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Jetboil Group Cooking System with 1.5 Liter Cooking Pot

Brand : Jetboil
Item : JET0014
The Jetboil Group Cooking System with 1.5-liter pot won the 2006 Backpacker Magazine Editor's Choice Award for its incredible efficiency and usability. The Group Cooking System (GCS) uses Jetboil's FluxRing on its Neoprene-insulated pot to enable 75% heat efficiency—nearly twice that of a conventional camp stove. This incredible stove boils 12-liters of water with a tiny 100g butane canister. Plus, the auto-igniter and adjustable flame allow you to simmer food instead of just boiling water. The Group Cooking System's wide-armed stabilizer increases versatility by allowing you to use non-Jetboil pots, as well.
Price: $119.95
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Jetboil Group Cooking System with 1.5 Liter Cooking Pot

Very handy, except
I used the larger Jetboil as a replacement for my Whisperlite. I got tired of priming and having a flame thrower when I just wanted a quick warm drink. The lid could be made a little firmer and then be useful as a plate. Secondly, the pan could use a pouring spout for a quicker refill of your buddies coffee mug. Works great every time no fuss, mild conditions fed 4 people 3 days on large canister.


outstanding
I've been backcountry packing for over 20 years, and the Group Cooking System one of the best investments I've ever made. My son carried a Jet Boil Personal Cooking System with him, and we could have easily used that alone for the entire trip, but I wanted to try them both side by side. Both worked flawlessly. What was nice was cooking one-pot meals in the Group Cooking System, and boiling water for coffee or hot chocolate mornings & evenings. This way we wouldn't have had to hike out if a stove failed, and we could carry one type of fuel bottle to operate one or both stoves. On average we boiled 6 cups of water per day and we had plenty of fuel left over--and we only brought 2 4oz fuel bottles! The main thing to learn is, have EVERYTHING ready when you start the stove, because the speed of heating on this stove seems faster than a microwave. Easy to pack, easy to operate, easy to clean. Outstanding!


Cook fast for the group.
This is a nice stove if you need to do more then boil water or cook for just one. In reality the GCS pot will work just as well and fast with any stove. It's the pot on this system that is the key with the heating fins. It's a bit heavy for a butane stove but makes up for most the weight in the fuel savings. The personal cooking pot will also work with this stove as the stove is identical minus the pot support and fuel bottle support which can all be purchased seperately.


Basically a 5, with one small complaint
Jetboil does everything it's supposed to do, and does it well. Only complain is that the Cooking Pot isn't conducive to pouring hot liquids--makes putting hot water and food into dishes a chore! Other than that, the system is great.


Great stove
We have used this stove about 10 times so far, and I'm very pleased with it. We were using it in elevations above 8500ft and temps as low as 20deg with great success. A couple minor complaints would be that the stove takes longer to boil water as the cannister gets low on fuel. Also the lid is very hard to snap into place in cold temps, as it obviously shrinks up more than the metal pot. Overall I'm thrilled with this product though.

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