Quote:
Originally Posted by Wise Old Owl
Huh? $5 I must be missing something here.
http://www.rei.com/product/653344
10-K did you do any practice at home in the kitchen? and did you use a heat bottle of alcohol? sounds like you got the wrong stuff. |
No practice - I had the esbit stove that mates with the caldera cone and I bought the alcohol stove from someone else.
I decided to take both setups with me on my hike to compare.
Seemed simple enough... I poured an oz of denatured alcohol into the stove, lit it and put my 700ml w/ 2 cups of water (~45*) ti pot on top of it to boil. The water didn't boil, so I put in the 2nd oz of alcohol. The water came to a rolling boil just as the 2nd oz was finishing up - 9 minutes later.
As I said, wind was calm but I used a foil windscreen that was 2" higher than the stove anyway.
Maybe it was the quality of the denatured alcohol but I don't know what I could have did differently that would have made it boil faster.
The caldera cone/esbit combo is darned near as quick as my primus canister stove.