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the option people with me get is the drink i'm makiing

stove is nice for a hot drink and the ritual of making one which requires much more time than merely pouring it out of a flask and more options. coffe in the morning with cake, soup with the sarnies and coffee in the afternoon with choklit of some form. the butler doesn't mind carrying any of this either. one must be kind to one's staff.

Ray et al 

Now that could be double twatty!

Why dont we all have an outing with stoves, we could confirm what others believe, and be a bunch of twats....

Seems to me the key factor is the availability of a warm drink - whether that is carried in a thermos or "cooked" on a stove.  Each has plusses and minuses.  I usually have a 1/2 or 3/4 litre steel thermos which isn't too heavy. 

Not sure how it compares with weight to, say, my Primus Micron, a small (Snowpeak?) gas cartridge and a Snowpeak mini solo cookset (or part of).  I would guess weightwise the flask beats my MSR Dragonfly, a small fuel bottle and a suitable "muggy type thing" that can go on the dragonfly.

I guess as the number of people increases the weight factor moves towards a stove.

For the 'brewing up aficionado' I dont think weight enters into it.... They / we just like to do it.

Although obviously it is still  lighter to carry a portable 240v generator and a kettle than an Aladdin Stanely classic flask...

I've got the answer!

A specially shaped bladder with 2 sections, that fits in your arm pits. So you can have quite a warm drink with only the slight extra weight of this odd shaped bladder pack. Even better, after a hard workout getting to a top the tea will be nice and hot ready for the chilly feeling you get once stopped. Perfect

alternatively. A urine filter...... It comes out pretty warm, seems such a waste of heat.....

I just knew you would get drawn into that one Ian  

I too have an Aladdin - somewhere.... When they first came out they were on stores issue with an olive green padded carry bag FFS. Was that to protect the flask or the user's foot should he drop the thing?

And yes mine works well after 15 years, I have been saving it for the day when I am face to face with the Spetsnaz, it will either serve to keep my combat beverages chemical free, or alternatively I could just throw it at them.....

As you can see below, the Spetsnaz are agile and nimble. But a correctly lobbed Aladdin Stanley to the testicals in mid flight would knock this man completely out of action, thus saving us from the reds invasion attempt as they force their way through the Schleswig-Holstein Gap.

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And keep your camobat beverage NBC free.......

I have just got mine out the cupboard (no handle on mine either)

I have filled it with boiling water to check its working condition. I bought it because it was the standard flask we used for Antarctic sledging trips. In the winter you would, at the end of the night, boil a pan of snow and pour it into the flask so that there would be water for the morning. On occasions there would be a layer of thin ice inside the flask come morning, and never once was the water remotely warm.

FB

your last name its not Hope or Williams is it?

Never ever carried a stove on a day walk, nevers seen anyone use a stove out in the hills.

If I'm cold and need a hot drink, I stop, get out flask, and I have instant hot drink, put flask away, carry on with the walk... Easy.
I can sip my hot drink at any time on the walk.
In the same way, if I'm thirsty, I have a bit of a drink from the water I've bought with me.

Do those of you who also carry a stove carry no water, as you'll collect it all from streams and boil it up?

As for the weight of a flask, it's neither here-nor-there.

My guess is those of you that carry a stove also have big rucksacks.