Thread: cookers

Originally Posted by Pengy

I lost a small tent to a petrol stove back in the old country. It flared on ignition and all over rover.

Te iringa hut was lost to a fuel burner. Hunter stepped outside for a call of nature or something, and the burner flared - allover rover
Went up 2 weeks later after being asked to retrieve what was left of his rifle (if anything) while I was out there. Fire was so hot and fast that there was half of the ali ladder left that had been leaning on the hut left while the rest of the hut was basically gone.

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Te iringa hut was lost to a fuel burner. Hunter stepped outside for a call of nature or something, and the burner flared - allover rover
Went up 2 weeks later after being asked to retrieve what was left of his rifle (if anything) while I was out there. Fire was so hot and fast that there was half of the ali ladder left that had been leaning on the hut left while the rest of the hut was basically gone.

I was in my sleeping bag in Rogers Hut in the Okahu one night when a fellah who did not know how to start a white spirits burner set light to the place. Thankfully there was a fireman in situ who dealt with it quickly. Almost made me get out of bed.

Whats a hexi cooker?

Originally Posted by Eion

You use hexi by choice? You really are loosing your marbles.

Eion I am very much a "if it is not broken don't fix it" sort of a guy. I have been using them for 40+ years with out a hiccup so why would I change.

Originally Posted by Toby

Whats a hexi cooker?

Hexi or Hexamine is a solid fuel source. It's very similar to the white fire starter bricks you may have seen before. It's an Army issue also, but with a lick of wind or even a drop of rain the stuff wont work. Even if it does it takes 15min to boil a cups canteen of water.

Originally Posted by Rushy

Eion I am very much a "if it is not broken don't fix it" sort of a guy. I have been using them for 40+ years with out a hiccup so why would I change.

For me basic training was enough. Maybe the ones you use are good but I'll take my gas any day.

Originally Posted by Eion

Hexi or Hexamine is a solid fuel source. It's very similar to the white fire starter bricks you may have seen before. It's an Army issue also, but with a lick of wind or even a drop of rain the stuff wont work. Even if it does it takes 15min to boil a cups canteen of water.

Sounds like shit. Upgrade Rushy 15min to boil water is slow. My little cooker fits in my pocket so would the smaller gas cans. I like the larger ones though so I can dig em into the ground gets more stable with a big stew brewing

Hexi cooker

Originally Posted by Eion

Hexi or Hexamine is a solid fuel source. It's very similar to the white fire starter bricks you may have seen before. It's an Army issue also, but with a lick of wind or even a drop of rain the stuff wont work. Even if it does it takes 15min to boil a cups canteen of water.

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

I remember being told of a couple of brain boxes who decided to make their toast over a hexi stove. No surprisingly they were sick as afterwards.

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.

Originally Posted by Eion

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.

Shaving is not something that happens too much on hunting trips from what I have seen of others...I havn't had a shave since 1986, so my opinion hardly counts on the matter.
All the hexi I have had are in 8 tablet packs...the NZDF kept me supplied for many years and I picked up a 10 pack at a second hand shop a few years ago...the last time I seen it for sale, it was a hell of a price.

Originally Posted by Spook

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I have one of those!

I never used it, I thought you had to light a fire under it haha

Stuff the Hexi,c4 was far quicker,I was always the grunts best friend when there was a job on.Rest of the time was,"hey holdfast got any quick cook"

Wife