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. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 11:44 AM -0500 1/3/03, PTODDF_at_aol.com wrote: >[SNIP] > >Get denatured alcohol by the gallon at Home Depot. Done. [SNIP] Though I have no evidence to back this up, I have heard that using alcohol formulated for stove usage will cook cleaner (no soot) and hotter. I use a Trangia and do some serious cooking with it, in other words making full meals not just boiling water. I've been using Origo alcohol for years and have been really happy with it. Below is a link via West Marine. Again, I am not sure if it is better, but I have heard from people using regular denatured alcohol that they get less than stellar performance from their stoves. http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001&productId=13917 -Patrick *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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