Review on 24-Piece Camping Cookware Mess Kit - Lightweight Backpacking Cooking Set For Family Hiking & Picnic. by Logan Tripp

Don't know why the reviews are so good for this. I had a terrible time with this cookware set on my camping trip and the ONLY good thing I can say about it is that it is compact and lightweight. If you are backpacking I can see how that would be important, but literally everything else about this set is terrible. Here is a detailed breakdown:- NOT non-stick. Everything I cooked stuck horribly to this and was a terrible sticky mess to scrape out of the pans. It did not matter how much oil I used. I cooked burgers in the pan and they were ruined because they were totally stuck to the pan when I tried to flip them. Eggs would stick terribly. Everything sticks terribly to these. Save yourself the trouble and get a good teflon pan or two, or cast iron if you are car camping and don't care about the heft. My wife and I spent half an hour after every dinner scrubbing away at these horrible pans; it was a huge chore and I regretted not bringing a normal pan or two.- Cookware is thin and does not transfer heat evenly. The pans are basically paper-thin and as such have horrible hot spots that will cause you to burn parts of your dish.- "Frying pan" is too small to cook any decent amount of food and has very steep vertical sides, making it basically impossible to get a spatula in there to flip things over. But it doesn't really matter since everything you try to cook will be welded to the bottom of the pan long before that even becomes an issue.- The flip out handles are a nightmare in practice and get very hot since they are close to the side of the pan. They don't latch together or anything, so they are flopping about when trying to move the pan around. Potentially dangerous since it could result in you spilling a pot full of boiling liquid on yourself when the handles flop about. Again, bring a few normal pots and pans unless you absolutely must have an ultra-compact cookware set for backpacking.- The plates and bowls are a joke. See photo of them next to an average sized dinner plate. They are flimsy cheap plastic and the plate holds enough food for a child, but not for an adult unless sloppily overloaded. The bowls are uselessly small; they hold about 1/2 cup of liquid. We ended up eating out of the pots directly if we wanted something like soup, since the bowls were way too small to be useful.In summary, this was a very frustrating set to use due to the small size of everything and the complete failure of the non-stick surface, and I'll be returning it. Do not consider this unless you are extremely size/weight constrained. If you are car camping, just bring some normal pots and pans and some plastic plates and bowls, and save yourself the trouble.