Roughridge Stove System

Thanks for sharing Jon .Many good options for this system. I have a few of your systems and love them . Keep up the great work.

I’m interested in the folding spork and how sturdy it is.  I haven’t seen a folding utensil of that length in metal.  My plastic folding spoon is fine, but I’d feel safer with something metal.

Maybe I’m missing something. What is new or ‘outside the box’?

What I think is new and outside the box are the following: 1) integrated windscreen (sort of) and it will nest inside the mug, 2) non round shape (might not be great for cleaning but I can see how you can store more items in the nooks, 3) silicone ring on the lid, mat not be new but not often used.  It is different than the run of the mill mugs being offered today.  IMO, the cost has to come way down to be viable.  I wish that they would have made it work with the more popular stoves, can’t see how their stove could be competative . My 2 cents.

This cook kit made the rounds on a popular hunting forum a while back. The windscreen doesn’t strike me as functional (too many holes). I have zero need for a spork (while it has a differently shaped head, it’s basically nothing you can’t buy off Temu, AliExpress, etc. for a couple dollars or less). The stove is an unknown. The pot doesn’t look like anything I’d want to sip coffee from given its recessed rim. The pot’s non-round shape requires the lid to be precisely aligned with the pot in order to get it fastened (unlike a round lid that requires no such alignment). The entire kit is far heavier and more expensive than one I already made out of high quality, known parts, including a nesting, folding Ti spoon. All in all, given its price, I don’t get it.

In its defense, without testing, I can’t be too dogmatic about the utility of its windscreen. That would take actual testing. The spork might be the most unique part of the entire kit really – but again, I don’t want or need a spork.

The stove works anywhere!

For too long, hunters have been stuck using heavy, clunky, unreliable cook systems built for camping instead of backcountry hunts.

Huh? What does that even mean?