Titanium Hiking Cups

[Mountain Man]

I've got a couple titanium hiking cups and love them...However, I just got a new one, a double walled one.

Can I still use the double walled one to heat things up in or should it only be used to drink / eat from? (Making me want to get rid of it!)

-Todd

[crashdive123]

I've got a couple titanium hiking cups and love them...However, I just got a new one, a double walled one.

Can I still use the double walled one to heat things up in or should it only be used to drink / eat from? (Making me want to get rid of it!)

-Todd

I would advise against using it to heat things. The thing that makes it good (insulating qualities due to double wall construction and air space) make it potentially dangerous at worst (expanding air space causing rupture of wall or worse) to inefficient at direct heating at best. Great though for not burning your lips.

[Rick]

I would advise against it as well. I put a double walled baking sheet on the grill one day and it literally blew out a seam. Actually, two. The seam on the baking sheet and the seam in my pants when I .... never mind. I just wouldn't do it.

[SARKY]

DON"T DO IT!!!!!
Virtually all my cooking gear is titanium now, just love the light weight and don't have to worry about Alzheimers, I had done just what you were asking with a stainless cup, I was able to repair my wisper lite international but I had to throw away the shorts i was wearing! There was also a hunk of cup embedded in a tree 12 feet from the stove.

[pocomoonskyeyes]

SARKY where did you get you titanium stuff from?

[Mountain Man]

That's what I was afraid of!
Oh-well, I guess it will go in another kit.


backcountrygear.com

[Rick]

Poco, you can buy titanium gear just about anywhere these days. Most of the big names market them. Snow Peak, MSR, Olicamp, REI, and many others.

[SARKY]

REI, REI has their own name brand line of titanium as well as SnowPeak brand. I have a mix of both.