Lets Talk about Stoves again..

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Im sure this has been beaten many times “but I have to say what I have to say and then I promise I will go away”.. I am loving my little Evernew Appalachian Set.  The 500 ml titanium mug/pot with titanium dx stand. First of all I will say. That stand sort of sucks but i love it, lol. It doesnt block wind AT ALL, so i use a little custom titanium windscreen that I cut down so it nestles and packs inside the pot. I also just use the bottom of the stand with a small cheesey titanium foil esbit tray that I made ( no i wont show you that piece because it is pitiful) but it works perfectly.  Anyway, the last 2 or 3 years I always took my trustworthy little 400 ml Ti-Tri with me. That too is perfect with esbit or twigs. This year i figured on my NPT hike I would be out for 7 or 8 nights so I wanted more variety of meals and some of them required a little more water then my beloved 400 ml set could provide. I picked up the Evernew 500 mug/pot and used it with my Soto Windmaster. So sweet to boil my water in what felt like mere seconds.. after hiking 20+ mile days. But then I wanted to use it with esbit and twigs so I gabbed the titanium dx stand set. I knew from reviews that is kind of blows.. but with the short windscreen i made and how I use it.. that thing is so sweet. It all packs inside the mug or pot? Lol.. tiny cup i would say. I used it this weekend and the first esbit and boil was for my dinner.. then a while later i used the other esbit to boil my evening decaf Mocha Galactic coffee ( thanks Bob M ).  Perfect for my needs with nothing more or less. Its compact and it will never fail me when i need it. But winter is coming so I will need to be using my 1L set up soon.  Just wanted to give some props to this little cook setup. 

[Dan]

Interesting to see that stand, I was not familiar with it, although now that I look around I see that it has been available for quite a while. I have a couple of caldera cones that I use with different pots, and I guess it serves about the same purpose, but your DX stand is probably more compact, which is nice. It’s ironic that you have to add the extra windscreen, since it is advertised as being a stand and windscreen in one. :-)

I do like the caldera cones because they are so robust and easy to use, not fiddly at all. And as you know, they hold the pot so securely that the ground doesn’t even need to be perfectly level. When I first got a caldera cone I worried about the fact that it wouldn’t fit entirely inside a small mug/pot, but I’ve found it’s not a big problem for me. I roll it up and put it into the mug and put my stove and lighter inside it. The cone protrudes from the top, but I just put my bowl over it and stick it in a small ditty bag. Works ok.

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