Small portable hob

[rxtx]

I have a little bit of time off so I thought I'd visit some of the UK dark spots with my camera. I don't see much point in staying at a B&B since I expect to be up most of the night so I'll just sleep in the back of the car.

I'll need a small hob to boil water though (outside of course), it'll probably need to be one of those little butane ones. I seem to remember a recall on some though, anyone got any advice?

[rxtx]

Perhaps I'm thinking of this recall, mentioned on this very page, that I didn't notice until just now

http://www.calor.co.uk/recall

[jep]

One of these won't break the bank and does all you need to boil a kettle. It's £8.

Alternatively, a Jetboil is the dogs danglies but you pay for it.

[GAjon]

I had one similar to this for years, in fact I think i've still got it somewhere.

http://www.campingaz.com/uk/p-23511-twister174-plu...

[tenohfive]

Grab yourself an MSR Pocket Rocket, more expensive than the budget options (HiGear/CampingGaz type things) but performs much more quickly than them too. And light and small enough at 85g to chuck in your bag if you decide to wander a bit further from the car.

http://www.gaynors.co.uk/brands/all/dp-73886/sk-16...

[Captain Ahab]

I've got the same thing as above but only£8.00 from wilkos

Fantastic compact burner and super powerful !

http://www.wilko.com/camping-equipment-and-essenti...

[jjones]

If in the car and size space is not an issue just get one of those flat cheap rectangle ones that take the cans that you can buy in loads of places. Much easier to balance a pot on top of because of the low centre of gravity and large foot print. Have inbuilt starters also so doesn't matter if you forget the matches

http://www.halfords.com/motoring-travel/camping-ca...

http://www.halfords.com/motoring-travel/camping-ca...

[rxtx]

Cheers all. Yeah I'd seen those small hobs rebranded everywhere, I was wondering about the quality but I suppose for a tenner you can't really go wrong. I can sit outside and cook on the boot with the tailgate up.

[jep]

I've used and abused mine for 3yrs now, and it's been absolutely fine. Having a hard case to put it in helps enormously.

[gtidriver]

Ive got the Jetboil Flash the 3ltr cooking pot and the frying pan, and the sumo cup,probably get the minimo next.Yes it's expensive but its awesome and does everything that i ask for it to do very efficiently. Keep all my gear in a couple of Maxpedition multi purpose bags, got enough food to last me a few days as well.

Edited by gtidriver on Sunday 28th June 17:49

[rxtx]

gtidriver said:

Keep all my gear in a couple of Maxpedition multi purpose bags

Good choice, I have a nice selection of Maxpedition bags, 9 in all I think!

Jep, which hard case do you have?

[briang9]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12V-ELECTRIC-KETTLE-WATE...

[rxtx]

Considered that, but it'll probably eat the battery (despite the fact I'll have a small leisure one with me for an amateur radio), but then I couldn't do a quick bacon-and-eggs or something.

[jep]

rxtx said:

Good choice, I have a nice selection of Maxpedition bags, 9 in all I think!

Jep, which hard case do you have?

They should come with one pal.

[gtidriver]

rxtx said:

gtidriver said:

Keep all my gear in a couple of Maxpedition multi purpose bags

Good choice, I have a nice selection of Maxpedition bags, 9 in all I think!

What ones you got???? I've got the12x5 bottle holder the fatboy versipack, a monsoon a jumbo edc, a noatak, a mag bag pals, a couple of mpb's, a laptop satchel and I've order a neat freak this afternoon. Love them.

[rxtx]

gtidriver said:

What ones you got???? I've got the12x5 bottle holder the fatboy versipack, a monsoon a jumbo edc, a noatak, a mag bag pals, a couple of mpb's, a laptop satchel and I've order a neat freak this afternoon. Love them.

I use this lot often,

Falcon II, with a mini rollypoly tactied to each side
Condor II
Sabercat (the best gadget bag ever known to human-kind)
Proteus
Neat Freak
Fatty
Chubby
Beefy
2 x Mini

The Neat Freak is great but I found it a bit cramped inside unless you remove the inner divider, depends what you'll be using it for. As a "man bag", or something to carry stuff in when you don't have enough pocket space as most people should call it, I tend to use the Proteus or Neat Freak, using the Neat Freak's shoulder strap with both. I'd like something between the Proteus and Sabercat but you can't have it all.

[rxtx]

jep said:

They should come with one pal.

Thanks, I think I'll get one of those

[gtidriver]

Ill probably just keep a iPad air a charger cable a power bank a torch a pack of tissues a pack of wet wipes a lighter, some earphones and a knife.