Trangia 27 unboxing & Cooking Mac n Cheese 

PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING: Hi, I hope that you all are doing well and staying safe. It’s a shame that I have to write this but I guess its just the times that we live in so here goes.. I am a self employed man and due to the current situation I have lost any work over the spring summer period which is the time of year where 90% of my work is. This means that I am not entitled to government support and RU-vid is my only source of income, and RU-vid views and earnings are down by probably 70% (it varies) I do a job that I just cannot do from home, even though I have tried to set an example. In the UK if you cannot work from home you are entitled to still work to earn a living. I am lucky that I have access to a woodland that is private and I am isolated for the whole time I am there. Others are not as fortunate. On top of this I am a live-in carer for a family member and have been practicing isolation for longer than most (we went in to isolation 2 weeks before the ‘lockdown’) I have not come in to contact (not even close to 2 meters) with anyone.. I have not visited any shops, or public places, I have left my house possibly 6 times in 7 weeks . I am not telling you this to try and get any additional support but because there are ‘social shamers’ out there that are making assumptions about others without any knowledge about their situations, So, hopefully this will help put peoples concerns at ease. I’d like to thank my subscribers and regular viewers for your support through comments and trusting that I know my situation and am conducting myself with the correct caution for the current climate. Now.. lets get back on topic with the comments and enjoy what small time we can in the fresh air. We are all in this together. - Andy

Here's a tip to make this a little faster. Use the inner pan to cook the macaroni and while it's cooking stack the outer pan on top, it's plenty hot enough to make the sauce. That way you can do both parts at the same time.

Hi Andy, the strainer- chopping board cover has a square cut out of it, I believe that is there so you can use your hot pan grabber handle to grab pot when straining.✌

I’m really sorry that because some people are so mean and nosy you’ve had to explain yourself. I love your channel and because I’m disabled and haven’t been able to get out and about for years you’ve brought the wonderful outdoors to me. Thank you 👍

Did I need another camping stove? No. Did your excellent video make me buy a Trangia 27 online last night? ABSOLUTELY.

Even though not all of us can get out, I at least like watching others enjoying a day out in the woods. Thanks for sharing this.

This is awesome. Used to be known as the 'Trangia Storm cook set' my first ever cook set. ( before they drilled holes in to allow for gas) point the vents into the wind and you get an efficient burn! I'm 50 now. But picture me, 16 years old, Sty head Tarn, Ultimate Tramp tent and my trangia cooking up flavoured dehydrated rice :) happy days..... ps very much still wild camping with latest over priced gear :)

I love my Trangia stoves! Got the 27 and the 25 and been using them for over 30 years. A couple of tips for people, if you're using meths as fuel add around 10% water to it and it prevents the pans getting sooty which is a pain to clean off. Also the base section has holes on 50% of it for a reason. If you face the holes into the wind it cooks faster. If you want a slower cook turn the holes away from the wind.

Andy, you have a talent for making even the blandest of meals interesting! Keep up the great work !

I love my Trangia, I had it since I was a teenager in the 80's.

If you store the burner inside the kettle make sure you wrap it in its plastic bag to stop any galvanic corrosion from the different metals.

It’s shameful that when I make Mac and cheese in my fully equipped kitchen, I use the kind that comes in a box - and this guy can make it from scratch even in the middle of a forest, and get amazing results.

The kettle fits inside with the burner inside the kettle ,I even get a piece of rag and scouring pad in the kettle aswell ,the handle a small knife and anti bacterial on top of kettle then , try it out 👍 Thank you for your videos as always , even better now in lockdown . Best of luck

Your Channel has just a great mix of Camping, Bushcrafting, Gear, and especially Cooking !! You and Simon have really great content!!

Hi Andy, i am a self employed outdoor instructor. I mainly take school children out for D of E expeditions from March - October. So, like you I also lost my living on the lock down. I can't work from home either therefore its a struggle to make ends meet but these videos that you, Hazy, Dragon outdoors, TA, MCM.......all the lovely people out there are helping keeping me sane and give me ideas for future camps and to pass to the children I teach. Ignore the haters/keyboard warriors, I am certain you are ethical and an honest man so keep doing what you do. x PS I use a lot of Triangia's..they are still the go to stove for schools, cadets and scouts. And I have just bought the mini for fun. They last for yers!

