Yak-camping stove recommendations?

[mingle]

My Clikstand and Trangia arrived this morning - in less than a week from the US, which was a nice surprise...

Very well made, pretty easy to assemble, nice and compact and pretty sturdy... Seems to be slightly better quality than the Trangia Triangle stand.

The parts of the system: S-2G stand, wind-shield and Trangia burner:

The stand and burner assembled:

... and wind-shield installed:

I'm looking forward to give it a test-run tomorrow...

Cheers,

Mike.

[TheFishinMusician]

Noice!
Tidy!

My tip, dont keep the burner In your pots, it'l leave an odur.
& grab a Trangia fuel bottle. The real one. They're worth it!

[mingle]

Cool... I picked up a 1litre Trangia bottle last week from Anaconda ($21)

My little gas stove actually packs up smaller than the Clikstand/Trangia setup...

I'm thinking about bringing both on the Snake Island trip and we can have a cook-off

Mike.

My tip, dont keep the burner In your pots, it'l leave an odur.
& grab a Trangia fuel bottle. The real one. They're worth it!

[TheFishinMusician]

Cool... I picked up a 1litre Trangia bottle last week from Anaconda ($21)

Choice!

I'm thinking about bringing both on the Snake Island trip and we can have a cook-off

Groovy! We can see if my 2 minute noodles are better than your 2 minute noodles!

[eric]

Coffee.

[mingle]

Isn't there a joke about Trangias and "42 minute" noodles?

@eric,

Milo...

[Shoota]

I was playing with a cooker set up today at work which would do noodles in a fraction of a second.

Instant cooker instructions

1'x packet of noodles,
200 kg of amonium nitrate in a hole with gravel stemming
Orica detonator Cord at varying blast rates.

Detonate your shot and "instant noodles"

OK true or false

I didn't have a packet of instant noodles

But I did have 75 holes loaded with 200kg of ammonium nitrate daisy chained to go off in a wave which blew the shit out
of section of rock on a mine site today.

You might need to occasionally pick bits of "fly rock" out of your noodles.

It's fun having a job in the explosives/ blasting industry.

Shoota

[Shoota]

My Clikstand and Trangia arrived this morning - in less than a week from the US, which was a nice surprise...

Very well made, pretty easy to assemble, nice and compact and pretty sturdy... Seems to be slightly better quality than the Trangia Triangle stand.

The parts of the system: S-2G stand, wind-shield and Trangia burner:

clik_all.jpg

The stand and burner assembled:

clik_stand.jpg

... and wind-shield installed:

clik_done.jpg

I'm looking forward to give it a test-run tomorrow...

Cheers,

Mike.

Mike , very impressive cooker mate and do believe it's prob the best set up on the market , I'm going to try the Trangia Mini for a while but can see me eventually buying what you picked up.

I think as kayak fisherman it's important to have the right gear and more importantly the ability to use it. I've enjoyed a number of cooking sessions at home where I've expediented with food innthe Trangia Mini, to see how far I can push good cuisine dinning out bush with one of these little units.

There must be a genuine interest in this area , cause even tonight I couldn't believe there has been over a 1000 viewings just on this topic alone so the educational aspect of everythings feedback must hold some value with those in the group seeking information.

Nice pics on the Clickstand, I would like to see a report or something on how good you can use it etc. I would be genuinely interested.

Cheers


Shoota

[mingle]

Took the stove for it's first run on the Snake Island trip a few weeks ago.

The Clikstand and Trangia went great - boiled plenty of water in a 1 litre pot, fried three eggs, even fried a couple of salmon fillets (much to the horror of the others!).

Here's another nifty little device that I'm also looking at - don't need it, probably rarely use it, but I WANT it!

[mingle]

I've now added a Primus LiTech frying pan to my camping setup.

Gave it a test-run down at the holiday house (not exactly 'in the wilds') to see how it went with the Trangia.

Went well and cleaned up easily.

Frying up a few lamb leg steaks...

Fits nicely on the Clickstand/Trangia stove...

Here's a better review of the pan:

http://www.woodlife.co.uk/2008/08/20/pr ... al-review/

I paid around $22 for it (plus $7 shipping) on amazon.com a few months back...

Cheers,

Mike.

[TheFishinMusician]

You have now been designated the official MKB fry cook!

[mingle]

The time for talkin' is over... It's action we need!

You have now been designated the official MKB fry cook!

[mingle]

You can get the fold-up hexamine stoves from Big-W. I picked one up, on special, for a mere $4.90. (the usual price is around $9.40, which is still as cheap as chips).

It forms part of my "emergency" camping kit, along with a small pan-set, knife, first-aid kit, space-blanket, emergency shelter and water-purification tabs.

Mike.

If you want a stove that works, is solid and bullet proof plus cheap to buy than take a look at the Army hexamine stove, they use a solid fuel tablet and cook great. I've used them out bush with the army and also use them now when out on hunting trips. Packs up much more compact that a trangi or other stoves on the market. If it wasn't reliable or tuff it wouldn't have made it into the military for use.

Shoota

[slagbag]

I use a home made toasting fork, not only for toast I use it to cook chops over a small wood fire.
Imagine a pork chop with salted rind cooked over a fire, Bloody nice, its a poor mans roast
For veggies whats wrong with a VB can cooker, mine boils a small Billy in around 8min.
They cost nothing, make 3 or 4 they pack tight and light too, you can make Gravy on one while the veggies boil on the other and in the meantime you are cooking your meet over the fire.
I used one a couple of days ago to light fire, they burn like a gas cooker so in an emergency situation lighting a fire in a cold and damp situation would be a breeze I think.
PS... I hear that hard wood sticks/kindling/little bits as round and as long as a stinky finger soaked in methylated spirits "until saturated" make good fire lighters

Dave

[mangajack]

Has anyone seen or used these before?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/320848954606 ... 1423.l2649