Re: Evernew titanium pots

--- In [email protected], William Comer  wrote:
> if the extra ounce is worth it to you then go for it but remember you
> got light an ounce at a time and you can go back to being heavier an
> ounce at a time without much trouble.

My personal suggestion is to buy the uncoated pot and see if it works for you. If it does, great. If not, buy a coated pot and sell the uncoated pot. 

Things like pots are such a personal thing that giving one-size-fits-all advice on them is sort of pointless. Even what counts as "real cooking" is personal. I, for example, despise oatmeal. I don't like the texture, I don't like the fact that it hangs around in your mouth like sticky peanut butter, I find it about as tasty as paper napkins. I prefer to eat instant grits or Malt-o-meal by preference when I want a hot breakfast. So the fact that oatmeal is somewhat tedious to clean out of an uncoated pot is irrelevant to me. 

As for the extra ounce, I do carry a few extra ounces of "luxury" items, but again it's all about what works for you as an individual. My little Tarptent counts as a luxury item to many people, who would point out that it's heavier than a tarp and a groundsheet. But the fact that it's a bug-free environment, erects much more easily than a tarp, and does much better in bad weather than a tarp all have value for me -- and it's still four pounds lighter than the six-pound dome tent that most of us probably started out with.