@Daryl , Ahhhh.... Now I see how you did it! Makes sense, once you get a peek at your setup. I had to laugh at the photo of our mountains! Looks like HWY 330 headed up, which goes to the East of us. I can see the turn-off to our place, from the photo you sent! right now, we're in the midst of a high wind warning, with gusts of between 50-65 MPH! Getting bombarded with limbs, pine cones, and other things, is no fun, especially when we see the huge trees next to the house, moving back and forth like twigs! Supposed to end by 4PM, that will not come soon enough for us!! Are you getting high winds down there where you live? @FishNChips , interesting that Colin Fletcher influenced you on backpacking stoves. He did the same for me, and when I found my first SVEA 123, at a big swap meet in San Diego (sadly, gone, now), I fell in love with it, due to his strong support of that stove. Same with the MSR X-GK family of stoves. Once again it was Fletcher that encouraged me to get one, and he was right! On the negative side, he did not care much for Meths stoves, and that put me off of them, for far too long. He was wrong about how well they can do in deep cold, and at altitude, IF used properly! Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc
@Doc Mark Hwy 18 is in there somewhere, the whiteish stripe is the drain line for Lake Silverwood. Clam at 7pm down here, but we did have a good blow today. Your wind is my wind in a few minutes travel time. Here are staged pictures in the wilds of my work bench showing how a small grate would work out. Used the Primus 71 from my Edelweiss mess kit in my DIY windscreen pot stand thing to boil water. Trying the hot and cold method to loosen stuck NRV. Being patient with it is not the best use of time. Oh well what's new? Torch would have had it out an back in a few minutes and legs attached also. Fashioned it after the Svea 123 windscreen to make the 71 more-user friendly outside the mess kit. Could do the same for naked Svea 123's from Sigg kits.
May I propose a bit of sacrilege on the Tourist frying pan? You can create a DIY non-stick coating on aluminum the same way you do it on cast iron - season it with a bit of oil. In this case, use flax seed oil (it's the food grade version of linseed oil). Do it a few times and you will end up with a black non-stick surface that works reasonably well. I did this on my old Palco frying pan - you know the one you had when you were a Boy Scout? It's also thin aluminum, and the eggs stuck horribly. So I roughened the surface up a tad with steel wool, then put a thin coat (like really thin) of oil all over the inside. Only use a few drops. Then put it in the oven at 450F for an hour or so. Flax seed oil will darken & transform into a hard surface when baked at high temps. It will smoke a lot, so keep the vent fan on so as not to tempt the smoke detector. The more times you do it, the thicker the coating gets. You may have to roughen up the coating each time before the next layer goes on.
@Daryl , Thanks for cluing me in to the angle of the geography. To my eye, the peak on the far left, looks like Strawberry Peak. But, I realize that, even if it is, it's not a straight-on photo, and the angle tripped me up some. I got a laugh from your comment, "your wind, is my wind, is my wind..."! True enough! Thanks for the photos, and God Bless! Doc
Frying is just not a problem on the Sigg set. As I said above, we cook eggs with copious olive oil, so there we have no sticking problem. With steaks I'll cut some fat off and fry it for a good coating. With the hot Svea flame, I not only flip the steaks, but rotate them horizontally as well, and this gives good overall coverage. Because we do one-nighters, sometimes two, final cleanup is easy back home in the kitchen sink.
The Sigg Tourist is good for hiking trips, but I can't see why anyone would want to use it otherwise when suitable equipment is available. It's like a dog walking on its hind legs, it's not done particularly well, though we're impressed it's done at all.
“Hiking trips “ is what we use it for. That’s what it’s made for. I’ve never used it “otherwise “. What would that be?
Can you clarify that? 2 pots, a lid that doubles as a frypan. All 3 stack, so a gourmet combination could be kept hot, and warm. Along the lines of the successful Trangia kits. Very useful, to those that mike them.
Much easier done when back home, sometimes saving precious water if dry camping, but then it comes down to food choice. I"ve gotten even more simpler the older I get, have not done egg and sausage on o/n bp trips for quite a few years. I try to be meticulous cleaning up greasy stuff when bping to keep from getting gear oily. Duane
At the risk of getting off topic, there's another way of avoiding getting things stuck when frying - use Ghee instead of oil. Although it pains my Greek heritage greatly to say this, Ghee has a much higher smoke temperature than olive oil (480F vs. 400F), so it tends to work better for frying. It's a shelf-stable form of butter that is ridiculously simple to make: Homemade Ghee Recipe . -Paul
Went through the stove. Wick looks clean, full of fuel, passed the leak tests. The fuel gasket and pip look almost new. I have an extra gasket/pip but doesn’t look needed. Someone really took care of this kit. Fired it up outside the first time of course, but brought it inside where it was darker for the flame shot.
Good lookin flame. Did you dunk test it?? Those cap gaskets ALWAYS leak on the ones I get. If not dunk, when hot and running, spray a bit of soapy water around cap. A tiny bit of pressure loss really reduces output. @PWDolkas thanks for the link, I might try that.
