In reply to Post #91
The camping type pans (and therefor most fishing branded copies) are designed to boil water as fast as possible for drinking and dropping in boil in bag/ pot noodle type meals and aren't designed for ‘cooking'. It's virtually impossible to simmer anything without 100% attention and stirring especially over a small camping stove, whereas household pans are designed with thicker walls and heavier bases to retain heat and are more controllable.
Tesco's sell a range of budget pans - the sort students buy or someone on a very tight budget, cheap as **** for household use but ideal for the angler. They come in a set of 3 and are Teflon coated aluminium but much thicker than than camping pans and with a thick base. These are an ideal compromise being fairly lightweight but allowing you to cook. They also come with two glass lids, which if you don't mind the extra weight ( they weigh more than the 3 pans) and allow you to simmer something without it drying out as it keeps the moisture and flavour in. I got a set of these, drilled the handle rivets off and replaced them with foldaway handles so the all nest inside each other for compactness. If you don't want to be arsed to rivet on different handles just buy one of the pan grabber thingymebobs 👍
I also have a Ridgemonkey, the one with the detachable handles. Apart from the obvious things I find it better for making toast than all the other gadgets I've had over the years. If I don't fancy a heart stopping full English or bacon sarnies, sausage sarnies or egg banjo's for breakfast I do enjoy poached eggs on toast with a nice mug of tea, which is really a fine way to start the day 😎
The camping type pans (and therefor most fishing branded copies) are designed to boil water as fast as possible for drinking and dropping in boil in bag/ pot noodle type meals and aren't designed for ‘cooking'. It's virtually impossible to simmer anything without 100% attention and stirring especially over a small camping stove, whereas household pans are designed with thicker walls and heavier bases to retain heat and are more controllable.
Tesco's sell a range of budget pans - the sort students buy or someone on a very tight budget, cheap as **** for household use but ideal for the angler. They come in a set of 3 and are Teflon coated aluminium but much thicker than than camping pans and with a thick base. These are an ideal compromise being fairly lightweight but allowing you to cook. They also come with two glass lids, which if you don't mind the extra weight ( they weigh more than the 3 pans) and allow you to simmer something without it drying out as it keeps the moisture and flavour in. I got a set of these, drilled the handle rivets off and replaced them with foldaway handles so the all nest inside each other for compactness. If you don't want to be arsed to rivet on different handles just buy one of the pan grabber thingymebobs 👍
I also have a Ridgemonkey, the one with the detachable handles. Apart from the obvious things I find it better for making toast than all the other gadgets I've had over the years. If I don't fancy a heart stopping full English or bacon sarnies, sausage sarnies or egg banjo's for breakfast I do enjoy poached eggs on toast with a nice mug of tea, which is really a fine way to start the day 😎
I must be a bit different to everyone else as during the Summer months, I have a tendency to do less cooking than the other seasons. Many years ago I used to love my cooking on the bank and looked forward to it, preparing veg etc and good chunks of meat and chicken, but one day I realized that I would sooner be not cooking and just looking out over the pond instead.
I will have a good fry up for breakfast very early morning, but for the likes of dinner and tea, I prefer to making a good big "Banjo" or two or three. Usually, I take plenty of bread cakes, cheese either processed or normal stuff or maybe cooked meat or tinned meat, tomato's, onions, lettuce etc and knock up big salad "Banjo's" and then smother it in salad cream.
In the space of about 10 minutes or far less, I can have had my meal, everything packed away, wiped my knife clean and back to the fishing.
But during the Winter months when its about the only thing that happens 3 times a day to kill the time, cooked meals, every meal.
Maybe that's why no one visits me, I have nothing for anyone to come cadging to eat or drink. As they said in the "Simpsons", "You Don't Win Friends with Salad".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Kj17oVHAk&ab_channel=M.Craft
I will have a good fry up for breakfast very early morning, but for the likes of dinner and tea, I prefer to making a good big "Banjo" or two or three. Usually, I take plenty of bread cakes, cheese either processed or normal stuff or maybe cooked meat or tinned meat, tomato's, onions, lettuce etc and knock up big salad "Banjo's" and then smother it in salad cream.
In the space of about 10 minutes or far less, I can have had my meal, everything packed away, wiped my knife clean and back to the fishing.
But during the Winter months when its about the only thing that happens 3 times a day to kill the time, cooked meals, every meal.
Maybe that's why no one visits me, I have nothing for anyone to come cadging to eat or drink. As they said in the "Simpsons", "You Don't Win Friends with Salad".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Kj17oVHAk&ab_channel=M.Craft