2.85oz Esbit cook kit

Nice job! I have a minimalist Esbit kit using an Evernew 450ml titanium mug with a roaster foil lid, aluminum flashing windscreen and a titanium Esbit wing stove. I have a folding Ti spork that fits in with the rest of the goodies and it all comes to about 4.5oz.

I'm liking that hardware cloth stand a lot and I'll be off to the hardware store to get some to experiment with. I've used small cat food cans up-ended to hold the Esbit fuel and fiddled with aluminum flashing and tent stakes to make a combo pot stand and windscreen. The hardware cloth stand looks very stable and a lot less fiddle to make and set up, and it can be easily customized for the pot size and burning height. It allows using light foil for the windscreen too.

Thanks for getting the MYOG gears turning!

Nice set-up! I love watching these kinds of vids…great job.

Here is my "SUL" cook kit, which is similar to yours…

http://sticksblog.com/2012/06/09/sul-cook-kit/

It's fun to consider the differences in cook kits that are really close in weight. You've got a really nice windscreen that's heavier than my foil, but you save in a lot of other things. My pot is more like 1.15, stand is .35, spoon is .25, etc.

I've really been tempted by the suluk46 windscreen. I've got a bunch of Ti foil that I've been playing with, but I don't have much hope to get my windscreen below .6oz. It seems like the suluk46 windscreen is thinner Ti than my .005

I could probably bring the zuluk46 Ti windscreen and maintain the same weight I have now if I switched over to the Zelph 2c pot, skeletoned my pot stand a little bit (like yours) and brought a foil pot lid.

Even as it sits, just adding a nice Ti windscreen would only bring me a hair above 3oz. That's pretty amazing to me considering this system is actually a lot more relaxing and simple to use than my alcohol systems, as well as being less than half the weight.