2-Piece Stainless Steel Pot Set for Alpine Cooking

Two stainless pots without handles that can be used in a fire? Sign me up. They work fine, aren’t huge and are sturdy. These aren’t lightweight, backpacking pots, but they nest and have a removable handle (pot pliers) so you can grab them off a campfire. Space is considered, and the whole package fits inside a 10” Dutch oven. Inside an 8” cake pan, inside a 10” Dutch oven, with a can of crisco in the center. I do pack some cloth inside to cut down on the rattling from the handle, but it packs well and is quiet.

MSR has never failed to impress. It is old school at its absolute finest. This pot set has been around for at least 40 years. Below is the true weight of the components of this set on my scientific scale with 2 decimal place accuracy.. for all you weight fanatics out there :) I hope it will help you all in deciding which parts to include in your "kit". The entire set weighs 567.31 grams, less than what the description says, 730g. GO MSR! The handle itself weighs 45.51 grams 1.5L pot only - 180.64g. As a point of comparison, the MSR 1.4L cup with lid weighs 150.82g 1.5L pot with lid and handle - 362.64g 1.5L pot with lid only - 317.13 2L pot only - 204.67g 2L pot with lid - 341.19 2L pot with lid and handle - 386.69 SS is the only way to go for serious backpackers. I did mountain rescue and ski patrol work for the forest service for 10 years and had a SS Evernew pot. It got beat up plenty but never failed me with over 300 backpack trips in all seasons. SS is a workhorse. SAFETY to all the Explorers who read this and, May your equipment never fail you!

These are my bare minimum for cooking outback. They go well with small MSR stoves. I've had mine for years, until I lost one of them, and I'm on my second set. They will get black, discolored if you let it dry out, or try to fry things in them... yeah not what you're supposed to do with them, but they held up. The walls are thinner that professional kitchen pots and pans (so things can burn easily), to reduce weight, but they Stainless steel is strong. With these I pack my Dragonfly stove inside of them (with field repair kit/fuel bottle cap), some cuttleries, their tool spoon, handles, and they are nestled into MSR frying pan(that way I can have 2lid option), they all store in the supplied black pouch, nice and compact. Separately I take the fuel bottle with the Dragonfly pump attached, and the wind screen wrapped around it, to save space. With these I can make almost anything: Tea, cowboy coffee, rice, quinoa, cous cous, pasta (the butterfly kinds are less likely to stick, than spaghetti), ramen, * For those of you that are doing car camping, and want to cook a massive meal for +3person, just go with a full size pots and pans. Iron skillet, All-clad pot (with aluminum outer, and stainless steel inner layer,) or even pressure cooker, should handle things well I think it's better to buy things that give you more use, than to buy more things with less use.

This is a nice set! I eat a lot, and this pot is big enough to feed me (impressive for a backpacking pot). The lid/ plate is nice and the pot holder is of good quality. The stuff sack is nice to hold it all together, I put a camp towel inside to keep the pot holder from banging around in the pack. I would have prefered the stuff sack to double as a water tote or something else usefull, but it works and the mesh keeps it light.

I purchased these about a year ago (2011) for a bike touring trip that summer. My wife and I were doing the trip so I needed more than just my solo stuff. I wanted more capacity than just enough hot water to re-hydrate some freeze dried food. Possibly enough to take a bit of a sponge bath with as well. The set also needed to be sturdy enough to not get all banged up with rough service yet be light enough to not be a total anchor. The set first went through some in home kitchen testing and that proved to be a success. The heat was spread fairly evenly, though not as evenly as the MSR Alpine Fry Pan, which I also purchased for the trip, which has an aluminium heat spreading plate on the bottom. That is not to much of a problem so long as you are not going to use the pot as a frying pan, i.e., browning meat for a stew. If you are going to do that you will need to watch for hot spots carefully, especially if you are using any high intensity heat source. With that said these pots work admirably as such. They are strong and durable, easy to clean, the handle works great and you get a workable lid/plate. It weighs more than titanium but not that much more. The MSR Alpine Fry Pan fits on top and into the handy bag the pots come in. Inside I can put my stove, fuel, dish towels and some Alpine Utensil Set and still have room for some condiments as well. I really do not have any downside to this product except that they should have a set that includes the frying pan and utensils all bundled together at a discount.