My wonderful stove

My wonderful stove was beautifully upcycled from an aluminium can. It runs on isopropyl alcohol and can boil a litre of water in less than ten minutes - when there's snow on the ground. It packs into a tiny plastic box. (Even with its separate windshield, it takes up less room than a barbecue lighter.) It's shiny, though not as shiny as it used to be.  

The little stones in the measuring cup are for levelling it on rough ground. The medicine measuring cup came with, but I only use it for keeping the stones away from the walls of the stove, since there are measuring markings on the inside of the stove anyway.

To use it, you pour in the alcohol (I buy Heet antifreeze in the yellow bottle), set it alight, wait until the side jets start burning, and set the pot directly on the top. This chokes the flame from the main large round cavity, and paradoxically provides better fuel efficiency. It does best with a pot that's at least 5 inches across - our coffee pot is borderline too small. 

An early outing was at Cedar Pockets (great name!) at Christmas time, as we stopped for a brew-up. Yes, that's correct, as kettles go, it is the coolest in the world, closeup below*.

And later the same day, made soup for lunch at Pipe Spring (another great name). I managed without gloves but there were flurries of snow while we were there. (In case you're wondering, it's a turkey and avocado soup.)

I bought the stove from Mechanic Mike on ebay and I heartily recommend both the stove itself and the seller. Here's his video.

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*So is the matching coffee pot. These guys will probably get their own post some time.