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A Plastic Bottle.  And a Plastic Pot.

Yes! It’s truly rocket science!  A Plastic Bottle!  And a Plastic Pot!  Surely that’s a winner if ever there was one?

You can get all manner of lovely Ti cookwear; nice, light, strong, durable.

You can find a million and one designs of home-made and commercial drinks can stoves that will fit inside such a pot.

But can you find a reasonably sized (say 250ml) fuel bottle that will fit inside the pot, along with the drink can stove?  Can you hell.

So I trawl the aisles of supermarkets, looking for the elusive Holy Grail Bottle.  You get some odd looks when you start measuring bottles of posh make-up with a ruler in John Lewis…

In the end, I bought a bottle that was too tall, but otherwise fit quite well (a Sainsbury’s own brand handwash refill, if you really must know).  And then took my Pocket Rocket to it, carefully melting the middle section until it slumped down enough to allow the bottle to fit in my MSR Ti Kettle sorry, I meant Alpkit MyTiMug .

There are no pictures; it’s just too ugly for words.

But it works…

Oh, yes; back to the competition.  Well, if there was a perceived market, someone might consider ordering a made-to-measure injection blow moulded or extrusion blow moulded* HDPE bottle with a water-tight PP cap.  One that would fit snugly into a pot, and hold snugly a drinks can stove (say, curved to the shape of the pot on one side, and flat on the other, maybe even with a can-shaped dimple in it).

And in my excitement at this prospect, I nearly forgot the Pot!

Yes; a Pot to put it all in, and act as a cozy-cooking pot, cum (combined with...) eating pot; a simple HDPE or PP straight-sided pot with a gently rounded bottom (for easy cleaning), big enough to hold a Ti pot and cozy material, and a screw-on lid (the opening and lid being the full diameter of the pot, of course).

Ooh, I need a lie down now.

* see the BPF site for pretty animations

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Notes

I hereby acknowledge that there exists prior art in the form of moulded thermoplastic liquid containers, and that I have drawn extensively on this prior art in the generation of this marvellous innovation.

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