Your Complete Guide to Outdoor Cooking in the UK
There’s something almost stubborn about a military hexamine stove. It has no batteries to charge, no piezo igniter to snap, no valve to seize solid with age. You fold it flat, you strike a match, and thirty years later it still works exactly the same way it did the day some quartermaster stamped it into … Read more
There’s a particular smell that every squaddie, scout leader and stealth camper knows instantly — a faint, fishy tang drifting from a mess tin balanced over a tiny fold of steel. That’s a hexamine stove at work, and despite decades of shinier gas-powered competition, it refuses to disappear from British kit lists. The best hexamine … Read more
There’s a particular kind of silence that settles over a hillside when the wind drops and all you can hear is a small blue flame doing its quiet work under a battered aluminium pan. That’s the trangia storm cooker experience in a nutshell, and it’s why the design has barely changed since a Swedish company … Read more
There’s a particular sound that means “camping trip” to several generations of British walkers, scouts and van-lifers: the soft hiss of a brass burner catching light, followed by the metallic clink of a windshield being clipped shut. That’s a Trangia doing what it’s done since 1951, and this trangia stove review exists because, frankly, the … Read more