Either of these wood stoves work well. And each has some unique advantage. I have not tried the Sierra one. It looks fine. The downsides are the battery and fan, some more things to break down; limited fuel burning space since it feeds from the top and have to move the pot out of the way and can use only relatively short pieces of fuel; and inability to be totally collapsed flat like the Pocket Cooker can (as I mentioned in the review, whimsically, one of the things I liked about the Pocket Cooker was it is folding kayak-like: collaspses down to fit in a bag). But there is no question that the Sierra Stove design has technology going for it in the double wall and fan blown fire. It looks like, because of this, it would deal a bit better with wet wood and twigs. Clearly either makes for a second stove or one for air travel where you don't want to risk yourself and others from the hazardous material you are checking through or bring aboard. ralph JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com wrote: > > Ralph brings up a good option to consider. Wood stoves. Wood --- or almost any combustible material including straw and pine cones --- can be burned in another cooker, the Sierra Stove. Really a wonderful invention, and, since it uses "external", indigenous fuel which you collect while you're camping, it should have no airline restrictions. Essentially, it's a double lined fire pot that has a battery powered fan to increase the air flow into the fire bed, thus increasing the temperature of the fire and the amount of cooking heat generated. Simple, relatively small and quite cheap. Burns driftwood, and virtually anything else. > > The best primer is to look at the well written and very readable "Sierra Stove Unofficial Web Site", http://yahi.csustan.edu/~gcrawfor/zip/zipstove.html. > > Another great option to dino fueled stoves. > > Jack Martin > *************************************************************************** > 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/ > *************************************************************************** -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sun Mar 05 2000 - 08:49:09 PST
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