Dome Stove fuel stick lifter fully up position.

This post describes an improved large fuel port and a fuel stick lifter to make the combustion hotter and make fuelling easier in Miniature Dome Stove. Background to the Miniature Dome Stove improvements In my previous post on the Miniature Dome Stove, I discussed the possibility of adding a largerRead More →

Dome stove dark 0.

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 →

Pudding bowl tent stove night.

This post is about an experimental micro tent stove that is made from a stainless steel pudding bowl. It is tiny, very simple, clean-burning and easy to keep fuelled with bush sticks. It produces steady intense radiant heat for a small tent and can boil water in a 700ml mug.Read More →

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

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 →

Flue pipe compression ring for stabilisation of the bottom end of roll-up flue pipes. The ring has an additional snail-tail that can be interlocked with the overlapping flue pipe seam to prevent it from falling out once the outer flue pipe holding ring is tightened around them..

Introduction Roll up flue pipes or stove pipes are often used with backpacking tent stoves. The bottom end of the pipe needs to fit closely into a round hole in the stovetop. At the same time, there needs to be some device to stop the flue pipe falling into theRead More →

Flaming pudding

Ski Chalet plum pudding I make this plum pudding (from real plums) to share with my telemark ski friends each winter. One of our regular telemark ski friends is a Celiac, so this recipe is gluten-free. The fruit is homegrown Satsuma plums. They ripen in great abundance and are driedRead More →