it's so freakin tiny I love it guys and gals as always my name is Matt, if you guys
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about my five ounce cook kit we're gonna be going with for 2020 so one of my big
goals going into the 2020 backpacking season was to actually try and shave a
pound to a pound and a half off of my base weight from 2019 the primary reason
for that is I've got a couple backpacking trips that I'm hopeful to do
that are gonna be between eight to ten days long this summer to make life a
little bit easier on myself when I'm carrying you know up to like 15 to 20
pounds of food decided I'm gonna try and drop a little bit of weight out of my
base weight in my back pocket kit so I looked at my cook kit from 2019 and I
was just shy of 8 ounces and I thought to myself this is probably an easy way
that I could shave a couple more ounces out of my backpacking kit has my buddy
Devin always says ounces equal pounds and pounds equal pain so I was able to
shave just about 3 ounces off of my cook kit going with this setup here so the
basis of the set up for 2020 is the topes 550 light titanium pot when pulled
out of its gorgeous orange stuff sack the toks 550 light titanium pot is 78
grams or two and three-quarters of an ounce and the stuff sack is 12 grams or
3/8 of an ounce the stuff sack is your very typical orange stuff sack from
tokes I am gonna use the stuff sack I do like
keeping my entire cook kit contained as one self-contained unit or your standard
toks design just very very small like I said you know being the 550 mil yeah
this thing is absolutely tiny 3 inches tall 3 and 3/4 inch diameter like yeah
this thing is absolutely tiny but I freaking love it the 550 mils to me is a
perfect sized pot for what I use in the backcountry I generally do my boil in a
bag meals I do my homemade dehydrated spaghetti Zoar every now and then I'll
take it myself a mountain house meal but the only thing that I'm ever boiling is
500ml or less so the 550ml pod is absolutely
perfect a 550ml pod shrinks me down a little bit from my 650ml pod that I was
using last year so it even saves me a little bit of real estate inside my pack
shrinking down to a smaller set up also comes with your little standard lid that
all the toke spots come with it's a little flippy tab for your gripper here
the next piece of gear on my 2020 cook kit is a pretty significant change for
me it's something I've talked about a little bit kind of hinted at a bit we're
gonna go with the cat food can Fancy Feast alcohol stove stove weighs 24
grams or 3/4 of an ounce this is the homemade alcohol stove that I made out
of a can of Fancy Feast cat food a can of I think it was tomato paste some
carbon felt that I used as a plumber for as like a heat barrier if you're
soldering in a tight place you put it in behind so you don't finish walls and
stuff like that so it's got a little bit of carbon felt inside between the NATO
pace can and the cat food can and then you pour your denatured alcohol inside
and that's the sole that's got a couple vent holes and stuff it took me maybe 20
minutes to make this thing and cost about you know three dollars in parts so
you know that's the Fancy Feast alcohol stove that we're gonna be going with in
2020 one of the big drawbacks with alcohol stoves is they are very prone to
being disrupted by wind so you do me the windscreen to go with them this is a
little windscreen that I'm gonna go with I don't entirely remember where I got
this from I want to say this was a little cut off chunk from an old MSR
windscreen set that I had bought from my whisper light it's basically just like a
really thick piece of tinfoil it's pretty malleable it weighs 14 grams or
half an ounce it's just enough to cover so wind doesn't blow the stove oh
basically but ya be the windscreen for it so that's the windscreen I'm going
with for my cook setup to light my stove as always the blue big mini
it's got here being 10 grams or 3/8 of an ounce just a little big mini to start
my stove yeah I carry a wok a big minis in my back packing kit but there's
always one of my cook kit it's always the blue Bickman
that's what ends up in my cook kit all the time so with the alcohol stove doing
a little bit of testing it takes me about 3/4 of an ounce alcohol to boil
500 mils of water to measure up my three-quarters of an ounce of alcohol I
take a little 1 ounce plastic shot glass I have no idea where Lindsay got these
from but we have a lack of them in one of our cupboards this guy weighs 3 grams
or an eighth of an ounce so I just kind of eyeball you know three quarters of
this thing full pour it into the stove light it and I get boiling water about 5
to 6 minutes later so that covers everything I carry and my little
self-contained cook kit there may be a couple obvious pieces of my cook setup
but I haven't mentioned yet first one is gonna be my eating utensil as always the
coax titanium spork I love this thing I I don't eat out of
the bag ever with a mountain house or anything like that and if I do I cut the
top of the bag off so I don't need to carry this like ridiculous long-handled
spork that just you know I I find the long handle ones are kind of a pain to
find a place to store it with I just much prefer the shorter ones so I carry
the short coax titanium spork this guy is 16 grams or 5/8 of an ounce it's
titanium it's got the little polished bowl on the end it makes your food come
off nicer it's a lot easier to clean stuff doesn't stick to it as much
so yeah the the polish Bowl there's a pro tip for you guys if you guys didn't
know expert on my 2020 backpacking cook kit is how I'm gonna carry the alcohol
format I'll call stove and what I'm gonna go with is these little refillable
plastic 10 ounce fuel bottles I got these from Dutch we're a gear there's
just a little refillable bottle lid screws on this one's got this little
pour spout here so you flip this little tab up and you got this nice little hole
this nice and easy to have a nice control fill when I fill up the little
shot glass with alcohol this 10 ounce bottle would cover me for a five-day
backpacking trip the bottle itself one in a quarter ounce or 33 grams so the
bottle doesn't really weigh much it's a little fuel bottle and me carrying from
alcohol from alcohol stove before the cook it nests nicely inside obviously
the spork and fuel bottle don't fit inside there but I carry those in
separate spots in my pack anyways so it's not too much of an issue for me you
guys saw value in this in the weight savings that I've gotten from going with
the smaller cook set and you guys are into weight savings you're looking to
save a little bit of weight in your backpacking kit what I'm gonna do for
you guys is up over here on this side of the screen I'm gonna put up a playlist
that I've got for a whole bunch of different weight
saving backpacking tips so if you guys are done watching this one and you
enjoyed go and check that one out and as always I'm Madi thank y'all so
damn much for watching and I will see you guys on the next one