How To Make A Powerful "Fancy Feast" Backpacking Stove
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How to Quickly Build A Super-Effective DIY Alcohol Stove From A 3oz Cat Food Can.
The "SuperCat" backpacking stove design by Jim Wood is one of the most powerful mini-stoves you can make with hardly any work at all.
All it takes is 1) A 3oz aluminum cat food can, 2) A hole punch, and 3) Alcohol fuel.
To make the stove, all you need to do is punch 2 rows of holes just below the rim of the can. Pour an ounce of your favorite cooking alcohol (denatured, ethanol, HEET, etc.) into the can. Light the fumes and wait for the alcohol to boil. Then set your cook pot right on top of the can and watch the flames shoot out the side holes across the bottom of the pot.
This stove is amazingly efficient -- even too efficient! It burns really hot, so it's best with a wide pot that wants to heat up fast.
While not the absolute simplest DIY alcohol stove design -- you could actually just pour alcohol into an empty open can and call it a stove -- the SuperCat is an elegant blend of being ridiculously simple, ultra-lightweight, very powerful, and standalone, since it's also its own pot stand!
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Other Keywords: Fancy Feast, Homemade, Ultralight, Outdoor, Methanol
How to Quickly Build A Super-Effective DIY Alcohol Stove From A 3oz Cat Food Can.
The "SuperCat" backpacking stove design by Jim Wood is one of the most powerful mini-stoves you can make with hardly any work at all.
All it takes is 1) A 3oz aluminum cat food can, 2) A hole punch, and 3) Alcohol fuel.
To make the stove, all you need to do is punch 2 rows of holes just below the rim of the can. Pour an ounce of your favorite cooking alcohol (denatured, ethanol, HEET, etc.) into the can. Light the fumes and wait for the alcohol to boil. Then set your cook pot right on top of the can and watch the flames shoot out the side holes across the bottom of the pot.
This stove is amazingly efficient -- even too efficient! It burns really hot, so it's best with a wide pot that wants to heat up fast.
While not the absolute simplest DIY alcohol stove design -- you could actually just pour alcohol into an empty open can and call it a stove -- the SuperCat is an elegant blend of being ridiculously simple, ultra-lightweight, very powerful, and standalone, since it's also its own pot stand!
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Wanna see more DIY Camping Gear? After subscribing here, visit my site at http://mobilerik.com where you'll find more experiments headed towards a sustainable full-time camping lifestyle in a "fully outfitted" home made truck camper RV that never needs "hookups" or even a generator.
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Other Keywords: Fancy Feast, Homemade, Ultralight, Outdoor, Methanol