Very nice flame in the Vid. there, Jim. As I keep saying to the wife, 'practice makes babies'. ! Hey, get yourself 3 more of those Lidl burners and you could say bye bye to British Gas. Just pop them into the top of your cooker, instead of the gas burners Enjoy the Flame Spudz
Looks good to me! They do get bigger / hotter after a bit, at least thats what my trangia does. Right before it burns out, its a regular flame-thrower!!!
Looks not so good to me ... I have a lot of alcohol stoves and some trangia-like and trangia among them. A real trangia give a big purple flame... As it did in my Sirram: I don't know why but it seems that a very, very tiny difference makes a good or a not so good flame. But the fuel is the first important thing. Methylated alcohol at 85 % ? Methanol ?
Now that's what i expected 8) Looks like more/finer holes in the sirram burner. Not sure about the Ethanol percentage - difficult to find data sheet. I use standard UN1170 UK methylated spirit (purple colour) usually in 500ml bottles. Perhaps the "industrial" is better. anyone tried it?
Good stuff! Those simple gas burners are really nice to mess around with. I've had acouple of gassy-mods on the backburner for two years or more now. Maybe I'll get them going again.
Just tried my Lidl stove - worked perfectly straight out of the box. It boiled a kettle of water very quickly and economically with no problems at all. Jim, from your pics, I'd say yours was also working as it should. I suspect the first two you had probably were also working correctly - maybe you just expected something different....
David could you time it next time, please? Mine took about 11 minutes to boil a pint of water in the pot - seems slow to me . I did not get to light the first two No1 had the burner cover cross threaded and couldn't be removed (looked as if bashed on at an angle!) No2 had no base unit - the bit that holds the burner! Someone on another forum got one missing the pan support, so probably best to check before leaving the shop
....... all you happy?? lidl shoppers .... you did buy a pair of metho cook kits , didnt you ?? you didnt ?? why should you ?? .... heres one reason why .... add an argos cast non-stick alUminium griddle (reversable) & its all day breakfast time . used this set up twice now, & well , lets just say .... its cooking pre heat the griddle /burners ... put on the simmer rings ..fully opened & i reckon the griddle surface temp is just about right ..... .... it cooks MY onions cook on ... cook up ... nick
Hopelessly unscientific to do a direct comparison, of course, but mine took just under 9 minutes to boil a pint of water in my camping kettle. I lit it and let it burn for 5 minutes to settle down before I put the kettle on it. I recall the Trangia burner in my Swedish Army cookset burns better. I'll try that in the Lidl cookset and see what gives...
I've mentioned this type of stove before, but here goes again http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-CAMPING-G...0QQihZ010QQcategoryZ16036QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem very easy to convert to use with the Lidl setup
