Hexamine is illegal now because, according to the UK govt, it's a precursor for explosives. Can't say I miss it, my experience of being on excercise in the army is that all your food reeks, and tastes, of it.

@markperry222

21 күн бұрын

I used to hate the smell, and taste, of hexy in the morning. Ruined many a can of that bacon spam stuff the used to issue in the rat packs. Hell, even the coffee would taste of hexy.

@callumbucknall

21 күн бұрын

was looking for this comment, Used to hate using those on Basic training.

@jimtitt3571

21 күн бұрын

Hexamine is easily available in Europe for the standard Esbit stove. Banning it is stupid, you can make it at home (it is made from formaldehyde and ammonia which are easy to get hold of. It is then converted to RDX and other explosives using white fuming nitric acid which is going to be a bit more difficult to find.

@BritishMillitaryEdits

20 күн бұрын

I dont like using it because of the soot, id rather use an alcohol stove with some mess tins or crusader cup.

@jasonroberts6063

20 күн бұрын

What ls happened to the actual camping videos?

I thought everyone knew, that really Branston beans are the very best baked beans! 😆Good job you're doing there, yummy. I have always enjoyed doing a good fry up on an alcohol stove. Better than gas.

@totomesch1940

21 күн бұрын

Well said that man....... In the League of Beans, Heinz long since fallen from the top-spot. Branston is where it's at!

@theozzy4717

20 күн бұрын

Absolutely the superior bean! I don't get the fuss over Heinz.

@timwright5466

14 күн бұрын

I totally agree Branston beans are the tops

@gasjockeyuk

9 күн бұрын

I heard that from a Heinz taste testing team, Branstons won every time , for me it’s supermarket own brand, someone makes them for Morrisons

Hey Paul, I like that stove a lot. I have found you'll get a better burn time if you cut the alcohol tablet in half and burn one half at a time. Cheers, friend!

Hi Paul, I live on a canal boat and over the last few years because Calor Gas has rocketed in price I went on EBay and bid on a couple of old non working Primus stoves, after stripping cleaning and replacing seals and washers I now use them for cooking off and boiling kettle.. you can’t beat simple technology and being solid brass they’ll last for years! Great video mate 👍🏻🇬🇧

As an emergency stove, the BCB stove (others are available) which has firedragon fuel (worth checking out the other fueldragon products), is a decent option. Having served in the '90s and '00s, the old hexamine stove was the main stove we used as it is what was issued, and it was FREE, always a good option when you don't have to pay for it. With the old cold war 'compo' rations, we only ever used the stove, and mess tins, as a 'bain marie', i.e. a hot water bath, with the opened tins of food, sitting in the water. When the food was hot, eat it, and the hot water was for your brew. When the new rations came in, about the mid 90's, and the food was in pouches, we just did the same. Pouches went in the water, and the water at the end was your brew. This way there was never any clean up needed. Food was eaten straight from the tin or pouch. As for hexamine being illegal, as of October last year, and having lived under the threat of nasty things being done by nasty people most of my life, as a kid growing up in Germany etc, and work in NI as an adult for many years, the mind boggles as to how hexamine suddenly became a threat last year requiring a change in law, after some 40+ years of it being used literally everywhere by the truck load, and plenty of other options being used by nasty people to do nasty things. Smacks of an overreach to be honest. Final point, I left in 2006, but I am aware that a flameless ration heater was part of the operational rations at some point since, but I don't know which is currently issued/used, and in which a solid fuel cooker is still in use.

It wasn’t my idea, I saw this on another KZread channel. If you flatten the middle down, you can use a Trangia in it. I flattened mine, and it works. ✌️🇺🇸🇬🇧✌️

Cannot beat a fry up.. but where’s the cuppa tea! You must make a video having a cuppa in your favourite place with a view.

Nice! Breakfast of champions mate 😁 I'm inpressed with your pan juggling skills as well 👍 nicely timed!

Maybe you should give yourself a challenge of cooking a Full English using army issue mess tins next time??

I loved the smell of a Hexamine stove. Great memories cooking in the hills of Wales and Scotland many years ago.

Excellent breakfast, your local blackbird clearly approves…!

I have this stove. I ended up folding the middle flat, that way the trangia alcohol burner fits in there.

