The Sock Stove

What is small, cheap, lightweight, easy, economical, efficient, fast & stable?

It's the so called 'SOCK STOVE'!

More words aren't necessary. This is what it is: maybe the best outdoor stove you've ever had!

All you need:
- a flexible aluminium ventilation tube (or flexible alu pipe)
- some metal wire

and, of course

- a fresh wooden stick
- your survival cook pot

Step 1: Preparing the tube

Take a tube with the same diameter as your pot, roll it out and cut two feet of it. Once again folded, this can right away in your survival kit - put it in place of all that useless fishing gear, for example.
Slip one end over your pot and bend the other end in a 'sock' or  'L'-shape.
Solidify the sock with some metal wire - always to have in your kit - and fix it to a fresh wooden stick (I used bamboo in this demo version).
Make a lot of small holes in the sock.
Fix the stove to the ground.
Ready to burn!

Comments

[weldor]

the tub you are using is NOT aluminum. It is mylar and here in the States it is used as ven hose. While it is reistant to heat, it can burn as is evidenced in your photographs.
But as you stated this is a survival set up.

[bricobart]

I'll complain to those who fabricated it and called it like that!
Don't worry about the stove. It wasn't damaged at all after a few uses, so in a survival situation this would be enough.
You can use a flexible - and a bit heavier - alu pipe also.

[weldor]

lol. as long as it works- that is what is really important. What part of the UK are you in?

[bricobart]

The Flemish part! ;-)

[weldor]

waloon?

[bricobart]

You must be kidding, no?
Asking a Fleming if he's maybe Walloon is like asking a Scot if he's English.
Or being a fan of the Red Sox in a crowd of Yankees. ;-)

[weldor]

Sorry about that one. I figured out my mistake well after I replied to your post. I said to myself, "Self, you really goofed on that one."

[bricobart]

Don't worry mate! I can understand our situation is difficult to understand - even in Belgium a lot of people don't get the picture ;-)

[weldor]

I really got a kick out of your baseball analogy. It was a good one. Where did you learn English? You sound as if you maybe picked it up here.

[bricobart]

Well, I learned it at school and from Discovery Channel, Mythbusters, Die Hard, Dire Straits and Guns 'N Roses ;-) Never been in the States, but you'll know it when I'll be there!