Bye bye Hexi

[Mesquite]

If you've got any hexi cookers keep hold of them as the army is changing the cookers and the fuel used in them in.

Nice thing is that the contract to supply it has gone to a UK based company, BCB International Ltd.

Details here

 

[crosslandkelly]

Good news for BCB. Wonder how long till the supply of Hexiblocks dries up.

 

[Philster]

I think it'll be quite some time - there are cubic meters of them in storage!!!!

 

[Tony]

Didn't BCB supply the hex cookers etc and this is just a new contract with a new product?

 

[British Red]

If anyone spots super cheap hexi on "sell off", please let me know

 

[mrcharly]

Looks like the fire dragon tablets will work in current hexi cookers anyway

 

[British Red]

Im sure they will - but I do like a bargain and I love hexi!

 

[hughlle1]

Haha. One moment i'm being told to bin it as it is junk, now i'm being told to keep hold of it because they're going out of rotation. Which one is it (personally i kept it anyway because junk as it may be, they still work, even if it does take a while longer. If they got me through 10 tors then they can get me through a night in the woods)

 

[British Red]

If someone can show me a stove and fuel combo that the same price and size I'd love to see it!

 

[hughlle1]

If someone can show me a stove and fuel combo that the same price and size I'd love to see it!

Exactly. Or course a fancy butane stove is better, but they're a lot of money, and take up a lot more space. Just considering money, the argument often given could be used to say why do you use a Bic lighter isntead of a zippo. Because there is a time and place for everything

 

[GGTBod]

I have bizarrely fond memories of hexi cookers, i ran away from home for 2 weeks when i was 13 and lived on tinned food i got from pals and shoplifted that i cooked on a hexi cooker, spent the 2 weeks sleeping in dry docked coble fishing boats where each night i cooked a tin of food on my hexi cooker, i know bonkers but i did say they were bizarre memories, i am sure if i smelt the fuel blocks now i'd get a flood of long forgotten memories of that time period