When you need to keep stuff warm while cooking other bits just wrap the stuff you need to keep in a bit of old mylar blanket and it stays hot.

Paul, you might be interested in seeking out an Army number 12 cooker, which is a bit of a classic. Not intended to be man portable, but used by many an army chef, it is bomb proof, and has been in service for decades, using a well tested principle (evaporates liquid fuel into gas) and is usually multi fuel. Great for camping, car camping etc.

Lol, you is a proper pan juggler, and I claim my £5. Luvin these short vids, keep em coming mate, cheers

Get some bush crafting going paul, you could easily get a fire pit on in the garden. Ikea do some inexpensive carbon steel frying pans, smallest weighs only 500g! Think they may even do a cast iron one but that’s probably a bit too much to carry

I use one of these, they're very susceptible to wind. Takes a good while to cook anything (especially if there is any wind), but if you're in a rush when camping I think you're doing it wrong. But it is super lightweight and does the job I need it to.

"Bean" warned, please tell me it was intentional?? 🤣🤣🤣

Breakfast of champions! Glad I found your channel. Hello from Sheffield :)

I was starving by the end of this video 😂😂

Wish I had kept my Dad's methelated spirit stove bought in the early sixties from Woolies. So easy to use and faster than calor gas or this Army stove.

The breakfast of champions! We can still buy the hexamine fuel tabs here in Australia, and I still love and use them often. 😊

This is amazing! Thank you ❤

In the 80s the burners were bigger and in a dark green. Many wild camps with Dad (Royal Marine) on Dartmoor with those. Got one of those smaller grey / silver ones around 2017 from another camper (probably German) in Greece who was heading home. Brought home a box of the tabs, still in the drawer at home. Had no idea I was harbouring terrorist paraphernalia. Right before you switched pans I was wondering why you were attempting to do all that in one of those silly shallow Trangia pans. At most they can just about handle one egg. I use a ceramic skillet by MSR. Easy to make 4 egg Omelette in one, or a considerable simmer curry. The pans included in Trangia sets are largely useless even for a solo bloke.

Cooking a nice English breakfast on British Army stove looks delicious thanks Paul for this amazing video 😋👍👏

Why have i just watched you cook a full English am hungry now 😂👍🏻

I have one of those. I like how stable it is compared to a tall propane stove. They make an even tinier one that fits inside a mug but it's not nearly so stable or useful. Great fun though :-)

£1.27 I paid, in Millets about 3 months ago. Bought 3 as I've adapted 2. I put carbon felt and a gauze in one, worked a treat with bio fuel. I squashed down the sides of the fuel holder part, on another, to just hold an alcoholic stove. Excellent cheap little stoves imo. Great video, I'm hungry now 😂😂

Black Pudding Bertha - she's the queen of northern soul!

@meandmyvelo6380

21 күн бұрын

Goody goody yum yum!

@SteveSingerFowkes

20 күн бұрын

@@meandmyvelo6380 🤣🤣

Great video. Never served, but had a great time in the Army cadets, and remember using hexi burners to cook (blow up) tins of beans. Probably Heinz ! Looking forward to the next vid.

I got mine from a girl in the TA. Got me into camping oddly .Great fun stove.

When cooking my camping full breakfast i chop sausages bacon etc before cooking. It cooks quicker and easier to fit in one pan

LOVING this video! ❤ Cannot wait to try something similar when I'm next out on a walk with my friend! Thank you for sharing! What bottles do you use for liquids such as oil? Finding it hard to find ones that don't leak!

Hi Paul, I’m a new subscriber. I’ve really enjoyed the short daily uploads. Thanks. I’m currently setting myself up for solo moto camping so I’m picking up great tips here.

Lovely Blackbird singing in the background 👍

Another cracking video from a fellow Sheffielder can almost taste that breakfast. Just been watching Patrick Dickinson, who bumped into you at Norfolk Arms, Ringinglow on his wild camp Isn't it about time you both put something together on a wild camp. Take care buddy

I had a lovely bit of black pudding the other day. Even the white bits were black.

My mouth is watering. You can’t beat a fry up! Loving the daily vlogs

Greetings from NorCal. I toured Ireland and Northern Ireland in 2019 and loved this type of breakfast and had it almost every day. They called it full Irish but it was similar. Didn’t fancy the black pudding because I knew what it was made of, just psychological. Good job Paul.

