Thread: cookers

Originally Posted by Spook

Were you trying to run a bath?...a quarter of a tablet will boil enough water for a coffee

How else do you wash in the field?

But in all seriousness, say for morning routine. I boil my water, pour some off into a mess tin to shave with, some into my muesli to rehydrate it and the last I use for a brew. There's a fair bit of water there. When we get issued with Hexi it is one box or four tabs per ration pack/day.

I far prefer to use something like this

Kiwi Camping Micra Gas Stove R&R Sport NZ

Turned up full tilt they will run for ~1 hour from a standard sized gas canister. It's quicker, you can cook right off the flame and as Toby mentioned with the smaller cans, that still provide 30m cooking time, it's a very compact unit.