Gear Review
Jetboil Group Cooking System with 1.5 Liter Cooking Pot
Good system
By Jeremiah Rozario
Ranked #18 - Canister Stoves
January 20, 2009
I bought the 1.5L Pot and the pot stabilizer system as an add on to my Jet Boil PCS. The pot is wide enough on the bottom to be able to fry in like a pan but still deep enough to make things a little challenging if you want to flip an item.
It does not lock into the stove like the PCS pot but you use the pot stabilizer which opens the Jet Boil up to the rest of the world of cookware choices. The whole system fits inside the pot as a single unit but I like to carry my PCS pot when I carry the GCS pot. I have used the GCS pot with other stoves and the real offenders of the "Burnt Spot" are transformed into well mannered simmering machines. If you own an ultra light stove of some kind but you discovered it's tendency to cause a hot spot, you don't have to throw it away to get the kind of performance Jet Boil is famous for. Just buy the GCS pot which is available by it's self. It will even improve the fuel efficiency of the any ordinary stove. You will also need to buy the pot support/stabilizer if you are upgrading an existing PCS. The insulating sleeve and the lid will keep the pot's contents hot for longer which is good if you're re-hydrating food. In my own collection, the pot compliments my MSR Pocket Rocket and my EtaPower 2.1L cook system. I think Jet Boil should package all of the components from the GCS, PCS, Coffee Press, Frying Pan, Extending Utensil Set and hanging system all in one complete package. That way someone like me can choose which parts to bring based on the trips demands. (If they do, I haven't seen it but I would buy it knowing what I know now.)
Every manufacturer wants you to buy the fuel with their name on it but canister fuel is universal as long as it uses the right orifice on the canister. I hear many references to proprietary fuel limitations. There are none.
Use Coleman, MSR, Snow Peak, Primus, Jet Boil, Optimus canisters Etc. It is all Isobutane. The only variable would be if it packs inside the unit like it was designed to.
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Helpful Votes: 8 Yes
Change me.
2 Comments Last Reply: April 17, 2011 By: mike1586957
PCS = Personal Cooking System GCS = Group Cooking System
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Jermiah Weed above great review and very much helpful in my choice I will be making other than the "acronyms" of PCS and GCS being used constantly.. "People you may think your cool by using Acronyms but it only screams I am trying really hard to sound like I am cool" so dont use them unnecessarily. Only in the military do we use them and only for the use in communication for a specific reason. Civilians only sound like dorks when they try to use them as much as this. Especially when he can write a whole novel like above yet cant bring himself to type 20 characters more to spell out PCS... I also intend this message to everyone that tries to do this in reviews and commentary or blogs. That aside it was a helpful review.
Helpful Votes: 1 Yes