Preheating/Priming a Mini Trangia

[etrangere]

Trangia offers a "winter attchment" that you place a small amount of metho in and it clips under the burner. You then light the "winter attachment" cup under the burner along with the burner to help get the burner up full speed in cold weather. It can be seen on this link.

http://www.trangia.se/english/2917.tran ... ories.html

I have used this idea with the Trangia 27, instead of a "winter attachment" I used the burner lid. I remove the rubber seal, place a teaspoon of metho in it, light it, then place the windshield with burner over it and light the burner. It certainly get the burner going quickly!!

So i decided to try and test with my Mini Trangia.

Place 1 large teaspoon (Light My Fire Spork) of metho in the bottom of windshield/pot stand.
Place the burner with 50 gms of metho in it in the windshield/potstand.
Light the metho in the bottom of the windshield/potstand. (Didnt light the burner just the metho it was "sitting" in)
Place Mini Trangia pot with 500 mls of water on stand

Wait 20 minutes for everything too cool

Repeat test but this time not using metho in the bottom of the windsheild/pot stand just lighting the burner as normal

Preheating burner time - 5:35
Regular use burning time - 10:30

Thats almost half the time to get 500 mls to a rolling boil!!!

Anyone else tried preheating the Trangias?

[dancier]

Never done it myself but knew it was an option. The technique was used in the colder regions, mainly Nordic country's from memory but it was a long time ago so it's good to see someone closer to home using that method.