MSR Alpine Fry Pan

If you want a very solid fry pan for the outdoors, and you need it to be lightweight, this MSR Alpine Fry Pan is the best fry pan I have been able to find in all my years of wilderness travel--ESPECIALLY if you have plans to cook over an open fire. The stainless can take a beating and keep going, so it's rugged. However, it also has an aluminum plate sandwiched under the stainless on the bottom so that it distributes heat evenly. A titanium fry pan can't match this even heat distribution, and an aluminum pan (at least of the lightweight "backpacking" type) will almost certainly warp over time if you use a high power jet stove or cook frequently over an open fire. Nonstick coatings on most aluminum pans will also peel or flake off if used over a fire. I've seen it many times. But this little stainless fry pan just works! The pan is generously sized in diameter (7-5/8" at the flared top; 6-1/2" on the bottom), which is very nice since most lightweight fry pans are obnoxiously small. One side of the pan rim has a slight v-shaped crimp to allow liquids to be poured off smoothly and/or directed precisely into a container. The wire handle is removable but locks on very securely and handles heat well. If cooking for an extended period over an open fire, however, you can easily remove the handle while the fry pan sits on the fire. It's so easy to attach/detach that you can use it like an ultralight pot grabber instead of leaving it in place to get hot. You may also be interested to know that this pan nests perfectly around the bottom of the large MSR 1.6L Stowaway Pot. If you want a solid piece of gear for frying food, this is your best bet. Highly recommended! Note: If you're inexperienced at cooking with stainless, frying is much easier if you "season" the pan first. Heat the empty pan over medium-high heat for at least two minutes until it is good and hot. Then add a dash of your favorite cooking oil and swirl it around to coat the pan. When you see the oil smoke, remove it from the heat and let it cool completely. The oil will be drawn into the "pores" of the cooling stainless steel. Once cool, buff it with a paper towel. If done correctly, you should see a mirror-like reflection in the seasoned pan. Now the pan will be essentially "non-stick" when you cook with it, and will usually stay that way for a few uses or until you clean it with soap/detergent. Hope that tip helps you get a better cooking experience!

Loved this pan. Worked well for our trip into the BWCA in northern MN. Big enough to cook a good quantity of food, packs away nice. Light weight. Durable, easy to clean, handle was adequate for the pan and packed away nice as well.

This is really an excellent camping/backpacking pan as long as your are looking for a comparatively luxury pan and are fine with the extra weight. If you are even considering a pan then you are looking for some luxury. I probably wouldn't take this with on a solo trip but if you have people to share the weight this is nice. The two metals up against each other really require watching how hot you get this thing. The aluminum bottom can warp and detach due to dissimilar metals expanding at different rates. It is worth the weakness for the luxury of heat distribution. The textured bottom makes this pretty difficult to clean if cooking over an little twig stove or some form of wood fire. The fact that it has a pour spout should really be mentioned someplace. By pour spout I mean there is a crease in the side of the pan. I thought my pan was bent until I noticed that the picture of the pan had the crease in it as well. IMO this is a selling point so I don't know why it isn't advertised. The pan comes with the handle taped to the bottom of the pan. The tape does not come off cleanly meaning you get the pleasure of cleaning the pan with adhesive remover. This is the main reason for me deducting a star. A product that I must immediately fix in some way (cleaning adhesive off with caustic chemicals counts - especially on a cooking surface) is not a five star product.

This is by far the best fry pan I have seen available for outdoor cooking. I love going to outdoor stores and especially checking out their selection of cookware for hiking, backpacking, and camping. Along with my wife, kids, and several of my brother-in-laws, we have accumulated a pretty good variety of mess kit-type cooking supplies, and MSR, in my opinion, has the best all-around selection. I have found success in purchasing individual components and compiling my own "mess kit", instead of purchasing a pre-assembled kit. Along with MSR's Stowaway pots, their Alpine series stainless steel cookware is great. I have had my pan for a couple of years now and have just purchased two more for my family. Along with cooking eggs and meat, I have used this pan several times to make bannock, a camp bread, over a fire, and it turns out great. The pan is about 8" in diameter and will make enough bread for 4-5 people to have with a meal. 2 cups of flour and other ingredients bake into a loaf that fits very nicely into the pan. The handle is detachable, and fits nicely into my other mess kit pots. When locked in place, it would be hard to tell the handle isn't part of the pan itself - it's very solid. One distinct advantage this pan has over others it the aluminum base that disperses heat over an even area instead of the flame being exposed to just one area of the steel. There is spout for draining oil, also. I value the durability of stainless steel over the lighter weight, smaller pans. I wouldn't consider using a different pan - even if it saved space and weight. The pan cleans up nicely by using an SOS pad. If it's real grimy from the fire, it takes some elbow grease, but can be cleaned up to be shiny again. I'd snap one of these up in a heartbeat if you're serious about cooking over a fire.

Item arrived very clearly used and damaged. Obvious heat patina, scratches and fire marks, along with the handle no longer being attachable. I did not select a used option at checkout. In fairness, it does seem to be a sturdy product when in its original condition, but this was unacceptable.

