I've been thinking the same thing all week 😂 i wanna hear him quote some bob ross so bad! " Pick up the brush and just beat the devil out of it" or " maybe in your world there's a quiet little stream near your group of happy little trees" 😂😂😂 all week. seriously. this has been on my mind!
Fibreglass repair cloth works well, as does stove door insulation batting, It can be purchased from fireplace and stove dealers, and is about half the cost of carbon fibre.
Thanks for showing us the DIY Alcohol stove making. It saves carting around the heavier expensive commercial stoves and propane or coal oil bottles they use.
Long ago, I learned how to mush in Goldstream Valley from Rich Hall. Step-by-step, I've been learning from you how to survive and thrive. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything.
Lonnie, thank you for doing this diy/how-to vid. I have learned more from you since finding your channel than from all the others combined. You are a true teacher and I thank you. I want to also say that you do NOT try to sell products or hype them up. When you mention a product by brand/name, you explain very clearly why and maybe that is an endorsement of sorts, your quiet reserve does far more than convince me that I can do it. One last thing, I wanted to comment on and though this is not the particular video I'm referencing here, just to mention it briefly I think will help others understand where I and you are coming from. I noticed in a few of your videos, you carried a particular tool on your side that shall remain nameless. I asked you what it was and gave a hint that you would recognize as me knowing "what it was" and you politely downplayed it and explained briefly that you do not mention nor talk about it on the tube. I fully understood your response and why you replied the way you did. I appreciate your honesty and integrity which is why I keep coming back for more knowledge and more importantly, at least to me, is UNDERSTANDING. Keep going, keep safe and please above all else, keep teaching.
Abuilt my first one of these and Did the tomato can liner burn out on my back porch...used fiberglass sheet purchased off of ebay for $1.76, free shipping (ha ha) and have enough fabric left to do 6 more! A friend has a cat so she just today brought me a bag with 6 clean cans. I just need to get busy and make a big batch of homemade tomato soup to get the tomato paste cans. Promised her one for a reward. Checked around, and Lonnie, you are dead one on the fuel, cheap, clean burning, and hot fire! Thanks, when I get through with building these, I will add some premixed homemade instant coffee packets to each stove kit and the 2 oz. fuel bottles I purchased. They will be stashed in our vehicles, my overnight pack and my bugout bag! Thanks for showin' me how it was done!
Awesome tutorial on a DIY version of Zelph's Fancee Feest stove! After experimenting with many different DIY and commercially available stoves, I finally settled on this design. Been using it all season and love it. My favorite part of this design is that it works very well even in cold weather, no more warming up fuel bottles in a coat pocket etc. Another cheaper alternative for a wick is the fiberglass cloth auto body work patches that you can find where they stock bondo filler etc. I found one at Wally world that was around 6 or 7 bucks if I remember correctly...Lots of material to work with too. Thanks for the great video as always Lonnie, very clear and well edited! Hope all is well on your end :) -Lochlainn
+lynda williams You are very welcome. I'm glad you enjoy watching the videos. I enjoy making them for you and the other viewers so we are all winners. May you and your loved ones also have a blessed Christmas.
As an Alaskan at 65 degrees North, I appreciate the tip of lighting the felt and about the lack of pressure on the other Alcohol stoves when it is cold, just getting started and trying to decide on design. Thanks.
That's the best homemade alcohol stove I have seen yet. I have made some out of pop cans but, there to small. This one puts a flame out like a glass stove. Good job!
Top drawer Lonnie! They want $17 just for the Trangia pre-heater over here in Canada and that simply used more fuel yet again. Like this cheap, unpressurized idea. Usually use Methyl Hydrate, an absolutely clean flame. Buy it in 4 litre bottles from the paint section of the hardware stove and save a few $$ getting it in bulk. All the best to you and Connie over the Christmas holidays and thanks so much for taking the time to educate us so well. I count you as a friend dear brother!
+Canesser Thank you. There is something fulfilling to make something and see it perform so well as this stove does. I also count you as a friend as well and hope that you and your loved ones have a great Christmas also.
Agreed -- so long as it's methanol, "gas line antifreeze" is much more expensive than "paint thinner". Oddly though, i searched for Recochem methyl hydrate in the paint section of Home Hardware but it wasn't there; it was in the camping section!
Yet another wonderful moment to escape my busy city life. Thanks. I also shared this as part of my Christmas greeting to some special friends who take me fishing in Pinetop/Lakeside, AZ. Thanks for the great break in my day.
+Tippy Mueller Glad I could offer an "escape" for your hectic life. You are welcome. I have been to Pinetop Arizona and enjoyed that area. I have also spent some time in the desserts of southern Arizona metal detecting for gold nuggets. I have several interesting nuggets that I found there as momentos
I don't know if I've ever been more at ease in my life. Your demeanor, sir, while likely just natural from your point of view, is incredibly helpful to me as I try to retain the knowledge you so generously offer without charging us a dime. Thank you.
that is by far the best alcohol stove I have seen yet and being made of three common items too. Just simply amazing the lame output looks just like a propane burner. Thank you for this video.
I have seen many people use carbon felt but you are the first one to solve the mystery of where to purchase it and how much. Thanks for a great tutorial!
Absolutely the best common man quick and easy model I've ever watched be built and used .... Merry Christmas from Oklahoma.... to you and yours ... Onward,Onward is the watchword...
Thanks for taking the time to share what you know Lonnie. I really enjoy the sensible, even approach. No fluff, just the real deal! Cheers from Vancouver Island!
I use the Heet for my alchohol stove. Works good. Great simple build. I will have to make a couple of these with my partner. Thanks for the video. Take care and you and your have a Merry Christmas
+dalton vickers I understand that the denatured alcohol is cheaper per ounce and works just as well as the yellow Heet but I have not tried it yet. Good luck with your stove builds. Thank you. May you and your loved ones also have a blessed Christmas.
Great video Lonnie. I like my alcohol stoves. Fuel is clean, non smelly and they are quiet so they don't cover the sounds of the woods. May seem like a small thing but I'd much rather listen to nature than the roar of a pressurised white gas stove :-) Merry Christmas to you and Connie...
