So I've been patiently and persistently converting my group of hiker buddies over to the lighter side of things and have many of them using Fosters or keg pots now in their cook setups. I also lately had the great fortune of convincing them of the merits of freezer bag cooking (read: now I'm not the last one to be eating my food). I made my group a bunch of 4 cup pot caddies with Reflectix cozies to cook their food in and store their beer can pots because, well I'm nice and it was my idea for them to give the whole thing a try in the first place. Long story short, they love them, but I also have a good amount of 4 cup containers left and about 40 feet of Reflectix leftover. Fortunately I made some templates for the different containers early on that allowed me to whip some additional setups together pretty quickly. Point of this thread is, is anybody interested? I also threw together some beer cozies because they're awesomely nerdy and keep your beverages remarkably cool and your hands remarkably warm……. at the same time (magic).
I'm not throwing these out here to make a big profit, I'd make far more money if I just stayed at work instead of looking like a conspiracy theorist playing with foil on my couch, but I like these things, and my friends do too, and they fit our needs very well so maybe some other people may find some use for them too.
The knockoff Ziploc one is my favorite. It has graduations on the side, adds good protection to the pot, and the twist lid feels nice and secure.
The green snap lid one is really light, adds a small layer of protection to your pot, and functions well for cooking food in, but is very minimalistic. Very similar to a deli container. Don't sit on it.
Both containers fit a quart size freezer bag perfectly, and allow the zip portion of the bags to be folded over the lip of the containers when it comes time to chow.
And lastly the beer cozy. I made it as a dumb bored joke and ended up using it every night (maybe I drink soda too). Things cool. Anyways, if anybody wants any of these non-original products for a fairly fair price hand made by an admittedly ocd perfectionist fellow BPLer, let me know on here or by email at norcalweaver@gmail.com.
I figured $15 shipped (conus) for the twist containers (container and cozy), $14 shipped for the UL snap lid version (container and cozy), and $10 shipped for the beer (soda) cozies (no cheap beer or soda included).
Pics shown with Zelph's 2 cup flat bottom Foster's can for reference.
