Thread: cookers

Originally Posted by Eion

Hexi or Hexamine is a solid fuel source. It's very similar to the white fire starter bricks you may have seen before. It's an Army issue also, but with a lick of wind or even a drop of rain the stuff wont work. Even if it does it takes 15min to boil a cups canteen of water.

Were you trying to run a bath?...a quarter of a tablet will boil enough water for a coffee

Originally Posted by Spook

Were you trying to run a bath?...a quarter of a tablet will boil enough water for a coffee

How else do you wash in the field?

But in all seriousness, say for morning routine. I boil my water, pour some off into a mess tin to shave with, some into my muesli to rehydrate it and the last I use for a brew. There's a fair bit of water there. When we get issued with Hexi it is one box or four tabs per ration pack/day.

I far prefer to use something like this

Kiwi Camping Micra Gas Stove R&R Sport NZ

Turned up full tilt they will run for ~1 hour from a standard sized gas canister. It's quicker, you can cook right off the flame and as Toby mentioned with the smaller cans, that still provide 30m cooking time, it's a very compact unit.

Originally Posted by Eion

How else do you wash in the field?

But in all seriousness, say for morning routine. I boil my water, pour some off into a mess tin to shave with, some into my muesli to rehydrate it and the last I use for a brew. There's a fair bit of water there. When we get issued with Hexi it is one box or four tabs per ration pack/day.

I far prefer to use something like this

Kiwi Camping Micra Gas Stove R&R Sport NZ

Turned up full tilt they will run for ~1 hour from a standard sized gas canister. It's quicker, you can cook right off the flame and as Toby mentioned with the smaller cans, that still provide 30m cooking time, it's a very compact unit.

Shaving is not something that happens too much on hunting trips from what I have seen of others...I havn't had a shave since 1986, so my opinion hardly counts on the matter.
All the hexi I have had are in 8 tablet packs...the NZDF kept me supplied for many years and I picked up a 10 pack at a second hand shop a few years ago...the last time I seen it for sale, it was a hell of a price.