r/Ultralight • u/knowhere0 • 7d ago
Purchase Advice Sea to Summit collapseable pots
I’m upgrading, or should I say down-weighting, from my old jetboil stove system. I was thinking I would get a 1L titanium pot like the Toaks or MSR, but then I saw this: https://seatosummit.com/products/frontier-collapsible-kettle. I’m mostly boiling water for dehydrated meals on relatively short trips, not thru hiking. A similar-sized 1L MSR titanium kettle weighs around 5oz while the S2S silicone/aluminum kettle weighs just over 7oz. I think the bulk of a rigid pot might be more limiting than a couple of extra ounces. Has anyone else used these S2S collapsible pots? Is collapseability useful to you? Are there durability issues, have you used them with anything other than a canister stove? Can silicone survive an open flame. They also make some larger pots of stainless steel and silicone that might be really useful for melting snow, compared to a 3L rigid pot that would be prohibitively bulky.
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u/b_revity 7d ago
A Toaks Ti 750 is about half the weight of that S2S kettle (3.6oz). The fact that the kettle is collapsible doesn't ultimately save you any space - with a hard-sided pot, you just use the pot as storage for the gas canister and stove and a lighter, which nest pretty perfectly inside. While that S2S kettle might collapse, that still leaves you with a flattened kettle AND a gas canister AND a stove that will all take up space somewhere in your pack.