[pct-l] Alcohol stove

Brick Robbins brick at brickrobbins.com
Tue Jan 15 13:32:00 CST 2013


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Dennis Phelan <dennis.phelan at gmail.com> wrote:
> for what it is worth:  Alcohol and Esbit stoves are very sensitive to
> wind.

Get a disposable aluminum bake pan, like they sell for Thanksgiving Turkeys.

Cut it up, form it into a cylinder around your pot and use it as a
wind/heat shield. It weighs only a few grams, solves much of the wind
problem, and will save its weight in fuel



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