your cooking pot what do you use ?

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jean baptiste

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helle every one ( yes yes i now mi english is not very good o) i'working about )
well what do you use when you go "bushcraft ??? " if you can post your cookink pot in action and how do you use it
on the fire or near the fire or why not under !
i 'use a zebra handle pot on the fire
 

durulz

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I have no pictures, but I used improvised stainless steel kitchen cutlery containers. I've several sizes, depending on what's being cooked and how many people there are.
Effectively, a billy can, I suppose.
Oh, and I have a little frying pan bought from Wilkinsons and the plastic handle replaced for wood. Specially for early morning bacon sarnies.
All good days start with a bacon sarnie!
 

SimonM

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Aluminum "Bulldog" billy... had a set for years and still going strong...
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Same "Bulldog" & a cheap Stainless one...
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Crusader mess tin on folding wood burner...
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Hobo stove & zebra billy...
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Crusader mug & cook set...
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Think I have too many options open.... no wonder I take so long to pack these days.

Simon
 

sandsnakes

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Stainless steel cake tin, with handles fitted by me. same size as a zebra but costing about £4 in total. Plus a crusader and that does all of it.

Sandsnake
 

Shewie

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I have Bulldogs also, over 20 years old and still going strong.

Have allsorts of stainless pots aswell which get used on the hobbo
 

rik_uk3

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Shewie, SimonM, many thanks for the Bulldog endorsements, I've been going on about these for a long time but my rants have been ignored. Great kit, cheap as chips, does what it says on the box. I guess if you stuck a Zebra label on them people would be queuing up to buy them :(

So, main pans for me are Bulldog set (2,4, and 6 pint), army mess tins (I had no idea you could get stainless steel versions until I was given a set recently), Highlander or Gelert (can't remember, its those aluminium pans I've been using) nesting set (8 -10 - and 12 pint) and of course pukka Trangia pans. I've got some BIG catering pans and a massive kettle I can't take until I get transport sorted out for myself

Crusader mug for drinking tea or beer from (they are very good for that)

I don't do titanium, the pans are too small for real food and I'm too tight with the cash to spend £15+ on a mug
 

Squidders

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I use either a 16cm or 12cm zebra billy can (depending if i'm with my girlfriend or not) and a primus litech frying pan.

Sometimes when i'm not using a fire i'll take amy msr blacklite classic cookset.
 

Sniper

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I bought myself a Swiss army trangia set back in the summer and they are my preferred pots now, it used to be my old army mess tins, but no longer. I also have a very old set of the larger Trangia pots from about 1960 or thereabouts, but very rarely do they see the light of day now. I also used to use an old biscuit/chocolates tin as an oven although they rarely lasted more than a single outing but have just bought a dutch oven so I reckon that will have a place now aswell as the SAT.
 

Shewie

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Shewie, SimonM, many thanks for the Bulldog endorsements, I've been going on about these for a long time but my rants have been ignored. Great kit, cheap as chips, does what it says on the box. I guess if you stuck a Zebra label on them people would be queuing up to buy them :(

Exactly, or if some chappy on the telly had used them once they`d be the Gucci pot to have.

Mine have seen me through years of meths burning, then gas and petrol and lastly open fires, fair enough they`re a lot blacker than they used to be but that doesn`t matter.
 

wizzzard

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Sorry no pictures.
I use my Swedish Army Mess Kit.
Cheap as chips and I've not melted/burnt the aluminium yet, small fires within the windshield or sitting in the embers of a fire. You can always use the meths burner if wood fires are prohibited.
 

EdS

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MSR Alpine cook set tha I'vehad for years and a new set of cheap stainless steel camping shop pan set.

How do you guys get on with Al? Every Al pan I've had has corroded and become very pitted. Got rid of the trangia as the pans basically rotten (and I went of the slow bulky package). Even my Kelly Kettle has pitted and sprung a leak.

At least they last slightly longer than I normally get out of car.
 

trail2

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Heres what I resurrected from my primitive kit.
Its a 1qt tin mug and a "corn" boiler. Boiler fits inside of mug for easy carrying. You can stuff a lot of extras into the boiler so saves space in the pack.
Still grungy from todays trip.
Jon R.

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SimonM

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Shewie, SimonM, many thanks for the Bulldog endorsements, I've been going on about these for a long time but my rants have been ignored. Great kit, cheap as chips, does what it says on the box. I guess if you stuck a Zebra label on them people would be queuing up to buy them :(

I have had mine since being a Scout - I'm 38 now and still use them if I am with a group doing central messing.

They have been used on gas, meths and multi fuel stoves but more often than not open fires.

Simon
 

helixpteron

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For TWEG, soup, pasta and water for Travel Lunch dehydrated meals I use the Jetboil PCS 1lt pot on the PCS.

For other cooking I use the Jetboil 1.5lt Groupset pot and the Jetboil Frypan on the PCS.

The Outback Oven goes on an MSR Pocket Rocket and Optimus Stella+ gas stoves and Camping Gaz Globetrotter pots get used on a Grilliput with firebowl.
 

Karl5

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I mainly use the Tatonka stainless billies. Different sizes depending if I'm going alone or if more people are coming along.
Bombproof stuff that work just as well on an open fire as they do on top of a trangia or primus cooker.

/ Karl
 

Tony

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Coffee can from TK Max, I made a set of them about 8 years ago and they do me on my own and all the family if need be, the whole lot (4 posts cost me a tenner). They're Stainless, I braided welding rod for the handles and put a wooden knob on. They've been used for all sorts of cooking and baking.

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