Video Transcript for GSI Outdoors Camping Pot: The Breakdown

Hey everybody. I'm Ellen here at etrailer.com and we're taking a quick look at the GSI Outdoors Halulite Pot. This is going to be a 4.7 liter cooking pot. The nice thing about it is that it does have a pretty easy way to drain out any excess water. There's some holes in the lid. So that allows you to easily just drain out or strain out your pasta, potatoes, anything else that you might be boiling in your pot.

It also is made of an anodizied aluminum material. So that's going to be very lightweight but still very durable, heats up quickly So you don't have to wait forever for water to boil. But that also means that you want to be careful to not just let things sit, especially at a high heat, since it does heat up so quickly, there's the tendency that you could burn things if you don't watch it. So keep that in mind that it does, doesn't take long for things to get pretty hot with this, which I think is a good thing but you definitely want to be aware. Also on the sides here, we have a couple of little silicone pads so that helps to make it easy when you are using that straining feature and on the sides, we have the little handles, which snap out.

You want to be sure that you do snap those out whenever you put it on the burners so those don't actually burn since the coding is made out of rubber. So they will scorch and they can melt. So just be aware of that as well. But whenever you're trying to pour out that water those little pads make it really easy. So you don't have to get a oven mitt or a cooking pad or anything like that or a bandana or something else to hold onto that pot lid.

So it makes it pretty easy that it's just built into the lid itself. Now, this is a pretty good capacity if you've got a group of people you want to feed, a hungry bunch of folks and cook things in one pot. Again, 4.7 liters so that definitely gives you a good amount of space to make a big bowl of something really tasty. Something I also like is that they include a mesh bag. So if you want to, whenever you're done, you're not using the pot anymore, you can stash a bunch of stuff inside here, including some of the smaller Halulite pots.

So like the 3.2 liter pot will fit in here pretty nicely. The kettle will also fit in here again from the Halulite line. But once you stash all your stuff, you can take the lid, flip it over, so the little handle isn't sticking up outside. FLip those handles down, and then stash it inside here. So that the lid doesn't lock to it, but by having the bag, that's going to keep everything inside secure. So you don't have to worry about stuff rattling around. And again, you have extra storage space in your pack. So I think this makes a really smart choice for any kind of backpacker. Maybe if, even if you're car camping, since it's a just a light, durable pot, it should be great for all kinds of uses. It weighs about 1.39 pounds. So pretty lightweight for such a big capacity. If you're going to be camping out in the snow, this also, again, since it holds so much, maybe if you're using snow to be your cooking water or your pottable water, you can use that lid as a nice shovel to get snow inside the pot. So it really just works pretty well. It also has a spiral design on the bottom. So that helps to grip into the grill, to help lock it in place so you don't have to worry about it sliding around on the grill itself. And overall, I just think it's a really smart design. There are, it's kind of a small area as far as that drainage for the strainer. I think that's kind of by design, you know the more holes you have, the faster that water will get out of there. So the less you have to hold onto it and strain the water. But I think that it being a smaller area with fewer holes actually is kind of smart because then that's going to lock in more heat. So whenever you're trying to boil things or cover things to cook it you're not losing all of that steam inside the pot. So I think that's kind of the reason why they have that design there. All in all, it should make for a really great addition to your camping gear. If this is the only pot you get, it's a great nice size for just cooking everything in one pot. If you want to have two, you can cook a lot of things inside here and really feed a nice hungry crowd. So that's pretty much everything I had to talk about with you today. I hope that this video has been helpful in deciding if this is the right choice for you. We do have a lot of other camping gear and accessories here at etrailer.com. So be sure to check them out. Thanks for watching.