My new stove setup, under 3oz. Everything but fuel.

I ordered it on 3/16 and you recommended it on 3/21. Do you feel a commission was earned?

However, if we ever hike together I will gladly buy you a beer or other beverage of choice :)

I got a Ti-Tri two years ago. It worked in my front yard, so I took it up to snow country without much extra thought. Unfortunately, the snow was about ten feet deep, and it is really difficult to find wood up there. I managed to find some pine on top of a boulder, but it had been soaked all winter long. It worked…barely. There was so much water being vaporized in the wood that it was very hard to catch, hard to maintain, and even a little short in the heat department. The wood sap and resins were terrible, and that left a black coating on the cook pot that was difficult to clean even at home. But, that is why we field test these things, to find out the envelope of practicality before we need it critically.

–B.G.–

This is my most compact stove/kitchen set up. It is a MLD 475ml mug, Suluk ti windscreen, Ruta Locura carbon fiber lid, Trail Designs Gram Cracker, Optimus folding ti spork, a book of matches, a homemade cozy and I just added a new titanium pot stand made by Gary Dunckel. It all works well–brings a full mug of water to a rolling boil on 1/2 an Esbit at 5,000 ft above sea level. I have to use more Esbit as I go higher and the wind picks up. This kit all together weighs 3.4 ozs.

Jason,

Why not drill a couple holes in ur windscreen and use your stakes? That's what suluk (forget his name) suggested when I inquired about his T.E.W.B setup. Multi-use and 12 grams lighter.

"I love Caldera Cones. But they have a couple weaknesses. One is the chance you might damage the dove-tail joints. Did this on my first one. "

Nick, did that one have the re-inforced joints? I just got the Keg-H cone and it does. So maybe the problem is solved? My other 2 have been titanium so I don't know when they changed it for the aluminum cone.

That's a good idea. But for me I wanted a compact and functional stove/kitchen set up. I like being able to throw this in my food bag at the top of my pack. I don't have to hunt for it and for all the other components to set up for coffee or a quick meal.

I have a lighter set up that is similar to this just using a Caldera Cone ULC for a Snow Peak 600–that uses tent stakes, with a lexan spoon, and no cozy–total weight 2.7 oz.. But again this set up is not as compact and I like having the cozy. I could get a Caldera Cone ULC for the MLD 475 mug but that would still require the longer tent stakes.

But I'm sure that this set up will evolve over time.

Thanks for the input and comment.

"Nick, did that one have the re-inforced joints? I just got the Keg-H cone and it does. So maybe the problem is solved? My other 2 have been titanium so I don't know when they changed it for the aluminum cone."

Not sure what a reinforced joint is. My first cone was several years ago. The GVP has a small piece of metal riveted to on side of the dove tail, that must be the reinforcement.

Dang, nice kit Jason! And a full boil on half an esbit saves even more weight.

Between the 3 kits posted so far, this will be a good thread for anyone looking for the lightest cooking systems. Too bad that all of them have to be pieced together. Would be nice if someone put together and sold "the lightest cooking system" using esbit.

"The GVP has a small piece of metal riveted to on side of the dove tail, that must be the reinforcement."

I think that small piece is titanium. I read that on another thread.

Now I understand what you were trying to do with your pot stand, Jason. You've assembled a pretty sweet setup. Kudos to you!