This is basically an 8" pan, it just has a funny handle. That's exactly what I was looking for. I looked at a lot of pans, but this is the only one that really fit the bill. There is aluminum, but aside from the potential Alzheimer's link, it doesn't hold heat, and warps easily. There is titanium, but it is thin so doesn't heat evenly, and is crazy expensive. So then that leaves steel. As usual, that pretty much means MSR or GSI, both offer nonstick is offered from both brands, but Teflon is the devils work. GSI does not have a stainless pan, and aside from those tiny lids that supposedly are also pans, nobody else seems to have an offering. That alone made the decision easy. But it doesn't stop there. The handle is amazingly sturdy, once you lock the slider down that sucker isn't moving. The aluminum disc stuck on the bottom is great for adding thermal mass to the thin stainless without adding weight. And there is a crimp on one edge that creates a pour spout for grease and such. Now if you know cooking, you don't have problems with things sticking to your pans because you grease it and keep the heat even. Attached is a photo of my test, I was actually testing several products at once. I paired this with the MSR folding spatula to fry an egg over a fire, perfectly done, I'm looking forward to a future of pancakes, bacon, and eggs in the woods with this bad boy. I understand this pan is supposed to nest under the alpine 3L pot, but what kind of madman would be taking a pot that size anywhere space is an issue? You'd just use a normal pan, no? So I just "nest" it to my stainless steel plate that happened to come in a mesh bag big enough to hold them both.

I purchased this for backpacking with my sons, who are scouts. It has worked great. It is light weight, and yet at the same time has almost enough weight to evenly disperse the weight to keep your food from scorching. I said almost, you still need to watch your food. I had some slight scorching on my hash-browns, but every other meal turned out ok from there on out. Alittle more weight on the bottom would help keep your food from burning and evenly disperse the heat. But then that would just mean more weight in your pack. The handle disconnects from the pan body. While this is a great feature, where do you stash the handle? If you do not have it attached to the pan in some fashion, you risk losing it. That could really ruin your backpacking trip if you could not find the handle out in the wilderness. I just attach the pan to one of the outside straps on my pack. No searching for it in camp. No risk of misplacing the handle. No awkward shape to try to fit in my pack with the handle attached. I am pleased with my purchase of this pan, and would not hesitate to purchase another one in the future. The price is not too bad, the quality is pretty high, and it does a fantastic job of cooking my food out on the trails.

It's a lightweight pan, but not light enough to appeal to hikers. Food sticks to it and seasoning it doesn't make much difference as baked on oil won't stick for long, but if you cook in water or oil it's not that hard to clean. The handle is sturdy enough and doesn't conduct much heat, but there's nowhere to store it except loose in the pan. Heat distribution is decent but not great. In short the pan isn't too hard to use over a cooking fire, but it isn't exactly life-changing and might not appeal to fans of hiking with light gear. For car camping, etc it's fine. Note the outside is going to get sooty and with the textured bottom, the soot is never coming off; plan to store it in paper or plastic when stowing it. The most important claim to fame is that there's no non-stick coating to get burned or scrapped off while camping, as they always do. It's a simple metal pan. Bring lots of oil and a good scrubbie. It has a "pour spout" but it's tiny and essentially decorative. It's so small it doesn't really channel any better than just pouring over any other edge of the pan. It the pan came with a cover it might serve as a steam vent, but it didn't. A cover would have been a nice addition; cooking over a fire almost always involves ash. The glue and tape they used to stick the handle to the pan for shipping is annoying. Use oil to get it off, it's a water-resistant glue. It's in my bug-out/camping bag, and I expect it will last forever with my occasional use.

気になっていた製品をようやく購入しました。 アウトドアだけでなく家の中でも普通にキッチン用品の一部として使用しています。 全く問題ありません。ステンレスなので火力には気を付けていないと すぐに焦げ付いてしまうのでそこだけ気にしていれば全く使用に差し支えありませんね。 製品の火があたる底面にはアルミ材も使われており、火の入り具合はステンレスの割にマイルドな感じです。 これでようやく今まで使っていた古いフライパンとおさらばできました。 サイズが２０ｃｍのフライパンなので使用において過剰な期待は禁物ですが、 １人暮らし程度の用途なら十分過ぎると思いました。 買ってよかった。 合わせて購入した同社の「ＭＳＲ コッヘル クッカー アルパイン ストアウェイ ポット 1.6L ステンレス製 39111」も なかなか良くていいですよ。 コーティングされたフライパン等と違い、ただのステンレスなのでガシガシ磨けますし 造りがしっかりしているのであからさまに「長持ち」しそうな予感がします。

Just what I always wanted and haven’t had, decent sized washable camp stove pan. Bought two. One is vegan.

Excelente sartén de acero inoxidable con base de aluminio, el mango se le puede remover para facilitar su transportación.

Will fit my MSR Alpine 2 and 4 Stainless Steel Cookset.

Excellent fry pan.