your cooking pot what do you use ?

[jean baptiste]

helle every one ( yes yes i now mi english is not very good o) i'working about )
well what do you use when you go "bushcraft ??? " if you can post your cookink pot in action and how do you use it
on the fire or near the fire or why not under !
i 'use a zebra handle pot on the fire

[durulz]

I have no pictures, but I used improvised stainless steel kitchen cutlery containers. I've several sizes, depending on what's being cooked and how many people there are.
Effectively, a billy can, I suppose.
Oh, and I have a little frying pan bought from Wilkinsons and the plastic handle replaced for wood. Specially for early morning bacon sarnies.
All good days start with a bacon sarnie!

[SimonM]

Aluminum "Bulldog" billy... had a set for years and still going strong...


Same "Bulldog" & a cheap Stainless one...


Crusader mess tin on folding wood burner...


Hobo stove & zebra billy...


Crusader mug & cook set...


Think I have too many options open.... no wonder I take so long to pack these days.

Simon

[discoveringtheforest]

As I light weight camper I only carry the MSR Kettle that I use for both food and hot drinks/soups.

[sandsnakes]

Stainless steel cake tin, with handles fitted by me. same size as a zebra but costing about £4 in total. Plus a crusader and that does all of it.

Sandsnake

[Shewie]

I have Bulldogs also, over 20 years old and still going strong.

Have allsorts of stainless pots aswell which get used on the hobbo

[shep]

I use a Snopeak titanium pot that I modified with a titanium wire bail. I love Ti!

[rik_uk3]

Shewie, SimonM, many thanks for the Bulldog endorsements, I've been going on about these for a long time but my rants have been ignored. Great kit, cheap as chips, does what it says on the box. I guess if you stuck a Zebra label on them people would be queuing up to buy them

So, main pans for me are Bulldog set (2,4, and 6 pint), army mess tins (I had no idea you could get stainless steel versions until I was given a set recently), Highlander or Gelert (can't remember, its those aluminium pans I've been using) nesting set (8 -10 - and 12 pint) and of course pukka Trangia pans. I've got some BIG catering pans and a massive kettle I can't take until I get transport sorted out for myself

Crusader mug for drinking tea or beer from (they are very good for that)

I don't do titanium, the pans are too small for real food and I'm too tight with the cash to spend £15+ on a mug

[Squidders]

I use either a 16cm or 12cm zebra billy can (depending if i'm with my girlfriend or not) and a primus litech frying pan.

Sometimes when i'm not using a fire i'll take amy msr blacklite classic cookset.

[Sniper]

I bought myself a Swiss army trangia set back in the summer and they are my preferred pots now, it used to be my old army mess tins, but no longer. I also have a very old set of the larger Trangia pots from about 1960 or thereabouts, but very rarely do they see the light of day now. I also used to use an old biscuit/chocolates tin as an oven although they rarely lasted more than a single outing but have just bought a dutch oven so I reckon that will have a place now aswell as the SAT.

[Shewie]

Shewie, SimonM, many thanks for the Bulldog endorsements, I've been going on about these for a long time but my rants have been ignored. Great kit, cheap as chips, does what it says on the box. I guess if you stuck a Zebra label on them people would be queuing up to buy them

Exactly, or if some chappy on the telly had used them once they`d be the Gucci pot to have.

Mine have seen me through years of meths burning, then gas and petrol and lastly open fires, fair enough they`re a lot blacker than they used to be but that doesn`t matter.

[wizzzard]

Sorry no pictures.
I use my Swedish Army Mess Kit.
Cheap as chips and I've not melted/burnt the aluminium yet, small fires within the windshield or sitting in the embers of a fire. You can always use the meths burner if wood fires are prohibited.

[ganstey]

I use a tea caddy that cost me £2 from the supermarket, with bale handle and pot lid added from bits I had in the garage. It sits on top of my Hobo stove made from an IKEA cutlery drainer. Works a treat!

G

[EdS]

MSR Alpine cook set tha I'vehad for years and a new set of cheap stainless steel camping shop pan set.

How do you guys get on with Al? Every Al pan I've had has corroded and become very pitted. Got rid of the trangia as the pans basically rotten (and I went of the slow bulky package). Even my Kelly Kettle has pitted and sprung a leak.

At least they last slightly longer than I normally get out of car.

[trail2]

Heres what I resurrected from my primitive kit.
Its a 1qt tin mug and a "corn" boiler. Boiler fits inside of mug for easy carrying. You can stuff a lot of extras into the boiler so saves space in the pack.
Still grungy from todays trip.
Jon R.

[SimonM]

Shewie, SimonM, many thanks for the Bulldog endorsements, I've been going on about these for a long time but my rants have been ignored. Great kit, cheap as chips, does what it says on the box. I guess if you stuck a Zebra label on them people would be queuing up to buy them

I have had mine since being a Scout - I'm 38 now and still use them if I am with a group doing central messing.

They have been used on gas, meths and multi fuel stoves but more often than not open fires.

Simon

[helixpteron]

For TWEG, soup, pasta and water for Travel Lunch dehydrated meals I use the Jetboil PCS 1lt pot on the PCS.

For other cooking I use the Jetboil 1.5lt Groupset pot and the Jetboil Frypan on the PCS.

The Outback Oven goes on an MSR Pocket Rocket and Optimus Stella+ gas stoves and Camping Gaz Globetrotter pots get used on a Grilliput with firebowl.