Hi Andy, that is my favourite kit of all time, albeit with the gas conversion. With regard to bio-ethanol they are not all the same. The best brand I have tried is by EkoFuel, it is 99.9% pure ethanol other are brands are not so pure, result is much more soot on the bottom of the pans. If you buy it in bulk it is very cheap. (I am not affiliated with the company in any way). The notch cut out of the multi disc is so that you can use the pan gripper whilst straining your pasta. Lastly you can use the pot grip to place the simmer ring precisely on the stove, rather than dropping it on or using leather gloves. Great video as always, really liked the bluebells in flower. Take Care, Stewart

never mind the bacon,enjoy the extra protein @ 18:12..? the trangia has always been my goto for a quick cuppa or a simple meal and if you pack it with a wood gasifier you get free or cheap,and even better,quiet cooking!

Nice cooking system

The wife has a Trangia stove, It's 20 years old and still going strong!! She bought a new burner for the middle and hopes to keep it going for another 20 years, she can't rate them highly enough!! great vid Andy, blessings.

Another delightful video Kent...people like yourselves are a real asset to RU-vid;when people are stuck in boring lockdown at home. We relish the escapism your films provide. Thanks Andy.

That forest looks so beautiful and calming, love the sound of the birds in the background...

Always have loved this guys content! I feel like it’s a TV show for me! I can’t stop watching your videos! Keep up the good work man your growing so fast!

18:04 RIP little guy, he needed the protein I guess.

I have the non stick version of the 27, I think it’s great. I pack mine as you suggested at the end thanks for the video

What a wonderful video Andy! Your videos are much needed right now. It's a nice piece of kit!

This ramadhan I can't back to my hometown, usually when breaking the fast we gather up with the family, but I'm trying to enjoy what I have like you do. Really, your video always cheer me up.

Andy, I’ve camped all my life and enjoy cooking. I stumbled across your channel moths ago and extremely enjoy it. As soon as our lockdown here in my parts of the USA; Illinois will see me get up north to Wisconsin. I go to a place called Door County. I look forward to trying some of your menu ideas. Your a A #1 guy and like you say, we’re in this together. Take care!

Beautifully shot! Amazing footage. A Trangia dinner has never looked so good!

Beautiful kit Andy👍 I remember starting with a Sterno folding stove when I was in the Scouts. I quickly graduated to a LP "Grasshopper" setup, and finally to my SVEA 123. I still take that SVEA packed into a coffee pot on every trip. Must be almost 40 years old now... Thanks for the video, the Mac and cheese looked really good, I'll have to try it your way sometime .. All the Best

Hi Kent Survival :-) Thank you for continuing to share with us.I send you lots of best & well wishes* I love the Trangia system (it is 75 years old) I was inspired to buy mine after watching Wiltshire Man. Love Paul Bissekers channel too.I bought the Duossal set -it makes it a bit more of a tank to carry, but being stainless steel inside is great for cooking & the set should last a life-time :-)

Very envious of your day out in the woods, the bluebells looked absolutely beautiful. The Trangia is a nice piece of kit, perfect for a short camping trip or festival. I loved the dinky little Esbit stove too :-) Thanks for the video, Andy.

So Andy - what do these phrases mean? "That might be too much butter" and "I may have been too generous with the cheese sauce"?? What? There is such a thing as too much butter? I may have to call emergency services! LOL - it looks delish! People can make that stuff out of the box all they like but home made is always my favorite. We tend to combine an extra sharp cheddar that we grind very finely and a mozzarella then top it with some parm for oven toasted crunch. Of course that's at home. Well done - and that set looks sweet. I like it a lot. I did read your statement before commenting and here's where I get serious - your channel is a delight - I love the content, the planning you put into it, the editing and of course your photography. The work you put into all those things plus the editing and the comments is terrific and certainly must be recognized and appreciated by many of us. Thank you for all your very hard work. Here's hoping this horrid virus gets sorted soon with a treatment plan and a vaccine, so that you and many millions of others can get back to work. Best wishes!

