How to Use Alcohol Stove Outdoors and Some Notices to Take

Many travelers, including myself, like cooking when in outdoors .They have, more or less, some problems in using the alcohol stove. Some new travelers have some misgivings or do not know to use when they use the alcohol stoves for the first time. Now I’m writing some of my experiences in using alcohol stoves.

When using the alcohol stove for the first time, we can add alcohol to the stove for more times, about three times, which is OK. Each time, when we add alcohol, 80% full is enough in order to let the alcohol swab to fully absorb the alcohol to have the alcohol more fully burnt. The longer the alcohol stove has been kept, the better it will be.

The alcohol stove should be preheat about 5minutes. When the flame is stable, we can put in what we want to cook. As for the alcohol, we should choose the liquid alcohol with the density of 95％ or higher. We can buy this kind of alcohol in the vegetable markets or hardware stores. Alcohol with this density can be burnt more fully and will not leave a lot of water after being burnt. Usually, the alcohol sold in the drug store will leave much water after being burnt and its thermal power is weaker.

If we want to add alcohol into the stove during cooking,make sure to put out the fire, and the cool the stove for a while,about 5 minutes.

As a rule, to boil a liter water needs about 15 minutes,which is timed from my own stove. My stove is a ALOCS , which is an alcohol gasifier. I have never use other brands, such as Brother and Fire Maple, so I do not know about their details. We can add proper alcohol to the stove according to what we will cook.

After you finish using the alcohol stove,make sure the alcohol stove has all been built and put out the fire with a cover. Put it into the backpack after it has cooled down.

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