I have a titanium pot. It has pluses and minuses. You best keep stirring your oatmeal with a mini GSI spatula or your raisins will likely burn. Of course the weight saving is what caught my initial attention. It heats up quickly but also cools off quick.

The cooling off quick has warranted some attention from me. Since most of my dinners on this summers planned trip are part freeze dried getting it properly hydrated without using endless amounts of fuel has become a concern for me. Cliff Jacobs mentions using insulated "cozies" in several of his books and that is the direction I have been thinking.

I had thought to make my own but stumbled on this website and this ought to make things easier. I like that the product has earned the "Backpackers magazine award" which I have learned to place great faith in. I like that they offer quite a variety of very specific sizes at a reasonable price. This should cut my fuel consumption rather dramatically as I can take it off the stove and slap it in the cozie and it will continue cooking and hydrating for quite some time after being removed from the flame. For those of you who cook anything that needs simmering for extended periods this could be a great asset and is very lightweight.
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Never used any cozie like the one mention above, all that I have used has been of the fleece persuasion...used more to the keep the creations being created warm during hydration and warm when off the single burner. Cozies are sewing machine ware, and wool has some nice flame retardant qualities...wool fleece.

I have also run Aluminium (Al), Titanium (Ti), and even Stainless Steel (SS) cooking hardware. Ditched the Al cuz I got sick of unbending the folds the pack put into it, and also a little scared of the consumption issues; they say that Al isn't particularly good to eat, and I too created a leaker. So then it was on to SS cuz the boy had a keen eye down at the outlet store. And hear I am at Ti in a weight saving mode. Ti is scorch worthy with its heat conduction characteristics ergo the need for a cozie or a socking cap...thank goodness for good stoves and Outback Oven heat defusers. Ti is difficult to burn holes in too.

MT have you done the math yet with your total masses?

mastertangler wrote on Dec 26^th, 2010 at 4:31pm:

I'm guessin' that by the time you add the cozies to the Tit cookware, it will weigh as much or more than quality cookware...

I make several meals that have dehydrated meet in then and that takes a while to re hydrate.  I do not like spending the time at the stove to rehydrate so I bring my food to a boil and wrap it in a dish towel and put it in the bag that I keep my dishes in.  Then I go about my other camp chores.  By the time (maybe one hour) I get back to it will only be lukewarm. Usually it will take about 5 minutes to get it ready then.  I do not think my towel and bag is as good of an insulator as the cozy but it is with me already and it works good enough.