

Another small and cheap cup is the Esbit mug: 12oz capacity hard anodized aluminum with a plastic rim and handle, 2.8oz. If they made this a little taller, thinner gauge walls (lighter) and added a lid, it would be a perfect mug. $7 at REI on sale: http://www.rei.com/product/809406

Sometimes I use a plastic single-serving Campbell's soup container.

Drink the soup at home and peel off the label and you have a very serviceable insulated mug with a lid. And it's basically free. Capacity is about 10 ounces.

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