Vargo Titanium BOT Series BOT-HD Bottle Pot 1 Liter 34 oz Ultralight Water Bottle Cooking Pot Weighs 153

This is an amazing peace of ultralite gear and is now my favorite piece due to versatility and design! It will take over as my central water bottle and cook pot to my ultralite kit bag. The lid was not frozen and nor have I had that issue. I think pressure change or people cranking down too hard is the leading cause of the vacuum seal issue which is common even with a basic thermos and can be resolved easily. It doesn't take much to get a water tight seal on the BOT. I screw it down till lightly snug and then do a quick seal check by shaking it on its side to see if anything drips out. Next, some reviews complained about there being no handle. This leads me to my "work around" to what some people saw as THE big down to the BOT. First, the BOT not having a handle isn't an issue for me; I just all see all sorts of other options and potential for applications. Second, a next generation BOT with a handle added will likely increase the price significantly due to the challenge that titanium presents to smith and weld. That's why titanium ware is so expensive. I wouldn't want to pay any more for the BOT than I already did, especially after I came up with the alternative in the pictures. I did everything with a leather man multi tool and I spent less than 15 minutes on it. 1) Purchased a 8 inch diameter hoseclamp for 1.99 (first pic) at the hardware store and gathered a cheap carabiner from a junk drawer. 2) Filed one edge of the caribiner flat (second pic) to provide a flat side to match flush against the BOT. 3) Used the pliers to shape a notch in the hoseclamp to fit the caribiner. 4) Tightened the hoseclamp and caribiner down around the BOT until snug. Making sure not to over tighten the hose clamp and risk warping the BOT. 5) Then tested to ensure my improvised handle could hold the weight of a full BOT and that the lid still screwed on with ease. 6) When wanting to travel with the BOT you can loosen the clamp a little (see the fourth pic) so the caribiner can move freely and can be used as a convenient gear latch. Immediate observations: there is minimum heat transfer to the caribiner when boiling water. The improvised handle is sturdy and does not shift and there's no noticeable damage to the BOT. This addition does not change the BOT so no harm no foul if you want it just as it came, and it only cost me two dollars and 15 minutes to make. The real test will be how this holds up during my upcoming trip to Nepal. More to follow... I hope this review was helpful. Also, this is an unsolicited review of the BOT. I was not offered any perk or benefit to write a review. I just think it's a great product and I take my gear seriously. There's nothing else on the market like the BOT. Even if Vargo decided to release a handle version, I would hope it's like this so it has the flexibility to be more than one type of container. Read more

Love the removable gasket so I can put it right in the fire. Honestly love everything about this canister. Will most likely attend every camping/hiking/hunting trip I go on moving forward. Good size, light, seals tight, patinas nicely and is plenty durable for my uses. Read more

I just can't say enough good things about this bottle pot. If you take your adventures and preparedness as seriously as I do, you should really consider this very versatile pot set. I've had a few chances to use it on various stoves, and to pack a very versatile kit with it, so here are the pros and cons based on my personal experience with it: Pros: - Titanium, so it's strong but very lightweight for its size - Has a threaded lid! This is very hard to find in a pot you can cook with (don't cook with the pot lid screwed on!) - Cook with it, or carry water/food/gear with it - Fits in any bottle holder that would fit a 32oz Nalgene bottle - Holds a ton of cook gear and makes an excellent backup water carrier in a pinch - It just looks cool - The lid flips over to be a small cup/bowl, and is used upside down as the pot lid - It's taller than most cook pots, so you can carry non-folding utensils inside - It won't rust. You can clean it with steel wool and not have to worry Cons: - The threading is tricky, but if you put the lid on carefully every time, you won't cross thread. After using for a bit, the threads catch better, get smoother, and track better - I wish it was slightly more narrow so it could nest in the same cups that a Nalgene could nest in. I did find a Keith titanium bowl that this pot nests perfectly into, though - I really wish it had folding handles on the side so I wouldn't have to carry a pot holder - Doesn't disperse heat as evenly across the pot as aluminum does - Some have issues with tightening the lid too much when the pot is warm or at higher altitudes, then having it get suction from the pressure change and they can't get the lid off So there's an easy fix for when the lid gets stuck on the pot due to temp/pressure change. The suction of the pot can be released within 2 minutes by sliding a credit card corner underneath the edge of the visible airtight/watertight gasket. Put the corner of the card between the pot and the gasket just enough to deform the gasket, then let it sit for a minute or two and the pressure will regulate so you can unscrew the lid again. I have yet to have this problem, but when the pot is empty I don't screw the lid down completely snug. Just tighten it enough for the gasket to just touch the pot, then stop. You'll keep your contents inside of your BOT, and never have a stuck lid. I have been evolving the kit that I store in the BOT, and at this point here is my list of gear that I have inside: - BOT itself - Small Toaks titanium gasifier wood burning stove (their larger stove won't quite fit inside) - Vargo titanium pot lifter - BCS micro titanium stove - 4 Esbit fuel cubes (could hold much more) - 10,000 strike ferro rod and steel striker - Light My Fire titnium spork - Still room for more small items such as more fuel cubes and even an alcohol stove I carry the BOT and a small canister of stove fuel inside of a molle-equipped bottle carrier. In the outer pouch of this carrier, I have a scrub sponge, small bottle of soap, and a folding windscreen. This kit allows me to start out using fuel with the stove/canister, but if I am stuck in an extended situation where I use up all of the fuel, I have the titanium wood burning stove as a backup so I can cook anywhere. If I need to use the pot to carry water, I just dump the contents of the kit into a pocket on my pack and fill it up. The BOT is truly a versatile piece of equipment that should be the part of any survivalist's or backcountry adventurer's kit. It can take a beating, won't corrode, will hold enough water to actually be useful, and it holds a ton of gear. Read more

Titanium is expensive, nobody is expecting this to cost 10 dollars. But it's insanely expensive compared to competing pots and other cookware from other vendors. I love this pot's idea, I'm experimenting with using it as my second water bottle (that I can also cook with). Knock $20 off and it'd be a no-brainer. At $100 it's definitely a luxury item. Functionally it's pretty good. I wish the the screw threads were polished - it makes a TERRIBLE grinding noise when you screw it closed. And given that it's a non-standard O-ring size I feel like a product this expensive should at least come with a spare O-ring, since that's a wear item. But otherwise it does what it's supposed to do. Read more