Sea to Summit Alpha Frying Pan- Overview & Quesadilla Cooking Demo
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- This video provides an overview of the 8 and 10 inch Alpha frying pans by Sea to Summit. We'll share their overall features and benefits as well as provide a cheese quesadilla cooking demonstration. Available for rent & demo at www.cirq-rentals.com
Great video mate! Appreciate the demo
Thanks, glad you enjoyed. Cheers!
Can you fit it along with the alpha pot?
Yes! They nest perfectly on the bottom of the Alpha Pots/Sigma Pots. The 8" frying pan can nest inside the 10" pan under the alpha pots too if you are bringing both sizes of the frying pan.
@@CirqRentals I assume the 8 inch pan nests perfectly inside the 1.2 liter alpha pot? If so thats the one I'll get. I was going to get the 10 inch pan but its much heavier than the 8 inch version plus if the 8 inch one nests inside the 1.2 liter alpha pot 2 then I'll have a perfect 1 person cook setup. Heat spots noticeably less than titanium?
@@CirqRentals Or not nests inside but meant to ask if the 8 inch pan nests outside the 1.2 liter pot?
Hi Austin, it will nest outside/under each of the alpha and sigma pots. The 8 inch pan will nest on the outside of even the 3.7 liter (best fit). It will nest under the 1.2 but it will be much bigger/loose nesting. The 1.2L is 5.7inches in diameter. I find for my trips I'm most often nesting the 8 inch frying pan under the 2.7L which is 7.2 inches in diameter (I'm rarely cooking for a large enough group to need the 3.7L pot). The 10inch fry pan will also nest under all of the smaller alpha & sigma pots and it will nest outside of the 8 inch frying pan if you are building a full cook station. Let us know if you have any other questions!
Hi Austin, yes - it does heat more evenly than Ti. It's still a very thin frying pan to save weight, so you do still get hot spots (as you can see in the video!) like all backpacking pans and you'll have to move your pan around a lot and dial your backpacking stoves down as much as possible to avoid scorching, depending on what you are cooking. I'd say compared to all the backpacking pans out there it is one of if not the best. It won't compare to thick/heavy home frying pans, cast iron etc.
I'd say the 1.2L and 8 inch frying pan you are looking at would be a really nice solo cook kit.
If you are going super ultralight, I've done a Snow Peak Ti Trek plate as a frying pan with a Vargo Ti pot holder as a handle. It is super light but it's scorch city and it ruins the plate for any other future use. The Alpha pan is also muuuuuch easier to clean. Happy camping!
The problem with this pan is the burn spot in the middle. You have to cook everything on the edges
Yes, it's definitely a trade off with all lightweight backpacking pans. To get them thin enough to be 'ultralight' you're giving up heat dispersal. Pair that with a tiny 1-2 inch burner on a backpacking or camp stove and you have to be very vigilant not to scorch. You'll have to move the food around a lot and I also move the pan around the burner a lot when I'm cooking for others to minimize hot/high spots. In all honesty for this video, I got distracted setting up a camera for the flip and let it sit too long on one side, so some human error here too :). The alpha does have a bit of a high spot in the center when hot, and I've learned to cook with it. If I want to keep things dry, put them in the center, if I want them to soak up sauce or moisture - move them out to the edges. For my personal UL backpacking kit, I usually just take a Ti plate and Ti pot holder - the ultimate sacrifice in even heating for weight savings. With that set up, I don't think I've managed to cook much of anything with out scorching it!
The videos who don t take the trouble to make the conversion inch to cm, galons to liters etc. (on the screen at least) should form a special category : videos only for US, not for the RESt of the world. Thanks for nothing
Hi Elena, thanks for you note and feedback.
We genuinely appreciate it and will work to incorporate more inclusive metrics in the future. With our rental business we serve exclusively in the US right now, but we know that our videos serve a much broader and more global audience.
In the meantime, at least for you and the Alpha Pan, the 203mm (8-inch) is 203 x 44 mm and weighs in at 245 g. The 254mm (10-inch) is 254 x 44 mm and 335g.
seatosummit.com/products/alpha-pan
Thank you again for your feedback and happy camping!
We went to the moon and save the world into world wars. You could do the fucking numbers yourself.
Converting a few inches to cm, or a few gallons to liters is a 15 second Google search away, or just three brain cells worth of math, you muppet.
Kind regards, rest of the world.