Alpine 2 Stainless Steel Camping Pot Set

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.

Very nice camping fish fryer or anything you want to cook. Holds heat Very well. Everything nests together well with room for a stove inside.

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.

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!

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.

prodotto ottimo. eccellente compromesso tra robustezza (acciaio!) e leggerezza. unico neo … il costo !!

Ich habe mich bewusst für ein Topfset aus Edelstahl entschieden. Bei meinen vorherigen Alu-Sets waren mir die Rückstände auf dem heissen Tee stets suspekt und Titan soll keine so gute Wärmeleitfähigkeit haben. Dieser MSR Kochset ist aus recht dünnwandigem Material und damit gar nicht schwer, aber trotzdem stabil. Es hat meine dreimonatige Trekkingtour ohne Beulen überstanden - das war bei meinen Alu Kochsets nicht so. Es kocht sich gut mit dem Set und es lässt sich einfach reinigen und verstauen. Ich habe nur nicht verstanden, wie ich mit dem Greifer das Deckel/Pfanne/Teller Element richtig greifen soll, das könnte verbessert werden.

Les + : + Aussi compact qu'un Trangia 27 tout en ayant des casseroles plus grandes que le Trangia 25 (ce qui prend beaucoup de place avec les Trangia est le support et coupe-vent). + Taille adaptée pour vraiment cuisiner sérieusement pour deux adultes et deux enfants tout en étant compacte. + En acier, pas toxique comme du teflon (et potentiellement l'aluminium), bien meilleure répartition de la chaleur que du titane. Utilisable sur un feu de bois. + bosse (le fond n'est pas plat) sous les casseroles qui permettent qu'elles ne glissent pas sur le gaz. Les - : - le couvercle peut potentiellement être utilisé comme poêle, mais comme l'acier est très fin, la répartition de la chaleur n'est pas suffisante en tant que poêle pour des choses délicates. Et si j'aime la bosse sous les casseroles, je ne l'aime pas sous une poêle car avec une forte chaleur, ça se déforme momentanément et projette de l'huile bouillante. Attention ! - La pince est OK, mais je préfère la pince Trangia, ou la pince Tatonka (environ 30g de plus mais peut resté accrochée). Pour qui : idéal pour le camping en famille pour avoir de quoi cuisiner sérieusement, tout en étant quand même suffisamment compact et léger pour entrer dans un sac à dos. Penser à ajouter une vraie poêle avec. J'y ajoute l'excellente poêle Trangia 27 Duossal (superbe répartition de la chaleur !!!!) qui s'emboite parfaitement par dessus le couvercle, peut s'ettacher au reste avec les lanières et rentre dans le sac MSR... à savoir que la poêle Trangia 27 est plutôt pour deux personnes. Ce que j'arrive à mettre dedans (la poêle Trangia 27 étant au-dessus du couvercle) : Pince pour saisir les casseroles Bonbonne de gaz 220g ou Pot Toaks 550 ml + gaz 110g Réchaud à gaz Trangia Support Trangia Triangle qui est vraiment bien adapté à ce kit MSR Alpine mais pas au pot Toaks sans y faire de modification. Mini bouteille pour l'huile, mini sel&poivre, mini brosse, mini coffret à épices (un pilulier semainier) et une petite éponge... ça rentre au millimètre et ne fait pas de bruit quand on le secoue.

A little more expensive than other items, but worth it long term.

Could not go wrong with this one. In the last 20 years, this is only my 2nd MSR cookset because they last a really long time!