Bushwalk Australia

Hi all, after some of my students killed my billy ( ) I find myself in need of a new one. I'm after something cheap, that will do enough water for one-pot meals for two adults and a nipper, and hopefully light. Any recommendations? I'm curious as to what the family hikers out there use.

I have a few aluminium pots from Mitchells. Apparently they do not have a shop down there but have seen the same type at the military disposal type stores.
As an example , the 1.4L version is 155g and $10-15 (?) . (several sizes are available from about 800ml)
They have the round bottom pots as well as the paint tin type bottom at the same price.
No idea why anyone would purchase the latter.
The one in the middle

Franco

that;s what I had, only in stainless steel. How do you find the aluminum, ok?

Hi Drifting,

I have tried Stainless Steel, Titanium, Hard Anodised aluminium, aluminium pots and Flux Ring pots and the ones that I prefer to use are the cheap aluminium pots that I get from one of our local camping shops Camping World.


The three in the middle at the front are the pots that I use and have used for many years, I use the small one for solo use and the other two larger ones when I have to cook for others as well.

Franco, you might have more tents than me but I recon that I have more pots than you, or to put it another way I am potty-er.

Tony

Outstanding!!!!

far out Tony! haha.
with that much experience, aluminiums the way to go then.

Tony, how do you get to test stuff for BPL? Do you know the owners personally?

lol... i've tried em too butof the cheapies- i prefer my stainless billy style one, We also use the metal army style mugs that you can cook in too.
I tend to squish and ram stuff into my pack a bit and i found i was constantly having to reshape my cheap alloy billys to fit their lids.
had more luck with the thicker trangia type pots, but it depends on what your budget is - a big family trangia, hard anodised and with the gas option is probably my ideal family/group set-up, and pretty good value considering how long they last (IMHO) but it is a bit of $ up front. DMH make a cheap trangia-type cookset that might be worth a look as a stop gap untill you find what type suits you.

Tony
I do have a few more but I am not as potty as you...


From Liam
"i was constantly having to reshape my cheap alloy billys to fit their lids"
That is the reason why I use Ti. Not that much lighter than alluminium and lousy for cooking but I only boil.
SS is stronger but a bit on the heavy side for what I do.
Franco

You guys rock! Thanks!

Hi ninjapuppet,

ninjapuppet wrote:far out Tony! haha.
with that much experience, aluminiums the way to go then.

Tony, how do you get to test stuff for BPL? Do you know the owners personally?

With the pots I have put my views in this thead Titanium cooking pots are they worth the money

On the how to get test stuff from BPL, for me it is a long story, but the main thing is to be a BPL member and to be active on the BPL forum for a long time.

Tony

Of course I followed that post when it came out, Tony, and managed to completely forget it. Thanks for the heads up!

You could do worse than visit a local pizza shop and get an A-10 tin and put a handle on it using a coat hanger.

There is a part of me that says food tastes better in one of those, although in truth it is better for boiling water for tea than real cooking.