How to Fix No4 MkII mistake

[Peter Laidler]

Yes, those Hexamine tablets. Didn't they just make a mess of your mess tins and cooking pots. Someone showed me how to use an old tea bag - and that seemed to work. I still keep a couple of still-wrapped hexi-cookers, ....just in case! Jim is right about the bottom of the dixie being covered in that tar-like stuff. You'd end up putting more hexi blocks onto the cooker just to get more heat to the ALMOST boiling water and it'd never quite make it to tea-making temperature. Anyone remember the small tubes of 'milk' that looked like a thick creamy car polish? We only seemed to see that on ops alonmg with self heating cans of soup or M&V - or meat and veg to the civvies out there!!!!! As for the soup, every tin I ever saw was labelled as SOUP, Brown, Windsor. Whatever was in it is a bit of a mystery. But add some curry powder to it - and everything else and it all tasted, er........, like a better tasting crap!