Fire Maple 1L Heat Exchanger Pot 

Update from Fire Maple 1. The handle is coated with PVC instead of Silicone 2. The TPE lid is food grade, but not BPA FREE, actually till now, only Tritan is proved to be BPA FREE plastic. Other plastic are not BPA FREE.

Thank you for such a thorough review. I've just bought one for my 14-day wild camping trip to Scotland. 😊

I have had this set up for a good couple of years I use this pot with the Fire Maple Titanium Stove FMS-117T @ 103 g The pot is 190 g So my setup is 290 g, which is very light I use the stove on low volume so it uses very low gas as apposed to high gas If you put your hands next to the pot there is no heat loss to the air it is straight into the pot So the boil is slower but the gas usage is minimal So a large canister lasts for weeks with real cooking I also made a cosy for the pot, so I boil food and leave it to slow cook

Nice review Mark. I like what you did to the lid. I have an Olicamp XTS pot, and have been fiddleing with it for years. They are nearly identical. This style pot is a race car when you match it up with the right size isobutane, and works well with alcohol stoves too. The trick is to match it up the base ring with the support arms on the stove or stand. Head space is crucial for true speed or efficiency. Too close and you choke it out. Too far away and is slows down. Bottom line is that it works great and the lid can be reworked or replaced if needed (through Olicamp). I am on my original lid, but I really baby it. When I was a Scout leader, we used to race boil times with 500ml/16oz...this was Always as fast as a Jetboil in real life. Thanks again for your vids.

Thanks for the review, Mark. I own the pot as well. The only thing I don't like about it is the plastic top. It has hardened and discolored over time. I do like the pot. I have similar results in terms of boil times. I wish they made an aluminium top for it. It would be excellent rather than just good.

Thanks for sharing. No reply necessary, thank you. Pity you did not step through the 1,2,3,4 cup volumes /ti pot comparisons. Easy for me to say, you are doing the work. But you did get the pot free to do a review on. Always a pleasure watching your informative video. Many thanks. Take care Best regards Colin

I must say Mark that I really like the size and functionality of this pot. Very interested in this product. Cheers my friend!

Good looking pot and review Mark , have a great day , God bless !

Another great review Mark. I don’t have any of Fire Maples Titanium pots, but I love their Stainless Steel cooking gear.

Great video, thanks. Very informative. Less yapping than others.

My only concern with using this pot over a wood fire would be to use only hardwoods. Out here, we have primarily softwoods - pine, spruce, etc. I would expect the heat exchanger to be cool enough to cause the pitch in the coniferous wood to condense out inside the fins and quickly plug them up.

Mark, thanks for another great video. When you were talking about the speed with gas I was thinking, what about alcohol? Then you covered that too.

G'day Mark, not bad mate, concur 1 L is a good size to do most things without going overboard. I reckon the heat exchanger does make sense, but for me personally, I'm questioning whether I really need that feature. Cant say I'm a fan of plastics of any description around flames, though that lid would be very good for transporting food or other kit inside, but then you're left with no metal lid to cook with. I do like that Fire Maple offer a range of options depending on your MO/preference, and decent quality at fair prices too; like the look of the Alti 900 ml Ti pot & lid and the Antarti 1 L stainless pot/lid without the exchanger as a couple of examples. Cheers Duke.

I suppose that lid is great at keeping things secured inside during travel, but I would rather have an easier to remove lid while boiling. I have a 1.8 liter heat exchanger pot; a smaller one would be handy. Mine drips water down the side of the pot every time I do a pour over coffee. I wish it had a bit of a lip.

Love the heat exchanger additions and have been a diehard since my first MSR pot but the 1.5 litre kettle has to be the most utilized due to its slightly wider base.

I've tried running these experiments to see how long a stove and pot will boil. Problem is there are far too many variables to control. The pressure of the fuel in the can changes as the can is depleted, changing the gas output at any given valve setting, making it impossible to know how to set the valve, then, how can you really be sure you are setting the valve the same way even if you use a new gas on each attempt. The temperature of the gas also impacts the gas pressure and probably also the barometric pressure. Starting water temperature is another variables. Some day, someone will do a large, well controlled study.

Good Looking & Performing Pot, Great Demo, Fair Price. Thanks Mark ! ATB T God Bless

Thanks for sharing. Great review.

The Goshawk would be a good stove for the pot.

Nice 😁. Not a bad price either . I bet you could rig a pot support for a gasifier stove that fits right up inside the heat exchanger .

I would love to see a comparison between this pot and the larger 1.5l heat exchanger pot. I'm wondering if the wider base of the larger pot will capture the heat better than the narrower pot. And see if it is enough to make any measurable difference. I also do winter camping in the Sierras and just bought a Firemaple remote canister stove with preheat tube. I see Firemaple saying their Polaris pressure regulator stoves work great in cold weather. I'd love to know if the Polaris regulator is better in freezing temps that the preheat tube types? Thanks

I have used a Bulin HE pot on a wood stove....seemed to work ok. But after 4 or 5 burns I think you lose a lot of efficiency due to the exchanger fins getting all sooted up....and let me tell you, it's no treat trying to get that crap out of the fins, not worth it in my opinion. Thank you for your video, I always enjoy them....

I bet this would pair very well with a small wood gasification stove. I love my nano but it would probably just dirty it up.

hey mark! did you ever end up using a heat exchanger pot with a wood stove? i'd like to see that and differences in boil time. cheers

HE pots are definitely more efficient. Nice pot but I prefer my Widesea which has a small pot as a lid which would work as a cup if needed plus i store small containers of Coffee Tea and sugar in the small pot.

Good!

Question: Would this "nest" with a Nalgene? Too big, too small, or just right?

Have you ever experienced a toxic vapour from the pot when used with a trangia spirit stove...??

Will this pot pair well with the soto wind master stove?

Would you recommend this pot with Esbit, or would it foul the heat exchange?

Thanks for the review. I want to buy the pot, but the 05FIREMAPLE code isn't working at amazon.

Too bad the fire maple didn’t come with Canadian maple syrup….😉😘 Yep, they should have a made a better way to grip the lid. I wonder if some of these companies ever take the time to test out their equipment.

Garbage ....I did 3 separate boil tests between this pot and my 1100ml Toaks titanium pot with .5 liter of water and there was no difference between the boil times. This was using a Soto Windmaster stove. Not worth the money as a heat exchanger pot over my Toaks, especially for the weight penalty....