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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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This is exactly what it is. A point of fact. These cookers all work on the move. So after breakfast the cooks would do clean up of the porridge from one pot while starting soup or stew in another. This would cook that meal while being towed. Rest halts and other stops the cook would stoke the fire or brew tea from the hot water in the reservoir adding hot water to keep the reservoir full.