+Woodenarrows I too really apreciate the quietness of the alcohol stoves. That MSR stove of mine is so loud that when I turn it off the silence is deafening, if that makes sense. You also as well as your loved ones have a great Christmas.
That is so awesome. Ive seen many videos on how to make an alcohol stove. You have made it by far the most simple way to make one. Thank so much Lonnie!
Nice project that did look very simple to build, I have Ezbit (trangia knock off) and the reason I like it over home built stoves is I can cap it off if I don't use all the fuel and save it in the stove for later, but if I was going to make a stove I think this is the best design I have seen yet, so thanks for sharing it. Jason
+Primal Outdoors Thank you Jason. One problem as I understand it with the type of stoves that you have is that the alcohol needs to be warm in order to work. That is not a problem with this type of home built. Being able to function trouble free in the cold is important here in Alaska
Great demo of my favorite DIY backup to a traditional Trangia. Researched much before choosing either of them. Great advantage of the Fancy Feast is that it doesn't need a separate pot stand, IMO. Easy to justify the expense of carbon felt by making multiple stoves. Using more than one to make a meal. Giving as gifts to friends/family with electric stoves & no other way to cook when the power fails! Thank you, Lonnie & Connie for sharing. God Bless. Merry Christmas
+Oldtimer Lee Thank you. I personally enjoy making useful items like this. I provides a bit of satisfaction in the self sufficiency. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones as well.
Great design, simple yet effective, and priced right! Built one to heat tea water in my blind and its a prized item for my camp use now. Many thanks for the project.
Once again another top notch vid. Love that you show simple is often not only less expensive but also better (& more fun cause you can make it yourself. Keep up the good work.
hi lonnie and connie, finally got around to making one of these stoves and tested it today. am really impressed with how fast it heats water, 2.5 cups in just under 5 minutes! love the compactness of it too and hope to find a fuel bottle like yours that stores inside the tins. this will be good for fall when fire bans are on.
Happy Christmas Lonnie and Connie. For cold weather this alcohol stove is probably the best design there is. I watched another RUclipsr make one and he used different wick materials. He said the carbon is good but it can shrink over time. Many thanks for another relaxing video. All the best Sandy
+Wiltshire Man Ceramic wick, I never heard of that. Time for google machine to be put to work! Do you think material from a welding blanket would work?
Wanted to get back to Thank You for your great instructions on this alcohol stove. Was lucky this past (2017) September to only get 42 hours without electric when Hurricane Erma blew through and hit the west coast of Fl. It was ever sooo nice to have coffee, heat soup and have a burger. Thanks again : )
I have been heating soup with a store bought Esbit alcohol stove for about two weeks. I use the Sterno cheap stove frame using the bottom of a chunky soup can to hold the stove.
+John Acord Those Sterno stoves can be pretty useful for several different fire sources. Sounds like you are sort of "camping" out without having to leave home. Sounds fun.
I'm going on my first camping excursion to go see the eclipse and so I'm learning all about camping. I've never heard of "alcohol stoves" and so in searching for one, I found your video. I must say, this is really cool! Thanks for the video.
I'm glad yu stumbled on to my channel. Welcome to the channel and i hope that you find many more videos here that interest you and will make your camping experiences even more fulfilling and enjoyable.
just watched you make the hot tent ,stove, and i also love this too you're a real cool guy who's easy to listen to... im so poor i cant even afford a trangia, thanks for sharing....i love your stuff! sending you and your lovely wife love from the uk ,keep up the good work:)x
+Lee Pearson The fun and enjoyment that is derived from expensive toys is many times not as fulfilling as the simpler life. It has so very much to do with ones perspectives.
Great video. Excellent stove too. Thanks. I even used mine to heat a small shelter. I used a 2 lb. coffee can upside down with holes punched around the sides at the still attached end. It made LOTS of heat in my 4x8 ft. Plywood emergency shelter.
It is not recommended to use any alcohol indoors unless it is pure ethanol (drinking alcohol) as anything else contains quite toxic fumes. 190 proof ethanol is what is most recommended for indoor use.
Thank You Very Much for making the Instructions Easy to understand and not going so fast it's hard to get. You are a Master Teacher! May Connie and Yourself have a Very Merry & Warm, Safe Christmas!
And another great thing you teached me, i have the problem in summer that all the wood gets too dry to make an open fire, and becouse the majority of wood arround here is pines i just can not afford to light one.( Sparks of fire dances on the heat wave and pine needless are usually dry on the lower branches) , yeah apreciated.
Lonnie, another great video! The flame on this stove is incredible...have to make me one. One of my stoves I use a Sterno frame ($5 @ Walmart) and two Friskies cat food cans. Over the cans I place a small cut sheet of perforated aluminum ($1 @ Dollar Tree) that "spreads" the flames. For fuel I use HEET or denatured alcohol. On the Sterno stove rack I can barbecue a six oz steak, two small pork chops, or whatever small piece of meat. My favorite though is a hamburger and a thick slice of red onion. The set up is about eight ounces. Your stove would provide greater options for my set up. Love your videos and Alaska is so beautiful.
Those little stoves sounds like they must work pretty good. I personally would not cook meat or any food however, directly over HEET or denatured alcohol without a cooking vessel since there are known bad chemicals contained in those alcohols. A drinking alcohol would be a better choice for that style of cooking if you are a person who has a high proof drinking alcohol around.
Great video. I think I would add a wider support structure at the bottom to prevent it from tipping over while lit.I'm impressed with the shape and size of the flame it produces. Excellent design.
Lonnie. Thanks. Pretty cool little stove. It looks if a used cleaned regular soup can would fit over to smother flame ...perhaps even to store the stove in. Best and Merry Christmas.
+Tom M A person might be able to grab a cat foot can and cruise the isles of the local grocery until hopefully just the right sized can was found to use as a "snuffer". Atb to you and yours as well as a great Christmas.
I'm not much of an "outsider' type of guy (to be honest i'd be utterly lost and helpless in the woods!) BUT i found your video very interesting and I'm definitely going to have a go at making one of these stoves. You are the very image of the Outdoorsman and that is as impressive a beard as I've ever seen. Thanks, Steve from the UK.
