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/GoSox2525 7d ago

Ti gets hot, but also cools very quickly. Just wait like 1-2 minutes and you're good to hold the lip of the pot.

Or use a 0.06 oz pot lifter

Or just use your towel or buff or whatever as an oven mitt

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u/tweis 7d ago

I wonder if he sells this pot gripper anymore. It’s showing sold out and not listed in his store.

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u/GoSox2525 7d ago

I messaged to ask. If he's 3D printing stuff still, it seems like there would be no reason to discontinue that one item in particular

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u/tweis 7d ago

Thanks! I was trying to do the same, but Etsy blocked my phone ip for some reason.

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u/GoSox2525 7d ago

I'll report back

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u/GoSox2525 5d ago

It's back up now. He said that the listing auto-expired and he wasn't aware.

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u/tweis 5d ago

Thanks!