A review of the Swiss Army Volcano Stove. Light weight aluminum construction (about 13 oz). 3 piece set includes stove, corked 32 oz flask, and 20 oz cup. This stove will burn any fuel including wood chips, twigs, gel fuel and trioxane.
When I was active in the swiss army, we used the stove seldom with wood. It works way cleaner in combination with the "Notkocher 71". That's a clean Methanol-gel burning heat source. (I use the same one since my active time, it an easily be refiled over and over.) This volcano stove can also be used with Esbit dry fuel tablets (don't transport them in the bottle, it's toxic!) or with almost any DIY tin can Methanol burner. As best, it works in combination with the famous "Borde Brenner". Hint: If you want to clean it superb, put a pill of dental prothesis cleaner in water and submerge the whole stove in this water for a few hours. It will come out clean as new!
Interesting vid - never saw this stove/ kettle before - used to the Kelly volcano type. but as for cleaning soot: Man! that's your fresh supply of Army camouflage ON a can! Great swiss Idea.
Great video. I have a couple of those stoves and I have found them to be amazing. I have had great luck in using them with solid fuel tablets and trioxane. I carry two small thin tent steaks that I use with this stove and I put a can of soup, chili beans, etc. etc.in it as well. Again great video!
I've always used a "Fancy Feast" cat food can with "Heet" yellow bottle alcohol. It brings two cups of water to a boil in five minutes, and leaves no residue on the cup, or stove.
If you use a cut off bottom of a shaving cream can as a burn chamber , your stove will be cleaner . Cut the top off the bottle and a modern water bottle will fit within and use the old bottle as a boil pot . Don't use the cup to boil water since it gets sooty and difficult to clean
Yes it will fit in a maxpedition bottle holder Shanewade302 and scott Williams this would be a good pack 2 keep it in allowing u to carry it with a few accessories or strapped to another pack
I have this stove, try putting some tin foil around the bottom of the cup and bottle to keep it from getting black, it will save clean up time. Also putting a pipe clamp around the neck with a wire that will fold down, you can then boil the water in there and using a stick or something, take it out of the stove. I am looking for a separate pack so I can store it, if anyone has any ideas I would appreciate a response.
I love this stove, i like its fuel versatility, though i hate the cork, its dinosaur technology that is. How difficult would it have been for them to put a screw cap on initially. Crazy Swiss