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Anyone own one of these stove/pot setups!?

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https://www.walkonthewildside.de/festst ... 72760.html

Apparently an excellent bit of kit for mince meat and the likes. But, does anyone here have any expereince of it. Whats it like to live with/pack size and fuel options.

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Just learnt (what I now believe) it's actually a solid fuel setup. Anyone use solid fuels and is there much cons! Lots of wastage in terms or wrappers I guess!
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The less fancy solid fuel ones always seemed quite slow to heat baked beans, which is all I remember using them for, when we used them as scouts like 40 or so years back, but things may have moved on since then.

Alpine Trek seem to stock quite a range of them at some decent prices.
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Thanks Hyppy. Found the one I was on about on there, ta. Might be only the one way to find out then (yes, I always assumed dry fuel thingies were much slower burners/heaters).

https://www.alpinetrek.co.uk/esbit-dry- ... oking-set/
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Old school hexamine solid fuel is quite good and performs well

However it covers the pan in soot (wipe off with a tea bag) and is toxic indoors

The modern solid fuel used by esbit etc doesn't really compare
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So a fairly poor choice of upgrade for me then. Best to just get a decent Trango type pan and use the gas stove. Ta.
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What they say it's basic and cheap, sooty and smelly.
Its probably lighter than gas Personally if faff is not an issue I would use a meths stove before one of those. That said its fool proof to use but a packable wood burner would do the same job
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Lazarus wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:38 pm What they say it's basic and cheap, sooty and smelly.
Its probably lighter than gas Personally if faff is not an issue I would use a meths stove before one of those. That said its fool proof to use but a packable wood burner would do the same job
Yeah. Thanks John. I'm just honna stick with the SOTO for now and just get an appropriate and light pan to go with it. Something with a hat preferably.
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I've dabbled with esbit just for the weight savings but wasn't keen, I found it slow, smelly and makes right mess of your po, went back to meths after a couple of trips
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If you're using solid fuel then you really don't need a stove at all. Search on the reviews section for 'cooking without a cooker'.
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