MOST COOK SYSTEMS AREN’T DURABLE ENOUGH FOR BACKCOUNTRY HUNTS

Backcountry hunting is hard. And it’s even harder on your gear.

We’ll be the first to admit it, we’re rough on equipment. Packs get dropped. Gear gets slammed into rocks. Things get soaked, frozen, caked in dirt, and beaten up day after day. That’s just reality when you live out of a pack on backcountry hunts.

It doesn’t take long out there to see what gear won’t cut it.

For us, it was always something with our cook systems.

Ignitors constantly failed. Plastic parts bent or cracked. Lids came loose. Neoprene sleeves ripped. Handles melted. Stoves would just stop working altogether. Over time, it became obvious: most cook systems weren’t built to handle year-after-year abuse in the backcountry.

There are a few reasons for that.

First, most cook systems aren’t designed or tested by backcountry hunters. If a product never sees real backcountry use, its weak points never get exposed.

Second is materials. Too many systems rely on the cheapest materials possible to save money. Plastic where metal should be, thin components where strength actually matters.

And finally, design. If durability isn’t the priority, it doesn’t get engineered into the product. Designing something truly durable takes more time, more money, and a lot more testing. Most companies aren’t willing to do that.

For us, the solution was simple. Start from scratch.

We set out to design a cook system from the ground up, built entirely around durability and to fix every failure we’d experienced over years of backcountry hunts. No exposed ignitors. No plastic parts. No neoprene sleeves. No cheap materials. No handles that melt. No stoves that fail when you need them most.

Our motto is simple. Test everything until it breaks, then make it better. That’s why every component is built from high-quality materials: high-grade aluminum alloy, stainless steel, and titanium.

What we ended up with is a complete cook system built for real backcountry hunting.

A stove made from high-grade aluminum alloy with a stainless steel burner head and pot supports. A fully enclosed ignitor you can’t bump, move, or break. A removable wind guard made from high-grade titanium. A titanium pot and lid that don’t come loose, with handles that don’t melt. And a foldable spork made from titanium with a stainless steel handle.

There’s a reason this cook system took four years to build.

We didn’t want to pull something off a shelf and slap a logo on it. We didn't want to cut any corners.

We wanted to design the most reliable and durable cook system possible for backcountry hunters. That meant new designs, constant testing, breaking parts, fixing them, and doing things that haven’t been done before.

For us, it was worth it. Because we built a cook system to handle any hell hole you find yourself in on a backcountry hunt.