kelley kettle | Explosions, how to use and a review!

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Ok kind of a long one as i had quite a bit to say about this product, bit of a rant at the end of the video after the explosions so stick with it!

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hello hello and welcome to another video today's video is a kit review and a tutorial on how to use this particular piece of equipment rolled into one today I'm going to be looking at this which is a Kelly Kettle it's a really great piece of equipment some people hate them some people love them personally I quite like them for a number of reasons the great for like canoeing trips the great if you're working with groups obviously you're not going to be carrying it very far but if you if you don't have to worry about the weight of it it's a really fantastic piece of equipment to carry there is a decent reason that the reason that people don't really like them sometimes is actually quite valid and it's because if you if you use it wrong it is quite a risky piece of equipment to use I'm going to show you first what happens with this if you use it incorrectly and it goes wrong so basically what this is is a kettle and which is hollow through the middle like that you can see my face through there and the water sits inside the walls of this whilst the fire runs up the inside and the dangerous thing is this bunk okay

so seen lots of people using these and the problem is when you leave the bong in and you boil water you are boiling water in a pressurized container the obvious thing that's going to happen there is explodes so just because it's fun that's what we're going to do first so I'm going to get this going and I'm going to move away and leave the camera to roll because the camera because he can't get injured so let's have a look at that then so we start off with our Kelly Kettle by loading our fuel into this into this Basin here and I like to light the fire first and then drop the kettle on to the top some people like to light it the other way around and but let's just see how we're getting on so I'm gonna start off you can basically burn anything in this and you're not cooking directly on the flames when you're using it so you can use pretty much any kind of fuel I know people have used peat and these shavings are I'm putting in now a basically just shavings that are leftover from a spoon carving course I did the other day so they're reasonably dry I think there's still a tucked green but I know they're gonna burn because I've already burnt from them today so it's as simple as that I'm just out mosquitoes are everywhere I'm gonna load that there and I think I'm gonna ignite this first because I'm gonna leave the bong in I need to think about how I'm going to do it but what you could do is drop the kettle straight on at this point and then light it through this bit and then the flame to come out through the top obviously because I need to make sure that I'm out the way and I've got the camera set up for this I'm not going to do that where I'm gonna get the fire going first

I mean light it using matches and what I've done is I've angled this opening here into the wind so there's going to get there's not much of a breeze today but there's going to be a little bit of a breeze coming they're feeding it and then it'll start to draw up through the chimney and the light is a match let's see if I can lights at first time like I said the wood is still a little green that is not the best way to light a match there we go I'm hoping a little bit this greener wood will get rid of some of these mosquitoes because it will be a little bit smoky so if you got a good fuel they do start burning sort of really quite quickly one thing that I've noticed with lighting these is it is a little bit more challenging in the winter just because the metal is cold so obviously everything inside there needs to heat the mat a lot before it'll do anything else

all of it lit this is plum wood in here which turns out burns really well when it burns that bit that I just tried to like didn't burn okay so that's that established I'm now gonna let it do its thing and get itself going and then I'm gonna move away I'm gonna get the camera set back up and get well out of the way [Applause]

so this is starting to get established now the shavings are going quite as well as I've hoped in the middle I said it is still a little bit green I have got some work that's not a shot bought kindling with me I am actually just at work today's with where I use the Kelly Kettle you use a recruit children and occasionally big grown-up children I'm fairly sure we'll be watching this video and they'll know exactly who I'm talking about

so how am I going to do this I'll take the bug out to start with so I can feed some fuel into the chimney that instantly makes a difference that chimney starts to draw the heat up through it fairly quickly here because it does boiling between three and five minutes so I'm just feeding fuelling through the chimney which is how we do it

notice how I'm kind of just digit burn my hand I'm coming in sort of an angle and dropping it in this way that's going really nicely now before long you will start to see flames coming out through the center there and because it's got that chimney effect it does burn really quite efficiently

okay so that is well established now that fire inside so in the next three to five minutes that will begin to boil so what I'm going to do is I'm gonna pop the bong in and I'm gonna go away what I'll probably do is speed things up on the camera for you guys you don't want to you don't spend five minutes your day watching a cattle boil so in that boom goes nice and tight and I'm gonna go away

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okay so you can see taken Hauppauge out is quite important that was a good three foot jet of boiling water there and it is actually this is cognitive capacities I'm gonna check my notes but there's two-thirds of that water has now gone out of that kettle and it's not it's not a small amount of water okay so that's what happens when we use it incorrectly what we're going to look at now is the correct way to use this there's a couple of there's a couple of safe ways to use this and a couple of really nice features about it which do make it safe if you know how to use it so the correct way to use this is as I'll show you now so what I'm going to do is I'm going to relight the fire in here which has is still kind of going in the middle it is still hot but I real ate it because I had to go and talk up the water for this so we'll relight the kettle and then I'll go through the process of actually using it safely it's pretty simple just requires a bit of common sense which I think can be quite lacking in some people starting a lot easier this time because it is already hot [Music]

