WHY REGULAR ROUND POTS DON’T WORK FOR BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS

Where’s my stove? Where’s my fuel canister? I can’t find my spork?

You’re tearing through your pack trying to find pieces of your cook system just to make a cup of coffee. A few curse words later, gear thrown all over camp, you’re finally able to boil some water.

We’ve lived this exact scenario more times than we can count on backcountry hunts. What should be a simple task turns into a frustrating headache, especially after a long day of hunting.

The problem is most cook systems don’t actually pack as a system.

Traditional round pots can’t fit everything inside them. The stove ends up loose. The fuel canister gets buried. The spork disappears into some random pocket, which leaves you spending more time digging through your pack than cooking.

We knew we needed to solve this problem. But how?

How are we going to fit our fuel canister, stove, removable windguard, and spork all into one pot?

The issue is the shape.

Circular pots severely limit what you can fit inside them, especially when you’re trying to pack something long and awkward like a spork. The obvious solution would be to make the pot bigger.

But that creates another problem. The bigger the pot, the heavier it is and weight is the last thing we want to add as backcountry hunters.

So we asked a different question.

How do you increase usable storage space without increasing size or weight?

Then it hit us.

Instead of a traditional round pot, why not change the shape entirely? That’s how we landed on an irregular octagon-shaped titanium pot. 

This one-of-a-kind shaped pot maximizes internal storage space far more efficiently than a circle ever could, allowing us to fit our fuel canister, stove, removable windguard, and spork all inside the pot. 

Everything in one place. No loose parts. No digging through your pack. And more importantly, no time wasted.

When you pull our cook system out, it’s all right there, ready to go. Less frustration, faster setup, and more time doing what you’re actually out there to do, focusing on the hunt, not where your spork is.