How I Use My Alcohol Stove
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2019
- This is a short video showing how I like to use my alcohol stove. The whole kit weighs 4.7 oz (132 g).
We managed to get 10 oz of alcohol to last us 11 days cooking once a day for two people.
At first I thought that was quite a bit of alcohol till I saw you boiled 2 pots of water. Nice setup. Alcohol is the zen of backpacking.
Very nice always enjoy seeing other people's set ups thanks for sharing
Nice kit. Using the wick is a great technique, I’ve never liked the idea of lighting an alcohol stove with just a lighter.
Just use a stick dipped in the alcohol to light it
This is what I think of when I hear alcohol stove. I have a Trangia, but I use a Fancee Feast stove and a homemade caldera cone windscreen. You have it down to a science.
Very nice presentation. Thank You for posting.
Great system. Thank you for posting this
To make a simmer ring cut out the top of a soda can with a hole in the middle, and plug up the rest of the jets.
The simmer ring that I make for my stove looks like this:
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I'm trying to use a similar method to cut my electric bill a bit from using a 220 volt stove.
I guess they are great for short time periods, but alcohol is heavy for long term so I made a wood classifier stove. I am very impressed with it because of the amount of heat it produces on a small amount of fuel (small sticks). Generally though I just make up a small openfire to cook on.
What is good about the stove is that it is very energy efficient and I don't have to carry extra fuel which makes it great for long term use.
however, if there is an active burn ban you cannot use...
@@tamiboelter2833 In some places (California I know for sure), alcohol stoves are banned the same as campfires because there's no fuel control. You can only use gas fuel stoves with a regulator if there's a fire ban on. The advantage of alcohol stoves over wood gasification stoves is weight and fuel availability. Desert camping or other areas where wood is scarce, or even just plentiful rain can make a wood stove a pain.
@@veiledAutonym Lately I have been thinking of making one for my local stealth camping.
Excellent how-to and I can't wait to take my stove out! Where did you get the silicone handle?
I got it at an REI garage sale! You can buy them though. Google "GSI Outdoors micro gripper silicone pot gripper"
What is the pot cozy made of? Weight? It looks like it could almost be a larger titanium pot with foil around it, and same for it's lid.
It's made out of Reflectix. I have a video on how to make this pot cozy if you want to check it out.
Great system. What pot is that?
Toaks 550 with no handle, it's just big enough :)
Thanks for sharing. The orzo with marinara sauce looks great. Would you please share the recipe?
Any good home-made marinara sauce recipe works! We have used a few different recipes. We always make it from fresh ingredients but you can also used jarred sauce and add lots of vegetables. We have a few trail meal videos of some of our favorite meals also if you want to check them out
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Where did you get your hemp wick?
search Humboldt hempwick on Amazon :)
What stove is that?
It's a soda can stove made from 7.5 oz soda cans. I've been making them for about 20 years now :-)
Technically is an "open top, top jet, doble wall stove" (see zenstoves), an model that mimics Trangia TB25 burner, but probable lack the cloth (linen) tube wick sewed around the outside of inner wall. Few DIY stoves add this wick, that helps in alcohol vaporization and speed bloom times. I've added the wick in mines and notice a small improvement in the bloom.
Use a small ferro rod and save even more weight.
What kind of alcohol is that ?
I use HEET in the yellow bottle. It is cheap and easy to find in town along trails (gas stations, convenient stores, Walmart, auto parts stores). You can also use denatured alcohol.
@@hipbone01 I have heard that HEET is more widely available, is 4 x cheaper, and has nearly as fast of a boiling time. as denatured alcohol. Your experience too?
@@05chmps We always use HEET for the exact reasons you mentioned.
@@hipbone01 what are your thoughts about storing the stove inside the pot after usage? I've heard people say Heet is extremely toxic. Do you think once all the heet liquid burns out or evaporates from the stove that it is safe to store in the pot? I am asking because I just got my first alcohol stove (Trangia spirit burner) and the only alcohol fuel type available in my state is Heet. Also do you rinse the pot before boiling water?
@@Soho-Fart This style of stove totally burns the fuel so there's no residual fuel but I take precautions anyway. At the end of my video you see that I place the whole stove system inside of a small piece of cloth before I place it back into my pot. This keeps the stove from coming into contact with anything. If you're really worried you can use 200 proof potable alcohol (it's called Everclear where I live). You could also keep the stove stored somewhere else besides in your pot.
All that said, I am not worried at all about residual fuel getting onto my pot. I store my alcohol fuel on the outside of my backpack.