Wanna help me finish building my new super ultralight cook kit?

I used a GVP cone set up as my go to stove for 5 years — I wore out a couple cans from use — over time the flexing of the can caused pin holes in the manufactured creases. Not a defect, just a lot of use. This is a boil only set up (IMO). I’m surprised that you didn’t just buy the whole kit and use Esbit, it’s the lightest way to go, and you seemed focused on SUL. If you are just boiling water and doing freezer bag cooking, then no sponge needed for cleaning.

Since I mostly do freezer bag cooking, the Sea to Summit Long Alpha spoon is perfect, but it won’t fit into the pot.

Lastly, with a Caldera Cone, you have to have the pot the correct height above the stove… each Cone’s height is calculated to match the pot and the stove. The GVP is not designed to work with an alcohol stove, however I’ve used a 12-10 stove with mine, but it isn’t quite as efficient as other Caldera set ups.

For carrying stove fuel, I’ve found re-purposed water bottles work, but make sure you label them! I find that most of the smaller bottles with flip caps sold for these kind of stoves leak at the cap. I now use re-purposed prescription mouthwash bottles (not the lightest option) and they are nearly bullet proof.

Almost two years ago I switched to a Ti-Tri Fissure as my planned go-to stove system, using alcohol most of the time. As it turned out, I am again using my Svea 123 most of the time.

Here are my current thoughts on stoves. I don’t tinker with stoves much. I just use them for camping and backpacking.

http://popupbackpacker.com/trail-designs-fissure-ti-tri-stove-system-other-stove-thoughts/

BTW, I’ve been using Caldera Cones for around 10 years, so I have a lot of field experience with them and have high regard for the product and people over at Trail Designs.

It seems that the GVP system was designed with the use with the espit stove and the starlyte burner specifically and since I hate espit stoves, the starlyte stove it will be then. Thanks for all of the help.

Nick,

Why are you using the Svea 123 more often?  I read your blog on how you made your choices on stoves upon retirement.  What gives for the primary use of the Svea over the Fissure? Familiarity?  Nostalgia? Efficiency?

Has anyone found any super lite 6 oz Aluminum mugs? It’s just for drinking coffee, so aluminum is fine, plus aluminum should allow able to be lighter and cheaper…in theory

Aluminum mugs
Ever drunk HOT coffee out of an aluminium mug?
Burnt lips.

Cheers

good point .. lip guards are super easy to make though, so maybe it would still be ok?

These are the bomb dot com for tiny coffee cups but I don’t know where to get one these days. I’ve cut the handle off of mine so that it nests well.

I like the MLD 475 as well with a silicone band as a finger and lip guard. Not cheap but a very nice piece of kit.

GSI Cascadian Cup Review
Large – “12 fl oz (340 mL) quoted, but nearly 13 fl oz (460 mL) to the brim”
And light, robust and inexpensive too. We have been using ours for almost 10 years now.

Cheers

cheaper and smaller than the MLD but also titanium like the MLD is the TOAKS TITANIUM 375ML CUP .

but I prefer a cup not made of metal that won’t lose heat as quick, burn my lips(or make me carry an extra lip guard) easy to find and way cheaper

. UL MUG? there are a lot of threads on lightweight and cheap mugs

The one I have to admire was posted by an SUL fanatic:
Buy Maccas coffee on way to trail head, keep and use cardboard coffee cup, discard at Maccas on way home.

Cheers

Link, the Toaks 375 is a full ounce heavier than my MLD 475 (listed on their site at 1.2 ounces, I can verify if anyone cares).

Roger has a good plan. Just use a disposable coffee cup.

A quick Google search finds corn-starch cups and utensils, so you could use them until your last hot meal of the trip and then eat them on your way out.

Like that time I sewed a pack out of beef jerky.

Or Amundsen in the Antarctic (who used dogs versus Scott using ponies and having to haul hay), “Dogs can eat dogs.”

I never said it was lighter, just a lot cheaper and smaller since he said he wanted and 8oz mug, but honestly I don’t own one, I would rather use a lighter cheaper plastic cup.

“I’d like to keep this kit as Super Ultra Light as possible”

So no mug.

^that

I’m surprised by lipguard suggestions for Titanium pots/mugs … not just here but in several posts. I have the MLD mug, as well as a handless Ti pot. I never fill them to top and I can easily grab them by the brim and sip away without issue. Grab it by the body and l lose my fingertips, but the circumference of the brim has always been fine for me to pinch and sip. Maybe I’m like Darkman.

“Like that time I sewed a pack out of beef jerky”

OMG

Lord Gaga, I presume?

Like that time I sewed a pack out of beef jerky.

Didn’t the sewing thread get caught between your teeth?

Cheers

I’m sure he would have used dental floss. Dual use.

If the goal is to have the lightest setup, then your routine will need to change so you don’t need a separate drinking cup. And use Esbit.

Dental floss: I surrender.
Cheers