New cook stove on the market

[Chris Neville]

@mtnbound It’s all high-temp silicone on our pot handles and titanium lid, so it can withstand a decent amount of heat. I’ve never personally tested it on an open fire, but I feel like if you positioned the pot on coals on the outside of the fire, you might be okay as long as there’s no direct flame or coals hitting the silicone.

But again, I’ve never thrown it in an open fire to see what happens. I’ll probably have to add that to my testing list.

 

[schwaf]

@mtnbound It’s all high-temp silicone on our pot handles and titanium lid, so it can withstand a decent amount of heat. I’ve never personally tested it on an open fire, but I feel like if you positioned the pot on coals on the outside of the fire, you might be okay as long as there’s no direct flame or coals hitting the silicone.

But again, I’ve never thrown it in an open fire to see what happens. I’ll probably have to add that to my testing list.

Setting a pot on top of coals smothers them and kills the heat. Pots usually need to be set next to or on top of flames to effectively cook. Open flames will inevitably lick the silicone and burn them up. Totally usable pot without the lid, so it's not like a jetboil with plastic and a sleeve that burns. Probably a little late for a major design change, so a fire proof lid maybe a consideration for a next gen improvement. Either way, looks like a pretty solid system. Best of luck!

 

[mtnbound]

@mtnbound It’s all high-temp silicone on our pot handles and titanium lid, so it can withstand a decent amount of heat. I’ve never personally tested it on an open fire, but I feel like if you positioned the pot on coals on the outside of the fire, you might be okay as long as there’s no direct flame or coals hitting the silicone.

But again, I’ve never thrown it in an open fire to see what happens. I’ll probably have to add that to my testing list.

Thanks, if I did it I would position it like you’re saying and fully understand that it’s not really designed for that purpose.

 

[mtnbound]

Setting a pot on top of coals smothers them and kills the heat. Pots usually need to be set next to or on top of flames to effectively cook. Open flames will inevitably lick the silicone and burn them up. Totally usable pot without the lid, so it's not like a jetboil with plastic and a sleeve that burns. Probably a little late for a major design change, so a fire proof lid maybe a consideration for a next gen improvement. Either way, looks like a pretty solid system. Best of luck!

The coals do burn up but I don’t think I have ever seen them smother out. I do this quite often when using a Dutch oven and it works out. It’s better with charcoal briquettes but wood coals do work in a pinch.

 

[35WhelenAI]

To be fair, this cook system and a dutch oven are very different ways to cook. Dutch oven is cast iron and traveling light is not in consideration if a dutch oven is part of the hunting camp repertoire or if charcoal briquettes are part of the conversation as being ideal.

Makes sense to position the handle away from the direct heat, I don't know that I'd chance putting something other than metal in a position that melting or damage would be the possibility. With that, folks considering this system are most likely not setting a sub 1 L titanium pot on top coals to cook or to warm something up when the stove that comes with the pot will do it in a couple minutes.

Lol, less distraction of keeping track of a pot in the fire and enjoy the fire while the stove does it work.

 

[schwaf]

The coals do burn up but I don’t think I have ever seen them smother out. I do this quite often when using a Dutch oven and it works out. It’s better with charcoal briquettes but wood coals do work in a pinch.

True, it works out well for dutch ovens, but those are made of thick cast iron which absorb and hold on to heat very effectively. The coals directly under the pot will get smothered from lack of oxygen and cool off, but the heat is transferred to the pot and that residual heat will cook the food. Usually dutch ovens benefit from radiant heat from the coals surrounding or on top of the pot. They're also easy to overheat over flames and will burn food without enough liquid, so they need to be suspended at an adequate height over the flames.

I find getting water to boiling temps require flames.

 

[35WhelenAI]

Agree with the last line in the above post from experience.

With a bed of coals hot enough to boil water, I'm pretty desperate to boil water. And I would have had plenty of time to build the fire and let it burn down to have said bed of coals in the first place. So it may not be necessity or desperation after all. However, if yes, at that point I don't care if my handles have silicone or not.

Over the years I've gone from the camp of roughing it using the fire as much as possible to the point that an extra fuel canister to assure there's no need for a fire to do boiling or cooking, makes life so much easier. There's always a need for a fire in camp, to lift spirits at the end of a long day and provide warmth before diving into sleeping bags on well below freezing nights in the Colorado High country.

In any case, this is a cool system for those looking at a one-stop shop solution and looking forward to seeing how it turns out a couple years down the road.