FishyFolk
12-08-2016, 10:53 PM
Last year (or was it the year before I bought this jet boil clone at Biltema here in Norway. Biltema is a supermarket of cheap car parts, cheap tools and cheap chinese clones of outdoors stuff.
Everyone shops there but nobody will admit it, except when they find that rare jewel...like this jet boil clone.
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Mine is branded by Biltema, but I have seen the same online sold under different brand names. So I guess its a generic one that companies buys direct and slaps tehir own logo on.
So far I have seen them as Fire Maple and Alpkit :-)
Anyway I had not used it much until recently as I do not cook much with gas. But on our recent family trip to the border mountains, I took it to get a quick brew up for the wife as she gets cranky without her coffee...specially if there is no shower and room service :-)
So I was not impressed with it during my tests at home. It's kinda of big, and the gas bottles are heavy to carry compared to a few ounces of meths for a quick brew. And I am not to concerned with boil times.
But here I was in the hills, the mosquitos had driven us into the tent for the night, but we where hungry, and wanted som hot dogs before bed so out it came.
And I got quite a surprise. This thing has a very good valve on it as it simmer very well, whicj means that you can actually cook something in it. I do not beleive that is what the original jeg boil is famous for. ANd I paid 30£ for it. A jet boil would set me back at least 120$.
I cant speak for the build quallity, mine has been sitting in my big box of stoves in the shed for probably two years, but its seems solid enough. The cooking pot itself is anodized aluminium.
:-)
Just thoutght I'd put the word out there :-)
Everyone shops there but nobody will admit it, except when they find that rare jewel...like this jet boil clone.
13761
Mine is branded by Biltema, but I have seen the same online sold under different brand names. So I guess its a generic one that companies buys direct and slaps tehir own logo on.
So far I have seen them as Fire Maple and Alpkit :-)
Anyway I had not used it much until recently as I do not cook much with gas. But on our recent family trip to the border mountains, I took it to get a quick brew up for the wife as she gets cranky without her coffee...specially if there is no shower and room service :-)
So I was not impressed with it during my tests at home. It's kinda of big, and the gas bottles are heavy to carry compared to a few ounces of meths for a quick brew. And I am not to concerned with boil times.
But here I was in the hills, the mosquitos had driven us into the tent for the night, but we where hungry, and wanted som hot dogs before bed so out it came.
And I got quite a surprise. This thing has a very good valve on it as it simmer very well, whicj means that you can actually cook something in it. I do not beleive that is what the original jeg boil is famous for. ANd I paid 30£ for it. A jet boil would set me back at least 120$.
I cant speak for the build quallity, mine has been sitting in my big box of stoves in the shed for probably two years, but its seems solid enough. The cooking pot itself is anodized aluminium.
:-)
Just thoutght I'd put the word out there :-)