Whilst I have no connection with Alpkit, I feel it only right to let you all know that their MyTiMug nests as if it was made for the job with a 123 and its a very good price for titanium.
I just asked and my friend, Jerry Mouse, says yes. But my other friends, Tom and Spike say no. Hope that helps? Cheers, Graham
I found out there are two different models of the MyTiMug. Is yours with the wooden or metal handle on the lid? (Their sizes differ.) BTW, what is that good price that you mention? Yonadav
Dave, the role of the 123 pot is to get the girlfriend/wife to say "OOOh look at the cute little pot" -- when you buy yet another stove.
You must be looking at a different Ti-Mug than the 5 or 6 that I found on-line. They range from $40 Cdn to $56 Cdn not including the $28 one from Amazon.com who charge highway robbery shipping prices that usually come to the same as the selling price. I have 3 SVEA 123s and all together they didn't cost me that much! Got a url for a reasonably priced one? Stan
I carried my 123 when hunting for years and used the pot either as a dipper to rinse the blood out of deer hearts and livers or to boil water for coffee, tea, or cocoa. For actually cooking the Sigg Tourist is the way to go. Many filling meals were done in mine for my wife and me in it. The second best 123 pot is the small kettle from a set of Bulldog kettles, a British import that is still an excellent wonderful value and makes a fine companion to the 123. Another good pot is a tin can I accumulated so long ago I have no recollecetion of not having it. It sports a bail made from an old clothes hanger and works a treat, the 123 fitting in it very well while wearing its little alumin)i)um cap. The price was hard to beat, too. Gerry
I like my titanium Svea pot. It's a Jetboil Sol Ti pot that my friend burned the flux ring off of, so it was free The Svea just barely fits in it, without the cup. I find titanium is an inferior material to aluminum. It doesn't heat evenly and once the non-stick burns off or gets scrubbed off food burns to it badly. Aluminum cooks more evenly and is only marginally heavier, so as long as I'm paying, I get aluminum.
Gerry, I am happy to have found the virtues of the Svea/Sigg kit in recent years, and wish I had as long ago as you did. I have not been on a single backpacking overnighter without that rig for the last five summers, and I've been on quite a few in that time.
And just to rub it in, I have the stainless steel, (bulletproof) model. Another good substitute 123 pot for those who have one is the pot set from the GAZ Globetrotter. Again, it seems nearly to have been made for the 123. The only fly in the ointment is no bulldog (pot grabber). A miniature one would be quite the thing. I suppose one could bend a handle from a bit of alumin(i)um flat bar which would work quite nicely and fit into the closed pot set. I found another tin can that works, it came filled with Mexican hominy. If it were opened with one of those new fangled can openers that cuts the side of the lid instead of cutting it out, one would have a serviceable lid for free. Free is good. Gerry
Pots are all well and good, but it's that superstable stepped-pan configuration of the Sigg that takes the prize. Without that, I'd be knocking the cooking meals over right and left !
Another +vote for the Globetrotter pot but lets be honest at best they are only good for a mug of coffee. This worked well, little stainless steel biscuit/tea/coffee tin, cost a couple of quid maybe $5, fits like a glove and holds 1 litre/quart. Well worth checking out your local bargain shops for a similar pot, I suspect is a standard width.
Asolutely, that obviously works like a champ. Another pot I have is a Museum Replica Hudson Bay Issue lidded copper kettle of 1 qt. size. Expensive, over USD$35.00 and heavy, at least 500 grams. But very, very pretty. The 123 goes inside with room for a dingle chain, horn spoon small bags of coffee, tea, rockahominy and salt. A kitchen in a bucket, one might say. A fork is silly and the knife and pistol reside in sheaths on my belt. Camp ax is in the shooting bag with lead balls, caps, powder measure, fire kit, (flint, steel, char, tinder) and greased shooting patches. My muzzleloading .50 cal. rifle rides comfortably in the crook of my arm. Pretty much set up to wrest a continent from the Noble Savage. Again or as needed. Gerry
Ed Winskill says: Much as I did pre-Sigg. Until I became totally Obsessive about people staying clear of me when cooking. A few apparently random bites and jabs with a cooking knife, accompanied by some insane growling will encourage onlookers to keep their distance. And their counsel. Gerry
A few years ago I was looking for some pots to add to a Primus 71D (or it might be an E or K with missing pots!). I found the outer pot and lid of an own brand dual hard anodised pot set from Blacks fitted the bill perfectly. But the bonus was that the inner pot set and lid fitted the 123 like a glove. My set up for both of these is the same. The complete stove (i.e. the stove and windshields etc, including the 123 pot/cup) go into an old wollen hiking sock, which then slips into the hard anodised pots. The sock prevents rattling, and the pots being scratched or dirtied, and then an arno strap around each pot (they both have "lids" that can be used as small pots) completes the set-up. Cheers, Graham.
Comments of small pots .... A way around that is to use the pot only to boil water, and put the boiling hot water into a container with dried food. One website is Freezer bag Cooking ... Link Not for everybody, or every time, but I use it and it works. I even do scotch cut oats that way. 3 cups of water boiled -- 1 1/2 cup for oats and 1 1/2 cup for coffee. Ken in NC
For my tenth birthday, my insane uncle, a WWII veteran of the Iwo Jima campaign gave me a pound can of FFF black powder and five yards of unbleched muslin. The powder was for unmitigated fun and the muslin was to make bags out of for stuff that went into my pack. Then he came over and we dissolved three slabs of canning paraffin (wax) in a quart of white gas. That was to dip the muslin bags I'd spent a week sewing on Mom's old treadle Singer in. Then we Ironed the wax into the cloth. When Mom saw the wax on her iron she was hot enough to fry eggs on. My Uncle, her baby brother, just wiped the wax away with some white gas (Coleman Fuel). I still have some of those bags. I put biscuit mix, flour, lentils, split peas, oatmeal, dry milk, pots 'n pans, anything and every thing I had in those bags, then the bags went into my pack. One of 'em had my buddy burner and extra candle wax in it. In later years, I actually bought nylon "ditty bags" as they were called from the REI store in Seattle. My hand sewn cotton ones are superior. I also used my socks and spare unders as shock absorbers for things inside other things in my pack. That used to drive my Mother crazy. I talked to the Missus about it and she said that the mothers of sons have to get along in life while ignoring some pretty disgusting things boys get up to. I have no idea what kinds of disgusting things boys get up to, I never did. In any case the best solution to the 123 pot conundrum is a Sigg Tourist Cooker. Second best is the Optimus one that's similar. Gerry
