Esbit tablets in the uk?
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Mole
Thru Hiker
These are just as good.
www.endicotts.co.uk
Cook / Drink / Eat: Hexamine Blocks x 8. NOS. White.
Old-skool fuel - genuine issue, not the commercially made variants! Hexi tabs - waxed pack containing 8 individual blocks. Don't forget, these are not in service anymore, so when they're gone, they're gone! Important note: Age restriction applies. Please copy "I can confirm I am over the age of...
www.endicotts.co.uk
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Teepee
Thru Hiker
Esbit burn a little cleaner but not much IME.
The round ones are
. The square hexamine are usually fine. They all soot/murk pan bottoms. Search for solid fuel tablets.
https://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/...ts-pack-of-8-tablets-1642762.html?pid=1642762
The round ones are
. The square hexamine are usually fine. They all soot/murk pan bottoms. Search for solid fuel tablets.https://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/...ts-pack-of-8-tablets-1642762.html?pid=1642762
Hexamine Stove Solid Fuel Tablets Esbit – Johnsons Of Leeds
www.johnsonsofleeds.co.uk
Mole
Thru Hiker
But @cuprajake . If you didn't like using an alcohol burner due to smell and slowness, you'll probably hate Esbit even more!
It's often slightly faster and usually more weight efficient than alcohol, but it smells and leaves to some degree ,sticky mucky residue on the pot base.
I love it
It's often slightly faster and usually more weight efficient than alcohol, but it smells and leaves to some degree ,sticky mucky residue on the pot base.
I love it
Teepee
Thru Hiker
Hexy is fantastic for gluing dry grass and plastic bags to the bottom of pots. It's a highly effective automatic pot cosy.
Particularly endearing is the extra time spent wondering if it's still lit, great wind sensitivity, airport security free accommodation and x-ray, and a bonus reminder to always use a pot cover.
Particularly endearing is the extra time spent wondering if it's still lit, great wind sensitivity, airport security free accommodation and x-ray, and a bonus reminder to always use a pot cover.
Mole
Thru Hiker
It's great. I use it for more than half of my solo trips.
But might possibly not work for you for the reasons I said.
Tychonius
Section Hiker
Now don’t go generalizing from one vid…
I for one have never touched the stuff, nor have my circle of hiking and camping friends, mostly for the sticky, sooty reasons above. But it does seem kinda neat…
edh
Thru Hiker
I use it a lot too; on most of my US walks.
As @Mole notes, if you don't like aromas, don't even think about it...
Lime Cologne on the other hand might be the answer to all your........
As @Mole notes, if you don't like aromas, don't even think about it...
Lime Cologne on the other hand might be the answer to all your........
Jim_Parkin
Ultralighter
What about the fishy smell?Now don’t go generalizing from one vid…
Tychonius
Section Hiker
Aaaahhhh…. Now I see where you were coming from.
Tychonius
Section Hiker
Never having tried it I didn’t know that was how one described the smell. If that is true, I would probably continue to avoid it.
Seòrsa
Section Hiker
Ah the smell of hexamine in the morning, every squaddies dream....NOT! 
I can tell you covered in melted chocolate that it makes a great substitute for kendal mint-cake if you want to wind up your mates when they are drunk...the look on their faces as they bite into it
Kids dont try this at home
I can tell you covered in melted chocolate that it makes a great substitute for kendal mint-cake if you want to wind up your mates when they are drunk...the look on their faces as they bite into it
Kids dont try this at home 
Jim_Parkin
Ultralighter
I used it a handful of times as a teen, but later got given a peak one petrol stove as a birthday present, which was "interesting" to use. Pretty fast and not too bad in the wind, but heavy, noisy, and just a bit scary (especially at the start when it was prone to flare - good at getting a lot of cooking space in a campsite though).
There's a reason why I tend to use meths (or gas) now.
OwenM
Thru Hiker
Squaddies sense of humour, nothing quite like it.Ah the smell of hexamine in the morning, every squaddies dream....NOT!
I can tell you covered in melted chocolate that it makes a great substitute for kendal mint-cake if you want to wind up your mates when they are drunk...the look on their faces as they bite into it
The fumes from Hexamine are noxious I wouldn't go near it. Even when I was a squaddie and it was issued I didn't use it.
Seòrsa
Section Hiker
As you will know only too well Owen, Cant beat the Squaddie sense of humour,
thats just a mild example of what we used to do with it, wouldn't want to drop myself into it by saying anything else Likewise I hated the stuff, apart from basic training where we were forced to use it, never touched it after that in my full career.