Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to have a very outdoorsy girlfriend who understands and supports my overriding need to make cups of tea outside. More often than not she's there with me, supping my brew. She mentioned to me a few weeks ago (as she was drinking my tea), that she might like a little brew kit of her own. So, being the lucky sausage that she is, and me wanting to drink my own tea occasionally... I pieced her one together from various bits and bobs I had laying around. I thought I'd share it here on the forum, just for funzies before I wrap it up in time for tomorrow. Don't worry though.. I've bought her some nice girly things too
Now I've finished, I quite like how small the whole setup is. It's fairly light too, at about 375g for the entire setup without water. The little vaseline tin meths burner boils a full cup in less than 5 minutes. The tin is about the size of a 50p piece. It's one of those little lip balm type jobbies, rather than a full size tin. The folding handle cup was from Go Outdoors a while ago. The foil bits are all cut from a disposable roasting tin. The cup stand is fashioned from a coat hanger and some wire. The two shotgun cartridge containers contain vaseline soaked cotton balls, matches, and little rubber strips. There's some larger patches of rubber from an inner tube in the tin, a mini firesteel, and a little multitool for handling hot bits of metal. The tin and multitool are kept inside an old memory card case I had kicking around. I figure she can keep some dry tinder or teabags in there too.
So there we are. Job done. Never let it be said that I'm a cheapskate at Christmas.
Have a good one guys!