How to Choose Camping Cookware

Cook for a crew and keep weight low with the TOAKS Titanium 1600 ml pot with pan. Weighing in under 9 oz. total, the deep pot and pan (which doubles as a lid) team up to prep backcountry meals.
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View all TOAKS CooksetsBest Use | Backpacking |
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Dimensions | Pot: 5.75 x 4.13 inches; pan: 5.375 x 1.25 inches |
Cookware Material | Titanium |
Material(s) | Titanium |
Nonstick Surface | No |
Includes | 1.6 L pot, 0.5 L frying pan, mesh storage sack |
Ultralight | Yes |
Weight | 8.2 ounces |
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I used this set on a 4 day backpack trip about 5 miles from the car. I used it with a Snowpeak Gigapower 2.0 stove and it worked amazing. The system is perfect for placing your fuel canister and stove in the pot while packing it in. I made various dinners out of this set but my favorite was using the pan to cook fresh caught trout. They also clean very nicely and leave no odor from your last meal.
The handle of the lid / fry pan is only held horizontal by spring tension. Even gently squeezing the handle releases the tension and collapses the handle, and even more so when the pan is full! I have dumped my food accidentally so many times! :( There is an easy design fix for this I have seen on other pans...
The volume of the pot is great for melting snow to replenish water on Winter backpacking trips. Obviously lightweight, but the tradeoff is that cooking anything in the pot or pan burns really easily. To me, that's to be expected with titanium. The primary problem I have is that - as others have stated - the handle on the pan falls off easily. One morning I dropped my breakfast onto the ground as a result, but I'm happy enough with it that I'll continue to use it and not look for a replacement. Just a tip, a standard sized fuel canister fits inside with room to spare.
Everything I expected from this cook set. The pot performed wonderfully and is the perfect size to rehydrate meals in. Had a mishap with a hole in one of my meal pouches so I had to dump the contents into the pot which held the two servings perfectly, no more digging into the corner of pouches! The fry pan itself worked well albeit a small and thin cook space for frying, although the first time I used it to fry up some bacon it did get a slight warp but definitely not a deal breaker. The comments on the lid not being a perfect seal or the handle falling out are trivial at best and just take time getting used to. Overall a great option to lighten up the pack without sacrificing quality.
I bought this to lighten my load for an upcoming 10 day BWCA trip. My intention was to use this over an alcohol stove and over coals. On the first use with the alcohol stove the skillet warped so bad while cooking up some dehydrated hash browns that it a- won't sit level at all on the counter (or stove for that matter) and b- won't stack with the pot for transport. the pot performed just fine. I'll end up buying the bail handle version of the pot and just use a goodwill skillet for the trip like I normally do.
This Toaks pot is fantastic. I have this 1600ml with a frying pan lid and a 1300ml pot with a regular lid. The smaller nests perfectly into the larger. These are the only pots I use for backpacking with my family of four. Like one of the other reviewers, I use these pots with the Snow Peaks Gigapower 2.0 stove. One 8oz fuel canister can fit easily into the pots, or two Gigapower stoves with room left for matches or other small items. I can also fit four plastic cups into the pot. The pot handles used to come with a rubberized coating. I called Toaks to ask about that. They were receiving complaints about the material melting so they decided to stop using it. You need to use a bandana or other small cloth to lift the pots or you will burn yourself! To fold the frying pan lid back into place, you just need to pinch both sides evenly to unlock it. You do not need to disconnect it. These pots are simple, lightweight, and can nest to save space. They also come with super lightweight mesh bag. I could not be more pleased with the functionality.
This pot is light and hasn't gotten damaged after several years of us. Our only problem is that the lid doesn't easily fit on the pot. It takes quite a balancing effort and then the littlest bump will knock it off. We like to use a cozy so we need a lid that fits well and this one doesn't.
While the pot itself is light and easy to use, the lid fits poorly, and the titanium simply doesn't conduct heat well enough to use as a skillet. The region directly over the flame burns what it's cooking, and anything more than an inch from that center point goes uncooked. Boil water or cook soup? Great, just don't count on making pancakes.
Love these Toaks pots. Fantastic light weight. work great for boiling water. A little tricky for cooking things. burn easily. Only negative and reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is how easily the handle falls off of the lid/pan. Could have been designed better
The Toaks 1600ml is a good small pot. It provides what I expected in a light weight titanium backpacking cook pot. The one negative is the top frying pan/lid. It doesn’t fit well at all. I just used a small strap for packing. On the stove it’s difficult to get it to balance well. It’s not a deal breaker it’s more of an annoyance.