I have also made them from a pop can where you cut it in 1/3 rds, flip the bottom can over, cut the middle out, drip 1/16” holes all around and press it into the bottom 1/3 of the can. I can’t remember now if I had put any cloth in there somehow? Love your video’s, keep up the great work!
Great build Lonnie. I made the soda can type works good but like you said this one is much quicker and also throws a great flame.Must give it a try. Wishing you and Connie a Merry Christmas and many thanks as always.
+dadgad68 Thank you. This style stove also works better in the cold which is important to me here in Alaska. May you and your loved ones also have a great Christmas.
Nicely done Ronnie. I made a 'Penny Stove' and have used for years with no problems at all, also can simmer for long cooking tasks. I would recommend others make one but the old-style 24oz Heineken Keg Cans are no longer available. They stopped making them @2010 I think. If you can find one snap it up, they are gold. They are much thicker than the newer aluminum cans and after 10yrs of use the stove is still in great shape.
Awesome tip! I have saved some cans to.do a stove and now I know how I want to do it, thanks! Love learning tips and tricks like this, they can be very helpful in many ways!
Hi Lonnie, I just built a stove according to your plan with the exception of using fiberglass cloth instead of the heat shield and it worked great. I’m very impressed with how well it works and how easy it was to build! Excellent plan!!! I lived across from the butte just east of Palmer back in “72”when the MatSue flooded the valley down to the Kinnick river. I looked out my window every morning at Pioneer peak. Once again, excellent stove thank you for your plan.
+dml505 You are welcome. If you do get a chance to make a stove, I hope it goes well for you and that you enjoy the stove. I sure enjoy mine that I have made.
Another very informative video. I tried the pop can stoves and always had trouble with them, they worked but not well. Then saw the fancy feast and it was a tremendous improvement. I use oil lamp wick for my , well wick, and it works good so far. The other thing with a pop can stove you need a pot stand while the FF you just set your pot on top. Thanks
I love this easy quick design. I am going to get the tins tomorrow and the black heat mat thing. Forgot what its called next week and make a few. maybe 3 or 4 for emergencies. I have seen a few different designs and how to make them, but this one seems to be just as effective and easy as to make
I built this stove quite a while ago and I love it! I have used it many many times and the original stove is still going. I live in the Adirondack Mountains and the severe temps cause some of the other alcohol stove designs to not prime properly at all. I have had my stove out in -30+ temps and it has performed flawlessly every time! Great design. Thanks for the video Lonnie & Merry Christmas to both you and Connie
+Michael Ciulla That is good to hear that your stove has worked so well for you. For it's weight it seems to be a very sturdy stove and should last a long time. What material did you use for the wick and have you noticed any change in that fabric over time?
Believe it or not a friend told me to use fiberglass cloth & wrap it around the paste can until it fits in the cat food can securely, just like the carbon fiber.To date I have had nothing but good results so far with it. I usually get 8 or so minutes burn time per ounce of fuel. I have been using denatured alcohol in mine, basically the same as the heet in the yellow bottle. Both fuels burn hot and clean.
+Michael Ciulla Also I watched a video somewhere on youtube, and he had stated that his brother hiked from I think that it was Texas to Montana (something like that lol) over a period of 3 months and he used the exact alcohol stove a few times a day for the entire trip with absolutely no issues!!!
A brilliant way of making a spirit stove ,being a retired heating engineer I used stove rope instead of a heat mat and it's not a bad substitute ,it works ok I think . Thanks for the two tin idea .
Lonnie, I really enjoy your videos; especially your humble, friendly manner. Thanks for sharing your experience. As a side note- If a fella wanted to go full DIY, there's a video out there on how to make carbon material from cheap white bread by sealing it in a steel vessel with some argon gas and heating the vessel with a torch to burn off the organic materials in the bread. It's way more complicated than just buying some carbon felt at the hardware store, but definitely puts you over that edge into full on DIY if you're the "all about the details" type who worries about such things ; )
the carbon fabric also works well for a insulator base to keep the can off frozen ground in the winter. alcohol burns wonky when it is real cold. The fabric also works real well as a pot holder hot pan holder. small pieces are convenient to have around.
+Randy J I had never thought of using the carbon felt for either of your suggestions. This design stove however does real well in cold temps and the alcohol does not need to be warm.
Best little alcohol stove build that I've seen Lonnie! Thanks for the information, I am anxious to try one of these out! Stay warm and have a Merry Christmas Brother.
+GoFeesh 85 Thank you. The scenes in the intro were all taken near where I live in Alaska. wish you and yours also a very blessed Christmas and new years
my father used to own a little building company called FarWest Building Supplies in a frontier town called Ceduna ;similar initials to yours which is why i always check your show out and really enjoy ,so hope you have a very merry christmas and and a great new year.
Lately, I've been buying a regular can of denatured alcohol from the hardware store and mixing it about half and half with the HEET product. Cheaper that way and it seems to burn about as clean as the straight HEET. Also, as an additional observation, it never ceases to amaze me how much paraphernalia is required to do the simplest project. Making your vids, I'm sure you deal with this regularly. You start out thinking, OK, all I need is two cans and tinsnips, then you need a tape-measure, then you need a marker, then you need a hole punch, then a cutting mat, then a this, then a that (often not easy to lay your hands on!), and next thing you know, the entire work surface is covered with 20 items that you have to round up and put back for next time. lol So thanks for your efforts.
I now burn just straight denatured alcohol in my stove. I agree. Every time I go to do anything I have to make like a half dozen trips from the work station to get something else I had not initially thought of.
I just found your channel, this is good bushcraft indeed, now I'm subscribed too... i could have used your help many years ago, love the opening images kind of pulls at my heart, thanks for sharing
Hi Lonnie, I'm writing you from Chile, yes the other side of the world, near the Antartic. I have seen lots of alcohol stove videos but this one is the best. Thank you very much for your videos and Merry Christmas for you and Connie. Fernando.
