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Quote: Originally posted by mcguire6078 on 31/7/2013

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Coming from SE London, when I read the title of this thread “cooking with meths” I thought it was some drug related method for making meths. I did think this was an unusual post for UK Campsite but being liberal minded thought I would have a look. Thankfully it’s all about the virtues of cooking with methylated spirits and not the production of methamphetamine (meths).

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I use our trangia backpacking and it is amazing what you can cook on it. 10% water completely eliminates sooting, I also have a gas conversion but rarely use it. When making curry I do it the other way round put the rice in pot one add water until it is one inch above the toip of the rice. Bring to the boil and stir once then stand it aside and cover. Don't do anything else to it just leave it covered maybe wrap a towel around it to keep it warm as you are outside. In 20 minutes it will be fully cooked and absorbed all the water and still be warm. Meanwhile make your curry, chilli etc.

I have made an oven bread type calzone thing in the big pot, using it like a dutch oven, using the simmer ring to keep the flame very low, Made fish cakes stews, pretty much any thing you can make at home. I too keep the burner seperate to everything else, but inside my Trangia I can store my washing up kit, a tea towel a cut down wooden spoon a multitool, a cut down spatula, tea and coffee.

The frying pan works best if just sat directly on top of the windshield rather than the supports, just make sure you keep a small gap to allow the air flow.

Absolutely love the Trangia but for basecamp with the car it's the Cobb and the double burner and grill.

As dubstepper says it won't win any prizes for speed but as long as you have fuel there is nothing to go wrong