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Thanks Mesquite and Jared, that's put my mind at rest. I should have said the filtering I do is through activated charcoal to remove some of the organic compounds that might be there from farm run-off etc., and physical crud, so it's not sterilizing. But the links you posted, Jared, show that...

I'm wondering about putting my dehydrated food into water collected in the wild (and filtered) while its all still cold, then heating it to a boil together and simmering. I figure this will reduce the simmering time of some of the cheaper supermarket packets of pasta or rice that indicate a...

It's the stuff they sell for bridging holes when fixing bodywork. It's about 1 mm. holes, and comes on a sheet about A4 size for a few quid.

Hi Crac. I tried the penny stove idea with this burner, but it didn't seem to work. I put a central hole in the top about 8 mm. across and eight holes around that of about 1 mm. I gave it a bit of starter fuel and it lit at the central hole, so I thought it was going to bloom from there, but it...

I do this almost every spring, start making a new stove for camping. I've been through lots of types - wood-gas, simple twig burners, charcoal stoves, fan-assisted twig stoves, mini twin-wall perlite-insulated rocket stoves - and last year I finally got sick of trying to get found sticks to...

Hi, I'm John, living in between Harrogate and Knaresborough. I've been wild-camping for about 15 years, mostly solo, both backpacking and cycling. I spend 100 times more time thinking, making and planning than I do camping, and would like to change that. I'm excited by the 1995 Marin Eldridge...