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01/8/2013 at 9:29pm
Location: N.Wales Outfit: Gelert Ottawa 4
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I've used my Trangia since 1986. Shame its not steel, I now actually use a steel pan whose handle fell off. Always add 10% water to the meths bottle, if you get it right, there is no soot at all. I now keep the burner in a separate container, after a meal was ruined by a slight contamination of meths in the pan, making it taste incredibly bitter, and leaking meths from the burner corroded the aluminium pan and holed it over time.
I use a roof slate, that way I don't scorch the grass, also it keeps the food warm. I've fed 8 people before now. One pan specials are simplest, with pasta or potato stews. I take an enamel plate, so I can cook a veg curry, put it on the slate with the plate cover, then boil rice in the other pan. When the rice is ready, swap the pans over and reheat the curry. If you are careful, you can do all this with one fill of the burner.
I find the frying pan is too far away from the flame to use effectively. The whole thing is quite slow, but it works.
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01/8/2013 at 10:12pm
Location: Oxford Outfit: helsport Kongsvold
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I use our trangia backpacking and it is amazing what you can cook on it. 10% water completely eliminates sooting, I also have a gas conversion but rarely use it. When making curry I do it the other way round put the rice in pot one add water until it is one inch above the toip of the rice. Bring to the boil and stir once then stand it aside and cover. Don't do anything else to it just leave it covered maybe wrap a towel around it to keep it warm as you are outside. In 20 minutes it will be fully cooked and absorbed all the water and still be warm. Meanwhile make your curry, chilli etc. I have made an oven bread type calzone thing in the big pot, using it like a dutch oven, using the simmer ring to keep the flame very low, Made fish cakes stews, pretty much any thing you can make at home. I too keep the burner seperate to everything else, but inside my Trangia I can store my washing up kit, a tea towel a cut down wooden spoon a multitool, a cut down spatula, tea and coffee. The frying pan works best if just sat directly on top of the windshield rather than the supports, just make sure you keep a small gap to allow the air flow. Absolutely love the Trangia but for basecamp with the car it's the Cobb and the double burner and grill. As dubstepper says it won't win any prizes for speed but as long as you have fuel there is nothing to go wrong
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