Hello, thank you very much for this video. I must make same alcohol stove and he working fantastic! So vety thank you and thank you for your channel too. Andrew (greetings from Czech republic)
Brilliant Lonnie!! That sure looks a High quality flame from something pretty simple to make. I Love watching your videos (old and new) and always learn something. Thanks. Oh, and Thanks for the tip on the surplus stores for buying pants.. I got myself some Good ones. :)
So far this is the best little DYI alc stove I've seen on You Tube. I need one for those cold mornings in the desert when the propane stoves don't work. Will this stove work as good with plain Denatured Alcohol which comes in gallon cans for $15? Thanks Lonnie. I always give a thumbs up. It's the least I can do in return for all you give us. Merry Christmas to you too bud.
+mobiltec Yes these stoves are supposed to work fine with denatured alcohol I have yet to personally try it. That would probably be a cheaper way to go per ounce. I understand though that it is best to use a "green" variety of denatured alcohol as there are usually less additives which result in a higher alcohol content and cleaner burning. The green "kleen strip" brand seems to be a popular choice if you can find that where you live. I really appreciate the thumbs up. May you and your loved ones also have a blessed Christmas.
+Far North Bushcraft And Survival Kleen Strip is what I use. See I go through gallons of that stuff working with Shellac on my old vintage trailers. So I always have it around. Thanks again Lonnie.
Thank you Lonnie!! This was really inspiring for a maths- and physics teacher such as myself. I did som ”arm chair-bushcrafting” on that simple alkohole stove an came up with someting really interesting. The optimal radius for the inner can/tube should be 58 % of the radius of the kettle you intend to use. Here is my reasoning. 1) The flame is a ”linear” flame. It’s burning along a line. OK that line is whapped up in a cirkle. But still it’s a line. And the POWER exerted by that flame is proportional to the length of that line. That is it is proportional to the radius of that inner tube. P = k_1 * r. (The ”pi” is baked in in that constant.) The constant k_1 is typically dependant on the type of fuel. 2) The power TRANSFERRED to the water in the kettle is proportional to the area exposed to the flame and some constant, k_2, depending on the material in the kettle. The inner tube will block the flame. T = k_2 * (R^ -r^2). (Again the ”pi” is baked in in the constant.) 3) The power that reaches the water will be the product of P and T. And here are the good news: no matter the value of k_1 and k_2, the MAXIMUM of POWER TRANSFERRED to the water will happen when r = 0.58 *R. (Note that all this is a first approximation.) I believe this is god news when it comes to stability too. Any kettle will rest wery stable on a stove with these dimensions. Greetings from Sweden.
Most likely you will want to increase the radius of the inner tube to gain stability. But you don't "dare" bacause you think it will diminish the area exposed to the flame. This is when you should think one step further. You will GAIN POWER. Furtermore, the flames will lick the outside of the kettle and if you use a wind screen it will reflect the heat back towards the kettle. This means a smaller percentage will be blocked from heat when you increase the radius. So maybe it is possible to increase the radius beyond 58% of the radius of the kettle. Take it for what it is: "arm chair-bushctrafting". But if you want to experiment with a greater radius there is a theoretical underpinning.
I really like your videos. I'm going to make this stove for sure. I thought I would have to cook everything in my camp fire. But this is a very easy, very small, and very clean burning stove that works great.
Five years after you made this I get the pleasure of sitting down to learn from you. Thank you.
i love this gentleman he is the Bob Ross of bushcraft please keep the videos coming sir!
sean goff such a good comparison haha
The intro reminds me of Bob Ross's paintings...mountains, trees, etc.
I've been thinking the same thing all week 😂 i wanna hear him quote some bob ross so bad! " Pick up the brush and just beat the devil out of it" or " maybe in your world there's a quiet little stream near your group of happy little trees" 😂😂😂 all week. seriously. this has been on my mind!
@@blueeyeswhitedragon9839 yeah 😂😂 that too. He could throw up a old 80s style title that says The Joy of Bushcraft
Hey another 5 star video from the bushcraft master!
+Canadian Prepper Lol. I'm going to get a big head listening to you. :o) Have a great Christmas.
AGAIN ! BECOMING A HABIT, LMFAO
Fibreglass repair cloth works well, as does stove door insulation batting, It can be purchased from fireplace and stove dealers, and is about half the cost of carbon fibre.
Thanks for showing us the DIY Alcohol stove making. It saves carting around the heavier expensive commercial stoves and propane or coal oil bottles they use.
That is the best looking one i have seen so far.
Long ago, I learned how to mush in Goldstream Valley from Rich Hall. Step-by-step, I've been learning from you how to survive and thrive. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything.
Lonnie, thank you for doing this diy/how-to vid. I have learned more from you since finding your channel than from all the others combined. You are a true teacher and I thank you. I want to also say that you do NOT try to sell products or hype them up. When you mention a product by brand/name, you explain very clearly why and maybe that is an endorsement of sorts, your quiet reserve does far more than convince me that I can do it. One last thing, I wanted to comment on and though this is not the particular video I'm referencing here, just to mention it briefly I think will help others understand where I and you are coming from. I noticed in a few of your videos, you carried a particular tool on your side that shall remain nameless. I asked you what it was and gave a hint that you would recognize as me knowing "what it was" and you politely downplayed it and explained briefly that you do not mention nor talk about it on the tube. I fully understood your response and why you replied the way you did. I appreciate your honesty and integrity which is why I keep coming back for more knowledge and more importantly, at least to me, is UNDERSTANDING. Keep going, keep safe and please above all else, keep teaching.
Boy, when you turned out the lights that flame was incredible!
I think this is the best combination of cheap and sturdy I have seen yet. Well done.
+tackettsmillfarm Thank you. Glad you like it.
Abuilt my first one of these and Did the tomato can liner burn out on my back porch...used fiberglass sheet purchased off of ebay for $1.76, free shipping (ha ha) and have enough fabric left to do 6 more! A friend has a cat so she just today brought me a bag with 6 clean cans. I just need to get busy and make a big batch of homemade tomato soup to get the tomato paste cans. Promised her one for a reward. Checked around, and Lonnie, you are dead one on the fuel, cheap, clean burning, and hot fire! Thanks, when I get through with building these, I will add some premixed homemade instant coffee packets to each stove kit and the 2 oz. fuel bottles I purchased. They will be stashed in our vehicles, my overnight pack and my bugout bag! Thanks for showin' me how it was done!
