muffin man wrote:I have a 20 year old Trangia and am wondering if they are still in vogue ?
Nothing wrong with the trangia kit. My No. 25 set is over 20 yrs old as well and I reckon is still a bullet proof stove system. I moved to a smaller pot and a lighter stove for solo trips and the convenience of using gas. I noticed that the gas stove does allow a little more flexibility than the spirit burner, even when you have the simmer cap on the trangia spirit burner. The trangia takes around twice as long to boil a pot of water compared with my gas stove. I've not compared the fuel consumption though, but there's probably people who have. My firemaple 117 clone stove consumes 12g of gas to boil 800ml of water at about 15C ambient temperature, taking approx 6:30 minutes.
Given this is a remote canister stove thread, in addition to the remote gas burner Trangia also make or multifuel burner to use instead of the spirit burner - http://www.trangia.se/english/2917.tran ... ories.html I've heard that one works well, but is a bit pricer compared with the gas burner.
I still take my trangia pot and pan when going with more people, but leave the trangia base and windshield behind as I use my remote stove.