Needed to cook for 2 people things like rice, meat and general veg.
What is the easiest fuel to use?
Cheap as in CHEAP!? 🙏
Tia 👍
You can't go too far wrong with one of the Bistro type generic stoves sold in a lot of places.
Currently about £16 in Go Outdoors I think.
We've had one for ages for car camping and it's fine.
The gas cartridges are sold pretty widely.
Same stove but different branding in Argos, Halfords etc.
Borrow a stove from a neighbor?
Trangia (or equivalent); buy the meths in bulk from hardware stores, works out very cheap. You can also buy a gas adapter for occasions when you want to use that. Stable, good windshield. Depends on what and where you intend using it for, of course.
For rice, make a pot cosy with silver bubble wrap insulation. Bring rice and water to the simmer, put the pan in the pot cosy and let it hydrate for 20 minutes - doesn't need constant simmering, so save on fuel and free up the stove using this method.
Aye, Trangias are great, but not "Cheap as in CHEAP"! Certainly not when you can't help yourself starting a collection...
For fuel, I prefer to buy biofuel in bulk, much less sooting and doesn't smell as bad: https://ekofuel.org/
@kayak23 - perfect! Many thanks 😁👍
How long though does say 1 or two gas canisters last for?
2 cooked meals per day for say 2 months ish.
you say outdoors do you have access to electricity?
I really rate our air fryer...yes not "outdoors/outdoors" but if you are in a campervan or equivalent it's easily doable.
2 cooked meals per day for say 2 months ish.
We bought a Facebook special double burner stove for £10.
Friends had two 9kg gas bottles, so lent us one.
Eldest_oab has been brewing and cooking most days on it for a month and ran out yesterday.
Cost will be one refill of gas.
@kayak23 – perfect! Many thanks 😁👍
How long though does say 1 or two gas canisters last for?
Two of us camping recently, tea in the morning and meal at night, I reckon one of those lasts almost a week, maybe a little more.
They do tend to get feeble when they're low so can be annoying if you're trying to boil a kettle, but very easy to change so keep the low ones for gentle simmering.
We bought a Facebook special double burner stove for £10.
Just what I was going to say. Those single ring disposal canisters don't last very long. If you're going for 2 months worth getting something that take a refillable bottle. These can be picked up off market place to just make sure you buy the correct one for the regulator you stove has or you will need to but a new regulator. (Only a £5 but it's extra if money is tight)
I wouldn't want to use one of those single ring canister jobbies for 2 days never mind 2 months.
Not CHEAP but cheap to run would be a Coleman dual fuel stove, runs on unleaded. Yes I know petrol is expensive right now but £1.75 a litre is cheaper than £4 for half a litre of meths at screwfix.
Those tiny folding ones that fold up into something the size of a box of matches and screw directly onto a canister cost about £15 and boil a kettle 3 times faster than a bistro. They're prone to falling over though, setting a tent on fire and putting it out at the same time.
