The Ultralight Cook Kit
This kit does one job well: boil water. It is not a kit for cooking a real meal in camp, and it is not trying to be. Freeze-dried dinner, coffee in the morning, and nothing carried that does not earn its weight.
The Kit
Everything that goes in the pot pocket.
Total Weight
15.3 oz for the 8 items above.
Why These Pieces
750ml is the size that works for one person. Big enough to rehydrate a meal, small enough that the stove, the lighter and the spoon all nest inside it. The whole kit travels as one object.
The windscreen is the piece most people skip. A canister stove in wind burns fuel to heat the air. The windscreen is the difference between one canister lasting a weekend and lasting a week, and it costs four ounces.
Carry a backup ignition. The BRS has a piezo, and piezos fail. The spark wheel kit weighs 1.3 oz and turns a dead igniter into a non-event.
Swaps Worth Considering
The BRS is the lightest thing that works; the PocketRocket 2 is the one that keeps working, simmers properly and shrugs off wind, for about an ounce more. The Toaks titanium plate is worth it if you actually eat out of something rather than the bag. And if coffee is the point of the morning rather than a means to it, the percolator is the other direction entirely.
