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The following post describes the development and testing of a simple lightweight and compact stick burning Miniature Dome Stove. It packs within a cooking pot/s and provides for tent heating/cooking, outdoor cooking as a blower stove and backup alcohol cooking. Its simplicity, effectiveness, ease of operation, universality and safety willRead More →

DIY alcohol storage bottle with substitute 'filler cap' with tube. It makes filling with small charges of ethanol efficient, quick and clean.

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Spill free alcohol fuel bottle This free fuel bottle makes it easy to pour small quantities of alcohol cleanly and safely without waste. It is good when using the smallest stoves such as whisky top burners. A wide range of compatible bottle sizes makes the backpacking load very efficient. ARead More →

Anvils, rubber pads and rolling rods for forming curves in titanium and stainless steel foils. From left to right: narrow steel anvil with narrow and thin sealed cell foam rubber pad, wide wooden anvil with wide and thin pad and wide and thick foam pad. Across the pads are a long and short hard steel rollers.

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This post is about hand rolling of circles, rings, tubes, pipes, curves, tapers and cones in titanium and stainless steel hardened alloy foils and thin sheet. Introduction Small sheet metal rollers are expensive and bulky and have such a short rolling mouth width. They use 3 geared rollers that rotateRead More →

Micro ceramic stick stove light.

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Experimental ceramic stick burner A report on an experimental micro ceramic stick burner made as an inverted J-burners. It is made from largely clay free loam soil and sodium silicate. It is configured for; natural or forced draft operation. It also was designed with an optional fussed quartz charcoal-burner glassRead More →

This big flame is created from damp bush sticks by augmenting the combustion with a jet of air from a tiny USB blower fan.

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This article describes a 125g USB fire blower that can burn damp wood sticks for outdoor cooking and other purposes. The blower is described elsewhere on my website as part of other projects. However, I felt the USB fire blower deserved it own dedicated post.Read More →

Hybrid blower stove with rocks placed beside the exhaust port to provide support for a second pot. The nearest rock also acts to keep the hot gas and flame away from the blower fan/battery unit under windy conditions (as does the 'wing wall' in a formal double pot blower stoves).

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Introduction A hybrid double pot blower stoves is described where a single pot stove is supplemented with suitable rocks to form a hybrid double pot blower stove that can simultaneously simmer a second pot while boiling the first pot. Introduction In my range of blower stoves, I have double potRead More →

Lightest USB backpacking stove gently simmering a pot of water in the second pot over a hole blower stove

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This article describes the lightest wood stove that can burn damp wood sticks and simultaneously cook in two pots. The small blower unit and battery (~75g) is all that needs to be carried to provide 2-3 hours/battery or more cooking time for two pots. The blower unit also doubles as a tool for rapidly starting camp fires under difficult conditions.Read More →

Lightest backpacking stove. A two pot blower stove formed in a small trench cut into the ground.

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This article describes the lightest wood stove that can burn damp wood sticks and simultaneously cook in two pots. The small blower unit and battery (~75g) is all that needs to be carried to provide 2-3 hours/battery or more cooking time for two pots. The blower unit also doubles as a tool for rapidly starting camp fires under difficult conditions.Read More →

Ultralight and compact pancake spatula for ultralight backpacking.

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Ultralight pancake spatula A compact ultralight pancake spatula is described for pancake and egg cooking while ultralight backpacking. I enjoy ultralight backpacking (walking or skiing) and I also like pancakes and lime syrup for supper. They are a simple, compact fun food to finish a meal and share with othersRead More →