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Very Impressive Simon!

Hey there, great video, I'm not sure, but judging from your accent you are from across the pond, as they say. Hope you are doing well and I appreciate your help with the video. New subscriber.

I don’t understand why the water did not boil ?

I tried it and ended up adding 3 mm holes between the top 6 mm ones. I felt that made for better chimney effect and combustion of the alcohol fumes. Six bottom holes would probably give the same effect.

A tomato can and cat food can called a tom cat stove, I live out of a backpack and immediately this idea caught my attention. That's badass lol😂

"Very good!"

back to the drawing board

Astounding simplicity! And the demo is genious.

I remain loyal to my good old gas Trangia, witch has worked for 35+ years without a single fault. With it, I have been able to quickly make meals and brew coffee in the middle of a working day in the wilderness or trucking long hauls. I could never use a alcohol stove so easily.

Brilliant!

Simon, excellent. What are the physical dimensions of the can, please?

Brilliantly simple design! I've only tried it with methylated spirits, but need to find something else as I can't stand the smell of meths. Not easy finding a suitable range of fuels here in NZ.

Ive been looking for what size holes did you use?

I’m going to make one for emergency use. I have excess to 80%alcohol spirit.

If you bend the top part to become square, you don't even necessarily need a windscreen, as the wind does not bend around sharp corners. Obviously loosing efficiency on the non wind side.

They burn hot with the holes around the outside but good luck snuffing the flame once it has bloomed.

I've been using a stove with your design for a couple of years worth of outdoor cooking. I added a bigger tin (same height, larger radius) around the burner to act as a wind shield and more stable pot stand. I like it a lot, thank you for sharing your work!

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing. Am awaiting delivery of my first alcohol stove (trangia copy) but will make one as per your design with the tin from my just eaten lunch!

Built this and it worked a treat simple but useful it gets my vote

Fantasticly simple yet effective design. Well done.

Fuiciona com álcool normal?

Dude.... I've been making and using alcohol stove for years. This is by far the easiest and best I've made and used! Hats off to you sir!! Thanks for the outstanding video showing what led to your design. Kudos!

After seeing endless stoves, you've come up with a new design. That is remarkable. Sorry that it's 6 years later!

The simplest designs that you can make work are always the best. Thanks

That is a slick design. "Simple" that works is always best. Do you have a video of you folding those support tabs at the top of the can? I like that, maybe just use the 3 inside ones to avoid the sharp points. I will have to try this with different sizes and height cans. At the 7:45 mark, it looks like there is a big flame in the center of the kettle, how long did that design take to come to a boil? Thanks

I like the toilet paper paint can stove instead. I added a cross member pot stand. Easy to light and stable. Heats and cooks quickly and resealable. Am still updating the pot stand

God damn why does everybody show all their old stoves?While showing a new one, they just created wasn't that the purpose of creating a new stove.Because your old ones don't work quite as well.Why f***ing show all your old s***

I gotta say my Trangia eats half the fuel and lasts 23 minutes too... But then again I remember that not any single of my pots is that size. I gotta give yours a go. About the recovery of fuel, it might be useful to develop a double container system. Say, a dish or a cup of alcohol inside, and the chimney, in two separate tools. I bet the rim of liquid alcohol must be very close to the bottom holes, and I also bet the liquid must heat from the contact of the chimney too, but I think the recovery process is hard from optimal. Besides that I'm gonna build one for sure!!! Awesome idea and thanks for sharing

When someone says “boils water faster than a Trangia” it’s a wasted statement. We could as well say that “this stove is faster than a birthday candle”. Or, a wooden match. Now, that being said, a bit tongue in cheek, quite frankly, even though accurate, it is still not a useful piece of information. When operating a stove in camp, I AM NOT IN A HURRY! I am not in camp to win any race - period. A USEFUL piece of information would be how much fuel it consumed. Then, I can make informed choices about how much fuel to carry. THAT is useful information for most campers. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

So you put the charcoal in the liquid before it burns out or before you light it?

I know this is 6 years ago, but i judt made this, in mins, and wow! It boils in no time. You are a genius buddy. Thank you so much 👊👊

Thank you Simon informative well filmed beautiful design and will lead me to making my own soon and I learned so much thank you again

I sense nothing but smugness as he bests many tried and true designs forgetting the initial reasoning for their designs. Compatibility. Not saying the design is bad, but other designs were made for camping in the mountains so what they lack in efficiency they make up for compatibility and durability.

Do you think that an aluminium beer can could be used if you only intended to use alcohol fuel?

This is an excellent video and I recommend it a s a project and you’ll get a cool stove out of it. As a note, I recommend punching holes in each position of the air holes using a finishing nail as the pilot hole before using the 6mm drill. I smoothed the burrs using a file. When I lighted the alcohol it burned orange until I placed a pot on the stove top. This means that it needed the top sealed, as the video discussed, to maintain pressuse on the alcohol vapor within the stove chamber. When it exits the holes at the top it is regulated by the size of the holes so that it hits the air hot and ready to burn at a rate that it is nearly perfect rate for the available air to allw for clean burn; hence the blue flame. This mis made a grate procject for anyone who loves camping.

Excellent video, straight to the point, very well explained, well done, best one yet , 👍

And I like to complicate stuff for what reason? I'm sold. Thanks very much for the video. Subscribed. 👍

Awesome design! Exactly what I was looking for. Simplicity as its finest!

Very nice and simple. Thank you for sharing.

Excellent! Thanks for the demonstration. Subscribed.

One of the greatest report in the study and design of alcohol stoves. The data never gets old. Thanks for your service to all.

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Excuse my ignorance. I do not understand how the vapor is not ignited by the lower jets before it gets to the upper holes. Please help me understand. Thank you.

I failed miserably building the soda cans version. And I have found them to be highly unstable. I will try your version with the steel can. Thanks boss 👊🏼

Well reasoned and designed. Your design is by far the most effective and elegant alcohol Stove design I have ever seen.

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Do you have anything that will work with veg oil?

Thank you Sir ; even 6 years a go, but these one maybe my love and chosen, thank for share .

I'd love to see an update on how you have evolved your design over the years

Great design! Simple and effective. Anyone with a drill can make one, perhaps even with just a SAK awl or church key. With something like a mesh to keep wood off the bottom, it can easily be used as a twig stove. Also, twisting the air holes to create a vortex would be nice as the swirling air would likely cause all air exit holes to be self ignited. (Plus this modification could allow for an inner plate/mesh to be held inside simply by the protrusions in the can from the tilted holes). So yeah that’s my two cents - one can, one safety can opener to open the can from inside the rim and then have the top drop down and serve as a tray for twigs/charcoal. Twisted air intake/outtake holes for circular air flow, and an easy way to hold the inner plate in place. Would need to drill holes in the inner plate for airflow from alcohol ( though it’d likely be better to remove it from inside if using it to burn alcohol).