Penny Alcohol Backpacking Stove
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- camping
- , stove
- , diy
- , backpacking
- , howto
- , cooking
- , camp
- , survival
- , backpack
- , tools
- , kochen
- , reference
- , system:import
- , backcountry
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Bookmark History
Saved by 20 people (4 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-07-17
- Enkerli on 2008-09-07 - Tags no_tag
- Americanrivera on 2008-06-03 - Tags camping , backpacking , cooking , howto
- Paschott on 2008-05-17 - Tags camping , diy
- Gmanoim on 2008-03-24 - Tags build , camping , diy , hiking , howto , import , stove , system:import
- Rodovalho on 2008-03-02 - Tags camping , diigo
Public Sticky notes
For years I have been developing a homemade backpacking and camping stove that heats faster, burns longer, uses less fuel, and is easier to build, fill, prime, and light. Most alcohols stoves will heat two cups of water, but when I camp, I want to sterilize four cups fast and be able to slow cook a pot of brown rice, pasta, or oats on 2/3 oz of fuel.
For obvious reasons, I call the results the Penny Stove. Web Reviews document that it performs better than the most popular commercial or homemade alcohol stoves. It combines the advantages of the three basic designs - the efficiency of a High Pressure/Photon, the ease to fill and light of a Double wall/Pepsi, the simplicity of a Tub/Cat stove. It heats faster, uses less fuel, and can burn longer than any tested.
A pressure regulator and simmer ring combination let it function as two stoves. It can prime and boil a quart of water just 20 seconds slower than a gas cook-top, or, simmer at max efficiently for up to 40 min. And, it's much more stable than any I have tested in the wind or cold and at altitude.
The low-pressure Penny Stove is so simple that you can build a rough one on the trail with a pocket full service knife - no insulation, rulers, epoxy, needles, or tape. If you have played with homebuilt stoves before, this one should be a snap. Some have built the burner in just 10 minutes.
Highlighted by ktenney
Public Comment
on 2006-11-27 by germinal