Unchained Preppers
General Category => Gear Review => Topic started by: thatGuy on January 17, 2012, 12:18:30 AM
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Hey Gang,
I just scored a Simmons Safe Sport Alcohol Stove.
(http://www.backpacking.net/makegear/stove1/cansimon.jpg)
It is said to weigh 8.5ozs. When I can find 3 matching steel cups I will run this stove against my MSR WisperLite (11oz) and my MSR SimmerLite (10.9oz). I know it won't boil water as fast as the MSR stoves will but seeing as how my SimmerLite does not infact simmer I might be interested in having a "cooler" stove.
Look forward to a more complete review.
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Is this alcohol stove fired by pressurized alcohol or static alcohol (Alcohol soaked into a wicking material)?
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Hard to say Johny, it is like a cup within a cup and when the fuel reaches a boil the vapors come of holes long the outside rim.
(http://www.ofuzzy1.com/stove25.JPG)
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OK, cool. Thx
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I need something like this that will keep ~130 oz of liquid @ 190? for ~2 hours. Any ideas beyond a propane burner or electric coil?
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190 degrees for 2 hours.. If I wanted to do something like that I would go with an electric hotplate. Lab Grade.
But that is just me.
You see the problem with anything like this (backpacking stoves) is that they lack any real adjustment.
130oz isn't much liquid. You could run... err... cook that on your stove top.
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Rail the thing is certain liquids boil at a specific temp. 190 deg. and in most cases temp wont rise beyod that point until that liquid is all boiled out. You can super heat it but its just chemistry and once you reach the first boiling point the temp will stay in that area untill it is boiled out then heat to the next boiling point or 212 deg. for water