How To Make an Alcohol Stove - EASY, EFFICIENT & ULTRALIGHT! 

Thanks, friend! :)

Thanks, I'm actually in the process of trying to get a titanium one manufactured :)

Thanks Friend, glad you're enjoying the content ;) Have an awesome weekend.

Awesome!

I get it from Go-Outdoors : www.gooutdoors.co.uk/vango-bio-ethanol-spirit-fuel-1l-p347362 , before I found that I was using mentholated spirits, but that was a bit smelly.

I'm in the UK, so you can't buy pure alcohol from the shelf, so I've been using this - www.gooutdoors.co.uk/vango-bio-ethanol-spirit-fuel-1l-p347362 it works really well.

Thanks, If I can find some time I'll definetly make one :)

Enriqué Gonzales I actually did go through that today as well! But when I edited the video, I worried that it was too long so I cut it out :( it's basically a tin foil tray that you buy for raosting a turkey. You cut a long strip out and then take a paper hole punch (that you use for ring binders) and piece holes along the bottom edge. You then just roll it up and tuck it inside your cool pot. Works really well with the alcohol stove.

GadgetViper ah I see. I’m gunna try make my own too. Thanks, really appreciate this. So simple but it looks great and you demonstrate it well in your videos. I love the inginuity in it. Cheers!

Yes, just about anything will work, cotton is fine, the only downside is that when the fuel runs out, the cotton will start to burn from the top down. If you have a way of snuffing out the flames just as it's about to die, it would be fine. I've actually switched to a new material, it's called ceramic fibre paper.

Instead "plumbers mat" - carbon fiber fel, can use fiberglass cloth or insulation wool, ceramic wool, permalite, or more mundane materials like: Cotton, linen (Trangia B25 Spirit burner internal wick is in linen), jeans... cotton balls, oakun...steel wool (but don't lst longer), or any natural material that is very absorbent. I've made one that instead cloth wick (of any kind of material) have a "capillarity wick", a sandwich of soda can aluminum sheets: One flat + one with vertical grooves at each ~1 cm + one flat The sheets have the same the height of the external can, this sandwich create fiction that hold the two cans together - can put the stove upside down; and capillarity for generate the alcohol vapors. Light fast like cloth wicks and work well.

Thanks :)

It works really well outdoors, but you'll need a windshield around it. I made mine from a tin foil baking tray, just cut it to fit the height of your pot, then punch holes low down using a paper hole punch and it works perfectly :)

There are a few tricks that can be learnt on the streets of London, that's not one of them ;) I think the click sequence was a fluke, did sound cool though :) Thanks for watching, have a great day :)

Stuart Summerfield I'll go test it for you :) brb

cool, thanks

Stuart Summerfield with cold water from the tap (exactly 500ml) it took 7:06 for a rolling boil. :)

GadgetViper excellent, just enough time to grind the coffee for the nanopresso. Thanks

Yes - like the ones he show at start of the video; but whit the pot close the boil time will be longer. Several tests show the ideal height for the flame of an alcohol stove is around a 1" (25mm)

@@Sokol10 WRONG. 1inch is entirely arbitrary. I inch may give you the fastest boil but a real thru hiker wants fuel efficiency and a reasonably fast boil. Remember the taller the flame burns more fuel. You can use a MiniBull Design BIOS STOVE that uses 30 ml of Heet to boil 2 cups in 5 minutes You can use a MiniBull Design ELITE STOVE that uses HALF of the of the BIOS You can use the FLAT CAT STOVE by Flat Cat Gear that only uses 43% of the fuel used by the BIOS STOVE. Take a look at the Flat Cat stove you will see the jets are only 5-6 millimeters from the top. My Ultimate stove has jets only 5 millimeters from The top and was efficient as THE FLAT CAT STOVE My MAHALO STOVE had jets only 8 millimeters used less than the BIOS STOVE Another stove that is in the same category of my Ultimate Stove, and the Flat Cat Stove is the Gram Weenie stove designed by End2End Trails now built by Sam at Batch Stoves It's all comes down to the question "IS IT A FAIR TRADE TO TAKE 1 1/2-2 MINUTES LONGER FOR THE BOIL IF YOUR FUEL LASTS MORE THAN TWICE AS LONG?" MY answer is a RESOUNDING YES!" In 2017 I lived off grid near Taylor, Arizona and 1 gallon of denatured alcohol in my Ultimate lasted 6.5 MONTHS. I using that alcohol to make prepare 3 meals a day, coffee every morning, and occasionally coffee in the evening