Gear

Just added a new stove to my ever growing collection (it was a bargain - honest) - one of the Swedish army 'oval' Trangia style meths burner (as available on Ebay - or from proper shops for less).
I now have a question (well 2 sort of):
How do you pour hot water out of the pan, without burning your hand on either the pan or the steam?
What is the second notch on the 'wire' handle for (there is one in the middle to keep the hanging hook in place, and another a third of the way along) - is this to do with the pouring problem?

Confused.

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There's a Swedish Chef joke in here somewhere.......

Køokin' der yummee-yummer...I did my national service in the glorious Swedish army many, many years ago. That piece of junk dates back to WW II and it’s called Enmanskök M/40. The name by the soldiers is “Snuskburken” – roughly translated as “the dirty-tin”.

“How do you pour hot water out of the pan, without burning your hand on either the pan or the steam?”
- You probably don’t, it’s the army and personal comfort doesn’t seem to be on the top of any design specification…

“What is the second notch on the 'wire' handle for (there is one in the middle to keep the hanging hook in place, and another a third of the way along) - is this to do with the pouring problem?”
- Can’t I remember, can it be used to fit it to a knife/bayonet to get a longer handle (however, that contradicts what I said above)?

This site (in Swedish) seem to have some pictures and manual for it: http://www.soldf.com/enmanskok.html

Thanks for the response Mattias, looks like this will remain a mystery.
The loops on the small pan/lid are probably for extending the handle, but not sure about the notch on the large pan wire handle.

That soldf.com site is quite interesting; a site dedicated to the equipment used by the Swedish Army.

I had a look around and found the 'shopping' pages, and went to a site I'd seen mentioned in a comment I found when looking for the SA Trangia stoves

Cheaper Than Dirt

To the UK-eye, the preponderance of ordnance featured on this site is a little alarming (!), but the army surplus stuff looks interesting. And, living up to their name, they had the Trangia at $5.00, in new condition. Sadly, out-of-stock... The cheapest I've seen it in the UK is £10.

And the picture shows the second notch in the handle, but you can't glean any clues from it...

Whilst browsing I noticed that this stuff is much cheaper from the US, although I did find somewhere in the Uk selling the stove and mess kit for £9.95, which aint so bad (albeit I found that store AFTER my purchase).
Maybe the notch is just a 'this will keep 'em guessing' design feature...

Off to t'ills for the weekend now, have a good one everyone.

where did you find it? Strikeforce had them at £10, but seem to be OOS at the moment, and I keep thinking about getting one.

oh, and found this:

Trangia @ Thatchreed

which shows the hook bit of the handle apparently nestling in the second notch... possibly for holding something in the pan of water?

Try:
7.95 for the stove and pans
http://www.surplusandadventure.com/ishop/800/shopscr521.html
The deal with the stove and 2 aluminium mess tins for 9.95 has gone..
Mine was from:
http://www.adventure1.co.uk
for 12.99 though!

Can't vouch for performance though, will be using my gas one this weekend (although have just been instructed we are to try it out).

Really gotta go now and sit on a motorway.

Thanks for the replies and interest people.

I’ve got a couple of Swedish stoves that I’m giving away for FREE…

They are made by a small company in Sweden based outside Stockholm that is trying to fight the big guys and establish itself on the Swedish market (and long term the rest of the world).

I was given a few samples for a trip to Aconcagua earlier this year and I am now giving away these to OM members in UK provided they are willing to send an email with feedback about their experiences with them once they’ve used them.

I’ve got:
- Two of these (never used): http://www.lundgren.biz/storm.htm
- One Twilight (never used): http://www.lundgren.biz/kompakt.htm
- One X-Light (used for a few weeks): http://www.lundgren.biz/kompakt.htm

They are intended to be used with solid fuel and are IMO only suitable for lighter backpacking and camping.

Please drop me an email at mattias_altin@hotmail.com indicating which one of the above you would like (one per person) and your address.

Cheers
Mattias

Sadly Cheaper than dirt doesn't seem to offer much cooking kit these days, although I'm rather taken by the Norman Battle Helmet.... [cough]

Shame Google won't translate Swedish to English for the stoves Mattias mentioned above - they look quite interesting. Three years in, and the company still seems to be going - good on them!

 the other notch is for hanging the tin over a fire when you havent got alot of stuff to warm/ heat up..............the best way to pour water from it without burning your hand is to lift the large pan up by the handle and then place it into the smaller pan........by doing this, and holding the larger tins handle, you will pour water no problem. i have also seen sites where they say take the o ring out to snuff the cooker, try putting the lid on upside down .......this only takes a fraction of a second to put it out not long enough in my experience to do any damage to the o ring and not so fiddly as removing it

 of course as soon as the stoves gone out remove the lid............like i said a fraction of a second later

These mess kits are fabulous. I LOVE mine. I love it so much that I wanted to buy two for my boys to use in Scout camp, but sadly, the local surplus store that sold mine was out of stock. I use mine when I go hunting, fishing, and camping. It is wonderful to cook on. I just buy denatured alcohol from the local hardware store to use as fuel. I often boil a couple packs of ramen noodles at a time in mine using less than 1/5 of the alcohol from the bottle. This cooker is so much fun to use that I have brought it to work and cooked corned beef and cabbage for lunch in the park outside my office building. (Probably quite illegal, but alcohol flames are hard to see, so passers by couldn't tell I was actually cooking.) When I'm hunting in the Utah mountains, I find this cooker performs very well in the extreme wind and cold.

In answer to your question about pouring from the pot, have you tried putting the hook through the hasp loop that's riveted to the side of the pot? My cooker is at my store (where I use it to heat up lunch LOL), so I can't verify that this works, but you might try it. Then with the handle attached at three points (the hinge loops and the hasp loop), you may have a stable pouring handle.

I've never figured out what the extra notch in the wire handle is for.