Best kettle for boiling water

[Realearner]

Hi to all, just a question, seen lots of you lot boiling water:campfire: in very small kettles. Are these parts of a kit or can they be brought separately:mad2:
And better add I use a home made meths burner, or trangia. Also have option to go for open fire.
If so where and what would a good recommendation be..
If not what other suggestions would be offered?

[cobra]

Try a kelly kettle mate i love em very fast to boil and light to carry.

[jus_young]

Mines a Tesco 1 litre kettle. Available for a couple of quid and used on fire, gas and meths. Lightweight, cheap and does the job so well that I now have 2!

[JEEP]

Go to your local oriental/middle eastern store, and pick up a small (<1 L) stainless steel kettle. They are often a lot cheaper than camping kettles, a lot nicer looking - and because they are stainless steel, not aluminium, they are a lot tougher and way more resistant to heat and flame. When basecamping, I usually have one standing at the edge og my fire 24/7.

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[Realearner]

Hi Jeep, that is one cool looking kettle.
Also like the look of those pans? Same place to purchase?
Though don't think we got to many oriental/middle eastern shops close to me. However my eldest son does live in
London so will send him out hunting.

[JEEP]

The pans are from an local supermarket, but you can find them in Indian stores I believe. They are dirt cheap. The pans a large enough to cook for one person in them - yet small enough to be used as a mug for drinking.

As already established with tiffin tins and billy cans - there are a lot of good cheap cooking gear to be found at ethnic stores. Before Ray made them a must-have for bushcrafters, Zebra billy cans could be had for very small money. Stainless steel and enamel mugs are also to be found very cheaply if you look for them in the right places.

[Realearner]

That's really good news, my daughter in law is Indian so even better could get discountT^
And her pedants must know someone, could even start to resell them ha ha!

[Reaps72]

Hi to all, just a question, seen lots of you lot boiling water:campfire: in very small kettles. Are these parts of a kit or can they be brought separately:mad2:
And better add I use a home made meths burner, or trangia. Also have option to go for open fire.
If so where and what would a good recommendation be..
If not what other suggestions would be offered?

Just to be sure no one is in CID? No then I'll continue!

When the misses & I go away on romantic away days we have a tradition of borrowing random objects as a memento! Feeds the childish need to be a kleptomaniac & adds some spice & much more memorable objects!

We went to a certain Pukka Italian, she lifted (borrowed long term), the cast iron tea pot that her chosen beverage arrived in, works brilliant sat next to the fire. It is similar in size to a Trangia kettle does 2 decent mugs!

Now I am in no way advocating theft in any way & it in no way reflects the ethos of this site (apart from the green implications of recycling!) I am very aware that the risks are real & having been collared one or two times, I am fully aware how serious restaurant managers can get! But it's still funny!

[Adam Savage]

Nice little tip Jakob. Will be keeping my eyes open at my local orientals.

Reaps: Cast iron you say? Hmmmmmm....

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[Humakt]

I have two kettles - a little (0.8L) hard anodised aluminium one I got from Mountain Warehouse (about £8, I think), plus a stainless steel 'coffee pot' I got from a living history event - used by 'wild west' and American Civil War re-enactors. It cost about £15.
The stainless steel one is my favourite by a long way. It just looks the part. I tend to store all my brew stuff (tea bags, spoon, hot chocolate sachets, lighter, firesteel etc) inside to make use of the space.
I have a Youtube film called 'stoves' (click link below) - you can see both kettles in that.
I went over to a kettle for boiling water for two reasons - I found I used a billy solely for heating water, whilst cooking food in a pan. And because I just love the charm of a kettle sitting on a stove.

[Thumbcrusher]

The one litre tesco kettles are on sale at the moment for £2.50 i believe!

[Adam Savage]

Cool, Might have to buy a couple more.

[Realearner]

Hi reaps know what you mean, got a good collection of coffee cups/mugs with various logos on.

And thanks humakt for the link, still like the little kettles, so looks like a visit to tesco's on the cards.
Or wait for the Indian connection to kick in.