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Beehive Lid from Deadwood Gear – BPL Deal/Early Access

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ADAM L BPL Member
PostedJun 22, 2026 at 1:24 pm

Hey Folks,

My new ultralight pot lid will be launching on Garage Grown Gear next week. I wanted to offer BPL members early access and a 15% discount. Use code BPL-DWG at http://www.deadwoodgear.co

Beehive LId

The Beehive lid is an upgrade to the stock backpacking pot lid. Thermally insulating means you can lift the lid without burned fingers. It is transparent, so you can keep an eye on your heating water or cooking food, and it is half the weight of the stock Toaks lid (9g, 0.3oz)Ā  It even has a notch on the perimeter to allowing you to use a pot grabber, like the Deadwood Gear Grandle, without taking off the lid.

The Beehive Lid is made from high-temperature, high-strength, food-grade polyamide plastic and is designed and tested to withstand steam, boiling water and the temperature of a metal cooking pot in use. Note, it is not flameproof and will be damaged if exposed directly to flames, but the lid is designed to sit inside of the diameter of the pot, so that this won’t happen in normal operation.

The lid is strong – easily supporting 40lbs – and durable, but it is still a piece of ultralight gear and should be treated as such – if you step on it it will break!

Compatibility: Sized to fit most pots that nest a 4oz gas cylinder including:
– Toaks 550, 650 & 750 standard and ultralight thicknesses (note: fit is snug in the standard 0.6mm wall thicknessĀ pots and if the pot is well-loved and bent out of round it may wobble a little)
– Soto 750 ultralight and Thermolite cookset
– GSI Glacier 20oz
– MSR windburner
– Jetboil 1L systems

PostedJun 22, 2026 at 2:05 pm

At warm/hot temperatures, how well does the lid fit?Ā  I ask this because the plastic lid on the Pretel HX mugs tend to get stuck due to thermal expansion.

 

BTW, the design looks great.

ADAM L BPL Member
PostedJun 22, 2026 at 4:14 pm

Hey Jon, I’ve not had that problem. The lid sits mostly on the curved internal rim of the pot and even the short vertical section has a draft angle on it so it comes out of the mold easily, that means that if there is differential thermal expansion, which there will be as the CTE of polyamide is 4-8 times that of titanium, then the lid will just be pushed upwards and won’t get jammed in.

Glad you like the design!

ADAM L BPL Member
PostedJun 24, 2026 at 7:28 pm

Per request, I checked and the lid also fits the Fire Maple Petrel G3 and the Snow Peak Trek 700 pots

 

Robert Spencer BPL Member
PostedJun 30, 2026 at 1:56 pm

Adam,

I see your lid is 3.9 inches and the Toaks 550 pot is only 3.75 inches so when you say your lid fits this pot do you mean it rests on top of the pot? I’m wondering if it securely drops into the pot opening of this smaller pot or if it will be sliding around but technically covering the opening. Thanks, and great job bringing this to market.

ADAM L BPL Member
PostedJul 2, 2026 at 5:11 pm

Robert, I designed this primarily for the Toaks 550, the fact that it works with other pots is a happy accident! The lid is sized and shaped to sit on the inner diameter of the rolled lip of the pot. So it kind of sits inside and on top, but it can’t slide around. Doesn’t overhang which would mean it would be impacted by stove flame. Do these photos help explain?

Robert Spencer BPL Member
PostedJul 5, 2026 at 6:31 pm

Thanks Adam. Your explanation and photos make perfect sense. I actually have an old ti 550 pot sold by Backpacking Light, but I believe Toaks made these for BPL so it should work. I will definitely give it a try. All the best.

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