How To Use A Trangia Camping Stove

This is a very dangerous video clip and people could be very seriously hurt by it's failings! Besides the "bad practise," of leaving spent firewood (Matches) in a burner and using matches when a more appropriate lighter is available, the worrying thing about this video is that it appears to be a comprehensive guide to how to use a Trangia and yet simply misses out the NO1 safety rule! Trangias are very dangerous when it comes to re-filling, firstly Mentholated spirits (Meths) for use with a Trangia should always, without exception, be stored in a correctly labelled, plastic fuel bottle with a one-way filler valve top. The glass bottle here depicted is tantamount to manslaughter in terms of good practise! Firstly you have the danger of a broken glass bottle leaking Meths. Secondly you have the worry of the label becoming unreadable or even the Meths itself staining the label clean, thus leaving the poisonous liquid un-labelled! However the real worry here that there is no instruction whatsoever about how to re-fill the burner. Meths will burn with an almost invisible flame, as such it should be constantly reminded that the Meths burner should never, ever, ever, ever be re-filled unless the burner has been thoroughly smothered (by means of the supplied – fully closed - “flame adjuster” and not the burner lid which has an integral rubber seal to prevent spillage of unused Meths when the burner is packed away.) allowed to cool and then re-filled. Even a hot burner that has been extinguished can re-ignite when fresh Meths is poured onto it. If this happens and you’re using anything other than a correct safety bottle with a cut off valve then it will explode in your face, leave you disfigured and probably blind you. Even using the correct bottle and safety filler you still stand the chance of flash back and serious burns if the burner isn’t correctly cooled! I do not mean to either scare people or scaremonger here, this is a great bit of kit when used correctly, but anything that so closely resembles a training video should be correct and safe! This is a dangerous video, I have personally seen accidents with Trangias caused by this kind of lack of instruction and those one or two young people who have been so seriously maimed should serve as a lesson for all users.

testing for meths flames. Could you tell me how to treat a burn to my hand?

been using one for years. i,m a biker. excellent to use, light weight, and compact. hey! i sound like a commercal. they can be converted to gas.the 10% water is spot on.if you use meths/wood alc,etc

God !! , up to £45 for a pressed aluminium cooker set !!!!!!!

The trangia site has a pdf with translations for "meths" in loads of languages.

I found this very concise ,clear and has convinced me that the recommendation of friends was spot on. I shall be using one !

This is all very helpful, but what I want to know is what is "metholated spirits" in French/Spanish/Italian... I have tried cooking on some very dubious fuels as a result of guessing in the hypermarche/mercado etc