The perfect tight arse cooking combo
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The perfect tight arse cooking combo
Postby Trevtassie » Sat May 20, 2017 8:35 pm
Anyway, I found an adaptor for those disposable horizontal butane cartridges on ebay for $6 as well. The Kovea works really well with the $1.50 cans. When you want to get it really cranking you turn the can over so it feeds liquid gas. You can use a heat shield as well, because of the remote hose. You get about 3 days of hard use out of one can. Not bad value for $1.50 or $2 a can. And it can be pretty cold too because it'll liquid feed so the butane won't freeze.
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Postby Aushiker » Sun May 21, 2017 10:38 am
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Re: The perfect tight arse cooking combo
Postby brumby33 » Sun May 21, 2017 11:11 am
Been there 4 times with wife and love it...plan to live there for at least 12 months during the 20/ 20 Olympics.
Food is cheap over there if you limit meat and stick to Supermarkets...also A good bowl of Ramen noodles will cost around 7-8 bucks..gives heaps of carbs for the ride☺
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Postby brumby33 » Sun May 21, 2017 1:51 pm
I was over there around the late 90's or early 2000's and done a week's tour from Kagoshima, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Nara & return to Tokyo, it was around that time the first lot of digital compact cameras were starting to come out and i went down to the film shop to get about 100 photos transferred onto a CD rom disc.....well i used perfectly understandable sign language pointing to the SD card & Cd rom disc similtanously but because i also used the word" sashin" which means photo in Japanese, I got 100 printed photos instead that cost nearly $200....the Mrs hit the roof ....
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Postby RonK » Sun May 21, 2017 3:06 pm
Excellent simmer control - I only got my porridge stuck to the pot once, when I was distracted by the scenery and forgot to stir it.
The small diameter burner head worked really well with my tall skinny Vargo Bot.
And it is light enough and packs so small and flat that you could carry it in a shirt pocket.
Not to mention that a tall pot is very stable on the low trivet. And by inverting the canister even frosty temps didn't affect its performance.
I really don't care about the cost of canisters. The convenience, cleanliness and ease of use make them well worth the money to me.
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Re: The perfect tight arse cooking combo
Postby Trevtassie » Mon May 22, 2017 11:12 am
Top shelf gear at bottom shelf price.
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Re: The perfect tight arse cooking combo
Postby Blakeylonger » Mon May 22, 2017 11:40 am
That adaptor is coming with me next time I visit Japan. You can get screw fitting cylinders easily enough at mont-bell or similar in a decent sized city or some campgrounds, but you can get the hairspray butane cylinders at pretty much any conbini or supermarket.Trevtassie wrote:Anyway, I found an adaptor for those disposable horizontal butane cartridges on ebay for $6 as well.
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Re: The perfect tight arse cooking combo
Postby Trevtassie » Thu May 25, 2017 7:43 pm
I reckon I'll still use them in Australia for short bush walks.
Incidentally don't be put off by the small burner diameter on the Spider, it spreads the flame nicely, I've been cooking French Toast with it. Mind you, without all the sugar the Japanese put in their French toast.
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Postby RonK » Tue May 30, 2017 10:25 am
Nope - it won't be happening this year after major online marketing sites (Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Alibaba) and other online merchants made submnissions to the Senate Economics Committee that they would not collect the GST and would block Australian customers from buying on their sites.Warin wrote:Getting to the transit time for the Gerry Harvey tax imposition ... you'll have to be quick to avoid it.
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Postby Trevtassie » Tue May 30, 2017 8:36 pm
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Re: The perfect tight arse cooking combo
Postby Trevtassie » Sat Jun 24, 2017 10:37 am
Being able to burn liquid gas is a real bonus. There was a brand of cartridge called "Bombe" , dunno what was in it but it wasn't very volatile, had to run it liquid nearly from the start of the can. Mind you, it was only 86yen plus tax for 250g of gas....
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