PYRO PETE'S Improvised Camp Stoves...

[GPER]

Nice, I like the cardboard ones. They would be easy to make and store.

[Homer_Simpson]

I did the cardboard stoves at a training session for scout leaders, worked great, used a #10 can for the cook surface, got nice and hot, cooked up some sausage and eggs on it.

[GPER]

Hammer, I'm going to post this link over on the clubs board

[JeepHammer]

What club, GPER?

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I find the Cardboard/Paraffin works the best for me when I'm into serious trail hiking or staying out overnight (unplanned) hunting or something.
They are light, waterproof, and with one vasoline/cotton ball (which I almost always carry) fire right up with nothing but sparks, you don't even need an open flame.

This would be a REAL LIFE SAVER if you were wounded and one handed or if you were well into frost bite and couldn't move your hands well enough to coordinate flint & steel or match and striker.
(If I'm that far gone, I pop a pull string flair! I can do that will my teeth!)

I have actually modified my canteen cup stove to accept them and they work great for that.

I have NOTHING against any of the sold fuel tabs,
But the liquid or jelly fuel leaks, and believe me, it WILL take the skin off when it does!
(Will make you wish you had some cotton balls with vasoline on them to tend to the wound they inflicted!)

Anyway, working on some 'Quick Stoves', as in full size stoves, large enough for iron skillets and such...
Not exactly 'Survival' gear, but defiantly 'Field' gear!

[GPER]

Originally Posted by JeepHammer

What club, GPER?

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[ke4sky]

Originally Posted by JeepHammer

Anyway, working on some 'Quick Stoves', as in full size stoves, large enough for iron skillets and such...Not exactly 'Survival' gear, but defiantly 'Field' gear!

Field expedient stove I have used successfully is the "dirt and ammo can" stove. Use a metal container with large enough opening to support your mess tin, cook pot or grill, with high enough sides to enable a 4 to 6 inch stand off distance. A cal. .50 ammo box works well. Otherwise use a No. 10 or larger food service food can. Punch a dozen or more 1/4 inch or larger holes through both sides of the can for air draft. Shovel the ammo can 1/4 to 1/3 full of dirt. Pour a pint of gasoline or diesel over the dirt, give it a minute to soak in, then light your fire.

[RedRocker]

I'll bring the steaks!

[Strelnikov]

Excellent information, thanks JeepHammer!

[xj35s]

If you're out back and run out of vaseline or other fuel, don't forget pine tree sap. You can usually find a glob oozing out of the bark. You can always just nick a few trees a day and keep collecting the sap.

I made torches in boy scouts this way. We double boiled the sap like you would parafin then soaked rags in it and wrapped them around sticks. Be carefull they drip!!

[varmint_hunter]

Gentlemen,

These are some great ideas if your trying to survive.

But please be aware of the chemical hazards of what you might be doing.

If you cook your food over burning gasoline, you're going to be ingesting complex hydrocarbons - the products of incomplete combustion. Not good for you.

Even more unhealthy would be the combustion products of the cans with the white liner - that's teflon. And burning teflon is death, maybe not now, maybe not next month, but that's a nasty one.

Even the soda cans are coated with a urethane substance, but that'll burn off pretty quick.

Sorry to be the wet blanket, but the teflon I saw on one of those cans was cause for concern on my part.