Beer Can: the Ultimate Survival Stove

AK Sportsman ^ | 6/29/2016 | M Alpert

[w1n1]

Adventurer Tom Allen and his friend demonstrates how to make a stove with the minimal materials.

Beer Can
Get a beer can or any aluminum can, the larger the better and have a knife or a pair scissors.

• Cut the top of beer can at the top ridge.
• Cut beer can in half and get it to 2-3 inches high on both can.
• Dent the bottom half can with a knife all the way around, when done place the top piece together.
• Make a little hole with the thumbtack
• Pour some rubbing alcohol into the and light it up, now you’re ready to start cooking, boil some water. See the video here.

[wrench]

I kept trying to figure what the thong was going to be used for. I guess it was for the next video.

[mountn man]

Yeah, okay.

Let me know how survival works when you run out of alcohol.

[Karl Spooner]

I think I would prefer Sterno.

[FateAmenableToChange]

This might be better on many levels: http://www.theliquorbarn.com/everclear-grain-alcohol-190-proof-375ml/

It cooks, it cleans, it makes you not care that it’s raining so hard you can’t get your stove started so you’ll have to eat cold pemican and jerky again, improves the looks of your preferred companions, and you won’t go blind. It also sterilizes many water-borne pests before you drink, and it burns really hot in the stove. It’s more expensive than the denatured alcohol for marine stoves or the red bottle heet, but there’s a lot of upside.

[FateAmenableToChange]

Sterno is heavier and has only one use. And as one poster noted, it can dry out.

Everclear in one of these stoves has multiple uses, although you have to be careful not to drink too much of your fuel in that case.

[FateAmenableToChange]

In addition to a cat can alcohol stove, I also carry a titanium emberlit wood burner. ( http://www.emberlit.com ). If the alcohol you carry is drinkable (such as Everclear), the wood stove is a windscreen until you drink all your fuel and then you can still use sticks to make a fire in the wood stove.

[SaveFerris]

Thanks. I’m looking at some of the other stoves, too, listed in the thread as well, in case money ever pops up again by some miracle.

[M Kehoe]

Where can you get C4 when you really need it?

5.56mm

[apocalypto]

for later

[Eagles6]

Yeah, thumbs up for the cat food can type stoves. Work fine and easy to make.

Denatured alcohol or HEET gas line antifreeze (methyl alcohol) work best.

You can buy the brass alcohol stoves for about $15 and they'll last forever.

Made a woodgas stove from 2 cans. Works great.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Ping

[Tijeras_Slim]

I've got one of these (finding dry sticks in NM isn't hard) and it cooks fast. The battery pack runs a fan that really gets the fire hot, and recharges itself from the heat. Then you can plug any USB device into it to run or charge. I wish these existed back in my college days when I fought daily battles with an Optimus white gas stove.

[Utilizer]

Just curious... by any chance, does anyone know exactly what this image is showing? Some manner of grill over a pan and a pot in the background does not exactly provide a good starting point to recognize what exactly the product is supposed to be, let alone what it is called.

[Tijeras_Slim]

It’s a stove and accessories made by Biolite. Runs very efficiently on twigs. The grill accessory attaches to it and does a pretty good job on steaks, burgers and the like (takes some practice).

[Utilizer]

Thank you! :_)

[Rannug]

From that thing that says “front toward enemy”.

[greeneyes]

We have used a tuna can, and cut a roll of toilet paper off to the right height took out the cardboard roll. Then add the alcohol. Used it when we were out of Sterno, fit very well inside the Sterno Stove.

[ml/nj]

What does one do if low heat is called for as in preparing rice?

ML/NJ

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the ping.

[M Kehoe]

Ah, Mr. Claymore. A fine gentleman.

5.56mm