Uhmm, yeah, "HUGE" is the operative word for that kit.

When it comes to cook gear for camping or BOB, I take a page from the ultralight crowd. It is a good place to save weight. My coffee can stand/stove is lighter than your fuel bottles are empty, costs nothing, and works with alcohal stoves, solid fuel, and wood equally well. The design has also been adapted by others to work with slender liquid fueled stoves.

The cannister boils a liter of water happily, weights maybe 6 ounces. The grease pot weights less than 4 ounces and does the same, plus it has a lid and a steamer tray. Either runs less than $5. Your fork weighs how much?

As for depending on it, got a question- can you think of a cooking vessel that will hold 1 liter safely, max about 1.5-1.7 liters, weighs a quarter pound, and will take having 50 pounds of gear slamming into it sideways? That's the scenario the crunched the one I carried in my car. I've used this kind of gear for 20 years, and this is the first failure other than having to retire a stove/stand that after two years in storage was a nice red color, and some soda can stoves that just failed. This type of gear has been proven for almost a century by Boy Scouts (in the good old days when you MADE most of your gear) and nomadic refugees (always good people to look to for what works when the stuff hits the fan), and is carried by people who through hike the Appalachian and Pacific Trails (who usually have a clue, even the superlighters are kinda crazy).

My gear is also not that different from what you are using in terms of size or durability, only that it didn't come with the same mark up or brand name. Now, I don't bother to carry anything like that monster pot because I'm not a canoeist or car camper, everything I carry, I CARRY. As in put in a pack that goes on my back, and then I WALK. And I don't need anything that big, I'm usually solo. I don't fry in the woods because I don't bother to carry oil or grease that isn't already in a food item, and if I'm going to carry the fats, I'm going to eat them. Fats are too heavy to waste like that, and the smells of frying carry too far and attract too many nuisances ranging from deer mice to 'coons to porcupines to bears. As for the extras... A pasta strainer? A pie pan? Silver spoons?

OK, I guess I can see the pasta strainer- the steamer for my pot can be used that way to. But the pasta strainer is such a one dimensional thing. The tray that I call the steamer for my grease pot also holds a lot of the little stuff like my seasonings, spare matches, tea, etc.

Mass and volume also come into play because what I call camping gear is what goes into my BOB. I don't waste my time worrying about name brands or spiffiness. It has to balance effectiveness, bulk, weight, and cost. Grease pot + stand + trangia stove (heavier than the soda can ones, but more reliable IME) + fuel bottle (aluminum) + esbit tabs (back up) + lexan spoon and fork + a few spices + scrubbie (for clean up) is maybe 3.5 pounds and costs me less than 20 bucks. For cups, I've got one on the bottom of a nalgene, plus a half sized nalgene, plus a mess tin that I carry part of my survival gear in. I'm someplace were a small fire can always be built if you aren't an idiot about it, and when ash and smoke are out of the question, the esbit and the trangia can, have and will cover me for a few days.

As for "get real stuff", I'm not going to bother to reply to that. Other than to ask if maybe you want to rephrase that?