Hi folks,
Although I primarily use fire for cooking when I am south of treeline, I have converted to using a Trangia alcohol stove for the wet rainy days. No moving parts, no stove repair kits, totally dependable, etc. In any Canadian hardware store you can buy 99.9% pure methanol, sold as "Methyl Hydrate" in the paint section, which is good clean burning fuel. The Trangia has the simmer ring which I use to simmer my meals, and it lowers the temp for easy frying. My stove is composed of: the Trangia burner, Clikstand pot stand, and the Primus foil windscreen which is flexible enough to wrap around pots and expand to accommodate a fry pan. The Clickstand is a rock-solid base. My pots are all deep dish lid swing handled and bail handled. I use an 8 inch fry pan with fold out handle for my greasy fried breakfasts and for frying fish over open fires and on the Clickstand rig. I have bush-tested this system over 2 summer's trips now and am an alky convert.
BUT, I just became the proud new owner of the Trangia 27-7 UL/HA cook set (ultralight, hard anodized) - the solo camper's Mother Ship!
http://www.canadianoutdoorequipment.com/trangia-27-7-ul-ha-cookset.html
This certainly is not "ultralight", and it weighs twice as much as the Clickstand-based system listed above. Therefore I would likely not take the T-27-7 kit on a canoe trip. But I found the 27-7 kit irresistible as another Trangia family piece of gear to play with, and I am looking at it to be a truck camping cook kit, and an urban disaster/power failure/72 hour preparedness stove. As a bonus, my Evernew "Deep" (tall) Ti pots (1.4 and 1.9L) fit into the 27’s pot rests (note: Evernew no longer makes the 1.9L "deep", and their 1.9L wide will not fit the 27 system). But I hate the Trangia 27 and 25 "fry pan" lid!
The purpose of this post is to let everyone know that the GSI 8 inch Bugaboo fry pan does indeed fit the fry pan support tabs of the 27 cook set. But because its handle folds into the pan, it cannot serve as the kit's packing lid.
http://www.gsioutdoors.com/shop/cooking/pots-pans/bugaboo-8-frypan.html
I was hoping my much lighter Primus Litech fry pan would fit it, but it does not, it fits too high over the wind screen and would let too much wind through. The LiTech (old snap up lock handle model) is my current user for summer and winter trips weighing in at 268 g on my scale. Its handle folds underneath so it could have worked as the kit's packing lid. The GSI 8 inch Bugaboo fry pan weighs in at 369g!
The Bugaboo pan has a curved base taper which fits the Trangia 27's pan base perfectly. I need all my pots and pans to work on an open fire and I do not use pot grippers on my gear, so the 27’s "fry pan" is not what I want to use, and it has only half the volume of the Bugaboo. I need a real multi-purpose frypan with a fixed folding handle for all the fire use and serious frying I do.
However for truck camping I can get by with pot grippers so the 27's pots and pan are useable for sure (millions all over the world get by on it and the larger 25 kit). I have 3 hours in so far testing the 27 at home on various pots and pan combos, boiling water and cooking food. When I get more experience with it, I may post a full review of the 27 with the mods I have come up with.
Canadian Outdoor Equipment where I bought it from, also sells a "pan stand" adapter for using non-Trangia small pots to be supported inside the windscreen over the burner, and I purchased it. It works very well. But it's extra weight at 65g on my scales. I think I can make a lighter tab extension mod with sheet metal tabs, so we'll see. https://www.canadianoutdoorequipment.com/trangia-pan-stand.html
For those not familiar with the Trangia 27 and the bigger 25, there are dozens of YouTube videos to check out. Although there are much lighter alky stove options, its fun to finally own the 27 "Mother ship" for their solo-2 person system.
