I think that is why the tin works in that it a set size and it should have what you need in an emergency.
Ive bookmarked lees videos, Ta
while propane has high heat outout, efficient etc, have specifications for no propane if we get a van build....
im gearing my towards the main part of a belt kit, with smaller pouches for knife, torch, parcord plus grappling hook, and also water bottle
these can all quickly be placed in a responsepack, and so if ive got everything on belt response pack empty
but by keeping it in pack on everyday basis, ive got a mini gobag to take to work, car trips
i also have a 40L molle backpack in car always as more of a car BOB, complete with larger grappling hook! also a medium grappling hook in a toolbox! i did sell my medieval grappliing hook so ive only got.......4
the molle pack has mini sleeping back, mini bivvy bag, poncho, hammock, trangia mess tin plus esbit, emergency stuff,
next level up i car camping kit so tent, thermarest, coleman stove, alsi folding bowl and the like
Aldi and lidl are great for kit!
bit off topic but the trangia reference
when I did saxon reenactment, most otehr people had their own car, but i used to have to travel by train or get a lift, so all my modern camping gear and all my renactment kit had to go in backpack and either hand. so in my 80L backpack, spear and shield in either hand, all my authentic kit the main backpack section, tent strapped to bottom, so all my food and modern gear just in the small section you get at the bottom of a pack for sleeping bag, sometimes i slept in wool cloak, or i had asoftie jungle bag plus cloak, this worked in snow as well..
as space was at a premium, for a 3 or 4 day show, for simple meals like instat ash, instant custard, tea, all i need is a bit of hot water, so my trangia mess tin and esbit combo were fine. but there were a lot of people that had the huge tangia 27 sets, and they were dismissive of everything else, that one stove would have taken up half the volume i had for my gear. i was doing ultralight things like cutting off toothbrush handle etc. id often not have a mat and use a browse bed from the english heritage trees, and lend my mat to someone who didnt have one, there were a lot of uni students who came along straight from college accomodation and so didnt have any it with them,
There was one particularly arrogant scottish **** who said that the britsih army throw away their hexamine and folding stoves and the rectangular mess tins, and use trangia 27, and that hexamine couldnt warm water even, so i would make a point of frying up sausage and bacon on it in front of him.....and this guy got another newbie , ( who had a brand new large folding hex stove, loads of hexamine, mess tins all as a backup cook system) to through his backup stuff away, i litereally saw them chuck it in a bin, because of the ****, so i fished them out, and the hexamine lasted me for years, so all that really put me of trangia stoves, the large ones, still like my trangia mess tin as its so small....
so i like small/lightweight, a lot of the renactors were if it was small or cheap it wouldnt be any good and youve wasted your money
i dont see how my esbit stove, which i got for my 7th birthday, along with an Etool, and both are going strong 38 years later, could be a waste of money.....
