while boiling in the ground does sound neet (and I may even try it just for fun), I think it would defeat the purpose a little bit on the side of weight savings. I don't carry a shovel in my bag when I am hunting, so I may just as well carry my 6oz Serria bowl that I am tyring to cut out of my back pack. I havn't seen any shovels that are under 6oz latley. Well maybe one of those plastic sanitary shovels <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />.

I tried boiling water on the stove the other night with the Hefty EZ foil loaf pan. It worked great, and didn't seem to break down the foil much. This was on a gas burner, on high, though. I need to do it over a real camp fire with rocks and such. I picked it up hot with just a shirt over my hands so that works.