[Karl5]

I mainly use the Tatonka stainless billies. Different sizes depending if I'm going alone or if more people are coming along.
Bombproof stuff that work just as well on an open fire as they do on top of a trangia or primus cooker.

/ Karl

[Hoodoo]

This one is a Coleman.

[Tony]

Coffee can from TK Max, I made a set of them about 8 years ago and they do me on my own and all the family if need be, the whole lot (4 posts cost me a tenner). They're Stainless, I braided welding rod for the handles and put a wooden knob on. They've been used for all sorts of cooking and baking.

[w00dsmoke]

For the last 3 or 4 years I've used the large pot from Tesco-the one in this set, you can buy them for £3 singly in the store.
http://direct.tesco.com/product/images/?R=200-4142
It is very light weight and when you are cooking for two, it's ace for making pasta dishes.
My stove usually goes inside (whsiperlite), and when I've no stove it sits nicely on the fire on top of a small round stainless grill stands that come out combi microwaves. You know I've often thought about expensive stainles sand titanium pots when I go in to climbing shops but tbh, I can't see how any of them are better than this. Sorted!

I do have an old kettle that I've had for many many years that I used before I bought the kelly kettle, it still gets used now n then! As here on an island in Loch Maree! Simplicity at its best!

[Mike Ameling]

When I carry along a cooking pot of some sort, I usually drag along this iron-rimmed copper kettle that I made up.



Or one of these iron-rimmed tin-lined brass kettles.



I made them up to fit into the mid 1600's to mid 1700's time periods. And most of my camping trips are done with clothing/gear that also fits into those early time periods.

Yes, I know all the "dangers" associated with using an un-lined copper kettle, and I take all normal precautions when using them.

Hmmm ... in use action pics? I usually don't have a camera along. I'll see if I can find a pic stored somewhere on this "infernal machine".

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

p.s. I've also used many simple little pots/kettles made from a food can and a short section of wire for a bale handle - the classic "hobo pot".

[Karl5]

This one is a Coleman.

Hmmmm, I wonder if Coleman and Tatonka are selling pots from the same producer.
At least they sure look suspiciously similar.

"Tatonka Kettle"

[Nat]

Zebra 14cm Billy. Takes 2 rat pack pouches and you can leave it on the fire embers happily ticking over for near constant hot water. I've since replaced the stupid handle with a chain.
I'd like some Bulldog's but cannot find them anywhere.

[Hoodoo]

Hmmmm, I wonder if Coleman and Tatonka are selling pots from the same producer.
At least they sure look suspiciously similar.

"Tatonka Kettle"

Hmmm, ya know, I may have mispoken. That might not be a Coleman. The Colemans do not have the little hump in the handle. I can't tell from my own photo if that does or doesn't but if it does, then it would be an MEC pot.

Also, the older Coleman pots are made of heavier gauge stainless steel than the newer ones.

[Karl5]

Hmmm, ya know, I may have mispoken. That might not be a Coleman. The Colemans do not have the little hump in the handle. I can't tell from my own photo if that does or doesn't but if it does, then it would be an MEC pot.

Also, the older Coleman pots are made of heavier gauge stainless steel than the newer ones.

Interesting!
Seems to me like MEC (the hump is there) has taken a couple of pots from the same manufacturer as Tatonka and put them together to make a set out of them. At the same time swapping Tatonkas crappy frying pan holder for a proper pot holder. And to a very attractive price to boot!!
At least the Tatonka 1.6 liter kettle looks identical to the one seen in the MEC link, and so does the 2.5 liter Tatonka kettle.
Or is MEC is the distributor for Tatonka products in the USA and have chosen to put their brand name on the pots.
Does it matter? Not really as long as they work well. And they do!!

[Shewie]

Zebra 14cm Billy. Takes 2 rat pack pouches and you can leave it on the fire embers happily ticking over for near constant hot water. I've since replaced the stupid handle with a chain.
I'd like some Bulldog's but cannot find them anywhere.

These on ebay look very similar Nat if you`re interested ....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/6-Piece-Billy-...1%7C240%3A1318

[Hoodoo]

Interesting!
Seems to me like MEC (the hump is there) has taken a couple of pots from the same manufacturer as Tatonka and put them together to make a set out of them. At the same time swapping Tatonkas crappy frying pan holder for a proper pot holder. And to a very attractive price to boot!!
At least the Tatonka 1.6 liter kettle looks identical to the one seen in the MEC link, and so does the 2.5 liter Tatonka kettle.
Or is MEC is the distributor for Tatonka products in the USA and have chosen to put their brand name on the pots.
Does it matter? Not really as long as they work well. And they do!!

MEC is a Canadian Co-op. Don't be fooled by the low price. There's a hidden charge in there that's a killer. I think it's a co-op membership fee or a small order fee. Small order fee maybe. I can't recall. They have pretty good pots though. MEC is a great company. Been around for a long time, since the early 70s that I know of.

Just tried to figure out what that extra charge was and could not find it. Membership was only $5 so that could not be it. Maybe they changed their policy but I recall when I bought mine, there was an extra charge of $20-30 I had to pay.

[Nat]

These on ebay look very similar Nat if you`re interested ....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/6-Piece-Billy-...1%7C240%3A1318

Cheers Shewie, i've got a set of them and found they're alright for what they are. My zebra 14cm is more robust though (i tend to batter kit quite a bit, warped my Kelly kettle fire bowl the first time!)

[Karl5]

MEC is a Canadian Co-op.

I knew that! Doh!!
Sorry, Hoodoo