Cooking a Full English Breakfast on a British Army Stove 

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

Ohhh Mannnn. This looks pretty fantastic!!

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

I believe it produces Carbon Monoxide too.

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

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.

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.

Yes mate👍🏾👊🏽

Nice one...people may consider first half-cooking the "bangers" at home...

Toast!! Fried slice😁

Looking quite fit there Mez!

Done this many times. Washing blackened mess tins was a pain like 😂

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

Dragon fuel can be used as a hand sanitizer.

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

love hash browns on a breakfast

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

Yum!!!😋

The stoves are so cheap you can have two running in parallel.

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

You missed the fried bread, Paul. And red sauce or brown sauce - that is the question.

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.

Yum.

I want some!

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 :)

Would you have tea or coffee with that? I’m guessing there was enough fuel left to boil enough water for a mug.

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.

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.

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.

No bubble and squeak?

bloody hell that is about as good a breakfast can get.

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.

Excellent breakfast, your local blackbird clearly approves…!

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!

Is your frying pan a cake tin?

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

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

Question is though, brown or tomato?... Mini waffles are good too

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.

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.

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

I wonder if that fuel could be used in a Trangia burner.

Enjoy your breakfast

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

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 👍

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

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

I got thrown out of my local cafe when I tried this!!

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 👍🏻🇬🇧

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!

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!

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

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?

Hash browns absolutely belong on any fry up, anywhere!

Not sure I like the fuel being in the plastic pods. Makes for a lot of plastic in landfill. There also looks to be a lot of wasted energy with the way it's burning, however I do like the simplicity of it

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.

Branston Beans better than Heinz all day long

Smashed it.

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 😉

Why didn't you use a large frying pan instead of faffing around with 3 pans

looks good Paul

I tried to make a full English, but it's hard to find black pudding the States. Savages.

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

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

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

Beans are only fit for toast

The breakfast looked lovely, being a northerner, black pudding is obligatory. However, if any friend of mine told me they were considering buying a hexamine stove, I'd consider that a cry for help 😅

What no brown sauce

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.

Now that's what I call Bacon!

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.

What happened to the camping vids

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 😅😅

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.

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.

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

I’d rather have fried bread than the hash brown!

£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 😂😂

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What we want to know where was jo's breakfast paul.😂

Whilst on stove topic. What fuel do u use in trangia

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

I feel my chest tightning?

What’s the betting Paul’s in trouble for getting fat splatter on the table top? I always had Heinz baked beans, until I once had Branston and have never gone back. So much better, thicker sauce.

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 :-)

If you think a yankee carb is controversial, you could always look north and throw a couple of tattie scones into the pan. I have to say though, a full English without the fried tomato? Feels more controversial than hash brown to me 😂

Beautiful! 👌

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

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

Joe's wrong m8, Branston are the better beans 😂

Where's the hexi block? We used to swap them out for kendal mint cake 😄

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'm not sure you can say its a fully cooked breakfast with an egg that's not fully cooked 😅

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

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....

Black pudding food of the gods no more to be said

👍👍👍 .. 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 😁.

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!

Apparently the old fuel tablets are now illegal? Edit: you covered it, and I've no idea why either.

Notice that Jo doesn't wear female hiking gear, cud u be the first male utuber to talk on this, a unique opportunity. Does paul/anybody feel that sleep systems matter depending on how u sleep, I'm a side sleeper, my sleeping bag matters, is this important, maybe Paul cud explore that. Thx Paul, it's awesome, don't stop