Wednesday, September 5th, 2007...7:51 am
Backpacking Kitchen: An Ultra Light Pot for Three
One of my readers said he was getting into backpacking with his family — there are three of them total — and wanted to know the best choice of a lightweight cooking pot. I’m sure you’ll get lots of opinions on this. But I purchased a pot set four years ago that works great for three guys, including myself and trail companions Duke and Wild Bill.
We cook pasta and add either smoked tuna, smoked salmon or pesto, and find we’ve got plenty. Although pasta recipes say to fill a huge four or five quart pot with water for a half pound of pasta, trust me when I say — based on several years of experience — that you can cook 3/4 of a pound of pasta in less than two liters of water just fine.
The pot and lit weight seven ounces. The pot lifter adds another ounce. You can leave the bag at home and save an ounce.
Be light. Be safe. Be one with the pack.
1 Comment
September 27th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Titanium is great, but my kit is thin stainless steel and I like it. My sister gave it to me years ago and, since it’s indestructible, I still have it and use it. If it somehow gets crushed in some kind of accident, I’ll replace it with titanium, I suppose, but a pot in the hand is worth two in the store, especially when you’re ten miles down the trail.
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