Hobo Stove - Ultralight Backpacking - Make It Yourself in 3 Minutes - 1oz

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Intro: Hobo Stove - Ultralight Backpacking - Make It Yourself in 3 Minutes - 1oz

Check out this ultralight alcohol stove. It weighs only 1 oz and has no moving parts. You can make it yourself in just a few minutes and it will last forever. Boils in under 5 minutes and the fuel is cheap. Perfect for Ultralight Backpacking!

69 Comments

nickiedog8 10 years ago

The Swedish make a stove called a trangia that burns metho alcohol efficiently but will burn even better with little blackening of the pot if up to 10% water is added. I wonder if these homemade stoves would benefit from some water being added too?

luvit 14 years ago

i'm a hobo on greyhound. i'll use this at my seat for baked beans.

cnash1303 11 years ago

Last weekend my fiencee and i went camping in Missouri and it rained the whole time, i couldnt start a fire so we ended up eating cold tortillas and cheese....we were gonna have quesadillas, i wish i wouldve brought something like this along. Nonetheless, we learned a valuable lesson!

n0ukf 11 years ago

It's not a good idea to leave your alcohol bottle open so near the burning stove. Put the cap on the bottle once you fill the stove.

Stealth007 14 years ago

I wonder if bacon fat would work as a fuel source if you run out of alcohol.  Cook your bacon, then save the fat for later.  

ColdGin 13 years ago

how do you cook the bacon if you're aout of fuel?

moneyfuskie935 12 years ago

You cook the bacon before you're out of fuel.

gdtripp 12 years ago

LOL, another version of the "chicken or egg" question xD

spiritwalker6153 12 years ago

One quick question: How do you put out the stove when you are finished using it?

ImageMaker 12 years ago

If this is like most of the tiny "can" stoves, it'll run out of fuel very soon after the water finishes boiling. If you test it and find out it burns too long, I suppose you could premeasure your fuel (but it's probably a good thing to have some fuel left after the boil, so you can, for instance, simmer your soup packet to cook the noodles). If it's a big deal for you, an unperforated can slightly larger than the one used to make the stove (say, a can from soup or beans, cut off to a suitable length) could be dropped over the stove to smother the flame instantly -- though alcohol vapor from the hot stove could reignite pretty easily if you take the snuffer can off too soon.

Ragnarocker 12 years ago

simple and well made. Good Work!

171292 14 years ago

I just wanted to know if you could PLEASE put the video into an insructable.  I have dialup and my downloading rate SUCKS so I was just wondering if you could put it into an instructable so that I could actually see how to make the stove.
=D  

Cyberscann54 13 years ago

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171292 13 years ago

I decided to follow yor advice, and am now the proud owner of a ripnet 100 mbps internet connection! yay!

airicknuin 14 years ago

 dude, its 2010 and you still have dial-up?  Anyways, its simple to make.  Punch 12-15 holes around 1/2" apart.  Bam, you're done.
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