If you're like me you will love that kit. I have the Trangia 27 ULHA with cutting board and small kettle. I bought a second cutting board to use for cutting fresh meats and fish only, leaving the other cutting board for veggies, fruits and such plus straining (no cross contamination). I also own the Trangia 28 Mini Kit. The Mini is perfect to take along with the Esbit Trekker Set. I had to smile and giggle about you showing the Esbit too. It was like seeing someone else using my own outdoors kitchen. Those kits should serve you well for years. I've had all of them for more than four years now, still going strong no issues. They are my go-to kits along with a Titan by SOLO Stove, a wood gasification stove I use a lot too. Enjoy your new kit, it's a great system!

Love your down to earth, no BS, humble videos mate 👍🏻

Mate, you're blessed to have access to a place like that. Can't find a place anywhere in Kent for love nor money for some solitude and bushcrafting.

add a bakepacker set to make pizza. use big pot with bakpacker grid insert. ADD WATER TO GRID TO JUST COVER. roll out dough let it rise, then sprinkle flour and flatten. insert flat dough into turkey cooking bag with a drop or two of olive oil. add pizza sauce and toppings, fold up bag top, put top on pot; cook 30 to 45 minutes. remove to cool a bit. EAT!

It's so lucrative to use all this outdoor equipment, what a great hustle, much respect!

Oh my goodness! That Mac and cheese looked amazing.... love the trangia also. Great video Andy👍🏼

I'm so very sorry that you and so many more are going through this 💔😔 I pray it's over soon. I so very much enjoy your videos. I've learned so much from you. And being a female from the corn fields of Illinois USA that says a lot. I so look forward to hearing your voice and seeing your videos. Please keep them coming as I pray for you and yours. God bless Sir

I like your demo videos. They’re well done. When you were making the Mac and Cheese, I thought you were going to use a boxed one..all from scratch...I’m impressed..especially when the whisk came out! Good job. Take care 🇨🇦 ❤️

I've got to stop watching these reviews, they make me want everything 😆 that looks so good! Great video as always 👍

G'day Andy, thanks for another video. I brought a Trangia set back in 1978 it measures 180 mm x100 mm when packed up, and its had heaps of use over the past 42 years and it's still going strong, I've only just changed the O ring about a month and a half ago. Sometimes the jets clog up but you just have to wash it with some steel-wool and poke the holes with a pin and its good to go again. I'm sure you'll get years of use out of your set, and I really like the anodised pots and frying pan, I might have to look into getting some of those. Anyway stay safe and I'm looking forward to the next one 🍻🇦🇺

Another great video. Good to see you back in your woods. I did enjoy the garden cooking but this is way better.

Great.Andy you are one happy camper.

Andy, you are a superstar, thank you for all that you do. Peace.

I've had this same kit in plain Ali for years plus the massive pot the whole shebang nests inside, well worth getting one as it makes it so much more versatile. I got given a whole set in immaculate condition of the larger model last year, the kettle is massive by comparison!

Excellent video! You perfectly demonstrate two of the weaknesses of the trangia when enclosed in a stove setup: putting the simmering cap on to put out the flame, and using the simmering cap to adjust the flame. Both are remedied your way, with gloves. You also wonderfully demonstrated cooking something other than boiling water or frying bacon or sausage.... those seem to be the “oh wow” tests that many YT’ers use to demonstrate any of the small kits. Well done and thank you for the hard work. As usual, your videos lead me to think of other uses for the gear or technique. Btw, I have two trangia stoves so the weaknesses haven’t deterred me. 😉

I have been using this set for many years. Works great. I put the kettle inside too and the burner fits nicely inside the kettle. Great video as always:-) Greetings from Norway!

I like the kettle. Saving space in your rucksack is the name of the game. A WWII GI field mess kit and Dakote fire worked just fine when I went on week long survival hikes.

