Hello all,
My first post after watching and reading with interest for a while, I hope you don't mind me asking for help straight away.
I have really got into making things rather than buying them ... largely due to the increasingly large part that Bushcraft has begun to play within my college course - I am the lecturer, but you would be forgiven for thinking otherwise! So far I have made a large tripod for cooking over the fire, lots of baked bean tin stoves, meths / pepsi can stoves, woodgas stoves and billy cans. The students have also made lots of pepsi cans and bean tin stoves ... and brews on the stoves and kelly kettle are a popular part of our weekly outdoor activity days:
I made Billys from Wilkinson coffee tins:
and was happy that there wouldnt be any poisoning from boiling water in them ... I am now a bit aware of making assumptions though.
I am on the verge of cutting up 3 gas bottles to make cauldrons so the students can cook over fires on their canoe expedition in May - but I am a bit concerned about cooking and eating out of them ... is it just straight forward stainless steel, or is it plain steel but OK to cook / eat from, or is the inside coated with something that will poison us????
All tips would be gratefully received, thank you
My first post after watching and reading with interest for a while, I hope you don't mind me asking for help straight away.
I have really got into making things rather than buying them ... largely due to the increasingly large part that Bushcraft has begun to play within my college course - I am the lecturer, but you would be forgiven for thinking otherwise! So far I have made a large tripod for cooking over the fire, lots of baked bean tin stoves, meths / pepsi can stoves, woodgas stoves and billy cans. The students have also made lots of pepsi cans and bean tin stoves ... and brews on the stoves and kelly kettle are a popular part of our weekly outdoor activity days:

I made Billys from Wilkinson coffee tins:

and was happy that there wouldnt be any poisoning from boiling water in them ... I am now a bit aware of making assumptions though.
I am on the verge of cutting up 3 gas bottles to make cauldrons so the students can cook over fires on their canoe expedition in May - but I am a bit concerned about cooking and eating out of them ... is it just straight forward stainless steel, or is it plain steel but OK to cook / eat from, or is the inside coated with something that will poison us????
All tips would be gratefully received, thank you