Awesome tutorial on a DIY version of Zelph's Fancee Feest stove! After experimenting with many different DIY and commercially available stoves, I finally settled on this design. Been using it all season and love it. My favorite part of this design is that it works very well even in cold weather, no more warming up fuel bottles in a coat pocket etc. Another cheaper alternative for a wick is the fiberglass cloth auto body work patches that you can find where they stock bondo filler etc. I found one at Wally world that was around 6 or 7 bucks if I remember correctly...Lots of material to work with too. Thanks for the great video as always Lonnie, very clear and well edited! Hope all is well on your end :) -Lochlainn
+Moss Stone Woodlore All is indeed well on this end. Hope the same for you. The more I use this stove the more I like it too.
Wow, it's right before Christmas 6 years later of this video. Enjoyed your video. Mary Christmas to you and your family.
Thank you my friend. May you and your loved ones also have a blessed Christmas as well.
I get to watch amazing scenery, and learn stuff too, whats not to like? Lonnie and Connie, have a wonderful christmas, and thank you for posting.
+lynda williams You are very welcome. I'm glad you enjoy watching the videos. I enjoy making them for you and the other viewers so we are all winners. May you and your loved ones also have a blessed Christmas.
That is about the best burning stove I've seen of the alcohol burning stoves. Thanks.
You put some great info out there brother , no gimmicks , adverts or bull shine . Thank you very much and best wishes from the UK !
As an Alaskan at 65 degrees North, I appreciate the tip of lighting the felt and about the lack of pressure on the other Alcohol stoves when it is cold, just getting started and trying to decide on design. Thanks.
That's the best homemade alcohol stove I have seen yet. I have made some out of pop cans but, there to small. This one puts a flame out like a glass stove. Good job!
Top drawer Lonnie! They want $17 just for the Trangia pre-heater over here in Canada and that simply used more fuel yet again. Like this cheap, unpressurized idea. Usually use Methyl Hydrate, an absolutely clean flame. Buy it in 4 litre bottles from the paint section of the hardware stove and save a few $$ getting it in bulk. All the best to you and Connie over the Christmas holidays and thanks so much for taking the time to educate us so well. I count you as a friend dear brother!
+Canesser Thank you. There is something fulfilling to make something and see it perform so well as this stove does. I also count you as a friend as well and hope that you and your loved ones have a great Christmas also.
Agreed -- so long as it's methanol, "gas line antifreeze" is much more expensive than "paint thinner". Oddly though, i searched for Recochem methyl hydrate in the paint section of Home Hardware but it wasn't there; it was in the camping section!
Yet another wonderful moment to escape my busy city life. Thanks. I also shared this as part of my Christmas greeting to some special friends who take me fishing in Pinetop/Lakeside, AZ. Thanks for the great break in my day.
+Tippy Mueller Glad I could offer an "escape" for your hectic life. You are welcome. I have been to Pinetop Arizona and enjoyed that area. I have also spent some time in the desserts of southern Arizona metal detecting for gold nuggets. I have several interesting nuggets that I found there as momentos
I don't know if I've ever been more at ease in my life. Your demeanor, sir, while likely just natural from your point of view, is incredibly helpful to me as I try to retain the knowledge you so generously offer without charging us a dime. Thank you.
Nice little stove build there brother. Definitely agree with you that sometimes simpler is better :)
Happy Holidays to you and yours my friend!
+IntenseAngler Thank you brother. May you and your loved ones also have a blessed Christmas as well.
I thought I have seen every kind of alchol stove there was, this one is by far the best! Thank you for sharing :)
that is by far the best alcohol stove I have seen yet and being made of three common items too. Just simply amazing the lame output looks just like a propane burner. Thank you for this video.
I have seen many people use carbon felt but you are the first one to solve the mystery of where to purchase it and how much. Thanks for a great tutorial!
Absolutely the best common man quick and easy model I've ever watched be built and used .... Merry Christmas from Oklahoma.... to you and yours ... Onward,Onward is the watchword...
+Jeff Wilcher Thank you for the kind words. Hope you and your loved ones have a blessed Christmas as well. "Onward, Onward"
Thanks for taking the time to share what you know Lonnie.
I really enjoy the sensible, even approach.
No fluff, just the real deal!
Cheers from Vancouver Island!
I use the Heet for my alchohol stove. Works good. Great simple build. I will have to make a couple of these with my partner. Thanks for the video. Take care and you and your have a Merry Christmas
+dalton vickers I understand that the denatured alcohol is cheaper per ounce and works just as well as the yellow Heet but I have not tried it yet. Good luck with your stove builds. Thank you. May you and your loved ones also have a blessed Christmas.
Great video Lonnie. I like my alcohol stoves. Fuel is clean, non smelly and they are quiet so they don't cover the sounds of the woods. May seem like a small thing but I'd much rather listen to nature than the roar of a pressurised white gas stove :-) Merry Christmas to you and Connie...
+Woodenarrows I too really apreciate the quietness of the alcohol stoves. That MSR stove of mine is so loud that when I turn it off the silence is deafening, if that makes sense. You also as well as your loved ones have a great Christmas.
Thank you so much. Your videos are a joy to watch. I have learned so much from you. God bless you and your family.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us Lonnie. I always look foreword to your videos and passing on what I learn to my grandchildren
That is so awesome. Ive seen many videos on how to make an alcohol stove. You have made it by far the most simple way to make one. Thank so much Lonnie!
+Life Essentials 01 You are welcome. Thank you for watching.
Nice project that did look very simple to build, I have Ezbit (trangia knock off) and the reason I like it over home built stoves is I can cap it off if I don't use all the fuel and save it in the stove for later, but if I was going to make a stove I think this is the best design I have seen yet, so thanks for sharing it.
Jason
+Primal Outdoors Thank you Jason. One problem as I understand it with the type of stoves that you have is that the alcohol needs to be warm in order to work. That is not a problem with this type of home built. Being able to function trouble free in the cold is important here in Alaska
Thanks for all of your hard work, Lonnie! Great video.
Great video! Im going to have my Boy Scouts make these as a project at our next meeting.
Great demo of my favorite DIY backup to a traditional Trangia. Researched much before choosing either of them. Great advantage of the Fancy Feast is that it doesn't need a separate pot stand, IMO. Easy to justify the expense of carbon felt by making multiple stoves. Using more than one to make a meal. Giving as gifts to friends/family with electric stoves & no other way to cook when the power fails!