Although I primarily use fire for cooking when I am south of treeline, I have converted to using a Trangia alcohol stove for the wet rainy days. No moving parts, no stove repair kits, totally dependable, etc. In any Canadian hardware store you can buy 99.9% pure methanol, sold as "Methyl Hydrate" in the paint section, which is good clean burning fuel. The Trangia has the simmer ring which I use to simmer my meals, and it lowers the temp for easy frying. My stove is composed of: the Trangia burner, Clikstand pot stand, and the Primus foil windscreen which is flexible enough to wrap around pots and expand to accommodate a fry pan. The Clickstand is a rock-solid base. My pots are all deep dish lid swing handled and bail handled. I use an 8 inch fry pan with fold out handle for my greasy fried breakfasts and for frying fish over open fires and on the Clickstand rig. I have bush-tested this system over 2 summer's trips now and am an alky convert.
BUT, I just became the proud new owner of the Trangia 27-7 UL/HA cook set (ultralight, hard anodized) - the solo camper's Mother Ship!
http://www.canadianoutdoorequipment.com/trangia-27-7-ul-ha-cookset.html
This certainly is not "ultralight", and it weighs twice as much as the Clickstand-based system listed above. Therefore I would likely not take the T-27-7 kit on a canoe trip. But I found the 27-7 kit irresistible as another Trangia family piece of gear to play with, and I am looking at it to be a truck camping cook kit, and an urban disaster/power failure/72 hour preparedness stove. As a bonus, my Evernew "Deep" (tall) Ti pots (1.4 and 1.9L) fit into the 27’s pot rests (note: Evernew no longer makes the 1.9L "deep", and their 1.9L wide will not fit the 27 system). But I hate the Trangia 27 and 25 "fry pan" lid!
The purpose of this post is to let everyone know that the GSI 8 inch Bugaboo fry pan does indeed fit the fry pan support tabs of the 27 cook set. But because its handle folds into the pan, it cannot serve as the kit's packing lid.
http://www.gsioutdoors.com/shop/cooking/pots-pans/bugaboo-8-frypan.html
I was hoping my much lighter Primus Litech fry pan would fit it, but it does not, it fits too high over the wind screen and would let too much wind through. The LiTech (old snap up lock handle model) is my current user for summer and winter trips weighing in at 268 g on my scale. Its handle folds underneath so it could have worked as the kit's packing lid. The GSI 8 inch Bugaboo fry pan weighs in at 369g!
The Bugaboo pan has a curved base taper which fits the Trangia 27's pan base perfectly. I need all my pots and pans to work on an open fire and I do not use pot grippers on my gear, so the 27’s "fry pan" is not what I want to use, and it has only half the volume of the Bugaboo. I need a real multi-purpose frypan with a fixed folding handle for all the fire use and serious frying I do.
However for truck camping I can get by with pot grippers so the 27's pots and pan are useable for sure (millions all over the world get by on it and the larger 25 kit). I have 3 hours in so far testing the 27 at home on various pots and pan combos, boiling water and cooking food. When I get more experience with it, I may post a full review of the 27 with the mods I have come up with.
Canadian Outdoor Equipment where I bought it from, also sells a "pan stand" adapter for using non-Trangia small pots to be supported inside the windscreen over the burner, and I purchased it. It works very well. But it's extra weight at 65g on my scales. I think I can make a lighter tab extension mod with sheet metal tabs, so we'll see. https://www.canadianoutdoorequipment.com/trangia-pan-stand.html
For those not familiar with the Trangia 27 and the bigger 25, there are dozens of YouTube videos to check out. Although there are much lighter alky stove options, its fun to finally own the 27 "Mother ship" for their solo-2 person system.
I have been using various forms of non-stick coating fry pans over wood fires for decades. In the bad old days it was some sort of cheapo teflon coating, which also peeled up at home on the kitchen stove. But once the hard anodizing, Silverstone, and Titanium type non-stick coatings arrived on the scene for both home and camping pans, its been no worries. As long as you have some food in the pan to dissipate the heat and don't burn the metal with an empty dry pan, its no worries. They gradually wear out from cooking and cleaning just like on my home kitchen stove, but these new pans last for years so you get your money's worth. Just make sure that no metal utensils ever touch the pan (only use plastic or wood utensils), and its fine. I use a thin cotton bag for my packing frypan, so its does not get scratched inside the pack with other stuff packed against it, and it keeps the soot from messing the pack.
