[at-l] Esbit Tablets

[m_factor@hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

Most of my meals required me to just boil one or two cups of water.  I 
generally used about one tablet a day.  Sometimes less, sometimes more.  I 
rarely bothered to boil water for beverages or breakfast.

I suggest you do some test preparations of the types of dinners you intend 
to eat on the trail, using your backpacking pot and windscreen.  The Esbit 
stove comes with no windscreen but some comments I've heard from people 
recently who had problems getting their water to a rolling boil seemed like 
the windscreen may have made the difference.  I used my MSR windscreen and 
the 1.3 liter Evernew Ti pot.  Rolling boil for 2 cups of water generally 
occurred in 7-8 minutes.  Then the tableet continued to burn for another 7-8 
minutes, albeit at lessening intensity.

As always, YMMV,

Mara
Stitches, GAME99

P.S.  I've since switched to the bottom of a soda can (turned upside down) 
to hold the Esbit tab and some heavy duty wire mesh (don't remember the 
"real" name) as a pot support.  Save a couple of more ounces.  -MF

>From: Hal Wright <knowhal@netreach.net>
>Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 21:45:46 -0500
>
>Just got some Esbit tablets and the cute little stove from REI. How many
>tablets would be needed for dinner for one plus coffee in the evening? 
>Would
>one per day generally be enough?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-- Hal (Pokey Papa)
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