M-Kettle SAS Version

[Fletching]

Remember the comparison I did between the Kelly and the M-Kettle (on this thread here - linky)?



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), 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).

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

[Fletching]

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

...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

[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/for...hlight=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