Gear Review: Snow Peak Ti Double 450 Colored Mug

You can spend $5 over and over or $55 once. My oldest is in cub scouts and is crossing over into Boy scouts soon. I purchased/made a titanium mess set (spoon, fork, Snowpeak cup, pan/plate & 2 pots/bowls, chopsticks) that he uses on his camp outs. On his small frame every ounce counts and I wont have to replace it like the first cheaper set I purchased that had less in it. To help with the heat on the cup we put a silicone wrist band around the top of the cup. This helps protect your lips from the hot metal if you cook in the cup. Titanium is light and safe to cook in and eat out of and hold up to being tossed into a backpack with a ton of shoes and camp gear of a small kid. Don't look at just the price look at the use/need of item.

I am sick of the ads for high priced gear.
I have one of those $3 blue metal coated mugs from Walmart. Its 20 years old, isn't that heavy and can sit in the fire after beating a wild boar to death.

Did I mention it was $3

If I live to be a hundred, I'll never understand the whining and crying about the price of titanium cookware. It weighs next to nothing, it cleans easily, it won't dent, and it'll last you the rest of your life. I bought my titanium mug for thirty-one dollars in 1988. So far it has cost me about a buck-thirty a year. Save up for one. Hint around so you can get it as a birthday gift. Five hundred years from now, archaeologists will be digging these things up and they'll think we were geniuses.

thats right way to much for a metal cup

I have NEVER liked metal coffee cups. They just feel weird when trying to drink from them and double walled or not, its a lot easier to burn your lips.

$56 with an option to buy the lid. Holy moly. Backpacker--you're going in the wrong direction.

I have always stayed away from Snowpeak's colored titanium and have many types of their titanium cups and am quite happy with the quality and how long my food stays heated. The lids are well worth the money and the handless mugs are the bomb!!

The color came off my cup after 1 day usage. I thought I'd gotten a defective one so exchanged it at REI. Same thing with my second one. Love the color - like the cup, but it was too spendy for the defects.

One thing I demand of my Kitchen gear is that I should be able to cook with it over an open fire. If not, I don't buy it. Stoves fail, heat tabs crumble, gel doesn't, what's left is fire. So, I need not say anymore. $56 is NOT worth the Splurge for a $3. item.