Trangia Tips and Advice
Fuel Usage
- A rough guide on fuel quantity needed is to allow yourself around 1/2 litre methylated spirits for cooking per person per week. Cooking times can also vary depending on altitude and weather conditions. It is always advisable to take spare fuel.
Fuel Conservation
- When cooking use the lid on the pans to cook quicker and conserve the fuel.
- Heat can be adjusted with the simmering ring on the burner, this will slow down the rate the fuel is used.
- Use fuel remaining in the burner for making coffee or tea.
- Wind can drastically increase the cooking time and fuel consumption, ensure you cook out of strong winds.
- Only use enough fuel in the burner for your intended cooking as it takes longer for the fuel in a full stove burner to heat to optimal temperature (produces a hot flame) than it does if you use only the amount necessary. Therefore saving fuel.
Measurements
- Know the size of your Trangia stove, it will allow you to have a good guestimate on ingredient and liquid quantity when filling the pan.
Cleaning your Pans
- For stubborn welded on food, use the fuel left in the burner to heat a little water the pan to loosen the food residues.
- The bottom of the pan can soot up after a while a good scrub can remove this. To reduce the sooty flames as a drop of water into the fuel mixture.
Health & Safety
- Never add additional fuel into an already lit burner, let it go out first.
- Drop a blade of grass into the burner to determine if the Trangia is lit.
- Do not overfill the burner, around 2/3 full is sufficient.
- When packing away the cold trangia burner into the pans, put it in its own plastic bag to help reduce any contamination to the kettle and pans out when the meths taints them.