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Cooking kits: what kind, how many, when to take what kit?

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PostedJan 11, 2013 at 11:50 am

I just finished up a pretty detailed breakdown of all the cooking kits that I use. If you are interested, you can check it out here: http://cesarandthewoods.blogspot.se/2013/01/my-cooking-systems-complete-breakdown.html

Then I figured I would post some of the questions I tried to answer to you guys, see other perspectives and such. I know that there are some of you that are real stove nuts and probably have 100 stoves and use 10 different systems regularly or whatever. For me I stick only to alcohol stoves or campfire cooking, and have only three kits that I have been using for all my backpacking needs in the past year or so.

If anything, I wonder who has the biggest collection of stoves, and of this big collection, what are say the top three cream-o-the-crop?

mik matra BPL Member
PostedJan 11, 2013 at 1:21 pm

Hi, tried to look at the website you posted but it seems to be incorrect. Can you check.

Nico . BPL Member
PostedJan 11, 2013 at 2:24 pm

I have two at the moment that are my main cooking kits:

600ml Evernew Ti pot w/ Caldera Cone Sidewinder Inferno. This is my solo kit. I mostly use the wood burning option or the esbit option with this stove. I can fit the pieces needed for the wood buring kit plus the esbit stove and fuel in the pot. I have a small Zpacks cuben bag to keep it all bundled up and keep the soot off the rest of my stuff in the pack.

1.3L Evernew Ti pot w/ Caldera Cone Sidewinder Inferno. This is the kit I take when sharing the cookpot with another. I mostly use the wood burning option or alcohol stove with this kit. Pretty much same packing set-up as above, except that the 12-10 alcohol stove can also fit in this pot.

I really like the flexibility of the Caldera Cone systems. Wood is always my first choice (free fuel!) and I just bring a little of one or the other back-up fuels for when wood isn't allowed or easily available.

I still have an old MSR Simmerlite white gas stove that I may bring out of exclusive car camping duty for future snow camping trips when there's a good chance of having to melt snow for drinking water. I'd pair it with my above 1.3L Evernew pot. A recent trip that saw me trying to melt snow with esbit when fresh water was less abundant than presumed has given me reason to reconsider my choices for these types of trips.

I've got a couple of other odds and ends that I never really got around to using much (a BPL ti-wing stove and a whitebox alcohol stove). I hang on to them thinking that someday I may try them out again.

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