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Hi i am trying to customise my trangia combining lightweight, durability and ease of use. I was thinking of buying the pans in titanium and having a nonstick frying pan. Can anyone suggest any good sites to buy Titanium Trangia Pots or has anyone got any advise on what is best concerning trangias.

Also my out is as black as the ace of spades on the bottom is their anyway to clean them to make them look brand new?

Also is duossal non stick????

Thanks

Chris

In reply to Chris Cookson:
Why sticking with the Trangia particularly? Various lightweight and low bulk gas options out there.

In reply to Chris Cookson: I only use a trangia for alpine climbing 1 - 3 nights out bivvy-ing so can't realy comment but i do use a MINI-TRANGIA which is ultra light. My mate also has one so we eat fairly well.Also the mini trangia is about £15 and i've had mine for about 10 years !!
hope this helps

In reply to Chris Cookson:

I'm a long-time Trangia user, and a fan.

My advice would be not to bother about the Ti stuff, unless you're REALLY counting the grams (in which case you'd already bought yourself a pocket rocket). Cooking on Ti is shit, as it doesn't really distribute heat as well as aluminium.

I have a duosal pot and a non-stick frypan. Duosal is not non-stick, but I find that non-stick only really matters in the frypan anyway.

Leave the black stains on the underside - they reduce cooking time, especially on the kettle.

For all things Trangia, try upandunder.co.uk

In reply to Chris Cookson:

Do not remove all the black stuff unless you are with a scout troop as it absorbs heat better. If it is sooty you need to use it on a hotter stove to burn the excess off and then just wash normally. If it soots up a lot your burner is not working properly, get another stove.

In reply to sutty: Nah.. Trangia's always soot up the bottom of pans.. or they have in my experience..

Although I have been told that it if you add about 10% water to the meths it stops it sooting as badly and doesn't affect the amount of heat given out either.. seems to work as that is what I do now although the bottoms of the pans are already black anyway!!

In reply to Chris Cookson:

Thanks for all the help guys.

I use a trangia simply because of their simplicity and i hate gas. Gas stoves require extra pans etc etc and are a bugger to pack away. Also in my experience gas stoves are hard to light and their temperature is effected greatly by the wind.

Thanks again.

Chris