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Okay those of us who spent any amount of time in the outdoors have used a field stove. My all time favorite is the simple German Esbit stove. There are numerous copies out there, and they sell for about $10-15 dollars. Fuel is fairly safe and easy to use, solid little blocks of fuel stuff you don't have to worry about making a mess or accidently leaking all over everything. Advantages over the MRE heater: You can boil water, which means you can cook a can of something in a canteen cup or any other metal bowl/cup. When done it folds up and can be stowed in a MOLLE Pouch or some side pocket. Lets here what the rest of you liked.
My simple morning breakfast consisted of popping the top on a can of chili or soup, placing it in the cop of water, fire up the stove, add a pre opened packet of cheese spread, break up the crackers, and feast on Chili cheese cracker combo, bonus if I added some hot sauce to the mix. If I was really adventurous I would pour the concoction over some ramen noodles minus the spice kit they come with.
I also found the cinnamon flavored spice drink mix went well with a hot cup of tea.
My simple morning breakfast consisted of popping the top on a can of chili or soup, placing it in the cop of water, fire up the stove, add a pre opened packet of cheese spread, break up the crackers, and feast on Chili cheese cracker combo, bonus if I added some hot sauce to the mix. If I was really adventurous I would pour the concoction over some ramen noodles minus the spice kit they come with.
I also found the cinnamon flavored spice drink mix went well with a hot cup of tea.
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SGM Joel Cook
We used to heat the old C-ration cans on the exhaust pipes of our 5 or 10 K communications generators but that was in the old days before 1984 when MREs became the standard issue item and C-Rats disappeared. I imagine the exhaust manifold is too hot for MREs they would bust open and make a mess.
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While in: British army hex, solid fuel (brilliant, as they would say)
Camping: MSR pocket rocket...fits in pocket, plus small fuel cannister.
Then there is always a fire with meat on the end of a stick.
Camping: MSR pocket rocket...fits in pocket, plus small fuel cannister.
Then there is always a fire with meat on the end of a stick.
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YOU CAN MAKE THEM WITH THE RIGHT KIND OF METAL. OR,GET A COLEMAN CAMPING STOVE
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Two 1/4” pieces of C4 in a Dakota Fire Hole and three balance stones with a canteen cup. Works great, almost no smoke, great stealth stove.
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Favorite? A tank end connector and about an ounce of C4.
But I'll settle for an Esbit stove
But I'll settle for an Esbit stove
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Totally "makeshift," but my favorite was a chunk of C4. Not having that baack in the world, just a small, folding metal on ... or better still, the small Coleman stoves.
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I had a Coleman strapped on top of the battery box that I made coffee with every morning, well most every morning. :)
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All that I remember in 1970 in Nam was a C ration can,usually peaches or sphegetti and mud balls, A tall can, punched holes with a can opener on the bottom sode with an old fashioned can opener, not a P38. We refered to these can openers as a B52. Put a pinch of C4 about a golf ball size chunk. Light the C4 and you have a perfect stove. Put your canteen cup over it with whatever you concoted with one of the 12 delicious C ration meals. We never had LLRP or MRE meals.
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