[Paddlewise] Subject: Re: Lightweight backpacking stoves

The cat food can stove used by the triple-crown thru hiker is at:

http://www.royrobinson.homestead.com/Cat_Stove.html

A compendium of home made stoves including the cat stove is at:

http://wings.interfree.it/index.html

I like the pepsi-can stove the most, they work well and are ultralight, just 
don't step on it. Cat can stove probably more durable.This is a hobby for 
some folks, but I'm avoiding that. I often use the old reliable alcohol 
Trangia stove, which all these designs more or less evolve from. (Brass, 
Swedish, cheap.) This permits some fuel storage inside the stove with a 
screw-on lid and O-ring, and like all unpressurized alcohol stoves, is dead 
quiet. No annoying blow-torch noise. Just make a windscreen like that on the 
cat stove site, and you're set. No moving parts, nothing to clog or break. 
Get denatured alcohol by the gallon at Home Depot. Done.

Natch, none of these are for serious cooking. Used to boil a pint or so of 
water for hot 
drinks, and food that just needs hot water to make it edible. I've been 
wanting to scale up the Nimblewill Nomad wood stove on the wings site to make 
a long, narrow stove for grilling trout, maybe using real charcoal toted just 
for that.  Bought the metal but haven't cut it.

Best, Todd in Tarzana.
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