For car camping I think stainless is hard to beat.

I have an older Cascade Design AL cookset that is still serving me very well for car camping and some backpacking. It's more durable then I would have guessed. Cascade Designs now sells what appears to be the same set under their MSR brand as the BlackLite Classic Cookset.

For a survival pack or backpacking I like the MSR Titan Kettle but I will readily admit that it was rather expensive for the small weight savings.

For a long time I used a quart-and-a-half aluminum pot that had a lid that worked as a small but deep fry pan that also worked a small sauce pan. I kept my Svea 123 inside. In usual camping fashion I most of what I ate were one-pot meals with the small pot being used to boil a cup or two of water for coffee to get me started.

Sometimes I carried a Sigg bottle just for water and if I wanted a hot drink I could heat the water in that. Just had to make sure I removed the top. A friend had one explode when he forgot to take the cap off.

Flat black anodized aluminum so it can be used in a solar oven.

I've seen a home made solar oven heat up a cast iron skillet to over 300 degrees.

Cast iron for a car or home kit paired with a solar oven, yep. For camping, cast iron may be too heavy.

Benjammin, does using soap affect the seasoning of your anodized aluminum cookware?

Made a heckuva score this weekend. Walmart had stainless cooksets on clearance for $5 each. Kit contains a .5 quart pot with it's own lid, 6" fry pan, Stainless lid/plate for fry pan, and plastic cup. fry pan is copper clad on bottom. I bought one just cuz I couldn't resist.

I believe they are texsport brand or something similar. Looks to be the typical stainless style I've seen often. It nests so self contained, and fry pan has fold up handle.

They had maybe 20 of the kits left yesterday morning.

Hey for $5 how can you turn that down?

Ben--better start looking for a footlocker..

Yep, I have two and they each have room in them.