Well done you! Made me hungry watching you juggle everything 😂

One can only aspire to your culinary skills, nice job Paul. By the way, Boston Baked Beans have been a staple for New Englanders for generations! Give them a try. Thanks again for a great video.

Good no. 8. Nice breakfast. Musical pans. Do what you have to for a warm meal. Inexpensive stove that works Next time

Please make a comparison of with the same stove using carbon felt and meths (denatured alcohol). Just fill the centre part with carbon felt or welding blanket material and poor in some meths.

Doing my first wild camp in the woods soon. Going with BCG stove and cooking a curry and pretend I am behind enemy lines in Burma in WW2 :)

Paul, The RidgeMonkey Connect Combi & Steamer XXL would be a good choice, to cook a fry up in.

If you use plastic knife and fork you can east it straight from the pan 😀

Hash browns absolutely belong on any fry up, anywhere!

I remember buying a hexamine stove from the Famous Army Stores 30 odd years ago......didn't use it much though - much preferred the Camping Gaz Bluet stove....

I have fried tomatoes and HP sauce, and sometimes a slice or two of toast.

Hash browns may not be a traditional part of a fry up but they do now belong there. Can't beat a hash brown

@user-wx7wg5cn1m

21 күн бұрын

I second that !

@andrewwww7684

20 күн бұрын

Nope these things are cheap imposters, Until you have been to America and tried real Hash then these do not count, you're welcome.

@scottjackson458

18 күн бұрын

Bubble and squeak is superior to hash browns

Delicious looking breakfast, apart from those hash brown things! 😄 They're a bit marmite, I usually ask for extra black pudding instead. You cannot beat a full English 👍

Breakfast of champions there Paul some pan juggling skills too 👍

No heat damage, but there's more oil on that table than there is in the pan 😜😜

Hey Paul, this looks so good that I am ready for a second breakfast, after my blueberry pancakes and plant based breakfast sausage (spicy) and plant based bacon. They make the plant based stuff so good and tasty these days that it was an easy way for me to become a vegetarian. Anyway, now that you got my appetite back in gear , I’m ready for a plant based breakfast bagel ( bacon egg mushroom and cheese on an everything bagel ! Thanks for sharing- this looks absolutely delicious, Cheers!

Love your channel! These little BCB stove are brilliant for a quick brew. Fit in a coat pocket. Shame hexamine is banned. It didn’t soot up the pans like the fire dragon fuel. I ageee, hash browns have no place in a cooked breakfast. It should be fried bread. And what about the tinned tomatoes? 😂😂

Paul, come over to Ireland and I'll feed ya some white pudding! Can't understand why it's only available in Ireland... its gorgeous!

Is oil / splatters OK on the table-top? Seriously though, it shows what the tent is coping with if you cook this in the porch / vestibule.

Well, I guess blood pudding would be a controversial addition to my American breakfast here, but I love it and have it often. Make breakfast your way I say! I buy the Donnelly's brand here and would love to try whatever brand it is you have there. As always, another enjoyable video! Cheers from the Hudson Valley, NY, USA.

As a hardcore wild camper for over 50 years, I would dearly love the full monty English breakfast. But I can literally be six miles ( 9 kilometers ) down the trail in the time it would take to cook and eat that.

Delish! Hash browns kick it up a notch!

Great breakfast. English/Scottish breakfasts/feasts simply rule. When hiking distances, they are such a treat in comparison with the usual oatmeal breakfast. Issue with the original Esbit fuel tablets, is they are made from hexamine. Besides the toxic fumes at burn (Wikipedia; "...combustion can create formaldehyde, ammonia, nitrogen oxide, hydrogen cyanide"), it is also a precursor for the explosive RDX (think military grade C4 explosives). Travelling with a small amount abroad through customs, with the tablets still packaged, will likely not cause any issue. Unpackaged or residue on a backpack, might raise eyebrows at customs, if some chemical analysis swipe produces the result; ''Bomb chemical'' Customs will likely have further questions.

Liking your egg cooking technique, Paul!

That was a large/thick slice of black pudding.....nice. 'Ull' east yorkshire.

Was fun seeing your skills using multiple pans on such a tiny field stove. That took a bit of work. Your NEXT VIDEO should be of you relaxing from such a cooking 🍳 work-out 😅!

