Cook kits

[rik_uk3]

Highly reccomended (shop around they do come cheaper from time to time)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150450222765?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Perfect for group cooking, bake as well as a cast iron Dutch oven, easy to modify and fit hanging bales etc. I use various stuff but nothing Titanium.

 

[beenn]

Highly reccomended (shop around they do come cheaper from time to time)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150450222765?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Perfect for group cooking, bake as well as a cast iron Dutch oven, easy to modify and fit hanging bales etc. I use various stuff but nothing Titanium.

Look good but too big for me i think, I'm normally alone or with my brother who uses one of my other cook sets. I'm also trying to get all my cookware to stainless steel or titanium.

 

[rik_uk3]

The small one makes a big stew that would last two folk two days but they are for base camping. When I was pack backing I'd not use anything under 2 pint and more often 4 pint even for solo use, aluminium as a rule and I could pack my stove and brew kit in them. Problem with Titanium is its just about the worst metal you could use for cooking pots, and due to cost the pots would be too small for me.

 

[roger-uk]

Here is mine. Hexi tablets in sealock bag fit inside. Brew kit in a leather pouch

As you can see from the dints its a user and had it for the last 35 years.

I have atable of other cooking sets but this is the one for a brew when walking.

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Its a Meta 71

 

[rik_uk3]

Looks like an old META set, very nice.

 

[roger-uk]

Looks like an old META set, very nice.

Yes first one I ever bought and its priceless. Its the Meta 71 - still in use but I prefer a insulated mug saves on the burnt lips.

 

[almac]

Here is my cooking equipment, also waiting for a new hexi Ti Stove.
Not the best pics but show what everything is, any questions welcome.

i really like the wooden cup. where did you get it?

 

[spiritwalker]

that wee plastic bottle with the green caps looks distinctly like one of our oil sample bottles

Here is my cooking equipment, also waiting for a new hexi Ti Stove.
Not the best pics but show what everything is, any questions welcome.

Would like a stainless steel frying pan, stainless steel kettle, trangia stove, emberlit stove, MyTiPot, MSR Tital kettle, evernew trivet and a windshield- on the wanted list at home

This is the folding stove in the purple pouch:

Crusader cook setup:

Whitebox stove:

Hobo and tatonka mug

 

[Tank]

Beenn are you really Noah? your kit comes two by two. Hurrah! Hurrah!

 

[AuldJum]

I tend not to use a stove but use a Highlander billy (under rated) as i prefer a fire but if i visit fascist countries who don't allow fires whenever you want i use a tatonka alchohol stove and my pot as i's simple and theres not really anything that could go wrong.

For decent lenghs of time (6 months+) i just make a fire.

 

[Realbark]

Ranger Stove - bimble kit

SAT - compact when packed.

Im in the process of making a larger stove from an old pressure cooker body. A supersized Hobo if you like for base camp use.

 

[beenn]

I tend not to use a stove but use a Highlander billy (under rated)

Where can you get one from?

Beenn are you really Noah? your kit comes two by two. Hurrah! Hurrah!

Tell me about it! I like having back ups but think i need to start buying one now...

that wee plastic bottle with the green caps looks distinctly like one of our oil sample bottles

Not sure where its from, got it from Rich when he knocked me up a whitebox stove. Great on day trips though

i really like the wooden cup. where did you get it?

From a very nice member on this forum, he brought a few back from a trip and all i had to do was donate some money to a charity, love the kuksa

 

[beenn]

For anyone interested to see...

Here are my main 3 cook kits: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82237&highlight=

(uploaded to blog as i have not posted for a while and its a long post )

 

[Gotte]

Would like a stainless steel frying pan, stainless steel kettle, trangia stove, emberlit stove, MyTiPot, MSR Tital kettle, evernew trivet and a windshield- on the wanted list at home

This is the folding stove in the purple pouch:

What's the folding stove? I really like the look of that.

 

[beenn]

What's the folding stove? I really like the look of that.

Forgot the name but after a quick search on google of 'folding wood stove' i believe it is the pocket cooker

http://www.campingsurvival.com/fopocost.html < link

 

[mountainm]

What's the folding stove? I really like the look of that.

I have one, I could be persuaded to part with it for summut...

 

[PDA1]

I have a minimalist kit. cost nothing and very easy to make. A super cat stove made from a cat food can, and a 24 oz heiheken beer can pot. Windshield is a piece cut from an al one use roasting pan. Uses meths, boils a pint (ca. 450 ml) in six minutes - enough for a brew and to rehydrate a meal. With windscreen (alloy foil) and lighter total weight is 55 grams. Fuel bottle is a 1/2 litre spring water bottle - also cost nothing and weighs 15 grams. Who says light has to be expensive?

 

[JoshuaP]

I have a minimalist kit. cost nothing and very easy to make. A super cat stove made from a cat food can, and a 24 oz heiheken beer can pot. Windshield is a piece cut from an al one use roasting pan. Uses meths, boils a pint (ca. 450 ml) in six minutes - enough for a brew and to rehydrate a meal. With windscreen (alloy foil) and lighter total weight is 55 grams. Fuel bottle is a 1/2 litre spring water bottle - also cost nothing and weighs 15 grams. Who says light has to be expensive?

I use a kit very similar and as you say it does not have to be expensive (i dont have alot of money myself), but if i had to put my life on a cookset i would not be recycled from cans down to the fact their thin and its not what they are designed to do. I LOVE Stainless steel

 

[beenn]

I use a kit very similar and as you say it does not have to be expensive (i dont have alot of money myself), but if i had to put my life on a cookset i would not be recycled from cans down to the fact their thin and its not what they are designed to do. I LOVE Stainless steel

haha.. i feel the same! can tell you live with me

but yes i would rather carry a extra few grammes and pay a bit more and use the proper tool for the job. Id rather stainless or ti over can anyday.
Its like using a flat head screwdriver in a phillips, it will work and it often down, but it can also fail and ruin what your working on (learnt on a car door a few years ago..)

 

[PDA1]

@Joshuap - very good point re "life depending on it". This is essentially my 3 season kit for hiking the White Mountains of New Hampshire. As with places like Snowdonia and the Lakes, you are never more than a couple of hours away from safety and even if your kit fails completely, you can easily survive on cold food and drinks, but I've never had this kit fail and with a bit of diligence, won't. BTW, this type of kit is favoured by the majority of Appallation Trail through hikers, who, like me try to keep weight to a minimum (The AT is a 2000 mile+ trail from Georgia to Maine) . Any alcohol stove tends not to do too well in the depths of winter (-15 - -40) in those same mountains and the safety margin much more critical. Then I would take my SVEA naptha stove and a 14 cm aluminium 1 litre pot so that snow could be melted for the many more hot drinks required when camping in such conditions. The weight penalty would be well worth the margin of safety. However, the weight penalty of stainless could never be justified except for car camping.