What kind of stove...

[anmaighdeanmara]

Hi Guys,
What kind of stove would you recommend for emergency cooking at home?

[preppingsu]

Any type of camping stove with gas canisters would be good for emergency cooking.
Size is depend on how much storage room you have or how much you expect to be cooking on it.

http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/hi-gear-por ... ve-p142491

http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/hi-gear-dou ... ve-p142454

http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/coleman-spo ... ve-p118560

Just a few ideas.
I have one similar to the second one with plenty of spare gas. But I also have a Kelly kettle for quick water boiling and a clay oven outside for more extensive cooking.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Base-Camp-Kelly ... B000SKHXWU

Hope that helps

[12mp82]

Hi Guys,
What kind of stove would you recommend for emergency cooking at home?

I would carry on using my gas hob on the kitchen stove, it is rigged to run on LPG and on Natural gas.

The little brief case stoves are great for back up cooking if you are all electric or if the gas gets cut off for some reason or another, the cannisters are generally good for about an hour, so might be good to get a few 4 packs of gas to cover a few days of one pot cooking.

[anmaighdeanmara]

Excellent Thanks Guys
Im not so confused any more
Also Im guessing(since I haven't seen one of these in the flesh), that the hob/ring thingy is smaller than a regular hob? Meaning I'll need smaller cookware?

Also a Clay oven sounds cool, Doubt the landlord would be too happy to have one built in the back garden :/

[ForgeCorvus]

Standard kitchen pots and pans will work just fine on the 'suitcase' type Bistro stoves (these)

[anmaighdeanmara]

Excellent Thank you!

[nickdutch]

Standard kitchen pots and pans will work just fine on the 'suitcase' type Bistro stoves (these)

I have electric hobs in my flat and that don't work all that well. I have some portable hobs to replace them, but they work best with lidded saucepans and not frying pans. So I use a campingaz bistro with cheap gas cylinders (£3.99 for 4 at B+M) to do my frying.

Recently I have discovered that my bioethanol in a trangea actually cooks at a better temperature on my griddle pan then the gas hob, so I have been learning that some things that we might get for "shtf" can actually be better for normal life.

[Arzosah]

Those little canisters of gas .... how long do they last for, does anybody know? I have a little primus stove, and a couple of canisters ... the lower edges of the canisters have a little bit of rust on them. If they were pierced in the normal way to be used, would they be safe? I'm wondering if I should just use them in the garden one day this summer, and buy some more.

[12mp82]

Those little canisters of gas .... how long do they last for, does anybody know? I have a little primus stove, and a couple of canisters ... the lower edges of the canisters have a little bit of rust on them. If they were pierced in the normal way to be used, would they be safe? I'm wondering if I should just use them in the garden one day this summer, and buy some more.

Should be absolutely fine, The cannisters for the brief case stoves last about an hour on full, but be careful if using outdoors in the cold, they don't like running flat out in the cold and will freeze out.

Unused and unopened they will last for many many years so long as they are kept clean and dry, maybe in an old ammo box.

[ForgeCorvus]

Arzosah, are you talking about the bistro stove I posted above or one of these ?


If its this sort then as long as theres a good seal where you'll be piercing the dome then they should be OK.
Using them this summer (if we get one ) and replacing them is probably a good idea though.... We should be rotating all our preps, not just food


I have several different types of gas cartridge stove, this type, the threaded valve one and the bistro stove.... In addition to liquid fuel (paraffin, petrol and meths) stoves and a few solid fuel options....... Heating stuff isn't going to be a problem for me