tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21766944.post8818303572029835595..comments2011-04-27T16:04:37.420-05:00Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09628095804170935682noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21766944.post-31907921406652266662011-04-27T14:35:45.616-05:002011-04-27T14:35:45.616-05:00Nice kitchen!<br><br>My standard stove system is the <a href="http://www.traildesigns.com/caldera-tt.html" rel="nofollow">Trail Designs Caldera Ti-Tri</a>. I bought it as the package <a href="http://www.titaniumgoat.com/TiTri.html" rel="nofollow">sold by Titanium Goat</a> with their 900mL titanium pot.<br><br>I&#39;m like you, in that I hate to be limited to one fuel source. The Ti-Tri allows me to cook with an alcohol stove, esbit tabs, or wood. I&#39;ve also used the pot by itself to cook on an open fire. The only thing I can&#39;t do with this system is suspend the pot over a fire via a tripod or some-such. I did once try to create a handle on the pot by wrapping a bit of picture wire around the outer lip of the pot, but I found that it just got in the way most of the time.<br><br>Do you travel much in the winter? I ask because I see that you include a sponge. I carry a small piece of a green scrubber pad for pot cleaning duty, which works fine in the summer, but I find it to be a pain in the winter, simply because I can never dry it out. (I&#39;m in the Pacific Northwest, so when I say &quot;winter&quot;, I mean 6 months of rain.) It gets pretty nasty after a day or two. I imagine that it&#39;s heaven for bacteria. Lately, I&#39;ve been trying out <a href="http://asthecrowflies.org/2006/10/24/simplistic-dining/" rel="nofollow">Crow&#39;s method of cleaning the pot with a spatula head</a>. Seems to work pretty well. I still carry the small scrubber pad, but haven&#39;t actually used it for months!Pig Monkeyhttp://pig-monkey.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21766944.post-65793275213457313972011-04-27T14:35:45.304-05:002011-04-27T14:35:45.304-05:00On the wire mesh pot stand for your Bud-Lite alcohol stove. Can you specify materials and construction method (tutorial maybe)/ Would you build for someone else with few manual abilities and no tools. I would like to use my Bud-Lite alcohol stove (minibull BIOS) on the MSR blacklite 2 liter pot, but it&#39;s a risky unstable match. Any advice welcome.bozemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547878860318308284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21766944.post-73790536914030688212011-04-27T14:35:44.996-05:002011-04-27T14:35:44.996-05:00Bozeman, great question and thanks for asking about it. I&#39;ll definitely write up a how to about making one now that you&#39;ve asked.<br><br>The pot stand is made from something called <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202024052/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&amp;storeId=10051&amp;catalogId=10053" rel="nofollow">Galvanized Hardware Cloth</a>. It&#39;s a welded steel mesh in a square pattern that can be used for all sorts of things - I bought mine at Home Depot in the narrowest gauge I could find. The square grid made it so much easier to cut and work with.<br><br>Like you mention, the small stoves can be a little unstable to use with wider pans, so that was exactly why I created mine, as support for use with a wider pot - and it works great, weighing almost nothing.<br><br>Shoot me an email (blog-at-briangreen.net) about the size of your pot and what you want and I&#39;m sure we can sort something out for you. I have about 30-feet of the stuff left over in my garage! Happy to help a fellow backpacker. Cheers.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09628095804170935682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21766944.post-38179331740535400002011-02-24T21:41:31.057-05:002011-02-24T21:41:31.057-05:00Bozeman, great question and thanks for asking about it. I&#39;ll definitely write up a how to about making one now that you&#39;ve asked.<br /><br />The pot stand is made from something called <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202024052/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&amp;storeId=10051&amp;catalogId=10053" rel="nofollow">Galvanized Hardware Cloth</a>. It&#39;s a welded steel mesh in a square pattern that can be used for all sorts of things - I bought mine at Home Depot in the narrowest gauge I could find. The square grid made it so much easier to cut and work with.<br /><br />Like you mention, the small stoves can be a little unstable to use with wider pans, so that was exactly why I created mine, as support for use with a wider pot - and it works great, weighing almost nothing.<br /><br />Shoot me an email (blog-at-briangreen.net) about the size of your pot and what you want and I&#39;m sure we can sort something out for you. I have about 30-feet of the stuff left over in my garage! Happy to help a fellow backpacker. Cheers.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09628095804170935682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21766944.post-19942488503238982802011-02-24T20:53:51.904-05:002011-02-24T20:53:51.904-05:00On the wire mesh pot stand for your Bud-Lite alcohol stove. Can you specify materials and construction method (tutorial maybe)/ Would you build for someone else with few manual abilities and no tools. I would like to use my Bud-Lite alcohol stove (minibull BIOS) on the MSR blacklite 2 liter pot, but it&#39;s a risky unstable match. Any advice welcome.bozemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547878860318308284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21766944.post-41208272937980370792010-01-25T16:07:19.986-05:002010-01-25T16:07:19.986-05:00Nice kitchen!<br /><br />My standard stove system is the <a href="http://www.traildesigns.com/caldera-tt.html" rel="nofollow">Trail Designs Caldera Ti-Tri</a>. I bought it as the package <a href="http://www.titaniumgoat.com/TiTri.html" rel="nofollow">sold by Titanium Goat</a> with their 900mL titanium pot.<br /><br />I&#39;m like you, in that I hate to be limited to one fuel source. The Ti-Tri allows me to cook with an alcohol stove, esbit tabs, or wood. I&#39;ve also used the pot by itself to cook on an open fire. The only thing I can&#39;t do with this system is suspend the pot over a fire via a tripod or some-such. I did once try to create a handle on the pot by wrapping a bit of picture wire around the outer lip of the pot, but I found that it just got in the way most of the time.<br /><br />Do you travel much in the winter? I ask because I see that you include a sponge. I carry a small piece of a green scrubber pad for pot cleaning duty, which works fine in the summer, but I find it to be a pain in the winter, simply because I can never dry it out. (I&#39;m in the Pacific Northwest, so when I say &quot;winter&quot;, I mean 6 months of rain.) It gets pretty nasty after a day or two. I imagine that it&#39;s heaven for bacteria. Lately, I&#39;ve been trying out <a href="http://asthecrowflies.org/2006/10/24/simplistic-dining/" rel="nofollow">Crow&#39;s method of cleaning the pot with a spatula head</a>. Seems to work pretty well. I still carry the small scrubber pad, but haven&#39;t actually used it for months!Pig Monkeyhttp://pig-monkey.comnoreply@blogger.com