An alcohol stove built to accomodate a canteen cup
I’ve toyed around with alcohol stoves a little bit over the past few months, but not a lot. I’m not a “stovie,” as I’ve read elsewhere on the Tubes, I’m not a lightweight backpacker or anything like that either, I just thought they’d be fun to play with and use. Since I’m not an ultra-light backpacker or anything, a lot of my outdoor gear is Army surplus. My cookset, canteen and canteen cup are all surplus. They’re all kidney-shaped. Every alcohol stove I’ve seen (except for those that are built into Altoids tins) are round; my pots aren’t. This isn’t a problem by any stretch of the imagination, but the fact that the flames would climb up the front and back of my pots was something that just annoyed me. I hoped to rectify this, and found a stove that works rather well. In the video I allude at one point to the “increased boiling time.” This is in reference to the initial tests I did yesterday, which I originally mentioned in the video but my camera ran out of time and so I had to re-film part of it. Yesterday I got two cups of water to come to a rolling boil in 4 minutes and 15 seconds, and a full quart (a canteen’s worth of water) in 8 minutes and 35 seconds—about double the time for double the water. I thought these were pretty stellar results, and 5:35 for water that’s colder is still rather respectable. The stove is made from two 23 oz. Arizona iced tea cans, so it is larger than others. The Hannah Stove I mention (and show) in the video is seen here: ygingras.net The …
