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I built this kit with the purpose to carry some of the stuff I love to have with my while hiking. It’s meant to be an Esbit burner and carry all the stuff I might need while using it. Nothing too complex and definitely nothing complete, as it’s not and EDC or emergency kit, but it’s meant to work with a backpack (at least a small one) with all the things that are supposed to be in there. I wrote down this review to share it with whoever would like to read it and for me, to remember what I have inside it at the moment 
The burner itself is a cooking system from Esbit (this one, actually)composed by the main pot (almost half a liter, if I remember correctly) contening the base, which is in fact the burner itself, where you put the solid fuel tablet and a lid, to cover everything for carrying it around and keeping everything together. The lid itself has a little metal lever which can be used to pull it up and the main pot has a collapsible grip, thermally insulated, which is very usefull.
I usually carry with it a small fold’a'cup (you can buy it here, for example. I bought mine through eBay) to drink whatever I decide to warm up inside the pot or to share with someone else.
The cooking system itself is really cool. it warm up rapidly the water and cool down almost as much fast, allowing you to drink from it or to store it again in the backpack. I really like it. compact and functional.
its functionality is easy as it may look on the website: the burner goes under the pot, which have the grip opened, the solid fuel tab goes in the burner, the lid close the pot to help water boil faster. When it’s closed the burner goes inside the pot and the lid close it, while everything goes inside the small bag.
That’s where the idea come from, and I think it’s what they meant you to do: The burner inside the pot leaves a lot free space, allowing you to fill it with various stuff, like tabs of fuel, matches and so on.
What I carry inside is, as said before, a little of this and that, allowing me to use it a couple of times at least, to drink something hot and\or to reintegrate minerals and allowing me to set up a bigger fire if ‘dI need to. I usually carry at least one lighter and some matches when I’m in the wild, so I keep just few matches in there just to be sure. Almost all the “unusual” stuff comes from Army MREs, like the towelettes or the paper stuff.
So, at least, here comes the stuff I got it inside it just now. I’m trying to improve it as I got new ideas but for now it’s the best I can get with what I have at home.
from top left:
2 Moist towelettes, used to clean up the pot, hands or whatever or to start up fire.
1 rolled and sealed condom. sterile silicon bag, to carry water, as a tube or whatever it might be used in survival. there was room in the kit, so…
1 MRE matches box, which can work lightly wet too
1 small bag of salt, for the soup or whatever
2 paper/cloth stuff, which I don’t know what they’re meant to do actually, from MREs, but I use them to start up fires as dry tinder.
3 soup cube, for minerals
3 bags of sugar cane
1 watertight medical tablet container, with tea inside
4 esbit solid fuel burner
The only thing I should add is actually something ti filter the tea leaves from the pot. i was looking for some actual filter but can’t find anywhere here. last time I needed to do some tea with this burner we used a sheet of kitchen paper – or it was toilette one, don’t remember – which worked actually very well.
All the stuff inside the burner, ready to be put inside the pot
