M-Kettle SAS Version

[Fletching]

Remember the comparison I did between the Kelly and the M-Kettle (on this thread here - linky (http://www.naturalbushcraft.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?410-Kelly-Kettle-and-M-Kettle-Comparison/page2))?

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5282/5319699435_1a94f43778_b.jpg

Well there's now an SAS version. It says something for a piece of kit if it becomes standard issue for the Hereford boys.

Not cheap (linky (http://www.thebushcraftstore.co.uk/mkettle-sas-ultra-light---hard-anodised-variant-7967-p.asp)), but the normal M-Kettle's a stonking piece of kit, now that mine's had lots of use and been treated roughly.

Here's more info on the SAS anodised version (linky) (http://www.mkettle.com/images/HuntersCampingBushcraft_mKettle_Nov_2011.pdf).

Steve :)

[Ben Casey]

Hi Mate I couldn't imagine the SAS carrying a lot of stuff around with them well apart from guns and ammo :D

[Fletching]

Hi Mate I couldn't imagine the SAS carrying a lot of stuff around with them well apart from guns and ammo :D

...even the 'One Knife Fits All' boys need a quick brew! :)

[happybonzo]

Lots of things get attributed to the Hereford Hooligans. You only have to look at ebay to suss that; you know, Camo Jacket, SAS, Paras, Speshule Forces

[Dan XF]

I'm not ex special forces but I wouldnt have carried a kettle like that in my kit. You boil water in a mess tin and use hexy as it's smokeless. I did carry a stanley flask though for a quick brew when lighting hexy would have been no good.

[sandbag47]

I have one of the new type mkettles and I love it. But I would not even use it on a TA weekend because I do not think it would be sqaddie proof and I would hate to damage it. That not to say that someone who is in the SAS might own one, but i don't think they would issue them as standard kit.

[Kernowek Scouser]

As still fairly new to the bushy end of the camping spectrum and only briefly served in the Salvation Army (until I was drummed out for my lack of piety and unwillingness to learn the tuba) I have absolutely no experience of this type of kettle.

If you good folks will indulge my ignorance, I have a couple of questions.

In what situation would these types of kettle be preferable to say meths burner and a pot?

Are there any/many limitations to their use

What fuel do they use?

And, would you use one in conjunction with a more 'standard' cooking set up or instead of it?

Thanks in advance to anyone happy to assist with my education :D

[sandbag47]

Fletching please forgive me for putting this on your thread..It is a review I did a short while ago on another forum (well a few forums actually).
I was doing a group buy at the time for Ghillie kettles who make the Mkettle

Heres a link to the review

http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?33662-Mkettle&highlight=mkettle


But yes it does burn just about anything and you can fit small pots on it as you can see in the review and since doing the review I brought myself a meths burner and that works just as well as any other fuel.

As for anyone who has been in the sally army. I say well done.
It was nice seeing a truck coming out to give us coffee and sweeties and stuff when I was on tour in Kuwait and Iraq. So I take my hat of to you sir (even though you are ex-sally army)

[Fletching]

Fletching please forgive me for putting this on your thread...

No probs, good review SB!

I think the best thing about the M-Kettle IMHO is the fact it IS the water container as well as being the stove.

Steve :)

[Ben Casey]

I have a Kelly Kettle and love it the best sqauddie proof thing I ever bought was a Metal Thermos flask we used to shoot them out of the tank exhausts a bit like a mortar they where cool :D

[sandbag47]

I have a Kelly Kettle and love it the best sqauddie proof thing I ever bought was a Metal Thermos flask we used to shoot them out of the tank exhausts a bit like a mortar they where cool :D

Did you have 432's or challengers (or even chieftains). We had 433 abbots and we used to put our compo in the exhaust to cook. And yes they did fly when given a few rev's :)

[Ben Casey]

We had the 432's I think mine was a 436 though as it was comms (Commanders TAC HQ) we used to cook on the Radiator vents at the top next to the Commander :D

[Kernowek Scouser]

Fletching please forgive me for putting this on your thread..It is a review I did a short while ago on another forum (well a few forums actually).
I was doing a group buy at the time for Ghillie kettles who make the Mkettle

Heres a link to the review

http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?33662-Mkettle&highlight=mkettle


But yes it does burn just about anything and you can fit small pots on it as you can see in the review and since doing the review I brought myself a meths burner and that works just as well as any other fuel.

As for anyone who has been in the sally army. I say well done.
It was nice seeing a truck coming out to give us coffee and sweeties and stuff when I was on tour in Kuwait and Iraq. So I take my hat of to you sir (even though you are ex-sally army)

Cheers for this, I now have more of an idea of how these kettles actually work T^

They are probably not something I'm going to rush and buy as I'm quite happy with my current cooking set up, but it is good to know what other options are out there.

Having said that, if I see a shiny one in action at the RV, I could have one myself before the week is out :D

[David_JAFO]

hello,
I'm winged, capped, & badged trained by the best now a Veteran. I wouldnt have carried a kettle like that in my kit 'but'
I did carry (pending theatre of operations exercise etc..) a Teflon coated mug which was used for cooking & brew up
fitted the 58 Patt Plastic Water Bottle with which we found very effective 'alcohol jelly' burned with a greater heat/smokeless
used with mess tin & mug pending on how many of the troop you were brewing up for?
Also a great fire starter lit first time better than hexy blocks.
I did also carry a stanley/coleman flask for a quick brew or for during STAG or brief/debriefing, still got my coleman flask.
There was always without doubt a hot flask of water or contained a hot brew at all times, who ever came off duty
made sure there was one for those on duty next watch.
That's not to say a Kelly Kettle hasn't been used by the Troop on duty or exercise?
There's always someone willing to try out something new if it works KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) method why not use it?
My 2p worth!
Regards
David

...even the 'One Knife Fits All' boys need a quick brew! :)

[Tigger004]

Got one and love it, each to their own i say, doesn't make for a small pack size as you need something to cook in like a billy, As Kernowek says, why would he change.