MSR Quick 2 Cook System

Lightweight, very compact.

Nice pot handle (hope it holds up over time.)

Strainer lid is both good and bad -- good is easier now to drain water from pasta, negative is lid has to be held when draining, so need glove or cloth to keep from burning your hand while holding lid. Also, no way to lock lid on tightly without using handle folded over. This is a minor thing, but bringing water back from a stream more splashes out than with my old nested aluminum camp pots.

Only one lid, so can't cover both large and small pots simultaneously.

Can't get my Brunton stove or standard camp spoons inside kit.

Pots and bowls easy to clean. Bowls are relatively wide and shallow, and as a result my sense is food cools off more quickly than in my old traditional bowls, which were deeper and smaller circumfence. Also seem a bit hard to hold with heavy gloves, but maybe with time I'll get more used to them.

Soft insulation around cups works fairly well, but is easily damaged by bears.

Overall good choice for space saving.

A very lightweight and decent system. The pots are really good, but there's only one top, so you cover the other with aluminm foil. Handle is kind of awkward. The cups are absolutely worthless - insulation doesn't work, they don't hold very much stuff, they're not marked for measuring, and when you have a fire, you can't put them into the coals to reheat your beverage. The bowls are difficult to hold, also hard to clean because of the hard edge between side and bottom.

On lightweight trips, I don't carry the cups or bowls. It's a really good system for what's available.

It's getting better the more I use it, but like most "systems", I use what's good and supplement with other items to make it work for me.

Every cook set i've used has either charred from the fire or either stuck inside the pot from cooking too long. Neither of those has happened to this set yet. They aren't as light as a titanium set, but personally i'm willing to carry the few extra ounces to have this in my bag. When I go out alone I take only the large pot, 1 bowl, one cup, which leaves room for my MSR pocket rocket and a small can of fuel. It can spill over with such a small stove since it's much larger in size, so be careful not to let it tip. Overall it's a great buy, and I assure you that you'll love it!

This is a great set of cookware. Only used in for a weekend in Desolation, but so far everything is great. Easy to clean, and the locking handle is great. Highly recommended.