Do you brew up on a run?

[reohn2]

On a more serious note,I've just unearthed my Cmping Gaz stove s/steel pan and plastic cup,including a 75% full canister of gas,the lot weighs in at 750g.My steel Themos(small size that fits a bottle cage) weighs 320g,so the weight penalty isn't huge especially if you consider you brew up at will and with a cuppa soup option,on a cold day in the hills its a viable alternative .

[hubgearfreak]

tea in a plastic cup. i've often had my doubts about you, now confirmed.

[reohn2]

tea in a plastic cup. i've often had my doubts about you, now confirmed.

I save the bone china for Sundays

[southamptonadi]

a flask ... UHT milk ... a sachet/small wrap of coffee

Lukewarm water, UHT milk and instant coffee? - I think I'd rather drink my own wee

Its not too bad when you get used to it................







the wee I mean

you can joke but when i was at school we did a science experiement to see the difference in wee from someone with diabetes and someone without and the teach dared me, so i had some of both (it had come from a lab and had been treated so was safe) one was quite sweet. i would not recomend it though and a cup of tea is much nicer.

[LollyKat]

Thanks to all of you for your contributions - or most of them (I can do without the details on wee, thank you!). I'll start off with a thermos, maybe keeping the primus for special occasions, i.e. when I feel like indulging in nostalgia for the old days... The pocket rocket looks a good thing to carry as a back-up on a long tour. I still remember once struggling in a bitterly cold headwind to a pub marked on a Barts map - middle of nowhere in the Dales - only to find it abandoned and derelict.

[tykeboy2003]

I'd have to go with the thermos I think, anything else would take too long and I'd end up cooling down too much. Besides which I'm a fresh coffee drinker (espresso) so I'd make a flask full (microwave it to get it nice and hot) and take individual UHT single cream portions (from Macro, about £4 for a box of 120).

Very fussy about my coffee and not fond of tea.

[stewartpratt]

I'm a fresh coffee drinker (espresso) so I'd make a flask full

A Thermos full of espresso? Hardcore!

[meic]

Our town hardware shop sells paraffin at £6 for a gallon. The gas cylinders are now £3-4 for a 200g cylinder!!!

Both options are much cheaper than using a cafe but the paraffin is nearly free in comparison to the gas.
As I am loathe to spend my pennies on any thing (other than titanium bike parts) I did try and run the primus on a friend's fuel oil for central heating but it is a lower grade of paraffin and runs too dirty.

[reohn2]

I'm a fresh coffee drinker (espresso) so I'd make a flask full

A Thermos full of espresso? Hardcore!

Beats wee,wee!

[tykeboy2003]

A Thermos full of espresso? Hardcore!

I don't make it as strong as you would get it in a Spanish cafe.... Otherwise I'd never get to sleep at night.

Actually a better alternative would be hot chocolate laced with brandy - rocket fuel!

[LollyKat]

Hmmm, and the brandy could be used for the primus....or how about the meths in the hot chocolate?

[stewartpratt]

Hmmm, and the brandy could be used for the primus

Brandy as cooking fuel? Sacrilege!

That's what whisky is for.

[bigjim]

My pocket rocket uses these with an adapter http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Butane-Gas-Cartridge-Heater-Cooker-Kampa-227g-Gas-Cartridge-Pack-4-/250995716772?pt=UK_SportingGoods_Camping_CookingSupplies_ET&hash=item3a7082b2a4. So £1.75 for a long lasting 227g gas cartridge. Cheap enough for me. The last one lasted me for a week with plenty left over after porridge every morning, brew up twice a day and the odd evening meal. A single one is 2euros in France.

[roadvader]

whats the advice for storing a stove with fuel in it?,say i have my coleman multi fuel (yet to purchase) and theres fuel still left in it is that ok to put in a front pannier? inside another bag of some kind?,if you have an msr you can just put in in the cage below the downtube,so whats best to do?

[meic]

I have one pocket of my panniers which is the "dirty" pocket and the stove shares that with tentpegs, chainlube and other things that I dont mind getting soiled. That is the only part of the panniers the stove goes in as it is only a matter of time before some paraffin or petrol contaminates things.

Though I much prefer to isolate them entirely. Fuel bottle under the down tube, stove body in a frame clip and other stove parts in a dedicated seat-fitted bag but I cant manage all of those on any one bike.