Gypsykayak_at_aol.com wrote: > I have since gotten the Trangia alcohol stove already mentioned and a folding > wood-burning stove (boils one pint of water in 25 minutes??? :) from The > Sportsman's Guide. I reckoned that with the twigs and leaves I could at > least warm up some ravioli. I reviewed a wood burning stove from Israel. It weighs a little over a pound and will burn anything. I think Cabela now sells it if I recall from a recent catalog. It claimed to bring 3 cups of water (24 oz.) to a boil in 10 minutes. Depending on the wood I used I could get better times. Nice dry kindling brought 3 cups to a boil in 5 minutes or so. Wetters, scrappy twigs took long. I have not really used it camping just in testing. I felt it would be a good backup. Like any wood burning fire, it will blacken your pots, but if you store them in a ditty bag it should not get soot over everything. My reason for testing it was that at one point I was regularly camping with a woman who had something similar that she had gotten in the Adirondacks and she was able to boil a large sierra cup of water using the smallest of twigs that were lying around. Neither hers nor mine were the Sierra model that has a small battery operated fan. ralph - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Mar 03 2000 - 20:26:58 PST
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