Thread: Cooking with Diesel

Good advice but, well, I have been using Trangias for years, if not decades. Since my earliest scouting days, actually. I have been using them in all conditions, from soaring summer heat to arctic cold and even heavy winds. They have never let me down! I only use the standard methylated spirit burner, which, admittedly gets somewhat difficult to ignite when the temperature drops to -10 degrees or lower. But with persistence, long matches and possibly prewarming the fuel I always succeeded. Cooking times are longer as well, of course.
Although our scout brigade's cookers are now modified to accept gas cans, I, on my own cookers, always use the spirit burner which I consider much superior for it's cleanliness, quietness, ease of use and minimised environmental impact. It is less dangerous, too. On all trips where my mates are using their either gas or petrol/kerosene fired burners I am the laughing one as I don't have sooted cookery gear, no problems with bulky cannisters or smelly fuel and can stow away my "kitchen" in minutes and even carry it around on extended walks/hikes.

That looks very neat! I like what you've done there.

Now you've got me thinking about what I'll do when I give up on using the campfire on Scout hikes.
Yep. It'll have to be a custom stove.
(Not going to use Trangia bits though, they're just not me )

mate dont now if your aware but trangia do a gas /burner..that slots straight under the stock base ...good kit ......... as u prob know simmering performance is far superior to spirit pressure.

yes i know there is a bulk issue ,,,,, and i have a nest of pressure burners growing in a back wardrobe,took me years to cross to gas but for hiking /mc touring its just the ticket,,paticularly if u like to cook up a stew or more complex feeds other than beans!!!


recently upgraded from a 28 yr old teflon coated trangia kit ,, god knows i must have the bulk of the teflon still lingering in my intestines..........to the new non stik!!......... cheers

If you are using the spirit cooker in your trangia and the pans are getting black on them, try adding 10% water to the metho. Stops the black marks

Wow that is way advance what is wrong with my old fold up hexamine stove???
More like what is right with it ...I reckon I couldn't use that in the middle of summer could I ?

The silencing cap[s] turned up today. Wow I wish had metal-working skills like that! Beautifully made. All the little holes are hand drilled and the brazing is very clean.

It's rather well designed internally. There isn't a vaporiser tube on Optimus burners, heat is transferred via six fins into a labyrinth of gas chambers where the fuel is vaporised (which is what makes them so good). The new caps redirect enough heat downwards, but I'm sticking with Shellite to keep them clean.

These aren't diesel fuel cookers. THIS is a diesel fueled cooker...


51 litres a week.

These Wallas stoves and heaters are meant for boats, but I can't see why they couldn't be used in a camper or slide on.

http://www.marineplantsystems.com/re...ers/Wallas.pdf



Taking diesel direct from the vehicles diesel tank, will hardly use up any diesel as these stoves only use 0.09 to 0.19 litres per hour.
With the camper pod I am planning for the back of the defender, it would then benefit from the extra space made available by not carrying a LPG bottle.

What do others think about these type of stoves?
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