A while back I built a Penny Alcohol Stove having gotten the directions here. I’ve used it twice and it works great. But…

There’s always a but isn’t there?

I really want a full cook set that works well. The penny stove itself hasn’t been the problem, it’s the stuff I don’t have with it; windscreens, pots and pans, so on and so forth. The solution, as far as alcohol stoves go seems to be Trangia. This Swedish company seems to have claimed the market as far as alcohol cook sets go.

The one I’ve been interested in is the 27-7 UL/HA. All of that means it’s a small set, useful for one or two people, made from ultralight aluminum (UL) and having a hard anodized coating (HA). This is one of the models recommended on the Rivendell website.

The set I want looks a bit, well more than a bit, like this…

Series 27 offers good stoves for the lone walker or two people. The pans are smaller and the kettle is sized accordingly. A small, compact stove that takes up minimal room in the rucksack. Here too, large billies can be placed on the raised supports in the upper windshield. All the stove systems in the 27 series have two 1-litre saucepans (1 graduated, 1 ungraduated), an 18 cm frying pan, windshields (upper and lower), a burner, a pan grip and a strap. Dimensions 18,5 x 10 cm.

Aloha!