Try a blind taste test with the beans ... I'd be surprised if the Branston didn't win the day!

Noooooooo. Don't let the beans touch the egg white! Need to build a sausage barrier across the plate!

Yes mate👍🏾👊🏽

Enjoy your breakfast

The "yoke's" on us! That was "eggcellent"! Today's video left me "hungry" for more! Ho ho ho !😁

looks good Paul

Just found your channel. And you made me hungry. Great brekky, 👍

@PaulMessner

11 күн бұрын

Thanks and welcome

nice man moment - being true to yourself !

we call that frying sound "The Cookstown Sizzle" in Northern Ireland. you should try an Ulster Fry sometime, if youre man enough .......

like the cooking videos man 👍

👍👍👍 .. nice 😊. I've had many a fry-up on an Esbit Folder. I keep the already-cooked stuff warm by using a set of 'Dixies' (Mess Tins) over a home-made folding Tripod, as a 'Bain Marie'. I no longer use the Hexamine / Esbit Tablets due to here in Switzerland, they are quite pricy and only obtainable at Outdoor Stores. Alcohol Fuel or Alcohol Gel is cheaper and are my go-to's .. and I can get them down the road at my local Supermarket .. or any Supermarket at that. Hash Browns? 😳 .. they're good too 😁.

Nice vid Paul 😎😊👍

When are you coming to the US to make some videos? Great channel.

I've had folding stoves of this type since I was a kid. Only used it a handful of times, carried as a backup really. My fuel tablets were never hexamine though, which is renowned for being foul. Difficult to get high enough heat on one of these to properly fry egg, I lay my little cook pot over eggs in the pan. The real discussion here is the breakfast! Agree black pudding absolutely essential or it isn't a Full English. Baked beans I always heat in a frying pan so the sauce can be spread out and reduced down nice and thick; if only warmed in a saucepan it remains thin and watery. Missing a fried tomato in there, Paul. And where do you stand on potato cake?

I believe it produces Carbon Monoxide too.

Eco friendly fuel in it's single use plastic packaging 😂

Good effort fellow Mackem. Fried bread and toast. ( part full English. ) Ha ha Looked good mind.

Yum!!!😋

I'm so determined to find a good black pudding in England because Scottish co-op had the best I've ever had in a mini breakfast pack, you can still buy hexi tabs in the UK too so I can't see it being illegal as the shop keepers would be getting locked up

Smashed it.

Toast!! Fried slice😁

Looks great. However in the British military they primarily eat wet pouch meals, that they submerge in water in mess tins, that they put on top of these stoves. Usually 1 ethanol block is used for 1 meal, which leaves the meals undercooked haha

@MINKIN2

21 күн бұрын

Today perhaps. But these stoves predate the meal packs we have today.

There's a cafe not too far from me that does a full breakfast, with chios. Massive plate full.

@swanseamale47

20 күн бұрын

Chips typo

Dragon fuel can be used as a hand sanitizer.

Lets go!

Can't not have hash browns they're the best. As for beans I love Branson but have the same problem as you Paul 😂😂. It's mad that you are using this stove because I was in the army 13 years and looked up just now and saw one in my living room 😅😅

If I’d known you were coming to York yesterday, and cooking bacon today, I’d have directed you to my local butchers for some great bacon!

If you like hash browns, but want to be a bit more true to the full English, you can get bubble and wqueek in the freezer section at the supermarket.

Mouthwatering.

Is your frying pan a cake tin?

@jeffngill

21 күн бұрын

Silly comment from Gilly.

Nice mate, apart from the Heinz beans - you've got to try Branston!! Love your content 🤓👍

I didn't use mine for long before it got binned and bought a jet boil 😂 hated the smell of hexi blocks in my webbing

Don't muck about with that stove Paul , just use the full Trangia.

I used to love a bit of "Black Dag" either for breakfast or at the bar with a pint, these days I'm right off it, primarily due to the big lumps of fat in it. Have to say though, that piece of your's looked mighty appetising. A real pro would have cooked all that in a mess tin 😉

Have you ever considered plate spinning? 😂 Think you'd smash it👍 😂😂

After watching this, I’ve just bought one from millets. £1.47 🙂 Looking forward to testing it out