1 month boxes

[pseudonym]

i think im gonna have to get myself a bigger cooking system i think
perhaps a dutch oven set up
i can build myself a rocket stove with bricks and use normal pots and pans at home?
what would people recommend as a large family cooking system?

I would recommend one of these:

http://www.ronniesunshines.com/bushcraf ... x-set.html

Dutch Oven
Pre Seasoned Griddle
Pre Seasoned Skillet
Lid Lifter
Folding Steel Trivet

All in a wooden carrying box.

Just missing a kettle:

http://www.ronniesunshines.com/kirtley- ... ettle.html

Job done.

No affiliation to links posted apart from being a happy customer...

[munchh]

Sorry if i have not quite understood, but what size boxes are we talking for 1week and 1 month?

I have some http://direct.hobbycraft.co.uk/products ... 297624.htm

They are a manageble size, i just wonder how long this would be good for?

[The-Great-Nothing]

Reservoir,

Have you got the pot/pan support "add on" for your Kelly kettle? Make cooking much easier

Cheers

Matt

[pseudonym]

Sorry if i have not quite understood, but what size boxes are we talking for 1week and 1 month?

I have some http://direct.hobbycraft.co.uk/products ... 297624.htm

They are a manageble size, i just wonder how long this would be good for?

This is dependant on what you require to eat and work at a comfortable level.

I store tinned and dried goods in boxes of the same volume as yours, they are light enough for me to lift when full, makes it easier to access or if need be carry to the car if I had to (as a last resort) bug out.

I'll try and get some pics of my storage sometime.

[seamus1979]

http://www.thebushcraftstore.co.uk/fron ... 0404-p.asp
just went and invested in this
i set my boxes up with the first provision being one month tubs of vitamins for me and the family
if weight is an issue then wellman vitamin tablets come in blister packs so you can cut them down to seven tablet strips and set yourself up 1 week boxes

[tigs]

thats a good little stove

[Darktide]

Yup, I bought a frontier stove for heating my bell tent and cooking on. Great bit of kit.

[seamus1979]

just bought another 50litre tub from sainsburys
4kg of white rice
4 kg of pasta
2 kg of porridge
cooking oil
baby wipes
4 tins of steak
bleach
100 tea candles
will add some more to it in a few weeks

[pseudonym]

Heads up:

http://direct.asda.com/ASDA-30-Litre-Bo ... lt,pd.html

30 litre plastic boxes in ASDA going for £2.50 at the moment.

[Reservior]

Reservoir,

Have you got the pot/pan support "add on" for your Kelly kettle? Make cooking much easier

Cheers

Matt

No, I havn't and I will tell you why and then you can tell me why it's a good idea

In aluminium form, like mine, you cannot run them 'dry' as they do split due to the heat. Despite the warnings, I also know this from personal experience . So, the KK is really just a very efficient and free to run, water boiler. Great for a hot drink or rehydrating, dried, food such as soup and noodles etc.

In order for it to be so efficient it requires fuel to be added at quite an alarming rate over a short period of time. Having the cook set placed on top of the chimney gets in the way of this. To my thinking your water boils much faster than the food you are heating on the top, has time to be ready. Also, that food, even a wet food like a small tin of beans will burn due to the heat/flame coming out of the chimney. Having to continually stir, whilst also removing the cookset, to add fuel strikes me as being a faff I don't need.

You could control the boil time, by adding less fuel over a longer period of time which would also mean your heating up in the cookset is more controllable. But, to me, that also seems like a faff. It also negates the advantages of the KK.

So that's my thoughts on the KK cookset add on. Have been tempted to buy one in the past but I just can't see what advantage it would give me.

I'm happy to be educated on it though!