MSR XGK EX (unfortunately this stove has now been stolen and was replaced with the MSR Dragonfly; New review coming soon)This is now my favourite stove. It is not the smallest or the the lightest, nor is it the quickest, approx 1 minute and 10 seconds slower than the Sirocco stove (compared to one of our previous videos) and it wasn't cheap to buy; it is however cheap to run! At the time of buying the fuel that was used in the video petrol cost £1.38 per litre in the UK the stove used 19g of fuel to boil 500ml of water. After searching the internet I found out that 1ml of petrol weighs 0.737g this meant that the stove used 2.622pence to boil the water. The stove is also reliable and comes with a field maintenance kit.
After trying this test I started wondering how much difference the pot makes. I tried the speed test again (not the fuel used test) with the same pot as I used on the Sirocco stove in the previous test. Instead of a boil time of 4:40 I got a boil time of 3:30 I will re-do this test when I purchase the pot that I want! |
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With the Titanium pot from www.backpackinglight.co.uk
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The above test was repeated with the Titanium pot that I wanted to see if the stove could boil water quicker with a lighter weight pot. The Honey Stove was used as a wind shield as this is how I plan to use the MSR in the field, this will give me the option of using the MSR or the Honey Stove as a wood burner without needing to carry a separate wind shield.
The Stove with this pot was approximately a minute quicker at 3:40!! |
Baldy's Cook KitI carry my cook kit within the Swedish Army mess tins apart from my cup, which I carry as part of the '58 pattern water bottle. The canister of gas I use is the C500 so it is too large to fit within the mess tin and is also kept separate.
The cook kit consists of: The Swedish Army mess tins. The small saucepan I use as a plate/bowl. Sirocco gas stove. Wind shield. Scourer for cleaning the mess tins. Gas lighter. Dry cloth. I use this as a cloth to stop me burning my hands when handling hot saucepans and to use as a tea towel to dry the mess tins after washing. The cloth is a cheap microfibre towel made by Carplan and can be bought from any motor factors. I think I paid £1.99. Tub containing a coffee and coffee whitener mix. Tub containing 'Ready Brek' and dried milk mix. This is only kept within the mess tin because it happens to fit. Sweeteners. And a spoon which is from a cheap 'supermarkets own' picnic set, I have cut about half inch off the handle for it to fit nicely within the mess tin. Here is a video showing the contents, followed by another video showing the weights of the individual items. |
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Jet Boil V's Sirocco stoveThis video shows the boil times of the Jetboil and the GoSystems Sirocco Stove compared against each other. We used 300ml of cold tap water and the same canister of gas for each test, the Jetboil was tested first. The boil times could have been slightly improved by using the lids on the pots but we needed to see immediately when the water started to boil.
It seems that the heat exchanger needs to heat before the jetboil becomes fully efficient as you can see in the previous video the Jetboil took longer to boil 300ml of water. This video shows all the stoves that are owned by Baldy, Squatt and Uncle Strider, this time however we are boiling 500ml and we talk a little about the stoves. |
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The mini Trangia
Dad bought the mini Trangia for me as it is cheap, has no working parts to break and it is small and light.
However, we both found that the pot is ridiculously small so I asked for the same Swedish Army mess kit that Dad has for my birthday. The big army Trangia burner was replaced with the burner from the mini Trangia set (we will be showing the Swedish Army mess kit soon along with our small modifications to it). |
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