Thank you, Lonnie & Connie for sharing. God Bless. Merry Christmas
+Oldtimer Lee Thank you. I personally enjoy making useful items like this. I provides a bit of satisfaction in the self sufficiency. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones as well.
Great design, simple yet effective, and priced right! Built one to heat tea water in my blind and its a prized item for my camp use now. Many thanks for the project.
Out of all the alcohol stoves i've seen on you tube i like this style the best. Good video Lonnie.
Once again another top notch vid. Love that you show simple is often not only less expensive but also better (& more fun cause you can make it yourself.
Keep up the good work.
+Doug Duncan Thank you. Yeah I enjoy making functional things myself and feeling the freedom of a greater self reliance and less reliance on
hi lonnie and connie, finally got around to making one of these stoves and tested it today. am really impressed with how fast it heats water, 2.5 cups in just under 5 minutes! love the compactness of it too and hope to find a fuel bottle like yours that stores inside the tins. this will be good for fall when fire bans are on.
That is picture perfect countryside.
Happy Christmas Lonnie and Connie.
For cold weather this alcohol stove is probably the best design there is. I watched another RUclipsr make one and he used different wick materials. He said the carbon is good but it can shrink over time.
Many thanks for another relaxing video.
All the best
Sandy
+Wiltshire Man Thank you. So what did that "RUclipsr" say was the best wicking material to use? That would be good to know.
+Far North Bushcraft And Survival Hi Lonnie,
It was Ceramic wick. I will send you info of the video.
Sandy
+Wiltshire Man
Ceramic wick, I never heard of that. Time for google machine to be put to work!
Do you think material from a welding blanket would work?
+Wiltshire Man Thanks for the link. I watched the video and then looked it up.
+Chris Collier I think fiberglass welding blanket should work well but have not tried it.
Wanted to get back to Thank You for your great instructions on this alcohol stove. Was lucky this past (2017) September to only get 42 hours without electric when Hurricane Erma blew through and hit the west coast of Fl. It was ever sooo nice to have coffee, heat soup and have a burger. Thanks again : )
I have been heating soup with a store bought Esbit alcohol stove for about two weeks. I use the Sterno cheap stove frame using the bottom of a chunky soup can to hold the stove.
+John Acord Those Sterno stoves can be pretty useful for several different fire sources. Sounds like you are sort of "camping" out without having to leave home. Sounds fun.
Thank you for decent design and peaceful ambiance you have created in your video.
+Bahram Kashanian You are welcome. Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
I'm going on my first camping excursion to go see the eclipse and so I'm learning all about camping. I've never heard of "alcohol stoves" and so in searching for one, I found your video. I must say, this is really cool! Thanks for the video.
I'm glad yu stumbled on to my channel. Welcome to the channel and i hope that you find many more videos here that interest you and will make your camping experiences even more fulfilling and enjoyable.
Best, and simplest alk stove I've ever seen!!! Thanks Lonnie, and Connie for another great video!!! God Bless you both!!!!
just watched you make the hot tent ,stove, and i also love this too you're a real cool guy who's easy to listen to... im so poor i cant even afford a trangia, thanks for sharing....i love your stuff! sending you and your lovely wife love from the uk ,keep up the good work:)x
+Lee Pearson The fun and enjoyment that is derived from expensive toys is many times not as fulfilling as the simpler life. It has so very much to do with ones perspectives.
wonderful vid. Its the only stove I have considered to build. Thank you for your wisdom and your love.
Great video. Excellent stove too. Thanks. I even used mine to heat a small shelter. I used a 2 lb. coffee can upside down with holes punched around the sides at the still attached end. It made LOTS of heat in my 4x8 ft. Plywood emergency shelter.
It is not recommended to use any alcohol indoors unless it is pure ethanol (drinking alcohol) as anything else contains quite toxic fumes. 190 proof ethanol is what is most recommended for indoor use.
Thank You Very Much for making the Instructions Easy to understand and not going so fast it's hard to get. You are a Master Teacher!
May Connie and Yourself have a Very Merry & Warm, Safe Christmas!
+James White You are very welcome. Thank you for the kind words. Hope you and your loved ones also have a blessed Christmas as well.
And another great thing you teached me, i have the problem in summer that all the wood gets too dry to make an open fire, and becouse the majority of wood arround here is pines i just can not afford to light one.( Sparks of fire dances on the heat wave and pine needless are usually dry on the lower branches) , yeah apreciated.
Thank you. This video was a big help. Followed it to the letter and have an efficient burning stove.
Lonnie, another great video! The flame on this stove is incredible...have to make me one. One of my stoves I use a Sterno frame ($5 @ Walmart) and two Friskies cat food cans. Over the cans I place a small cut sheet of perforated aluminum ($1 @ Dollar Tree) that "spreads" the flames. For fuel I use HEET or denatured alcohol. On the Sterno stove rack I can barbecue a six oz steak, two small pork chops, or whatever small piece of meat. My favorite though is a hamburger and a thick slice of red onion. The set up is about eight ounces. Your stove would provide greater options for my set up. Love your videos and Alaska is so beautiful.
Those little stoves sounds like they must work pretty good. I personally would not cook meat or any food however, directly over HEET or denatured alcohol without a cooking vessel since there are known bad chemicals contained in those alcohols. A drinking alcohol would be a better choice for that style of cooking if you are a person who has a high proof drinking alcohol around.
Great video. I think I would add a wider support structure at the bottom to prevent it from tipping over while lit.I'm impressed with the shape and size of the flame it produces. Excellent design.
The best construction I've seen so far. Thank you.
Andreas
+real goshawk Thank you. Glad you like it
Lonnie. Thanks. Pretty cool little stove. It looks if a used cleaned regular soup can would fit over to smother flame ...perhaps even to store the stove in. Best and Merry Christmas.
+Tom M A person might be able to grab a cat foot can and cruise the isles of the local grocery until hopefully just the right sized can was found to use as a "snuffer". Atb to you and yours as well as a great Christmas.
Lonnie, what a great little stove. Great video. Thanks. Ronnie.Texas.
