Are trangia stoves the same thing that comes with the sweidsh mess kit and cooker set? They are item WX0 - 36924 on the sportsmansguide. Does antone have experience with them? How does a trangia stove work ? Ive never had one, are they reliable?

I love mine! I've had many backpack stoves, and this is my favorite because it is so small and quiet. It takes a long time to boil water, but fuel is cheap and available everywhere! (HEET or other brand gas antifreeze/ dryer- can get it at any gas station/walmart/grocerystore/minit-mart.)

I have a Swedish Cooker set which uses an alcohol burner much like the Trangia sets. It is contained in an aluminum windscreen, cookpot, lid, and plastic alcohol bottle combo that is very sturdy. It works well. One full filling of the alcohol burner will boil a full pot of water (~1.25L) in 15 minutes with about 5 minutes of burn time left. The fuel bottle holds about 2 additional charges.<br><br>I find it useful as an emergency cook kit for the car trunk as the fuel is relatively safe to carry at all times. I find it very slow, quiet, heavy and inefficient compared to my MSR stoves. A MSR stove will boil 1L of water in 3-4 minutes, on a small amount of white gas, kerosene or other highly flammable fuels including gasoline, with a burner roar audible at 50 paces.<br><br>My car trunk kit has the Swedish cooker, for backpacking and presumably a BOB I would use the MSR multifuel stove.<br><br>The major advantage to the alcohol burners is fuel safety. Burning in an partially enclosed improvised shelter (plastic and debris) would probably be much safer with an alcohol burner than the white gas stoves from the standpoint of burning down the house. From the standpoint of carbon dioxide or monoxide poisoning maybe no real advantage.<br><br>The slowness of the alcohol stoves and relative fuel inefficiency limit its use for me and will expose the user to longer times with an open flame to tend and be exposed to fumes.<br><br>I have decided to carry an alcohol cooker for use in preparing the PSK tea bag in an urban setting :)<br>

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No they are not.<br>Although there look similar and function on the same principle of bruning alcohol / methylated spirits, the swedish mess kit and cooker set is many times heavier and bulkier. <br>The trangia 25 and 27 series cookers come in a complete set with 2 pots / frying pan / kettle/ windshield/pot stand, burner and burner stand weighs less than the bulky swedish mess set.<br><br>The trangia works by burning of alcohol in the burner. As the alcohol comes to a boil and vapourizes, the jet shoots through the holes on the rim of the burner, producing a hotter flame.<br><br>I love my trangia. It has no moving parts, requires no priming, is silent, runs on clean alcohol / spirits and has never failed me. They are extremely reliable, albeit a little slow in bringing a liter of water to boil, then again with the little kettle, you can't boil 1 litre of water anyway. If you're cooking with the kit provided, boil times are not really a concern.<br><br>Get a trangia...heck I have two! Best cookset/stove i've had.

I haven't seen one in person, but it does look large enough to be used as a car kit (ala the coffee can kit concept). This wsould hold your kit contents and be a cooking container.

sorry I was so late with this...DIY!!!<br>http://www.fallingwater.com/pct2000/gear/KissStove.asp