Recommended gear | Sola X cook set

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A quick look at the SOLA X cook set by OEX this cook set is amazing! incorporating a mini frying pan/ cup into the design, this light weight pot is ideal for day hikes or for longer walks and trails. the heat exchange built into the bottom gives an extremely fast boil which is perfect considering the very simple design. available from go outdoors! follow this link!

http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/oex-sola-x-cookset-p362177?gclid=Cj0KEQjwo5--BRCS8ceLjv-XppUBEiQAGp15EJzUGAMmcks6IGklSgPGpNsKhIKm5GNx1wOFUsgyVcgaApwI8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

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hello bee and welcome to another video in today's video we're gonna be taking a look at this the solar ex cook set from LAX and I've come to love this cook set I've had it for about six months I'll be using it pretty regularly and it has now become a pretty much standard piece of equipment for me to carry with me mainly for day hikes and longer haul hikes I use it in the same way for both not so much for being out in the woods I'm cooking a campfire it's not really designed for that so it doesn't get used for that kind of thing so I just thought I'd get that out there now see we have to something to using the campfire this isn't the thing for you and I really like its really light weight weighs in at 266 grams empty and stand alone and it comes with its own little mesh bag as you can see here go take it out of that bag have a quick look at it well very quickly go over the the kind of specs of this item and then we'll have a look at it in action and talk about why I really like it so can be a little bit tricky to get out of that mesh bag but I really like that it's got that mesh bag and it keeps dust the thing sort of together knowing your bag and stops that sort of mini frying pan bit on the top which is this bit here I tend to use actually is a big cup rather than me frying pan but they do sell it as a mini frying pan ideal for doing like eggs and stuff in the size of it that has heat resistant silicon coating handles on the top and the handle locks shut to unlock the handle we just press it together and it flicks shut the sits really snugly on the top there so that is the mini frying pan the main part of this is a pot basically is use like a kettle for boiling water and stuff in there again it's got these heat resistance to look and coat handles which fold together what I really like about this it's a squirrel what I really like about this is these handles fit perfectly snugly against against the ring of that we could just see that here that is a really valuable kind of little little little thing that I've had quite a lot of pots of a similar design and they don't fit snugly together like that it's got a capacity a maximum capacity of 750 ml which is marked on the inside so on the outside there it will look it to focus it

we'll look backwards but on the inside you can read it pretty hard to make out on the camera there on the bottom of it another thing I really like is it's got this heat radiator thing it's called a heat exchange basically what that does if you're not seen one before stuff like the Jetboil has it sit at the bottom there tell it to focus and it just gives you a nice even spread of heat that really comes into play when you're when you're actually cooking on this thing and this boils phenomenally quickly on a good stove the construction of the thing is a denies stainless steel I believe it's stainless steel I actually can't find that piece of information a few people I've spoken to do say stainless steel it feels very light for stainless steel but it's it's good quality metal whatever it is as I said you're not going to be cooking this on a with on a account before I haven't actually tested it that way I might be tempted to at some point but it is designed to be used on a stove and then just printed on it there we have got the OE X logo so that's pretty much the design of it pretty standard design to be honest and there's a lot of different cook sets that for this similar design I've got a couple myself what really sold me with this one is the larger size of it the he exchange on the bottom and the larger size because of that larger size I'm able to use this as a pretty much self-contained cook set if I'm using a small gas bottle on a day hike or error that fits in the top and everything else fits in the bottom currently I don't actually have one of those small gas pours from using a larger one for the demonstration today but one will do now is to show you the stuff that I - to fit in here and show you what a well-built sort of system it pretty can provide you with if you've got the additional equipment to go with it so let's have a look at that set out for me here I've got a range of things which allows me to carry like a really well-rounded and cook setup so all of this does fit in here really nicely so at the bottom I keep a little little pad which I've now got covered in dirt it's just sits really snugly in the bottom I've got some washing up liquid and some oil sits on top of that a lighter for light in my stove of small foldable stove gas kind of stands just to make it more sturdy a small sponge with scouring pad and a little folding titanium spork or which fits in perfectly which then goes into the mesh bag so you go you can see all fitted in there I really like this system that I've got set up here I really really like the system so what we're going to do now is just do a really quick boil test of this just to show you how quick you can get a boil in this thing I really like it so what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to set a timer on the phone there it's a time how long this is so what I'll do is I'll record this screen and put it off to one side here and we're going to do a boil time on it's usually around the two two minutes to two and a half minutes should be quite quick today as it's nice day so let's fire this up put it on like a average heat start recording the screen the handles out and three two one go so folks there you go that is the solar ex cook set from Oh X so before I finish just a couple notes on how and where you can get this so this item is exclusively only available through the shop go outdoors it she's a British outdoor shop they do however as far as I'm aware they do ship overseas if you want to get one of these kind of got a lot of viewers who aren't uk-based I do believe they ship overseas the cost of it is twenty-five pounds for the cook set itself or if you have a go outdoors membership card you get a certain percentage off and it works out about 19 pounds and 99 pence absolutely fantastic bit as I said earlier it is one of my go-to pieces of equipment I can fit almost everything to do my cooks in there it boils very very quickly it comes with the cup you can fry in it you can cook in it I made two people's worth of rice and that just another day so you know and there was a little bit too much for us so it's a really good capacity generally I use this for making things like dehydrated meals or things that have to have water added to the morrat boiler by rice it is basically it is a water boiling product primarily it does have all the uses you can you can cook in it provided you've got a stove which is adjustable but that stands the stove not the that cooks itself obviously with the boil time there are going to be factors that affect that so if you're in cold conditions we high up it's high winds or you've got a rubbishy stove obviously all that stuff is gonna make the ball time go a little bit longer have got optimal conditions today and a very very good stove with me but you know overall a really really good good system I love that he exchanged on the bomb it makes such a difference you know we stopped on the trail of your hike and you want to get a quick a quick cup of tea or coffee or hot drink or whatever you can have that made and drank in under 10 minutes you know so it is really really useful so as always thank you all for watching I hope you've enjoyed the video please like share subscribe comment all that kind of stuff and stay tuned for the next video which hopefully is going to be a proper look at my full cork system seeing the next one guys