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Old 08-04-11 | 10:30 AM
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Rob_E
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I've been enjoying my Trangia, although it's only been used for maybe a dozen meals since I picked it up. Some of that has been boiling water for heat-and-eat meals, some frying of eggs and hot dogs. My biggest issue is that even with the simmer ring, I do not feel like I've successfully gotten a good, low-temp simmer out of it. It's either varying degrees of very hot, or it's off. Probably that comes with practice, which I haven't had much of. I just know that I'd like to cook my eggs a little slower some times.

I use the Clikstand, and it works great and packs small. My only problem there is finding a pot/fry pan that fits in the wind screen. Of course you don't necessarily need the windscreen all or most of the time, but I like having the option, and since I'm cooking for one, keeping my cookware small seemed reasonable. I found that the small set from the Bugaboo cookset fits in just right, although retrieving the fry pan is best done with some needle nose pliers. The part where you would attach the handle is partially blocked by the wind screen. I also use the Ketalist set (from GSI, as is the Bugaboo) with the windscreen, and it's a good fit.

All-in-all, I like the set-up for being small, simple, and low tech. As long as you can get your hands on some fuel, it's hard to see how this set up could be messed up.
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