quickly oh by the way I've got this on a raised platform today so even though the the base it is a control fire I'm on Pete here and that's something to be aware of and currently in the UK were having kind of a drought everything's ridiculously dry this ground actually looked it down today but I'm still not even gonna risk it so even though it's an enclosed fire don't be fooled into a false sense of security it is still a very very hot a hot piece of metal with a fire inside it so you put this straight on the ground you still run the risk of starting a fire so just find something to prop it up on top of okay so get that fire ticking away top the water back up so this is the 1.5 liter version of this cat which i think is called the Scout version just kind of like the middle middle range one a little bit hot water in there from the last time what it does take a feral bit of water and I've brought extra down because I realized when I was filming it exploding my camera does this thing where it splits the video at certain points so it's split eggs the exact moment that this decided to explode so I'm going to leave that one in and then I'm going to do your bonus explosion just because it's kind of fun isn't it okay so that's why Oh is going nicely now so the way that I'm gonna put the kettle on is I'm gonna put it on using the handle and what I'm doing is I'm not holding the handle like this and dropping it straight down because the minute that this connects with the base it starts to fall he took through the top so what we do with the bail arm is we hold it at 90 degrees and 90 degree angle to itself and then drop it on that way and I'm never putting my hands over the fire you see immediately the flames start to come out through the top and that is the same way that once this is boiled we'll take it off that way but I will show you that again so just as before and we load in some sticks to the top still I've got shot more kindling just to speed things along a little bit and to be honest the kind of the perfect size so when you're loading your kindling in as I did say earlier in the video you can come straight over the top but you put in you you're putting your hand over that like rocket a verb of heat there so what I like to do is just bring it in like a 45 degree angle straight in like that okay just minimizes the risk of you burning yourself this oils pretty quickly once it's boiling I'm gonna show you the actual safety instructions that are written on it so I don't I don't fully understand how people are getting this this wrong when the instructions are on the back it says on the back twice the whole boil water with the cork in place Hey okay so that's plenty of fuel in there it doesn't take much to boil it the way that it uses the heat from your fire is very very efficient I clicked on my cork I'm not going to put it in so always check even stays on the cork remove before use it says it twice on there

so you can see written on the back of this here it's got the Kelly catalog oh the Kelly Kettle website which is www.hyken.com Asia mark never hold the handle above the chimney when the kettle is lit always keep children away from the kettle when in use and use surplus water to extinguish the fire okay this is already boiling okay so that's really boiling away now and just as before I'm going to hold the handle like this it's got this nice wooden bail on it and this doesn't get hot at all and I'm going to lift it off with that ninety degrees okay fire going in there still then we can hold it just as normal okay it's not hot at all now another thing to be aware of with this is how to actually pour the water for me I'm not making a drink today so I'm just gonna pour the water straight on the ground but it has this handy little wire in the back so when I'm holding this above here to pour all I need to do is pull on that on that chain and it pours nicely and I can pour the whole lot away without ever touching the main body of that kettle because it does get it does get pretty hot it's it's a it's a metal cylinder with boiling water you know of course it's going to get hot and to extinguish the fire as it says you use surplus water but like I said I'm gonna boil this again a third time with the cork in so we can see they're thin green but I won't I won't film the whole thing this time I'll I'll stay with the camera nice okay so let's fill up with water I'm not actually using spring ball by the way I'm not being cautious there's a just reusing the bottle it'll be a total waste okay so that's form that's you know 1.5 liters and I put this back on that time actually not to get over and we got a jet went like this it's fling fling bits of fire everywhere use the water it's good in the kettle wonderful and this time the camera didn't stop halfway through I don't think so just as a final point use our left over a little bit of water just to extinguish the remaining fire in there because that will jump a little bit it's gonna do that not a massive amount we can do about it and then I'll just wait for the whole thing to to cool down that is still like super super hot so I'm just gonna leave it there for a minute whilst it cools okay so let's take a closer look at the features of this so this is the kettle itself still a little bit hot and it's constructed from stainless steel and really simple design but really really effective and that's why I like it so much because it is such a simple and clever design so the center of it is hollow and that is where the fire comes up but the walls of this are hollow as well and they hold the water inside and I think looking at diagrams of this the way that that works is the walls and the the sort of cavity in the walls is narrower towards the bottom and wider towards the top I'll see I can find the little sort of artistic diagram of that I've seen at the top here we've got a nice wide open sort of spout for the water which comes with this bright orange bung with the warnings on it and that sits in there and the idea of that is you put the water in it carry it to where you go in and then you don't have to carry a separate water bottle like I did today because I need additional water for it okay so as I have hopefully clearly demonstrated it's really important to take that bung out when you are using the kettle as you can see in that second clip and actually I say second clip it might be on at the end I'm deciding on an idea with a second sort of explosion look at the kettle it was actually really difficult to tell if it was lit if there was a fire inside it there was no smoke billowing out the top or anything like that it was just a little bit of heat shimmer coming off it so if it's on the base and you see it with the bung gone you need to get yourself and everybody else away from so that you can check whether there's a fire in it what I would recommend doing is if the kettle is on the base with the bung in and you're not sure if there's a fire going on get away from it walk around the kettle a safe distance of at least 10 meters and try and find that little hole that's in the base which I'll show you in a moment and if you can see a fire in there stay away from it and wait for it to explode if there's no fire in it proceed with caution towards it from the backside of it so from this side okay so even if it does go off when it's near you it's gonna sort of go into the air first okay and if you are doing that just make sure you've got plenty of layers on okay that is pretty much all there is to it I don't know what the weight of this is all another it's constructed from stainless steel and I don't know what the type of steel is I couldn't find that information it does have a bail arm on it nice wooden handle just in case it does get hot and it makes it a bit more comfortable to carry and that bail arm allows you to hold it it's a night two degree angle so that you can use this chain on the back which is riveted on just a little thing here so you can pour it okay

