Beer Can stove

[Hoyts n Mulies]

Might have to start keeping a little bottle of rubbing alcohol around.

I don't think this is all that practical for backcountry but it's good useful information.

http://www.realfarmacy.com/how-to-turn-a-beer-can-into-camping-stove/

 

[Hunt'nFish]

I've made a handful of alcohol stoves and this is by far the simplest version yet. Added to memory.
Thanks for sharing.
Hunt'nFish

 

[colonel00]

Interesting take on alcohol stoves. I have played around with them as well and built several. It seems this one might be better with a wider pot as I would think a lot of heat is escaping around the side of this pot.

 

[ScottR_EHJ]

My buddy made a few, i will see if i can get him to post some pictures

 

[boom]

i made a few variations. drove my wife crazy. i would light them..oohh and aaawww..and run and get her so she could "enjoy the experience" with me. she almost locked the back door when i was running in with boil-time updates.

i took one of them on a trip with me. i crushed it accidentally. i could push out the dents easily..but the lesson was learned. i got a white box stove. that thing is tough. cost me $20. have not even lit the thing yet. but i will..my poor wife. hahah.

 

[robby denning]

boom
ha! that's how I operate with my wife, too.

 

[colonel00]

Lol, yeah, my girlfriend was less than impressed with my creations as well. I would even turn down the lights to make it all romantic and all but the most I got was an eye roll. Also didn't help when a little alcohol spilled onto the counter and left a little burn mark

On this topic though, anyone actually use alcohol stoves as part of their regular gear. It seems like a decent idea but it just never clicked for me as the best way. I was quickly back to a jetboil type setup. I guess going solo on a quick trip, the alcohol stove would be alright. It also seems to be a better fit for the warmer weather backpacking and scouting trips. To me it just seemed like too much to mess with and the weight penalty of a jetboil and fuel cannister was worth it for the near instant hot water and minimal fiddling.

 

[gobbler1662]

Great topic. I have been playing around with alcohol stoves for about a year now. So far out of the six or seven ive tried the starlite is the lightest, most efficent and uses the least fuel. Still combining a alcohol stove, mug, wind screen the math as far as weight only plays out for a hunt 4 days or under. This is if you figure the entire weight of the stove and fuel. Now i am using my Jet Boil SOL titanium as a comaparison. Anything longer than 4 days and the jet boil is actually lighter. My setup the starlite uses 1/2 ounce for a boil, so coffee in the morning, a boil for lunch and 1 for dinner thats 1.5 ounces of alcohol a day. If you add that weight in plus weight of the stove and mug and wind screen, the jet boil with a small 100 gm cylinder is actually lighter, again that is the sol titanium jet boil at like 8.3 ounces. This last elk season the my first hunt was a 4 dayer so i went alcohol. It worked fine, one slight problem is you cant see the flame so didnt really like that, but other than that i had no probleM. I was wondering how it would do in wet conditions.

 

[lchavez]

I use alcohol and esbit when I am backpacking or just looking for a quick meal and hot drink. I kind of made my own kit that combines a Toaks 550M cup, Caldera Cone, Esbit Titanium holder and starlyte alcohol stove. This system will work with both esbit tabs or alcohol stove.
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The Esbit Titanium tab holder supports the cup. When in alcohol stove mode, I use the tent stakes to support the cup.

 

[lchavez]

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Here is the pic with the tent stakes.

 

[colonel00]

Maybe it is just me but I don't think your attachments are showing lchavez.

 

[lchavez]

for some reason the attachments are not showing in the post, but the links work on my end. Not sure why this happened, I used the picture tool in the post.