Bushcraft Kit - Review of the Meta 50 Swedish Cook Set
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Part 2 of the under £100 bushcraft kit list. This video features the Meta 50 Swedish Ranger stove bought from www.militarymart.co.uk for £19.99 plus postage. The stove can be set up in numerous different configurations and can be used with a variety of different heat sources/fuels.
So these were originally designed to run tablets similar to Esbit. The meta tablets were sumilar to the small Esbit tablets. There is a cup that fits into the spot where you have the Trangia burner. The trapdoor on the upper windscreen allows the operator to add tablets while the cooker is operating. The pot grabber is inserted into the trap door and tablets can be slid down into the combustion area without having to remove the pots! Pretty clever. Thanks for the video!
The ring is för having the kitchen not to melt down in snow or ice. All Meta kitchems are made to be heated with Meta tablets, very like the GAFs Hexa.
good presentation! and you corrected the error of the title: this is an old swiss army/mountaineering stove (it was a well designed product, a cheap reduced copy is made now in China), the legendary swedish stove is Trangia.
Lol cheers Colin. Glad you liked it mate. I'm a big fan of this type of kit that has been tried and tested and has proven itself in tough conditions.
All the best pal
Ade
Cheers fella
The amount of different ways of putting it together was what appealed to me too.
All the best
Ade
a very versatile peace of kit im liking the multi option usage of the cooker i think its money well spent thanks for showing ade atb alb
thanks again Ade cant believe its less than £20 looking forward to u trying to get a bushcraft kit for £100 good luck :).another good video keep the good work up buddy
hope your well
For those who have this kit, the GSI Ketalist Stainless Steel is a perfet fit with the ring. It's like ti was made for it. I don't know if the aluminum one is the same size, but I imagine it would fit just as well.
Interesting kit Ade. Thanks for showing us around it's various configurations.
Sandy
Damn you man, making videos of shiny, multi purpose, inexpensive kit!
I may have to add one to my stove collection :o)
Great review fella, thanks for sharing.
Hi Adrian Over Halifax way but my job takes me over to your neck of the woods quite a bit. Seen most of your vids now they are really good. Take care. Chris
Nice kit Ade. I greatly appreciate the review. There are so many different kits (available via internet vendors) and it is difficult to decide what to purchase. Where I live in Texas, USA there are no local stores that stock these items .... so your reviews are critical in helping me decide. Thanks, my friend. Ken
Cheers Danny mate, very kind of you to say so. I think we need these two large bowls to keep me, you and Phil fed for the weekend lol.
Stay well brother.
Ade
Wow. I've got a top end Trangia but this actually looks way more usable with all its configurations. Nice review pal.
Great review, Always enjoy your videos.
I've had one of these for a while now and it's a great piece of kit. Much better than a trangia in my opinion, especially when you consider the price.
Hi Mr Rose
my brother elvislive5 has bought one and it is a really great kit he cooked breakfast in it
and it was done in no time really fast.
Stay safe
Ted
Thanks Malcolm, very kind of you to say so, much appreciated.
Ade
thank you for this video.. it really opened my eyes to the uses of this cook set..
Great videos mate. Been looking for videos done in the north west. keep them coming pal.
No problem Sandy. Thank you for the kind comment. I was really surprised at the sheer number of different ways that this system could be employed.
All the best
Ade
Awesome review brother, looking forward to you cooking up some bread for one of our camps to go along with some home cooked stew, bloody hell mouths watering now!!! Well done buddy awesome review!
Thanks for the comment Albert, I agree mate, the versatility of this cookset is truly staggering.
All the best mate, looking forward to your next video.
Ade
Good review and great channel Ade. Regards from across the Pennines in West Yorkshire. Chris
I really like this cookset and will be buying one. Thank you for a great video.
Hi, jes its the pendent to the swedish trangia, was about since 2000 in the swiss army used by the high alpine troups, in my active army mountain guide time i used often
The hole on the side is for inserting additional meta tablets after the stove is lit. This is done by inserting the handle and sliding the tablets through it.
Hi Craig
Yes it is very sturdy indeed. When I filmed this review, the cookset was balanced on a fallen tree in the video and it didnt fall over at all. I'm sure it would be even better on flat ground.
Take care brother and thank you for your very kind comments.
Ade
Lol thank you for taking the time to leave a comment. Your absolutely right, I forgot to say that the cookset is indeed Aluminium. The jacket is the Ridgeline Monsoon II Euro jacket, it's a great jacket but it does have some drawbacks to it.
All the best
Ade
Hi Ade, great video! I will have to order me one of these! Thanks for sharing! = )
Cheers Nev, I agree mate. I've seen "branded" trangia kits for £80-£90 that doesn't do as much as this one does for a quarter of the price.
Ade
Thank you for the kind comment. I'm not sure about the postage to the States tho lol.
