Can Stoves

The Emergency can stove was a bust. Great idea, especially if you could use it inside, but couldn't even heat water no matter what I did.

Can SToves:
Almost all cans now contain a plastic liner to protect the metal. Do a cleansing burn outside to get rid of the linig.

Do not cook inside with the wood stoves. Toxic fumes will build up.


** move this to the alcohol section **
If you plan on using a can stove as one of your backup food cooking items, make sure you practice with it a lot. Learn what it can do, and what it can't. The Better Can Stove video made it seem you almost had a flame thrower coming out of the can right away, but believe me, it's not this easy.

One of the problems I foresee is everyone puts away rice for long term storage, but by the time you have worked through your prepper pantry, and are into the long term storage stuff, there will probably not be any gas or electricity.

If food runs out for long enough public servants will no longer go to work, and you will start to see more and more infrastructure collapse. You might have a years worth of rice, but can you cook it on an open fire, or can stove? Do you have a years worth of seasoned wood put aside for such an eventuality? You can assume local sources of available wood will be completely scavenged. If it lasts long enough people will begin cutting down forests for cooking fuel.

An advantage of alcohol stoves is that they are useable inside. Because of it's low flash point it catches fire easily. As a result it also only burns half as hot as most other fuels. Still, it has more than enough punch to boil water, or cook rice. You can increase the heat by having a bigger stove, or decrease the heat (on some cans) by closing the hole with a metal object. As always, make sure you practice ahead of time.

A combination of can stove and alcohol stove might be best. Can stove for eggs, steaks etc., and alcohol for rice and beans, maybe soup.

** is this true? how man oz in a normal bottle?
It is going to be hard to put away enough alcohol for for your entire rice and beans long term stash though.

Alcohol is a stable fuel which can be kept indefinitely. The price point is pretty low and doesn't take a ton of storage space. However the risk of having that much flammable liquid in your house or garage might not be worth it. Expect to use about 1 oz of alcohol per meal.

I would hazard to guess that distilling alcohol from corn or potatoes would take more fuel energy that you would get out of it. Where alcohol might shine is converting grains or potato's into alcohol during the warm fall months, and then using the alcohol during the dead of winter, when no other fuels are available.

Using a solar cooker, maybe in combination with a Fresnel lens you might be able to distil enough to put some away for winter, and early spring. Exactly when you would need the forever foods the most. This might be dangerous however and needs more exploration.

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can stove using wood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deCzUOZyII8
diy stand:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=diy+pot+stand

easy can cooker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAKCMWN1_og



diy solar cooker
HAS to cook above 140F or 60c or will start to breed bacteria. Don't use if it's sitting in less
for her chili she got it to 165 but she used the turkey bag...
didnt actually work with redrose to break bread. might need tv panel. she used professional version and it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1sS9NtmKzo
https://solarcooking.fandom.com/wiki/Fun-Panel
can you use tv magnifier? or even two. maybe Plexiglas to hold in heat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFw7U7V1Hok