Hikermor,If someone would make a two piece pressed stainless steel soap dish.You know the kinds in travel toiletry kits.Coghlin's used to make one in aluminum.It was rather thin though.I know what I want,just don't have the monet or means to produce it....

BOATMAN
John

"stainless steel soap dish"

Do you mean something like this?

http://www.soapware.org/956/

that looked interesting until I followed the link to buy it at amazon and found this:


Pre de Provence 250g Soap Metal Travel Box
by Pre de Provence
9 customer reviews
Currently unavailable.
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Holds up to 250g soap bar.
Made of Metal.
Color: Silver

A Trekmates flameless cooker would make for a good Survival Kit Container, if a little over sized. It fits snuggly into a Flyee Medical Pouch.

http://www.trekmates.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=137/

The addition space also allows the inclusion of 2 600kcal Expedition Foods main meals.

I think one of the Trangia mess tins would be a good containier for a survival kit (I had something very similar as a Scout). I think they are a bit big for pocket carry though; more of a backpack sized kit.

Cauldronborn2,That soap box is hinged.

Denis,I had that Trangia mess tin.It is too big for pocket carry.it is the right concept though....

BOATMAN
John

Sorry, I didn't notice that.

The Trekmates and the Trangia would indeed make good SK containers, but, as pointed out, they are just a tad too bulky for carry on the body. I suppose one could try stone boiling in a flexible container. Does anyone have experience with this?

i saw some stone boiling photos,they were making some sort of soup in a hacked out log.the soup was thick with wood ash.i would think you need very smooth rocks that don't collect ash and really brush them off before tossing them into you food.

I did an experiment to see if I could boil water in a standard Nalgene bottle with rocks heated in coals. I posted about it here several years ago. Short answer is that it works fine, but the water will get ash in it if you put the rocks in the coals. So while having a metal container is nice it isn't essential for boiling water.

I suppose you could put the rocks above the fire to heat them up (like on a grill) and that would keep them much cleaner. I'll have to give that a whirl.

Of course, ingesting ash is not harmful, and possibly even good for you if you need some carbon to absorb other bad things you might ingest. You could always filter through a clean hanky if you were worried about it.