[pct-l] question re canisters

[Town Food]

I've always heard 15 pints per ~100g/4oz canister is typical.  I never 
quite tested that out myself, because running out anywhere other than 
the last moment before a resupply would mean uncooked food until I got 
into town.  So I'd buy a new canister when my current one felt "low" in 
town.  It might be worth trying to train yourself to feel how full a 
canister is.  Either by weight, or by swishing it around and 
listening/feeling.

I preferred the MSR canisters, since they were wider and stood better, 
but more often than not there's only one brand at a resupply point. 
It's not worth illegally shipping canisters in resupply boxes just for 
the relatively minor differences between brands.

  -=Town Food

On 03/10/2018 11:35 AM, Rod Miller wrote:
> Excellent question. Way back I started scratching a
> hash mark on the side of the canister, one hash mark
> per cup boiled. Most of this boiling was done at high
> (over 6000 feet) elevations. There was quite a difference
> in performance among the various brands. I could dig up
> some of the data, however, the bottom line is that the
> Gas One brand consistently gave more that 30 cup-boils
> (one cup boiled) with my Jet Boil titanium stove.
> Gas One took some sleuthing to find a consistent source,
> which was for me Big 5 Sporting Goods.
>