It's great that this video has a lot of views! My husband was in the army and he told me that the Trangia is a very popular item that the military buy on top of their standard army kit. I definitely think you needed more butter in there....delish!

My wife says "Alright Andy! Real Mac & Cheese in the woods! Kudos to you! I agree with her. That looked delicious!

Hey Andy, I don't know when they started, but I got one in 1985 that I recently gave to my grandson for his fishing trips. These things just work, solid.

I buy my first trangia in 2006.. and i still use it, its like a life time stove i guess.. highly recomended

I love my Trangia. I don't have this set but it looks pretty well thought out and seemed to work a treat for you. That mac 'n cheese looked fantastic as well! A very simple and satisfying meal. Bacon definitely would've kicked it up a notch but another option is a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce. May sound odd but it gives it a really nice savoury tang. Use as much or as little as you want. Thanks for another great video Andy. And don't worry too much about the "social shamers" out there. We, your channel subs, know you would never do anything to put yourself or others at risk. Hope you're doing well. Please stay safe and ATB - Darby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Andy - you are pain in my wallet - literally straight on the net ordering in trangia set! Love your videos and how calm and peaceful you are! Keep up the good work fella!!

Andy, another great video, I use and love the Trangia stove, but PLEASE we are British and hopefully proud of the fact. It is "Macaroni cheese". "Mac 'n' cheese" is a plastic product that our cousins pretend is food. Also, add the pasta to the sauce rather than the other way around, that way you only have one "dirty" pan.

Cool set! Thanks for sharing.

Hi Andy. I'd just like to say a quick word of thanks for your videos. I work in a quite stressfull job, I'm a community psychiatric Nurse for the NHS. Very tough at the moment, as were are basically the "front line" in the community. However, I find your videos incredibly relaxing, and inspiring. I found you by accident. Im currently working twigh light shifts, 12-12. When i get home at midnight, i pour myself a large single malt and watch your uploads. I find it a great way to unwind. You have a very natural, relaxed affable manner about you. You've also inspired me to get back into Bushcraft. I live near Pendle Hill in Lancashire, in quite a rural area. So am lucky to have access to woodlands and nature. Ive been taking my boys out on my days of, into nature. Anyway, sorry if I'm rambling. Please keep them coming when you can. And all the best pal. Stay safe.

thanks Andy take care be safe

I love the idea of this video, and I love the concept.

Thanks for the inspiration. Macaroni cheese for tea it was. Yummy

Enjoyed that very much. Thats an impressive system. Mac and cheese looked great but I would have tipped the pasta into the cheese sauce pan to save the washing up. To clean that pan that caught it only needs a small amount of water with a lid and the steam does the hard work 👍

Great video, great cook-set, great recipe and great content. Trangia is my favorite

Hello Andy back in the day when I had a 27K used it regularly but only with the official Trangia gas converter, god that was expensive even then, I had 'Frankensteined' it a bit and it was really efficient till some toerag stole it from my garage. Anyhoo what I did with the gripper handle was lay it upside down on top of the packed kit and run the strap through the channel of the handle under its hinge pin then draw tight this kept it securely out of the way and prevented it from scratching any surfaces ATB mate Bill

I love my Trangia burners, but I haven't messed with one of these kits yet. Looked fun and the mac n cheese looked great! Be well, buddy! ✌

Hi Andy. I’ve wanted that particular kit for quite awhile. I do have the burner & a small windscreen that works great. Love Trangia. Mac & Cheese looked excellent!! 🙏 Stay healthy.

Great video as always Andy.

Excellent Video and I feel awful for saying this but.... If you had added the pasta to the sauce instead of sauce to pasta, one of the pans would have been a real easy clean. I love cooking on meth stoves and amaze people when I cook a BIR curry from scratch, in a mess tin on a beer-can stove. Keep up the good work pal, best wishes.

Hi Kent, thanks for doing the vid (and your footnote, hope things go well with you and yours). While I'm not currently 'rocking' the full trangia system (I'm using the pots and small frames) if I could only use one cooking system it would be the Trangia, it covers a lot of bases and for extended trips it covers a lot of bases. Good luck mate.

