At it again using Enders 9061. Mix up some masa (corn flour) to go with hot dogs, onions & pepper one day and then heated some leftovers for some wraps. sunny SoCal
Used Gates Folding Stove 1915 Newport, KY and Trangia 124 cook kit for some fish pasta. If you like sardines give it a try with pasta. Sunny SoCal
With the sunny days now time to use them. Coleman oven on 413D with it's looog tank. Roasted pork strips 2 hours 400F (205C) with BBQ sauce. Meat was tasty and good way to burn up a tank of fuel.
Today, I decided that it was high time to use the MSR Dragonfly that I got from @Remus1956 I also wanted to check if you can use an Optimus bottle with an MSR pump. Turns out, yes you can! I just got back from vacation and bought some Frankfurter sausages in Denmark on my way back home and got these on. Beautiful flame pattern from the last batch of BD Dragonsilencers before I materialize decided to give Bernie Dog the finger and stop making his caps. But, at least the sausages tasted good! Thanks for reading Arjan
Yea, that sucks. I waited too long to get a BD silent cap, now they are no more. Do any other brands of silent caps work well?
Well, I'm waiting for a silencer from Quiet stove for my recently bought Nova, to see if they are any good. Which BD cap are you looking for? I think I have a spare mini-cap for an Optimus 8r, SVEA 123 and the like ...
@ajvuik - The three gaps on your BD DragonTamer are designed to line up with the three pot supports to reduce the heating of them by the flame. Pharael.
@Pharael yes, I know, but the stove was already pre-heated when I took this shot... I will position it correctly next time, thanks for the heads-up
@ajvuik - It’s a great performing silent cap…dramatically cuts noise, exceptional simmer capability and overall flame control capability is superb. Great combination! You have a wonderful stove there! Nice one… Pharael.
@ajvuik The BD minicap was the one I was looking at. I have several 123/123R’s, two 8R’s, Optimus 80, Primus 71, and a couple of Optimus 96’s. I figured it should work on any of them. I’ve been looking at the Quiet Stove brand now, but not sure if they work well?
@Pharael In theory those gaps are supposed to reduce the flame on the pot supports, but in practice I've witnessed the flames on either side of that gap shoot across the notches in the burner bell and direct flames right at the pot supports. Almost like they were being accelerated. I prefer caps without those gaps. With a pot on the stove the flames will do what they want, and your pot supports are going to glow red regardless.
@ajvuik I used to be able to hear you cooking on that stove all they way from here in Los Angeles...or it was a plane passing over the house...not sure hahah
It was too hot the other night to cook inside, so that was a great occasion to use some of my camping stoves. I cooked rice in FireMaple’s “micro pressure” cooker which is really just a (wonderful) steamer insert. I set it into a GSI Halulite 600ml pot, which is what you see at left in some of the pictures. I cooked this using an old MSR Pocket Rocket (not shown, because charmless) mated to an almost-empty 1lb green propane cylinder using a Firemaple adapter. The cylinder is too empty to power a bbq but has prepared many batches of rice in this manner. I have some questionable fuel i am trying to use up in my Optimus Polaris, so that was an excuse to use that stove. First I cooked garlic scapes with butter (actually ghee) and a bit of water. Then I used that pan to cook pork chops that I had marinated in lemon juice, garlic, fresh herbs. The red is from sriracha. Why is it THAT satisfying to see a burner glow red? Food cooked on fun stoves outdoors tastes better, right?
First 100F (37C) day couple days back here in inland SoCal. Palm Springs, Ca. is 45mi east and beach is 45mi west. Made extra coffee on Enders two burner in the morning when 63F (22C) and planned to use it for the dinner enchiladas outside too. Got too hot and moved inside with air conditioning which is common. Had grandson to help help me and wife. family was here for a week and pulled out different stove each day.
