For those of us that enjoy the search for the "perfect" PSK tin, this might fit the bill...

WWII British Soap Dish

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Perhaps someone here has already found this, but I wanted to share. It's a an old British Army soap dish. All aluminum and appears to be uncoated so could be used to heat a (tiny) amount of food/water. Almost the exact H x W as the Altoids tin, but a little deeper at 1.5 inches. And it has nice rounded corners and lid so it should feel good in a pocket.

That little bit of extra room might be just enough to put that one more piece of gear or two in the kit without being too bulky to carry...

Hope this helps,

Might work. But I suspect that heating a small tin like that, or an Altoids type, will result in the container warping badly from the heat. Badly...

saw the soap too also..still not deep enought to heat a cups worth of water..

My Altoids tin could hold 5.5+ cubic inches of water (measured to the brim), about 3 oz, a little over a third of a cup.

The British soap dish can hold slightly over 13 cu. in. of water (7.2 oz), more than twice as much, .9 cup. Not bad, actually.

I know that an empty pot can warp over heat, but would a container like the soap dish really warp as long as it had water in it? You can make a cooking pot out of some flexible bark (aspen, birch) and put it right in the fire, and it won't burn as long as the flames don't get higher than the water level in the pot.

Any thoughts?

Sue