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I have gotten into making these little stoves. There are tons of designs out there from the cat food stove to the white box to the Pepsi can to the penny stove.
For simplicity and durability, my favorite is the "white box" style. Super easy to make. It can burn Heet, isopropyl alcohol, grain alcohol (why waste that? <G>), and denatured alcohol. A good one will boil a quart to 2 quarts of water with about 1 to 2 oz of denatured alcohol. Reasonably efficient, but not as good as a pressurized white gas stove. These stoves are extremely light weight, and because they are free to make, you can stash them in every bag around with 4 to 8 oz of fuel for just pennies.
If anyone has an interest in making them, there are many videos out there, and building them, making them more efficient, and discovering new sources of material can become an obsession.
For simplicity and durability, my favorite is the "white box" style. Super easy to make. It can burn Heet, isopropyl alcohol, grain alcohol (why waste that? <G>), and denatured alcohol. A good one will boil a quart to 2 quarts of water with about 1 to 2 oz of denatured alcohol. Reasonably efficient, but not as good as a pressurized white gas stove. These stoves are extremely light weight, and because they are free to make, you can stash them in every bag around with 4 to 8 oz of fuel for just pennies.
If anyone has an interest in making them, there are many videos out there, and building them, making them more efficient, and discovering new sources of material can become an obsession.
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