Best wishes
Ade
Thanks for the kind comment "Mr" Powers lol, and don't worry about the parcel it was my pleasure pal, anything else I can do to help out just shout mate.
All the best
Ade
Nice piece of kit. I am sorry, I did not catch if it was aluminum or stainless? Also, I have to say, you must have the best looking bushcraft clothes on RUclips. Nice jacket.
I believe that cutout hole is used to insert a match to light the stove.
Nice review. Very versatile cook set, and value for money seems fantastic. Is it sturdy when all the pieces are stacked up? Some cook kits can be pretty wobbly and fragile. If you have the time I'd love to see a video of you making a meal with the kit. Wonder if it'd be available here in the US as well. Thanks for taking the time to review it.
Cheers buddy, thank you for the kind comment. I must admit that after watching this video back a few times I am fully expecting one of those magicians doves to appear out of one of the silver bowls lol
All the best
Ade
Excellent kit. I cant find that anywhere on eBay or online, and the uk site you got yours from would charge an arm and leg for shipping to australia.
Hi Vipper, I'm afraid that the only outlet I know for these is a large military surplus store here in England. Not sure where you'd get one where you are in the states.
Ade
Great review, thanks!
interesting piece off kit... cheers...
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Just Sub'd Ade, good channel matey! Great review of the cook set, I want one...NOW!! ;-)
Regards Dazza...also from the North West...South Cheshire.
Mthnh you for a great video. Can you use sticks for your source of fire for this system?
HI there buddy, hope that you are keeping well brother. Have you asked Military Mart for a postage quote mate? I've honestly got no idea what the postage cost to Australia would be.
Ade
Hi Chris, thanks for the feedback pal. I know West Yorkshire quite well buddy, whereabouts are you based?
Ade
Hi there, thanks for the great review! Yous mentioned that you think it would be possible to fire the META with wood - have actually tried that out? How did it work?
Thanks a lot and greetings from Germany :)
Thanks!! Are you still using it?
what about wood?
where can i git 1? nice kit
ewesome kit....
Update on my own kit. I have removed the ring and the stand, usingthe bowls and pan to nest the GSI Kettle and a snow peak titanium plate inside. Inside my Ketalist, I keep the Keith Titanium Chain for anig the pots over a fire. www.dx.com/p/keith-kp6001-diy-multifunctional-outdoor-titanium-chain-silver-grey-293030
Anyone else ever *melt* a Meta 50 with a Trangia?
I managed this trick last night, in -15C and a stiff wind. I was boiling up a brew. After a couple of minutes, there was an awful lot of flame. It was getting ridiculous, so I took off the pot to drop in the simmer ring. That's when I saw the vent holes surrounding the center fuel cup/burner stand on one side were just gone, and nearby metal was warped and twisted. Moments later (4 minutes burn time) the burner was empty. It started out full. Clearly it was seriously overheating.
This was my first time using the Trangia in the Meta 50. Normally I use solid fuels.
I'll stick to hexi from now on, though I've not heard of this problem before. Since the kit is from Lonza (makers of the metaldehyde fuel pellets) I imagine the system was not explicitly designed for use with a burner like the Trangia, though lots of people seem to manage it all the same. Bad luck for me?
Sounds as if you have turned the ventilation holes away from the wind. These windshields are designed to have the holes pointing directly in the wind. Otherwise your stove is melting away....
Andreas
I did have the holes towards the wind, though I was mostly blocking the wind with my body, so this could be the problem. However, no more trangia+meta 50 for me: if it's overheating simply without "enough" direct wind, this isn't a good combination. Will a calm day cause melting too? If this was the problem, it should...
I'm still a bit surprised by it though - if it was this easy to do, I'm sure I would have heard of it before. I'm tempted to risk sacrificing my damaged meta 50 to experiment with it a bit more to see if I can figure out what happened exactly.
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I saw pictures of this melting happen to a Trangia which works like the Meta. The owner of this stove wrote Trangia and they told him to point the holes in the wind. I didn't have any issues with my Trangia pointing towards the wind or running it while there was no wind. Under normal conditions you should be safe using your stove without melting it. Otherwise Trangia wouldn't be the most selling outdoor stove, heh ;-) ?
Thanks for the review which I just came across on a search as I just bought one of these cook sets. Also check out this other video if you want to know what the trap door is for, it so super cool you will be blown away
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META 50 is a swiss product, not swedish.
Sorry. This stove is not swedish. It's a swiss stove!!!
I think alot of ppl confuses it with the ones Trangia produces.. which is Swedish and look very similar, they have been around for about 80 years and are used by the military and just about anyone, even schools use them. I have had one Trangia for about 28 years or so.. not sure what kit is tho. Great stuff non the less.
Meta 50 is a Swiss model, the other is the swedish army one (he say swiss model later)
The swedish army model exists in two versions, alumnium one and stainless steel.