How To Build A Free Alcohol Stove Fast And Easily
Today I have a video on How To Build A Free Alcohol Stove Fast And Easily. I have built several of these homemade alcohol stoves in the past. Before I followed instructions with measurements. Mostly followed. I improvise and make things up as I go. Today I wanted to show you how fast and easy you can build an effective alcohol stove.
Building an alcohol stove is not hard, time-consuming or difficult. You can really geek out on designs. Go check out Zen Stoves and see the tons of designs that are out there. Some of them are really efficient at boiling water. Some are insanely difficult to build. The guy from Minibull Designs machines his stoves from solid aluminium. They are gorgeous. But not cheap.
To some, all the designs and measurements turn them away from actually building one. The design I show you is easy. It is cheap to make. I grabbed two empty monster cans from my trash can and built this alcohol stove in a few minutes. If you fuck it up its only garbage. No big deal. Get two more cans. They don’t even have to be perfect to work. Or pretty.
Alcohol stoves are best when they are light and cheap. The big appeal of alcohol stoves is in how little they weight. That is the reason that ultralight hikers love them so much. That fact that they can be made from garbage in a few minutes is icing on the cake.
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5 soaked cotton balls burn for about 16 minutes–long enough to heat water or a can of food.
I timed it.
I also put my can inside a metal bowl in case I needed to move it in a hurry.
Did the water boil? That’s a neat trick. I have switched to using coconut oil as fire tinder I wonder how it would work. Thanks I think I will give this a try