Is a 700ml pot big enough for one pot cook/eat method? What about 1L ti bot?

I like the one pot method. I recently tried cooking dumpling with my mountain house meals. I used the Toaks 900 and it works great as far as volume. 2 cups water and one cup mountain house and dumplings is what you see in this photo. Today I’ll try the Toaks 700 and see how well it fits using dumpling mix to make 3 dumplings instead of 6…it might workout well. I’ll post later this evening.

Dan,

Thanks, I appreciate it. When I look at the pic of your 900ml which is the same as my 900ml Evernew, it looks like a typical meal barely fits. Hopefully it’s acceptable in the 700 ml pot. :)

-Don

Don, keep in mind that the Vargo Bot 700 will only hold 600 ml when the lid is screwed on (the lid displaces ~ 100 ml of liquid).That’s probably OK for pre-soaking though. For actual simmering, it might hold the full 700 ml. But if you do a vigorous boil some liquid will likely spill out over the top.

For complete flexibility, you might need to go with your 900 ml pot. Then you can make funky dumplings like Dan!

I had lunch in my toaks Light 700 and was pleasantly surprised that it worked out well with 3 dumplings :-) 2 cups water boiled and then dumped in 1 cup mountain house and let boil 15 sec. and then shut if off. squeezed in 3 dollops of dumpling dough out of ziploc bag into pot of hot liquid and then simmered for 3 min and shut of heat. Let sit for 15 min while waiting for it to cool off so I could eat it but it was still too hot. Dumplings were well done to perfection ;-)

Hey…..we got funky dumplings ;-) Don’t need no crispy crackers :-)

This is how I clean my pot :-))

My habit is to eat a lot at hot meal time, so my 3C pot is barely enough for me. But I still want one of those anyway!

Dan, those ARE funky dumplings. Very much so! So now we need for you to give us the ‘recipe’, you know, the ingredients. I’ve been going with Sarbar’s mixture, which is simply 1/3 C of Bisquick, 1/2 Tbs of powdered milk (I use Milkman), and 1 tsp of dried parsley. But I’m thinking that you have come up with something that is, well, truly funky. Don’t hold out on us, man.

And I think that the name of our next band should be Zelph and the Funky Dumplings.

Thanks Dan for testing it out! :-)

I have a 700 ml pot and I find it plenty big for one person. 600 ml would be fine for me as well. I cook my meals directly in the pot, I don’t add water to a bag or bowl or anything.

I weigh 150 pounds so someone heavier than me might eat bigger meals and want a bigger pot.

Justin,

good to know. I’m just a few lbs heavier than you.

Gary,

thanks for the specs.

I don’t cook cook in my pot as such but tend to boil water to cook rice or pasta and as I travel solo my pot of choice is a Toaks Titanium 850ml. I find that this is more than enough for me and I probably could go smaller., e.g., I can boil enough water in the morning for my coffee and porridge in the one hit. I

Gary, I’ll post the recipe/mix contents tomorrow. I want to make some blueberry cobbler and include that also. Funky Berry Cobbler :-)

@surfcam310 I read about the 700 bot and looks good. I say go for it. You can do your no cook shakes. It has handles which I like, one more good reason to get it :-)

Dan while you are giving us your dumpling recipe please tell us which Mountainhouse flavor you float them on please.

To BOT or not to BOT.  IMO, the BOT interesting concept but in practicality it seems odd.  Originally, I liked the idea of using it as a water vessel / cook gear.  But I store all of my cookware in my mug/pot.  If I used a BOT to carry water, I lose the protection and organization of my cookset (windscreen, stove, yada, yada).  If I pre-soak, I tend to do so for 2-4 hours prior to my meal, so again I need to move stuff around.  Pre-soaking in a Ziploc can be iffy due to bag robustness.  I have taken the small round Ziplock screw top container before.  A Peanut butter container seems like a light weight reasonable option to me.  My 2 cents.

It was Noodles and Chicken Mountain House, Having difficulties posting because of the dorky “roulette” commercial running in the right hand column, keeps scrolling me back up . Can’t post photos