Nice stove systems and nicely demonstrated and explained. 👍

You did more on a hike than I do at home when I make Mac n cheese lol

One of the best mac & cheese I've seen in the forest yet. Awesome !!! Tom from RI USA

nice to see you buying trangia, it´s made 50km from where i live,nice stuff

Got a "fake" Trangia years ago from Aldi or Lidl. Worked fine but I got fed up lugging bottles of meths around with me. Ended up with a similar sized set of non-stick pots and a folding gas stove. Actually, now that I remember, something went wrong with the burner and I had to buy a replacement which was noticeably better quality. The pans were aluminium so frying food wasn't much fun.

Trangia is a nice bit of kit! I recommend putting a kitchen towel or a rag or something similar on top of everything before packing the pan, to prevent the pot rest arms ruining the coating on the pan. Thanks for posting!

Very informative. Thank you. Cheers from the South Carolina Lowcontry(usa).

That is amazing im definitely going to b looking into getting one of these. Great video stay safe

My burner fits in the kettle and the kettle fits in the pan. Great video

Good review. I know this is now an old vid but i put my burner inside a food bag, drop that inside the kettle. The kettle fits inside the pans. I also keep a turbo style lighter in there, a knife and fork set and a salt and pepper dispenser. Brilliant bit of kit. I know a lot use the jetfoil type, but for me they are only good for water for dried food. You can do that with this kit if you want or do a full steak dinner. Know what i prefer!!

Really enjoy the videos you put up. I have become very interested in getting out and camping over the last couple of years and was planning to get out this year, but covid-19 put a stop to that! I have several health issues that mean I have to shield for 12 weeks so I am living vicariously through your videos. Looking forward to watching this one later tonight!

I love that little kettle

I just picked up the same L.L. Bean bag and love this thing. Took a while to pick one but your videos helped alot in the end! Keep up the great videos man!

A great cook set had mine for 20 years still in good condition might have to get it out now 😂😂😂 thanks for sharing Andy stay safe mate atvb jimmy 😎😎

Another amazing video. Well done brother. Thanks again for sharing. Stay safe out there . ATB Joe 😎👊🏻

Neat kit for cooking in the warmer months. The windscreen meets a real need with alcohol burners since the burners put out fewer BTUs than other pressurized fuel burners.

I enjoyed the Trangia setup when I was younger, backpack, basha and bivvy. As you get older and more confident in the bush you tend to drop so much kit. These days it's a cast iron skillet and three rocks for my cooking and brew setup. No sodding good if you are on the side of Ben Nevis though.

Thank you for another great informative video. I did read your opening comment, very sorry to hear how tough it is for you at the moment. Makes me even more appreciative of all the work you put in to making your videos. I’m self employed too so I get where your coming from. Add to all the extra measures you have in place must make things even more difficult. I’m on my second Trangia now, managed to squash the side of my old one, never had the complete kit though. Thanks again. Stay safe. Atb Paul.

Kent is really good with a high percentage of fats, protein, I think it's good that you always make your sauces yourself. ! if there are mushrooms and berries later, the whole thing will be even more interesting. ! I personally wish you a great spring start. !

Hi Andy glad your safe and well pal.That trangia system looks great tempted to purchase one now stay safe all the best

That's looks delicious thank you

Top video as always!👍

We love our Trangias - we have both sizes and the gas burner! We use ours in our open canoe - on a piece of wood, so we can brew up on the paddle!

I've seen people storing the kettle in the same package, just put the burner in it and then store the kettle in the saucepan. And I am hungry of macaronni. Thanks for sharing!

U brits love your tea ☕️

That looks delicious!

yummie! simple and tastefull! great video!

Fair play to you matey, coming up with content during all this shite going on. One of my favourite outdoor based RU-vid channels. Also, the only one I watch on the tv downstairs! God speed.

Really enjoy your cooking!

You can never be too generous with cheese in this dish! ;) Mouthwatering grub as always!! Hoping things improve work wise soon. :)

One hundred years is not far off!