Alcohol Stove/Burner Winter Burn Test
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- I take a look at several different alcohol stove/burners performance
in winter conditions ie. 23 degrees 96% humidity.
ColoradoCampers subzero fancyfeast stove test:
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Good show question why are they burning orange my does that
My guess is its not burning as hot.
👍👍👍 .. interesting.
The White Box was my very first Alcohol Stove .. got it back in the 2000's sometime. Still in use but it is quite a thirsty little beast.
Lighting the Trangia in cold weather. I followed Erik Normark's practice and just drop the burning match into the bowl .. it acts as a wick until the alcohol heats up.
I have since modified my Trangia .. packed the bowl fairly loosely with glass wool, topped with a tight roll of carbon cloth to keep everything in place. It lights up chop-chop no matter what the temperature. Takes a little longer to 'bloom' but I do not find this to be a problem. Bonuses are that the Pot can be put immediately on the pot stand before the burner has even bloomed and the flame does not snuff out in case of a still-cold burner .. and .. the danger of burning fuel spillage in the event of an inadvertent burner knock-over, is greatly reduced. Good in that the Swiss take a dim view of anyone setting their forests alight with eye-watering fines being the order of the day 😏.
Burner performance does not appear to be negatively affected to any noticeable degree.
Thanks for sharing .. take care ..
A suggestion for a test: two alcohol burners instead of one (e.g. two instead of one turbo gnome) under a kidney-shaped pot (like those found in the military). Does this speed up cooking significantly? Has anyone ever tested this on UA-cam?
I've never seen anyone use two burners. Most burners will handle a military pot. The gnome stove is really for the lite weight hikers and their smaller pots.
@@planetsideagent I've never seen anyone do use two burners, either. The reason I suggested turbo gnome is that it is the narrowest in the video. Thanks for the reply.
You might need two for a bigger pot, but the little guy does preform well. Two would be spendy, and I don't know it they are still available. Tinny closed his web site and moved over to Etsy.
I did a burn/boil test on mine:
ua-cam.com/video/3GQiw35btBk/v-deo.html
I'm surprised you had that much trouble with the Trangia. I'm out camping in my 5th wheel this week, and last night it was -18f and few inches of snow and I used my Trangia to cook dinner. Took a few extra minutes to bloom, but lit right up and cooked great. That winter attachment, though. Holy hell! I may buy one now
I guess you don't need a winter attachment but it sue speed the process up. 🙂
Thanks for the light show. I too have a few alcohol stoves, my favorite still is the fancee feest from Zelph's Stove Works. I recently purchased a Vesta indoor emergency heater and stove and glad I did. The heater was put to the test during a power outage last week and performed well ...
Zelphs is a nice stove, Its better than a home made one because its pot holder is larger thus more stable and it uses a fiberglass wick which wont shrink over time like carbon felt
good to see that all Burner light up ,bu only the Trangia burns Yellow why ist it ? I love theblue flame Burner.
I'm not sure why the yellow, My guess is it's not burning as hot.
What percentage of alcohol and kind are you using??? Love these test and your videos.
I use yellow bottle HEET which is 100% methyl alcohol.
@@planetsideagent thanks
Thanks for your video. In the UK the Trangia winter attachment is very rare. A good way of starting your stove in cold weather is to attach old fashioned tobacco pipe cleaners at the base of the threads , on the flat shelf of the fuel tank. A couple of drops of fuel on the pipe cleaners will enable you to light up the pipecleaners and this will make it a lot easier to start the stove off. Happy Trails from across the pond.
A pipe cleaner, good tip. Some folks will glue lamp wick around there burners and add a drop of two of alcohol to it.
@@planetsideagent Some even curl lampwick inside the Trangia fuel tank to absorb the fuel. This makes for a safer stove if it is accidentally knocked/kicked over when alight.