The big camping stove cook in.

[David Martin]

This is a thread to post test results for stoves.

Test conditions.

Raise 250ml of water from cool (ca 10 degrees) to boiling.

Outdoors but sheltered from the wind. It is hard to standardise for windy conditions.

Specify the stove used and the weight with and without fuel + container

Stove	fuel	packed weight	weight+fuel	boiling time
Trangia gas conversion, duosal 1.5l pan	butane/propane resealable cylinder	1294g (includes pot holder)	1584g (220g cartridge)	1min 22sec

[nuttycyclist]

Initial water nearer 0 degrees, wind shelter not that good, frost settling on ground.  I think in better conditions (especially once stove up to heat and just placing fresh pans above it) a better result could be got.

Stove	fuel	packed weight	weight+fuel	boiling time
Three Grolsch cans converted via a Swis army knife having just drunk contents	Meths	13g	65g (less than 50% fuel burned, so could have been lighter)	15 minutes from lighting to noticing boil   (Was refitting a tyre, so replicating typical camping situation).   5 minutes to full ignition due to damaged can not pressuring, then between 7 and 10 minutes.

[andrew_s]

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Stove	fuel	packed weight	weight+fuel	boiling time
"penny" coke can stove, MSR 0.8l ti	meths	20g stove 375g (2 pans, lid, potstand, lighter priming tray, windshield, potlifter potcosy)	375+220g fuel    =595g	3min 50sec, water from fridge 20ml fuel not enough left to get the 2nd pan above lukewarm

packed weight is for full pan set - weights are 90g, 65g and 60g for lid/frypan, so I can cut it down by 150g if I take the small pan and a bit of foil for the lid.


Stove made from 2 coke cans using a stanley knife, small drill, and a whisky tumbler

[andygates]

Stove	fuel	packed weight	weight+fuel	boiling time
Snow Peak Giga Power stove, Trangia kettle	butane/propane resealable cylinder	310g (includes pot holder)	470g (100g cartridge)	2 minutes dead

[Phil]

Stove	fuel	packed weight	weight+fuel	boiling time
'The Pepsi Stove', made with 2 shandy cans.	Meths	10g Tin can used as pot 80g Overall 90g	40g	5 minutes to prime 7 minutes to boiling overall 12 minutes

[andygates]

Just knifed up two coke cans for a go at that stove - 4:30 to boil one cup in my kettle despite the stove being an utter abomination that took ten minutes.

[nuttycyclist]

Andy, was that "one cup" the 250ml?



I may need to build a new stove

[andygates]

Yup though it was indoors (it was cold and dark outside) so add a minute.

Interestingly my stove was a "fecking abomination" model made only with a gert knife - the jets were from all the leaky torn mangled gaps - so it really seems to be idiot-proof.

[cornelius]

Came across this: http://www.chainsawmills.co.uk/stove.htm last night when researching chainsawmills (yeah... I know ) Haven't built one yet but I'm going to. Seems like an upmarket version of the cokecan special.