Soot on the pots.... this problem is definitely don....  Just rub the outside of the pots thinn with detergent before use. The detergent forms a barrier layer betwen the soot and the metal of the pots. After use of the pots you can simply wash away the soot with cold water. No need to rub like a madman to get your holy Snow-Peak pots shiny..... Magic-Pad, Magic-Sheet und Magic-Stick Firestarter The perfect material to start the MF and other fires. Cheap  -  Practical -  Versatile -  Environment-Friendly  -  No expiry date. Melt used, old candles in a small pot. Dive wadding rondelles with a pair of tweezers in the melted wax. Pull them out and let them drip off well. Let them cool down on a baking paper. Once finished, it looks like this: Small and efficient. Burns 5 to 8 Minuts. Fold in the middle befor igniting. Depending the circumstances, use only a part of the pads, because.... even for a blowzy prepared fire, usually 1/8 of a pad is sufficient. In daily life this means: With 10 Pads (approx. 62 grams) 80 x starting a fire.... For wet or steamy wood, you can easily do “Ikebana” to exalt the pads power. Like this, for exemple: Nice little fire..... or not? There are only 0,01 bis 0,09 grams of ash who remains. Here a variant for perfectionists: Open the Pad before diving it in the meltet wax and insert a wick...... And here a recipe for the perfect ligt in many situations, in a emergency and or as mark on your way: Warm up a pad for 15 minuts. In a emergency in the armpit.  Then cut the pad with your sharpest blade in a strait helix. Herer how it can look like. In this shape you can use it as a little light in the dark, you can, for exemple, hang it on a (green...) sprig or put it on the floor, but do not cause a forest fire.... Finally the stripe should look as this: Burns for approx. 30 minuts. More strait you cut it more long it will burn. Voila something for spartanics, scotsman and ultra lightwighters: Cut household paper in srtipes of approx. 3 cm Then dive them in melted wax an let them drip off very very good.   Welter them and fix the end on the roll (just heat a bit with the lighter). Before use, you just breack the fixation and loosens the thing. Burns perfectly..... You can also fold the stripe as shown below..... and after you fold into triangular shape. Use it as follows. Just an other proposal: Dive cotton-whool tips in the melted wax and let them cool down. Burns well and reach deep in the MF-NG. Sequeel will come...