Camping Cookware Set 304 Stainless Steel 8-Piece Pots & Pans Open Fire Cooking Kit | Frying Pan Steamer with Travel Tote Bag | Compact For Outdoors & Indoors Kitchen Family Campfire Hiking RV

We've always loved to camp. I've been camping since I was three or four. My youngest daughter went on her first camping trip aged 8 weeks. Between family camping, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts we must have been on several hundred trips over the years and have spent entire summers camping, but the last few years we just haven't had the time. Until this year. And of course, since it has been a few, the camping equipment had all been misplaced or loaned out and never returned and so it all needs to be replaced - not so easy these days when it is almost impossible to find a "camping store" and you're likely to have to shop for items you cannot see or touch. So, we replaced the lot, mostly by mail order. Some - like this camp cookware - we loved. Some got a whirl at camp and went right straight back.I love camp cooking and honestly, I'm more prone to cook at camp than I am at home. I really enjoy cooking and baking over a camp fire or on a camp stove and put a lot of planning and effort into it. Some of our most favorite family recipes are recipes that have come from camping trips. Good camp cookware, though, is not so easy to get. It is either too small - intended for one either back packing or cooking military style - or cheaply made from aluminum. Cast iron is perfect for cooking on a campfire and I do have quite a collection of that, but it is heavy and can take up a bit of space - great if you're going out for several weeks, perhaps mostly best left at home if you're only going for a weekend.This 304 stainless camp cookware set is a happy exception. Light enough to tote along, big enough to feed a crowd and sturdy enough to last for years. The pieces nestle one inside the next and it all packs into a padded carrying case.The kit consists of 8 pieces - a large (about 4 quarts) kettle with a lid, a medium kettle (about 3 quarts) with lid and a strainer/steamer insert, a saucepan that hold about a quart, and a medium sized frying pan. You'll find the handle to the frying pan in a compartment on the outside of the carry bag.The pans are sturdy with heavy bottoms to prevent tipping. Stainless steel makes them easy to clean. Two caveats -* The small saucepan has silicon covered handles that fold out from the sides of the pot. Be very careful using this over an open fire. Remember that temperatures higher than 450F can destroy the silicon.* If you are going to cook over an open fire coat the outside of your pans with a thin layer of dish liquid. That will prevent staining from the smoke and creosote from the fire. (This does not apply to cast iron.)Grandma's $0.02? Yes, this particular set is a bit more expensive than most. Invest the money. Just like the cookware you use in your home kitchen, good pots and pans really can make a difference both in the food you turn out and the enjoyment you get from cooking. This will last you a lifetime and in a pinch you can use it in the house too. Very highly recommended.

This Wealers camping cookware set is well made and would really excel for cooking over a fire, where its bail type handles and all metal construction would stand out. For cooking on a camp stove or at home, removable side handles might be preferable. Shipping took almost two weeks from the single vendor offering the product, in spite of asking in advance and being assured of 3-4 day shipping.good things:-well made and appropriately priced at ninety dollars.-a magnet sticks so it should work for induction.-bails (handles) on the two larger pots stand up on their own.-handles on the small pot are riveted on well, though they do flop around freely.-fry pan handle attaches solidly.-finish of the stainless is mostly very good.-carry case is well made and fits the pots well.-a lid for every potthings to be aware of:-photo showing the cookware nested is incorrect--the "strainer" actually fits between the small and medium pots, not inside the small pot as shown.-the "strainer" is only a few inches high so couldn't strain much, certainly not a pound of pasta. The strainer would make a decent steamer basket for the medium pot if only it sat on the rim of the pot instead of down in the bottom, or at least had some feet to hold it off the bottom of the pot. As is it's neither a good strainer nor a usable steamer. A regular old collapsible steamer would work better and fit in any of the pots.-the knobs of the lids screw on to a threaded rod attached to the top of each lid. Replacing the knobs would depend on the rod having a standard thread and remaining attached to the lid. If the threaded rod ever came off the lid it might be a project to get a hole drilled through the lid to attach a regular bolted handle.

This cookware set is in our overlander rig, and it's heavy-duty, heavy-weight and durable. Nests well, once you figure out the order of things.

Many reasonable reviews. I would also comment on the strainer not being useful. But is it a drawback? Not for me. Without it i have room for other items.Everything is solid. The large pot is really useful for larger meals...

Because the items in this set fit into each other, it is the most size efficient set I ever had.

Love the stainless steel pots and pan

This is a big set of pots. I was looking for a big sturdy set for our tent trailer. I'll be able to easily cook spaghetti in the largest pot. These are heavy on the consistency of Revereware pots. I haven't used the as we haven't been camping since receiving them. I bought a cheaper set, about half the price,and returned them because the biggest pot wasn't big enough

This item is not made in the USA like it states in the country of origin. It is made in West Taiwan (People's Republic of China). Items just from packaging came all scratched, and edges looked and felt rough. I did more searching to find American Made camp cookware and found Magma Gourmet. While looking through all cooksets from other companies I noticed that alot of them had the look of this one just different company name.