+RDM1978 Thank you Texas Ronnie. I sure like the stove myself.
Nice stove! I've made dozens but this is the first of this style I've seen. Will be making one for sure! Great demo, keep it up my friend!
+Sty North Thank you for watching my friend. Hope you enjoy your stove project and the resulting performance from the completed stove.
I'm not much of an "outsider' type of guy (to be honest i'd be utterly lost and helpless in the woods!) BUT i found your video very interesting and I'm definitely going to have a go at making one of these stoves. You are the very image of the Outdoorsman and that is as impressive a beard as I've ever seen. Thanks, Steve from the UK.
+StonyRC Good luck with your stove project.
great project, great stove, and a great, inexpensive unit. Merry Christmas to you and your wife Lonnie.
+Johnny Yukon Thank you. Hope you and your loved ones have a blessed Christmas as well.
I have also made them from a pop can where you cut it in 1/3 rds, flip the bottom can over, cut the middle out, drip 1/16” holes all around and press it into the bottom 1/3 of the can. I can’t remember now if I had put any cloth in there somehow?
Love your video’s, keep up the great work!
Great build Lonnie. I made the soda can type works good but like you said this one is much quicker and also throws a great flame.Must give it a try. Wishing you and Connie a Merry Christmas and many thanks as always.
+dadgad68 Thank you. This style stove also works better in the cold which is important to me here in Alaska. May you and your loved ones also have a great Christmas.
Nicely done Ronnie. I made a 'Penny Stove' and have used for years with no problems at all, also can simmer for long cooking tasks. I would recommend others make one but the old-style 24oz Heineken Keg Cans are no longer available. They stopped making them @2010 I think. If you can find one snap it up, they are gold. They are much thicker than the newer aluminum cans and after 10yrs of use the stove is still in great shape.
Thanks Lonnie for the improved design.
Awesome tip! I have saved some cans to.do a stove and now I know how I want to do it, thanks! Love learning tips and tricks like this, they can be very helpful in many ways!
+Todd Klekotka Glad you enjoyed the video. Good luck with the stove build and hope it works well for you.
Hi Lonnie, I just built a stove according to your plan with the exception of using fiberglass cloth instead of the heat shield and it worked great. I’m very impressed with how well it works and how easy it was to build! Excellent plan!!! I lived across from the butte just east of Palmer back in “72”when the MatSue flooded the valley down to the Kinnick river. I looked out my window every morning at Pioneer peak. Once again, excellent stove thank you for your plan.
Thanks you I'm so excited someone finally showed a stove I can actually make lol I really appreciate your channel and the time I know you put into it.
+dml505 You are welcome. If you do get a chance to make a stove, I hope it goes well for you and that you enjoy the stove. I sure enjoy mine that I have made.
Another very informative video. I tried the pop can stoves and always had trouble with them, they worked but not well. Then saw the fancy feast and it was a tremendous improvement. I use oil lamp wick for my , well wick, and it works good so far. The other thing with a pop can stove you need a pot stand while the FF you just set your pot on top. Thanks
I love this easy quick design. I am going to get the tins tomorrow and the black heat mat thing. Forgot what its called next week and make a few. maybe 3 or 4 for emergencies. I have seen a few different designs and how to make them, but this one seems to be just as effective and easy as to make
Made many an alcohol stove but these are definitely the best in cold weather, Happy yule Lonnie and Connie, Ken
+rasputin0452 Thank you. May you and your loved ones also have a great Christmas.
I built this stove quite a while ago and I love it! I have used it many many times and the original stove is still going. I live in the Adirondack Mountains and the severe temps cause some of the other alcohol stove designs to not prime properly at all. I have had my stove out in -30+ temps and it has performed flawlessly every time! Great design. Thanks for the video Lonnie & Merry Christmas to both you and Connie
+Michael Ciulla That is good to hear that your stove has worked so well for you. For it's weight it seems to be a very sturdy stove and should last a long time. What material did you use for the wick and have you noticed any change in that fabric over time?
Believe it or not a friend told me to use fiberglass cloth & wrap it around the paste can until it fits in the cat food can securely, just like the carbon fiber.To date I have had nothing but good results so far with it. I usually get 8 or so minutes burn time per ounce of fuel. I have been using denatured alcohol in mine, basically the same as the heet in the yellow bottle. Both fuels burn hot and clean.
+Michael Ciulla Also I watched a video somewhere on youtube, and he had stated that his brother hiked from I think that it was Texas to Montana (something like that lol) over a period of 3 months and he used the exact alcohol stove a few times a day for the entire trip with absolutely no issues!!!
+Michael Ciulla Thanks. That is interesting and useful info. Thanks again.
+Michael Ciulla The longer I use these stoves the more I appreciate them. Great little stoves.
Top again ! Thanks Lonnie. Taking this oppurtunity to wish You, your wife Connie and Buck , already a merry Christmas !! Martin, The Netherlands
+Dutch Prepper Thank you Martin. I also wish you and your loved ones a great Christmas.
A brilliant way of making a spirit stove ,being a retired heating engineer I used stove rope instead of a heat mat and it's not a bad substitute ,it works ok I think . Thanks for the two tin idea .
Lonnie, I really enjoy your videos; especially your humble, friendly manner. Thanks for sharing your experience. As a side note- If a fella wanted to go full DIY, there's a video out there on how to make carbon material from cheap white bread by sealing it in a steel vessel with some argon gas and heating the vessel with a torch to burn off the organic materials in the bread. It's way more complicated than just buying some carbon felt at the hardware store, but definitely puts you over that edge into full on DIY if you're the "all about the details" type who worries about such things ; )
the carbon fabric also works well for a insulator base to keep the can off frozen ground in the winter. alcohol burns wonky when it is real cold. The fabric also works real well as a pot holder hot pan holder. small pieces are convenient to have around.
+Randy J I had never thought of using the carbon felt for either of your suggestions. This design stove however does real well in cold temps and the alcohol does not need to be warm.
Best little alcohol stove build that I've seen Lonnie! Thanks for the information, I am anxious to try one of these out! Stay warm and have a Merry Christmas Brother.
+Mike Magnum Thank you. May you and your loved ones also have a blessed Christmas.
