So.... Just got this stove and really like it. Simple. This week we have been unpacking the gear from camping .. cleaning it up and storing in tubs. Later I was looking for this stove and couldn't find it...I looked everywhere. Asked the wife later and she said "oh yeah I found a tub for it" Tub - Definition in my wife's Slavic mind means "any food container like butter, sour cream...etc that can be cleaned and reusable for some other food container" My wife is slightly obsessed with this as I think all Slavic women are as I was given some cookies her mom made in a container I sent her something else in a year ago... So I find this sometimes funny... Like the time my own mom put something into a container that was for dry dog food before...lol... So... This was is the best container for this stove actually... Things about it.... It fits without mods...and only goes in one way. Also...I can flip on it's side or shake it and it doesn't rattle around.... Even up side down with the lid on it. Feast your eyes on my wife's idea haha - at least it doesn't have goulash in it.
@Remus1956 , My Mom was Hungarian, and yes, we, too, got the "use this", when searching for containers for myriad things! Great idea, and hey, it works! - Doc
Excellent. Now my wife would put it in a container and forget she did so, and three years later I would find the stove I couldn't find.
Hey good repurposing of that 'Tub' which sells for $17.99 now. Soon coffee in tub maybe the same price as a aluminum Peak 1 cook/storage case. That is Thermo set plastic and if you want more room inside hold it over flame and those hand grips can be flattened out. Wear some gloves because it will get hot.
If it works, why not? Very creative of your wife. And reusing something is never bad in my book. It makes it even more your own and it gives the stove character and a story to tell!
@Doc Mark See you know what I mean then...you probably have a stack of butter tubs on the top of the fridge, or eaten lasagna out of a cool whip tub right? HAHA @Tom Pavlidis Oh on this one I am happy but if I encourage it I will get this for every stove haha @Majicwrench its not the same here, we both have a pretty good memory...but she has a habit of finding weird places to put things (like the pressure cooker in the hall closet next to the coats for example) @Daryl She actually found some cheap starbucks coffee at smart and final...big bags...pretty cheap @ajvuik so I guess you have not eaten your lunch from a whipped cream tub? And had your name written on the outside so in her mind that other people will not confuse my lunch with others at work? Like all of us take whip cream tubs with food in it to work...totally normal? haha
Hi. @Remus1956 . I understand your surprise at your wife's idea. But... For me (probably because I am Slavic myself), such an idea is quite acceptable. Until recently, using containers designed for specific products for something completely different was perfectly normal. Now this is changing a bit and, unfortunately, the piles of rubbish are growing. In the years when there was a shortage of packaging in the Eastern Bloc, every container could be put to practical use. My mother still keeps her sewing supplies in boxes of Danish cookies that we received as gifts in the 1980s. I myself store many stove parts in boxes of laundry capsules, etc. I even once used a metal car first aid kit to make a box for my stove. Greetings to your wife. Stanislaw
I feel seen: my Hungarian mother, aunt, and late grandmother store (stored) every manner of leftover food in sour cream containers and yogourt containers, such that it could be hard to find the actual sour cream in the fridge. And my Hungarian mother currently stores the pressure cooker not in the kitchen but in the coat closet next to the front door. If anyone else shops for vintage sewing machines, and I presume this is not just a Canadian thing, if it doesn't already come with a round blue metal tin (ex Danish cookies), then you should ask the seller to go take another look among the items from their mother/grandmother/etc. that they are selling. That tin will have not just a selection of thread spools but also quite likely the sewing machine's original and potentially hard-to-replace accessories.
@Knee so.....you have eaten goulash from a cream container too....or helped making pickles and reusing spaghetti sauce bottles. Haha...I thought it was strange in a way as my mom did this occasionally, but the wife is actually from Slovakia. She is making pickles with jars from Lidl actually that she brought with her full from Bratislava haha. Side note...if you want to mail her some good brynza cheese....haha Also she says hello and told me that in Slovakia it's required by law to keep first aid in the car ...and her old one was a tin box @Montrealer NOW THATS FUNNY. My mom had this old sewing machine from the 1940's or something like that. It folds out of a table. My wife is from Bratislava Slovakia, speaks perfect english with an accent but natively speaks Slovak/Czech. She would ask my mom to borrow her sewing machine because my wife also likes to fix my socks, or make blankets and such...and after a while my mom gifted her a really old machine that was in rebuilt new condition. My wife currently stores all the stuff in it in cookie tins...Im going to take a photo for you
@Remus1956 no, I can't say I have eaten anything out of a whipped cream tub. It also doesn't help that whipped cream, normally, can't be bought in a tub over here I do keep electrical switches and outlets in a cookie tin and rubber o rings in a salad tub. And I have a potato crate that I use to hold my boxes of screws. I hope that counts
