Cold Weather Alcohol Stove Ignition Hack. Cold fuel? No Problem!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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In this video, I show you a quick and simple way to warm denatured alcohol so that your alcohol stove will vaporize and light even in extreme cold. Alcohol in its liquid form does not burn, rather it is the vapor emitted when the alcohol is above its boiling point that feeds the flame. Alcohol stoves do not light when the fuel is cold as cold alcohol below its boiling point does not vaporize. This simple " hack " will allow you to warm your alcohol stove very quickly so that you get up and cooking in short order. Thanks for watching! Don't forget to like and subscribe!
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Good idea. Thanks
Alcohol's flash point is roughly 53F to 55F.
I like that hamburger screen!
Great tip Wayne, i,ll remember this one, thankyou
Great video and recommendation!!! Will come in handy this weekend:)🥶.
Thank you
You are very welcome! My alcohol burner is still one of my most used stoves in cold weather.
thanks for the tip! really helpful.
Thank you.
thx for this!
Nice one , thank you🙂...
Great tip. I'll add a few tea lights to my alcohol stove cookset from now on. By the way, where did you buy that bushcraft grill?
Here is a link to the one that I purchased on Amazon. Thanks for watching and for your comment!
www.amazon.com/Original-Bushcraft-Grill-Mini-Expedition/dp/B075DS56Y6/ref=sr_1_3?crid=CE5AW5K1BFY8&dchild=1&keywords=bushcraft+grill+mini&qid=1611234774&sprefix=bushcraft+grill+mini%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-3
Something I did not know
It's not lighting because the whole ring wick is not soaked in fuel from the middle of the stove to the holes. Put in fuel, screw the cap with the rubber gasket on the stove. Turn upside down and shake. Put the stove upright in the base. Unscrew the cap. Light the Stove. No need to prime
No, it’s not lighting because it’s cold. ( As I state in the video, and here is why. ) All the fuel in the world doesn’t matter if the fuel does not gas off because it is below its own boiling point. This is why Saturn‘s moon Titan with its gigantic oceans of liquid methane is not a ball of fire instead of a frozen wasteland. After all, Titan is a huge moon covered in oceans of a flammable liquid and fiery comets slam into it all the time but it never catches fire and turns into a mini sun because It’s too cold for the methane to gas off and ignite whether there is a single spark or a gigantic fireball from outer space slams into it. No vapor, no fire. It's the same for alcohol, gasoline and any other fuel. This is also why your Bic cigarette lighter won't light when the temperature gets to below 30.2 ° F as that is the boiling point of Butane and it will no longer gas off until you warm the lighter and the butane up. This is all basic physics. You mistakenly assume this stove uses a wicking system. It does not. No wick of any type exists in this model, it runs strictly on vapors which is why the fuel needs to be warm ( above its boiling point) so that it will gas off and light. This stove is an empty brass can with a screw on lid and no wick. Your advice would be fine if this stove used that wicking system. Even then, whether there was a wick or not, the fuel has to be warm enough to gas off before it will light, so even if this stove HAD a wick, what you suggest still wouldn't work until the fuel was warm enough to gas off and ignite. I may not look very intelligent, however, let me assure you that I am.
Your intro is way to frigging loud! Dislike for that reason !