Hobo Stove from Tin Can - Traditional High Tech Camp Stove

Step 8 Three Stick Pot Stand and Palmetto Leaf Windscreen

I'll sometimes pound three sticks into the ground to support my pot.
That's good if the pot is too wobbly or heavy on top the stove or if I want to get it a bit higher off the stove.

If it's windy you'll want to put a windscreen around your stove. Otherwise the heat will all get blown away and cooking will take too long.

Here I've made a windscreen from palmetto leaves stuck in the ground and I'm cooking on a three stick pot stand with a can of Mexican "Fuego" brand sterno. I'm in the jungle back from the beach on a biosphere reserve in the Yucatan Peninsula. This is oatmeal with olive oil, cocoa and honey in it.

Comments

[zays]

A wood gas stove is when the wood is heated and it releases a natural gas thats very flammable. Then the gas is ignited and the flame heats the wood and repeats the process. this uses all of the wood chip instead of just burning the wood chip

[ensnaturae]

I want to understand WOOD GAS but no one explains in an idiotproof way.
. Why does it help to make more woodgas, if you have one can inside another. Would it help to use rockwool insulation between the two cans?
Very good!I wish I was there, it sounds wonderful.

[Gileohi]

That is heated, not burned - although the wood can turn to coal depending on the way the wood gasifier works.

[Gileohi]

Wood gas is a flammable gas, much like propane, given off of wood (Any kind) when heated in an oxygen deprived area. The first vehicles used it as fuel.

[abbakus]

Well done. Notice that piling up another smaller can inside the first and doing some holes, you can obtain a better result because of the "wood gas" you burn, raising the efficiency and lowering the smoke. Search on youtube for "wood gas stove". I've made one and it's easy and works very well!

[freecell64]

If i ever do that backpacking trip i wanted then ill deff bring either that or one of those explosive can stoves

[peacenique]

Oatmeal with olive oil, cocoa, and honey?!

[Someguy44]

very tastah

[Pentacle]

Very cool!