Awesome Cooking Experience

John Spencer-Ma

For many years I have been a devotee of Trangia cookers - I
have a fear of other liquid fuels - and have also tended to
ignore gas as being either too heavy or to prone to wind.
Today I have used for the first time a Trangia gas converter
in my old '27'. The results were awesome. 1 pint of cold
water boiled in 3min 40sec, using a 30/70 propane/butane
'Coleman' gas cartridge. I'm converted. Incidentally I did
look at an MSR Windpro Gas unit but wasn't impressed with
the quality of the engineering nor when I weighed it and a
couple of cookpots and a windshield, pot-grab etc. Excluding
the gas cartridge, which would have been common to both the
above, there was little significant defference in weight.
Also there was not a great deal of difference between the
standard meths burner in the Trangia and the gas converter.
I'm now looking forward to tryng the assemblage on a quick
one week river walk - next week.

Anyone else experience of this Trangia converter? If so any
advice? Thanx. John S-M

Phil Cook

On 1 Jul 2004 08:51:43 -0700, John Spencer-Mallory wrote:

>For many years I have been a devotee of Trangia cookers - I
>have a fear of other liquid fuels - and have also tended to
>ignore gas as being either too heavy or to prone to wind.
>Today I have used for the first time a Trangia gas
>converter in my old '27'. The results were awesome. 1 pint
>of cold water boiled in 3min 40sec, using a 30/70
>propane/butane 'Coleman' gas cartridge. I'm converted.

He He He. Welcome the wonderful world of gas!
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the
"Westminster Gasworks"
95/284 5/219 c.100/300 (>900m with drop>100m )

Peter Clinch

John Spencer-Mallory wrote:

> Today I have used for the first time a Trangia gas
> converter in my old '27'. The results were awesome. 1 pint
> of cold water boiled in 3min 40sec

Boil times are frankly pretty irrelevant for the most part
in real use, but they get trotted out a lot because it gives
something quantifiable. But unless you're snow melting,
frankly who cares?

> Anyone else experience of this Trangia converter? If so
> any advice?

I generally use in preference to the spirit burner these
days, as it's more controllable, cleaner and more
convenient.

Advice for anyone looking at it is buy the Markill one which
is half the price of the "official" one from Primus!

Pete.
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Ted Kell

In article <ae4cb38d.0407010751.68b4277e@posting.google.com>,
John Spencer-Mallory <johnspencermallory@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>For many years I have been a devotee of Trangia cookers - I
>have a fear of other liquid fuels - and have also tended to
>ignore gas as being either too heavy or to prone to wind.
>Today I have used for the first time a Trangia gas
>converter in my old '27'. The results were awesome. 1 pint
>of cold water boiled in 3min 40sec, using a 30/70
>propane/butane 'Coleman' gas cartridge. I'm converted.
>Incidentally I did look at an MSR Windpro Gas unit but
>wasn't impressed with the quality of the engineering nor
>when I weighed it and a couple of cookpots and a
>windshield, pot-grab etc. Excluding the gas cartridge,
>which would have been common to both the above, there was
>little significant defference in weight. Also there was not
>a great deal of difference between the standard meths
>burner in the Trangia and the gas converter. I'm now
>looking forward to tryng the assemblage on a quick one week
>river walk - next week.
>
>Anyone else experience of this Trangia converter? If so any
>advice? Thanx. John S-M

Hummmmm.... Gone over to the dark side I see.

Ted the alky lover.

Muzz

In message <cc1mqe$f60$1@dux.dundee.ac.uk>, Peter Clinch
<p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk> writes
>I generally use in preference to the spirit burner these
>days, as it's more controllable, cleaner and more
>convenient.
>

I have the Trangia 27 but supplemented this with a larger
Eurohike copycat for when the whole family goes camping. In
actual usage it works just as well as the Trangia BUT: I
simply cannot get it to slot together properly, I was never
good at puzzles and this is a real mind job. On the way back
from Durness we stopped for a brew up and discovered that
the lid on the burner hadn't sealed right and the wife
refused to take a brew from a kettle smelling of meths.
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Simplesimon

"John Spencer-Mallory" <johnspencermallory@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ae4cb38d.0407010751.68b4277e@posting.google.com...
> For many years I have been a devotee of Trangia cookers -
> I have a fear of other liquid fuels - and have also tended
> to ignore gas as being either too heavy or to prone to
> wind. Today I have used for the first time a Trangia gas
> converter in my old '27'. The results were awesome. 1 pint
> of cold water boiled in 3min 40sec, using a 30/70
> propane/butane 'Coleman' gas cartridge. I'm converted.
> Incidentally I did look at an MSR Windpro Gas unit but
> wasn't impressed with the quality of the engineering nor
> when I weighed it and a couple of cookpots and a
> windshield, pot-grab etc. Excluding the gas cartridge,
> which would have been common to both the above, there was
> little significant defference in weight. Also there was
> not a great deal of difference between the standard meths
> burner in the Trangia and the gas converter. I'm now
> looking forward to tryng the assemblage on a quick one
> week river walk - next week.
>
> Anyone else experience of this Trangia converter? If so
> any advice? Thanx. John S-M

To be honest I'm not that impressed with the boiling time
you quoted (sorry!). Running my meths-powered Trangia in the
tent awning on Saturday night I brought a pint of water and
two Wayfarer meal pouches to a good rolling boil in just
under 5 minutes. Probably about minute longer than the gas
conversion took. I'll grant you the gas version is probably
much more controllable (Simmer ring-what a joke) but how
much of a hurry can you be in? You already have a stove that
can produce a 2 course meal and pint of tea in under 15
minutes. Some folk are never happy :-)

simon