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Not sure whether I’ve said this before. If you know a real butcher, try and buy a rectangle of pig hide with the fat still attached. Heat your new pan really hot; I hesitate to suggest “spit bounce”. Then wipe the pan with the fat side of your pig hide, let the smoke clear and do it again over...

Research done some decades ago divests that there is no forest that has not received human attention. Everywhere the dendrologists looked in the Amazon they found evidence of some degree of clearing. “True wilderness” is probably a judgement around how long ago people were last there. I’m not...

Ain’t that the truth. The forests in Guinea/Côte d’Ivore are exactly that. Trees over the mountains as far as you can see. However the forest floor hasn’t been cleared for tourists! River, rocks and everywhere layers and layers of fallen trees rotting away and full of very colourful and...

Tell me more about the conversion please!

Ah! The stability issues that I mentioned referred to the kettle with the pot rest placed up in the flu and then a cooking pot on top of that. Instead of legs I carry a very light weight aluminium table without legs. It keeps the Kettle off the ground, it gives me somewhere to put the hot...

They all have legs if you want legs but I find that they are a bloody nuisance. They all have pot rests for the flu but of very little use because the kettle boils so quickly and you have to stop. Also the extra height of the pot stand and cooking pot, together with the extra weight above the...

The whole idea is that you don’t leave it in!!!

I do not recommend the hack below! VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV I cannot see the need. 600ml of water in a 120gm plastic or aluminium bottle it’s an insignificant weight gain over a full Kettle and no one loads so tight that 650cc of added volume is significant in the pack. It’s only your first...

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Hi, Welcome.

Fuel adjustment is indeed an art but as I normally cook after I’ve boiled a Kettle full the only adjustment that I need is when to stop using long sticks and start dropping shorter chunks. (So I don’t spill burning twigs out of the fire base). It gets to be a habit. This is my home made...

Have I read this wrong? - They were once indigenous to England. - They were thought to have become extinct in England. - They have subsequently been seen in England. - Only after this observation were they released. So: They had already returned here before the release. If the...

Does explaining spoil anything? :)

I guess it was simply a learning curve. My late ‘70’s, early ‘80’s Big Swede shattered when my pack was dropped by Irish customs. At that time a SuperSwede would have done the same.

Two of our local wood yards sell logs and off cuts. I don’t know where they are sourced (One is the Weston estate) but I may as well burn them as anyone else. I’m not increasing demand. A very local wood yard used to import birch from Latvia on backloads. (Birch is a nurse tree/ weed tree in...

Thanks @chas brookes . I’ll try that with the Zebra pot tray!

I really like the mug idea. As an alternative look what I’ve just stumbled across: This is the closure from a 70mm Post Office document tube. It clips on perfectly upside down. I wouldn’t do it myself but if you want to, there you go. Obviously this is for your stick carrying not snuffing...

Have you tried eight item camping? I’m long past it and is strongly suggest experimenting with single nights :)

@Glow_worm I strongly suggest that you buy a Petromax.:lmao:

pee ess THIS ALL FITS THUS