⚠️ Read this first: there is no burner and no windshield

This is a cookware set, not a stove. Trangia say it themselves: “as a complement to our camping stoves we have produced a set that is sold without a burner, designed to suit gas stoves.”

So if you have arrived here searching for a Trangia 25 or 27, this is not that. There is no burner, no windshield and no wind protection of any kind — these are the pans, meant to go on a stove you already own. We are putting this at the top of the page because it is the single easiest thing to get wrong about the Trangia range.

The biggest cookware bundle Trangia make: a 2.5 liter billy with a wire handle, both storm-cooker saucepans, a frypan, a kettle, and lids. For a basecamp, a group, or anyone cooking over a fire rather than a stove — Trangia say it “can be used over any heat source.”

What is in the box

• Billy 2.5 L with wire handle
• 1.5 L (50.7 fl oz) saucepan
• 1.75 L (59.2 fl oz) saucepan
• Ø200 mm frypan
• Kettle 0.9 L
• Lid for the frypan and a lid for the billy
• Pot handle
• 72 cm strap
• Cover bag F27
• Packed size Ø200 × 135 mm
• Weight 1160 g (40.9 oz)
• No burner and no windshield
• Made in Sweden

Trangia’s four materials, and which one you want

This is the choice that actually matters when you buy Trangia cookware, so here it is in their own terms:

• UL — Ultralight. Aluminum alloy 5005, which Trangia says is “50 percent stronger than regular aluminum.” Lightest, conducts heat best, cheapest. Trangia’s own caution: “soft material, prone to denting.”
• HA — Hardanodized. A surface treatment on the same aluminum that makes it hard and scratch-resistant. The selling point is Trangia’s own: it weighs the same as UL, because “the treatment penetrates the material.” Easier to clean. It is still an aluminum cooking surface.
• NS — Non-stick. UL aluminum discs with a coating. Easiest to clean, least durable surface. Wooden or plastic utensils only, no steel wool, and Trangia say outright that “the frying pan may need to be replaced from time to time.”
• DS — Duossal 2.0. A laminate of aluminum and stainless pressed together — 0.8 mm total, of which 0.3 mm is the stainless interior. Heaviest and dearest. It is the one to buy if you cook acidic or salty food, because stainless, not aluminum, is what touches your dinner.

One caution Trangia publishes and we are going to repeat. On bare and anodized aluminum: “avoid cooking and storing acidic or salty foods in aluminum vessels for extended periods of time,” and maintain the surface to prevent scratches “that may increase the risk of metal release.” Tomato sauce overnight is the thing to avoid. If that is how you cook, the Duossal version of this pan has a stainless interior and sidesteps it entirely.

Looking after the non-stick

Wooden or plastic utensils only. No steel wool, no Scotch-Brite. Do not overheat it and never leave it empty on the burner. Trangia suggest oiling it lightly before first use, and they are honest that “the frying pan may need to be replaced from time to time” — a coating is a wear part.

About the coating, and why we are not going to tell you it is PFAS-free. Trangia describe their non-stick as “a type of PTFE.” Elsewhere on their own site they also describe it as “PFAS-free and PFOA-free… its main component is PTFE.” PTFE is a PFAS under the usual definition, so those two statements cannot both be right as written. We are publishing the part they are consistent about — it is a PTFE-type non-stick coating — and saying nothing about PFAS in either direction. No brand name for the coating is published anywhere. If this decides the purchase for you, ask us and we will put it to Trangia in writing.

Care

Not dishwasher safe, and this is Trangia’s own position rather than ours: “the chemicals used in dishwasher detergent destroy the aluminum’s surface.” Hand wash with washing-up liquid and a brush or soft sponge. No steel wool and no scouring pads on this one — it is coated.

Do not store food in the pots, and do not boil dry: Trangia warn that “without food or liquid, it can melt.” Keep plastic parts away from the flame.

Induction and oven use are not published by Trangia, for any of their cookware, so we are not going to claim either.

Made in Sweden, at Trangia’s factory in Trångsviken.