alcohol stove thoughts

[crashdive123]

Good job Rebel.

[OldFart]

Lord I love alcohol stoves! They've become an addiction!

I've been using a cat stove burner with the Sterno stove for a number of months now. I use it almost everyday. I've tried the Sterno cans. There great for warming but aren't capable of really cooking something. If you just need to warm canned food they're great but for say frying meats the alcohol burners work much better. The one I've been using

http://site283.webhost4life.com/afms...-cat-stove.htm

J. Faulks Rocket Cat stove works fantastic. It's a non-pressurized alcohol stove and is very quick and easy to light and use and since it is non-pressurized it should work fine even in the coldest of temps.

These stoves claim to be able to boil two cups of water in less than 4 minutes. Your mileage may very depending on circumstances. If for example your using the lightweight backpacking cookware the stoves will boil very quickly. Obviously if your gonna use an old cast iron pan the stove is likely to run out of fuel before completing the task. Takes a lot of fuel to heat all that cast iron. A wood fire is much better for cast cookware.

I find that I can fry 3 or 4 sausage patties and 3 eggs with about 1 3/4 to 2 fluid ounces of alcohol. I haven't timed it exactly but I lite it, dump in the sausage and roll a cigarette. By the time I'm done with the cigarette my breakfast is ready. It also does well for fry bread (bannock) and corn fritters.

Give one of these a try! It's cheap (made from cat food cans) to make and cheap to run. I found a couple of the Sterno stoves at a K-mart for $4.00 each. You can get the denatured alcohol from Lowes or Home Depot or any hardware.

Beware! it becomes an addiction!

Rick

[klkak]

I think I'll keep and use my Jetboil.

[crashdive123]

I'm a bit skeptical of the works fine in coldest temp claim. -20 will take its toll on an alcohol stove.

[OldFart]

I'll let ya know this winter Crashdive123. I've thought about throwing the fuel and stove in the freezer for a few hours and trying it but I don't think that is quite good enough. Anyway, from all I've read from some of the backpacking forums the non pressurized alcohol stoves are reported to work very well in the cold. We'll find out in a few months!

You might be right though! -20 is pretty cold and I hope I don't get to test it in those conditions!

Rick

[klkak]

I have an old "Optimus" stove that will burn almost any flammable liquid you pour into it. So I guess you could call it an alcohol stove if I had alcohol in it. I've used unleaded, white gas, diesel and naphtha in it but never alcohol. It is similar to the one in this picture.

[crashdive123]

I've got about 10 or so stoves hanging around. Some old, some newer, some home made. The only alcohol stove I've got is the little home made pepsi can stove. I suppose I could put alcohol in some of the multi fuel stoves - just never tried it.

[erunkiswldrnssurvival]

I have an old "Optimus" stove that will burn almost any flammable liquid you pour into it. So I guess you could call it an alcohol stove if I had alcohol in it. I've used unleaded, white gas, diesel and naphtha in it but never alcohol. It is similar to the one in this picture.

those are nice .

[klkak]

those are nice .

It'll boil water for coffee, heat up a can of chili and fry bacon. Unlike many alcohol stoves it will simmer. It's G2G.

[bulrush]

What is "G2G"?

[crashdive123]

good to go.....

[klkak]

Thanks for catching that for me Crash.

[Rick]

I've been looking around and finally found a supplier for the Swedish Trangia Cook set. The whole thing is $14.88 and the alcohol stove alone is worth that!

http://west.loadup.com/military/surplus/1999.html

You can find them all day long in the UK for L9.00 or L10.00.

[Runs With Beer]

I made 5 of these last week Different sizes, I have to say I think they work pretty good. every one I showed wanted one so I gave them away, Easy to make.

[Rick]

Oldfart - If you run into trouble with your alcohol stove not wanting to light when it's cold just hold the stove in you hands for a few minutes to warm up the alcohol. It should light okay then. You can also carry the alcohol bottle (flask, whatever) in your jacket next to you to keep it warm. The alcohol has to vaporize in order to burn and it will only do that when it is warm.

[tonester]

i know this is a really dumb question, but i have no experience with the pepsi can stove and i was wondering how do you put out the flame when youre done using it?

[crashdive123]

Aquious Film Forming Foam (AFFF) fire extingushier. If I don't have one of those, I just blow mine out - there are pretty Susceptible to the wind. After using them for a while you will get pretty good at using just the amount of alcohol that you need so that when the cooking is done, so is the fuel.

[danmc]

just wait for it to burn out. You're not putting that much fuel in these. What I'd recommend is you just try it out in your driveway a couple of times where you pay attention to how much water you're boiling and how much fuel you put in and you'll pretty quickly figure out whats the right amount to never need to worry about putting out the stove.

-Dan

[Gray Wolf]

Make your own, Stoves of all kinds!

STOVES:

1. Plumber's Stove
(& Fuel Bottle)
2. Shane Graber
Stove
3. Thomas' Stove
4. Fuzzy's Lil Stove
5. Perry's Alcohol
Stove
6. Perry's Solid-
Fuel Stove
7. Cat Stove
8. Kiwi Stove
9. Photon Stove
10. Bluet 206-mod.
11. SGT Rock
Windscreen
12. SGT Rock
Simmering
Soda Stove
13. SGT Rock
Turbo V8 Stove
14. Modified Esbit
15. Modified Trangia
16. Altoids Stove
17. Go-Torch Stove
18. Pop Can Stove
19. Convex Coke Stove
20. Jim Wood's Super Cat Alcohol Stove
21. Falk Wood Stove
22. Falk Cat Stove
23. Smity Camp Stove
24. Sheehan Stove
25. GOYA Stove
26. the FireLight Stove
http://www.backpacking.net/makegear.html

[tonester]

cool, thanks guys