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For years, well actually for a couple of decades, I carried aluminum cooking pots on my trips, and I never really liked
them. They're light, they work, but I think it's just hard to get comfortable with aluminum now that we know it isn't really
good to ingest it over the long term. Food grade aluminum shouldn't contaminate what you eat, but it is soft enough to
wear away gradually.

When I took up canoe camping I saw my opportunity to graduate to something I felt better about, because weight wasn't
that much of a concern. I was surprised to find that you can get a good set of stainless steel camping cookware
from Texsport which doesn't weigh much more than aluminum. This basic assortment of two pots, a fry pan, two pot
lids and a cup has been handling my kitchen duty since 1990 and doesn't look like it will ever need to be replaced. If I'm
taking the boat on a little trip I'll take the entire kit, which nests together and doesn't take up much room; if I'm hiking I'll
take one pot and the cup. I do have a stainless steel cup I bought at REI in 1972 but I've burned myself on it so many
times that I like the cheap little plastic one from Texsport much better.

The cooking pots and pan all have copperclad bottoms and heat up quickly and as evenly as you'll get something to heat
when cooking over a blowtorch like my Svea 123. Everything cleans up with no problems, and I usually don't even
bother to take soap with me for that. A little clean sand or clay rubs the pots out thoroughly and doesn't pollute the
water. You'll probably want soap, some habits are hard to break. If I have company along, we take soap.

If you're cooking over an open fire this isn't such a great set, because the plastic on the wire handles isn't fireproof. So
either control the blaze or come up with a different plan. Most backpackers won't be building a roaring fire, and the set
does work just fine with debris stoves, alcohol stoves, or any other common stove type.

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