[at-l] Drink Can Stove Experience

[charles@uswnet.com (Charles Copeland)]

I carry a 16 oz bottle of alcohol that I use for 8-10 alcohol stoves.  Each
stove uses a film canister's worth of alcohol to boil 2 cups of water.  The
Scouts cook 2 meals in a weekend and I always have lots of fuel left.

I agree with you OB - I'd like to be able to extinguish the flame when I'm
done.  My latest cat food can stove will do that - although by a misdesign -
I wanted the stove to simmer if I put a pot directly on the stove (instead
of on a grate/rock/etc.  It simmers for about 2 minutes then the flame goes
out.  I've decided that this is a feature, not a bug!  (Can you tell I write
software?) 

:-)

As for weight, the stove weighs virtually nothing.  If I was hiking alone,
the fuel would last for days.  However, saving weight is not why I like the
alcohol stoves.  I like them because 1) They are cool to make, 2) They can
be used by my younger scouts (we don't allow them to use pressurized stoves
until they are at least Star rank), 3) A well-designed stove can boil water
in a few minutes, 4) They are silent.


Charles





> From: W F Thorneloe <thornel@attglobal.net>
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:50:18 -0500
> To: Rcli3@aol.com
> Cc: at-l@backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Drink Can Stove Experience
> 
> That has been my thought, but there are a couple of other issues. Alcohol
> doesn't need an explosion proof container. Alcohol can be carried on an
> airplane. Alcohol can be mailed. Alcohol is usually available in
> convenience stores (auto parts shelf). And so on...
> 
> Still, it seems a bit extravagant to be cooking 3 meals a day. I'd like a
> stove design that allowed you to extinguish the flame and save left over
> fuel for the next meal. I'm pretty certain that I'll go over to alcohol
> within a year or two as my sections make travel a bit more time consuming.
> I don't want to have to go shopping for a canister of Snopeak fuel as soon
> as I fly into Dulles, for instance, on my way to Front Royal.
> 
> OrangeBug
> 
> At 12:45 AM 3/23/2001 -0500, Rcli3@aol.com wrote:
>> Doesn't this seem counterproductive?  I never paid attention by the day, but
>> my whisperlight will cook for me a week on my 11 oz. fuel bottle.  It seems
>> the fuel would out weigh the stove.  Am I missing something?
> 
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