really really Safety's on you're not you don't actually ever have to touch to cut off whilst it's hot okay so the base hopefully it's cooled down now we'll have a quick look at so this is the base of the kettle whoa a little bit dirty inside has been used on this side here we've got this little hole there and which allows air flow in and it's a decent sort of pan sized base for the fire to go in and around the top we've got this rim which is what the kettle actually sits on and I think that shape of it is it's probably my least favourite thing I'd have preferred it if it was the same sort of depth all the way down rather than being narrower here and simply because it does make it slightly top-heavy it's not a massive issue it's just it can be a little bit rocky if you don't like sort of tippy if you don't have even an even ground to put it on but to be honest and it's not really been an issue it's just something that you have to think about the kettle just sits on the top of that base like so okay when it's in storage it does have a bag but unfortunately I've lost the bag to this one when you carry in it the base actually slots inside the kettle which is why it's narrower at the bottom so this is how it sits like that okay really really simple really really nice design what I really like about the Kelly Kettle as well is once you boil your water you can boil a pot or whatever on here or you can get attachments that go you can get a griddle that goes in here and a thing that goes on the top here for you to put a pan on so this can be cooked we can become a full cook system I actually really like it there's loads of additional extras you can get from this and I don't have them this isn't actually my kettle either okay so my overall thoughts the Kelly Kettle I really like them there is a risk involved as you see but I'm gonna talk a little bit about that and a lot of people panic because there's a risk oh no it can explode and burn you oh wow craziness and but to be quite honest that level of risk is present in a lot of the equipment we use I've got a knife on my belt here okay there's a level of risk involved every single time I take that knife out of its sheath that knife could cut me if I cut myself with a knife I don't quit sighs the design of the Navy that's my fault for using it incorrectly or doing something wrong the same thing applies to this kettle if the bong flies out and burned you that's because you have used it incorrectly it's not a fault with the design and there's been two stories in the news lately no one story of a boy who got burned using this because the even the people that had instructed the people who were leading the session had told him to leave the bong game you've got you've got to think for yourself the instructions the warnings are on this kettle three times here here and on the bright orange bunk as well okay you've got to think for yourself there is no problem with the design of this cat or the kettle itself isn't a problem but you must know how to use it correctly and the same thing applies to loads of the equipment we use there's a risk involved with fire you need to know how to behave around fire there's a risk involved with knives axes saws we know what we need to know how to use those correctly there's a risk involved even boiling a pan of water on a fire you know it's the same thing it's just because this is a branded thing people go no no this is bad I really like this cattle as I said right beginning it's great for things like canoe trips if you want to stop on the banks and have earn a quick brew or you need to boil some water or purify water whatever it's very very quick very very efficient and uses very very little fuel it's great for working with groups it's great if you've got and if you're doing like a base camp style camp and you just want to be able to keep your cat on the boil or make it a very quickly or whatever it's great for general camping I really like them I would like to get one for myself with all the added extras so Kelly Kettle if you're watching this and you fancy sending me one that would be great and I'll do a nice review of all your extra equipment as well for the money they're not bad I think they come in at around 45 pounds for this standard Scout model they do do a larger one and they do do a slightly smaller one as well which is called a trekker I can't remember what the bigger ones called

and I did write all this information down in a notebook and I've left it somewhere my first big and while I'm quite rusty and but overall it's a fantastic it's a fantastic bit ok I wouldn't be doing the review about if it wasn't I have used it a lot I've been using these for years and years and years now and I really really liked them they're not dangerous they're only dangerous if you viewed them incorrectly which is the same with almost all of the equipment we use in the outdoors so you go guys that is the Kelly Kettle I hope you've enjoyed this video I'm being eaten alive by mosquitoes I know you can hear them on the microphone so I'm gonna head home I've been at work all day as always thank you all for watching please leave me a comment and down in the comments below subscribe and head over to my new website if you can find the time to do that which is www.firsttube.net UK find me on Instagram which is just for us to bushcraft and hit me a follow on there I'm trying to do lots of stuff now I've got a lot going on and I really preach or appreciate all the help that you guys can give me and so thank you it's good to be back you