Tinny,
Personally, I don't like to heat anything but water in a beer can because of the difficulty of cleaning it -- taking care of the old GI track.
A cut-off Platypus works well as a cup and as a water scoop for dipper springs. However, it also has hard-to-clean folds. And you have to use them two-handed. Recently, I've been using Ziploc's 8 oz. storage cups. They weigh the same as a cut-off Platypus (0.6 oz) and clean up well. An insulating foam band keeps them hot in cool weather.

I have some of their cups with the lids (I assume you are talking about the dark blue ones?)

I tend to eat soup out of a bowl out of habit but one of those cups might work well too...

I use the Orikaso cup and bowl. They fold flat for storage and are very easy to clean. for me they are well worth the extra 2oz.

In one of the pictures you can see my home made Titanium long handle spoon. It weighs 0.29oz.

Bill,
I got the Red kit for my birthday... pretty sweet looking

I have a couple of sets of each color. The Red is nice. The picture shows the Red cup with the handle part folded under.

To bad you really can't fold and refold Titanium. I would get a piece and fold it into a cook pot, use it to boil my water and then unfold it and use it as a frame sheet or something. Etc - Etc - Etc.

that'd be a hell of a multi-use item...

of course, I've been braingstorming for a while on how to use one of the 321 Stainless Foil Bags that mcmaster carr sells into a foldable bag/pot...

cleaning the beer can pot is not easy but if you don't burn on anything and wash it as soon as you finish it is ok. I had not seen this plastic plate pot thing before

Vick,I stopped eating out of a beer can for the same reason. Now I just heat water in a Heineken can, using one of Tinny's stoves, the Elite, and rehydrate and eat meals out of a Orikaso bowl. I do use the Heineken can for drinking tea. I like the Orikaso bowl because it's light (1.2 oz.),easy to pack, easy to clean, and durable.

The folding bowls look sweet.

???Has anyone tried a folding woodburner on the same orgami principle using something like oven liner??? Is there any such thing as stainless steel foil in a gauge similar to oven liner? (I suspect aluminum would burn up too quickly.) One can imagine an open ended and open topped box (think shoe box)with the closed end 3-4 inches higher to serve as a 3-sided chimney. The pot would serve as the 4th side. Tent stakes through the sides could support the pot (the foil could be folded to form a tripple thickness for the pot supports. Properly designed, it should fold into a flat square and erect naturally.

Risk's Windscreen Forge

Yeah, risk has... well, it's round rather than sqaure... but the idea is sound...

and you can get foil thickness SS from mcmastercarr.com

that's purtier than a spotted pup in a painted wagon.

Link to stove Templates and Instructions


This is the Nimblewill Nomad Wood Stove.

The best metal for this is Titanium and you can get it from Thru-Hiker.com I buy all my Titanium from AYCE. I think he started selling Titanium when he or others wanted to make this stove. You could use something else but it would need to be a thicker metal as the stove will generates a lot of heat.

Thanx

I just checked Tinny's site www.minibulldesign.com and the SST is up and ready for sales. I just put my order in. Same postage price as usual and a reasonable price of $8 for the stove. I'm sure with this kind of technology he could probably get away with charging more but hey who am I to complain on a bargain. I look foward to watching my friends taking the extra few minutes to boil their water whilst I'm already enjoying my meal.