Dutch canteen and cook set

[Bert]

I seemed to stir in the pot about crusader cook sets...
someone pointed me in the direction of Dutch forces cook sets, since I have already the canteen, and the stainless mug.

Anyone here using the Dutch set? I wonder if they have the same principle as the crusader? Though I never encountered the cook stand nor plastic mug?

 

[Bazooka Joe]

What exactly are you looking for? I'm pretty sure the Dutch use mess tins similar to the British ones (but in stainless).

 

[Bert]

Well, to me the Crusader cook set exists out of 4 parts, the plastic cup, the inox cup, the plastic bottle and the cook stand (in which you make the fire)

The Dutch cook set has (to my knowledge) only two parts; the bottle and the inox cup, I know Dutch MOD changed things later, but I am unaware of those changes, do they have a fitting plastic cup and a cookstand (like the Crusader ) now, or something else?

I do know that the crusader and the Dutch set have a different size.

 

[Erbswurst]

I guess the Dutch army issued a folding Esbit /Hexamin stove like Brits and Germans?
And together with it rectangular aluminium or stainless steel mess tins like the Brits.

Somewhere I got the Information that they also used the Bundeswehr mess tin, but that could be wrong of course.

 

[Bert]

yes they did, and nowadays they seem to issue a msr burner as well??

 

[Herman30]

FYI. Dutch canteen cup fits the Nalgene Oasis canteen almost perfectly. The canteen does not go all the way, about 2cm gap remains betweet canteen bottom and bottle.

 

[Corso]

Get a plastic USGI canteen and cut it at the top of the cup and you get a bowl that fits between the two too