My god what beautiful country in the intro. Great video as always. Thank you and happy holidays.
+GoFeesh 85 Thank you. The scenes in the intro were all taken near where I live in Alaska. wish you and yours also a very blessed Christmas and new years
my father used to own a little building company called FarWest Building Supplies in a frontier town called Ceduna ;similar initials to yours which is why i always check your show out and really enjoy ,so hope you have a very merry christmas and and a great new year.
+Simon Moeller Very similar names. Hope you and your loved ones also have a great Christmas.
Great stove plans. Will definately be making a couple.
wow it's 20 days tell Christmas Eve 2023 hope you and Connie has a great Christmas love your videos hope you start making some more
Thank you. May you and your loved ones also experience a very blessed Christmas.
Lately, I've been buying a regular can of denatured alcohol from the hardware store and mixing it about half and half with the HEET product. Cheaper that way and it seems to burn about as clean as the straight HEET. Also, as an additional observation, it never ceases to amaze me how much paraphernalia is required to do the simplest project. Making your vids, I'm sure you deal with this regularly. You start out thinking, OK, all I need is two cans and tinsnips, then you need a tape-measure, then you need a marker, then you need a hole punch, then a cutting mat, then a this, then a that (often not easy to lay your hands on!), and next thing you know, the entire work surface is covered with 20 items that you have to round up and put back for next time. lol So thanks for your efforts.
I now burn just straight denatured alcohol in my stove. I agree. Every time I go to do anything I have to make like a half dozen trips from the work station to get something else I had not initially thought of.
I just found your channel, this is good bushcraft indeed, now I'm subscribed too...
i could have used your help many years ago, love the opening images kind of pulls at my heart, thanks for sharing
What a great video and a very nice stove. You sir are a wonderful instructor and you've saved my budget more times then I can count. Thank you!
You have the coolest videos on (affordable/work with what you have) survival, thanks from NC.
Can't wait to make one. I think this is the best I have seen so far. Love your vid's, the music and mountains call me.
Hi Lonnie, I'm writing you from Chile, yes the other side of the world, near the Antartic. I have seen lots of alcohol stove videos but this one is the best. Thank you very much for your videos and Merry Christmas for you and Connie. Fernando.
+Fernando Bahamonde You are welcome and thank you Fernando. I hope you and your family also have a blessed Christmas.
Hello, thank you very much for this video. I must make same alcohol stove and he working fantastic! So vety thank you and thank you for your channel too.
Andrew (greetings from Czech republic)
Such a chill guy......thanks for the video.
Lonnie your the greatest! you have my support on all your videos from Wisconsin
I love it. The beauty of simple engineering.
Love this channel, and this episode was one of my faves
Very nice and informative video. You tutorial was very precise and simplistic. Thank you.
Brilliant Lonnie!! That sure looks a High quality flame from something pretty simple to make. I Love watching your videos (old and new) and always learn something. Thanks. Oh, and Thanks for the tip on the surplus stores for buying pants.. I got myself some Good ones. :)
So far this is the best little DYI alc stove I've seen on You Tube. I need one for those cold mornings in the desert when the propane stoves don't work. Will this stove work as good with plain Denatured Alcohol which comes in gallon cans for $15? Thanks Lonnie. I always give a thumbs up. It's the least I can do in return for all you give us. Merry Christmas to you too bud.
+mobiltec Yes these stoves are supposed to work fine with denatured alcohol I have yet to personally try it. That would probably be a cheaper way to go per ounce. I understand though that it is best to use a "green" variety of denatured alcohol as there are usually less additives which result in a higher alcohol content and cleaner burning. The green "kleen strip" brand seems to be a popular choice if you can find that where you live. I really appreciate the thumbs up. May you and your loved ones also have a blessed Christmas.
+Far North Bushcraft And Survival Kleen Strip is what I use. See I go through gallons of that stuff working with Shellac on my old vintage trailers. So I always have it around. Thanks again Lonnie.
Merry Christmas, Connie and Lonnie --- From Virginia and Clark ... Thanks for all the work you do in these presentations!
+Virginia Bradley Thank you and you are welcome. May you and your loved ones also have a blessed Christmas also.
Thank you Lonnie!!
This was really inspiring for a maths- and physics teacher such as myself. I did som ”arm chair-bushcrafting” on that simple alkohole stove an came up with someting really interesting. The optimal radius for the inner can/tube should be 58 % of the radius of the kettle you intend to use.
Here is my reasoning.
1) The flame is a ”linear” flame. It’s burning along a line. OK that line is whapped up in a cirkle. But still it’s a line. And the POWER exerted by that flame is proportional to the length of that line. That is it is proportional to the radius of that inner tube. P = k_1 * r. (The ”pi” is baked in in that constant.) The constant k_1 is typically dependant on the type of fuel.
2) The power TRANSFERRED to the water in the kettle is proportional to the area exposed to the flame and some constant, k_2, depending on the material in the kettle. The inner tube will block the flame. T = k_2 * (R^ -r^2). (Again the ”pi” is baked in in the constant.)
3) The power that reaches the water will be the product of P and T.
And here are the good news: no matter the value of k_1 and k_2, the MAXIMUM of POWER TRANSFERRED to the water will happen when r = 0.58 *R. (Note that all this is a first approximation.)
I believe this is god news when it comes to stability too. Any kettle will rest wery stable on a stove with these dimensions.
Greetings from Sweden.
Most likely you will want to increase the radius of the inner tube to gain stability. But you don't "dare" bacause you think it will diminish the area exposed to the flame. This is when you should think one step further. You will GAIN POWER.
Furtermore, the flames will lick the outside of the kettle and if you use a wind screen it will reflect the heat back towards the kettle. This means a smaller percentage will be blocked from heat when you increase the radius. So maybe it is possible to increase the radius beyond 58% of the radius of the kettle. Take it for what it is: "arm chair-bushctrafting". But if you want to experiment with a greater radius there is a theoretical underpinning.
I never get tired of that intro music lonnie.super relaxing.maybe thats the native american in me lol.
Love the introduction!!! Calming.
I really like your videos. I'm going to make this stove for sure. I thought I would have to cook everything in my camp fire. But this is a very easy, very small, and very clean burning stove that works great.