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Originally Posted by WallShadow
ArmySGT--I want one!
It's a Soviet version of a gulasche-kanone, right?
Although the WW2 German model is truly an engineering beauty--
I got to see one at a Battle of the Bulge reenactment at Ft Indiantown Gap, where a Wehrmacht soldier was doing a live demonstration making soup for his unit out of a large joint of meat, potatoes, and cabbage. He gave me the tour of the cooker, and showed me all the little extras it had--nicely designed and everything fits together well with little wasted space.
It has a firebox that not only heats a double-walled garbage can-sized pressure cooker (glycerine between the walls to evenly distribute the heat, lid held down by large wing-nuts), but also has several cubbyholes in the body serve as warming cabinets, and heats an internal tank/reservoir with a tap for ready hot water to boot!
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Sheesh, even when it came to designing portable field kitchens the German Wehrmacht didn't mess around.
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"The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear."
- David Drake
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