[pct-l] Esbit Tab tested

[jerrygoller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jerry Goller)]

Interesting. I can boil 2 cups with one tab and have about 1/3 to spare.
I've been using them for 4 years or so now. As I decided I really don't need
to boil water for dinner, I now use just 1/2 a tab. Back when I bothered to
time such things, I was boiling the two cups in 6 or 7 minutes. I really
don't remember now but it wasn't a particularly long time. I use a home made
stove, MSR Titan kettle and a tall windscreen. My earlier tests where with a
standard MSR screen. Jerry

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 I broke down and bought a dozen esbit tabs today at Big 5 for 5.99. In test
today with my MSR windscreen with holes and homemade flat stand one tab
didn't boil 500cc's of water in an open 1.4 liter pot with outdoor temp at
58 degrees. Tablet burned 11 and 28 seconds. Cost is 50 cents a piece.
    Homemade Alcohol burner boiled the same 500cc's in 5 minutes and 18
seconds with no lid. Cost of Alcohol is about a third if using Heet gas tank
dryer.
   Esbit is a good backup , performance is not up with alcohol  though and
the bottom of my pot was a mess. Monte
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