My Firebox Stove Cook Kit - The Ultimate Camp Cooking Gear Setup

Thanks for your videos. My solostove 🔥 was always yellow flame. Got an evernew placed inside solo elite boils 8 oz in < 3 min. Thank you!. Will drilling solostove burner holes bigger get me a blue flame?

Tanks erni

When you have data of several data points, it would be very useful to us if you would fill out a data sheet. Thanks.
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Every test video it seems always has them in a controlled environment (inside, warm, no wind).

I expect those heater rings to not fare so well in the cold and wind.

Ever notice that in almost every video when someone used an alcohol stove, they have to set it usually on the ground, rock, or sometimes a stump?
No fun bending over cooking with those lol

Now if that heater ring had a way to elevate the stove a bit, that might be a nice feature.
Or a rin that is 'wind proof'.

Some burners seem to have more major flare up, then settled down, others just no drama blooming? Was this burner design or just luck? If you repeat it, each burner might change?

In made a side Burner that with chs en only used two can's.

It primes in max 10sec.

What would happen if the priming tray was permanently attached to the stove and it was lit first?

Cut the bottom off a small can with a diameter about 5/8 to 3/4 inch bigger than the stove/ inch. It should be about 3/8 inch tall. Priming pan for free.

Bottom of a small can about 1/2 inch diameter larger than the stove also can work. Cut the can to about 3/8". Cost-free.

If the objective is to heat the fuel quicker (agreed) then wouldn't a simple perforated pipe, or T-shaped piece of thin copper (or DIY soda can material) be sufficient? i.e. sits in the bottom of the stove, and tall enough to be licked by the flames, which will transmit the heat back to the fuel? ... It might not be as quick as the tray, but also it doesn't deal with the frankly stupid idea of having a shallow tray full of burning fuel ....

For gram weenies, a shiny stainless cupcake liner makes a good priming tray and also reflects heat up to make the stove slightly more efficient. The three little divots on the priming tray prevent heat loss into the ground so it'll greatly reduce priming time and improve stove efficiency and heat output on cold days. The Spiguyver pop can stove primes in a few seconds. Be sure to build the latest version.

The evernew titanium is my favorite commercial alcohol burner/stove. Otherwise I like the larger version Vienna sausage can and tomato paste can fancy feast style alcohol stove.

Coincidentally I just discovered this idea myself. I thought I was making these home brew stoves wrong because they took so long the start working. Yeah, I just used a can lid. Also one of those “disposable” mini aluminum pie tins. Why nobody came up with this years ago?? The old Primus gasoline stoves had a small cup built onto the base of the stove for this exact purpose.
WTF?

Thank you so much for your input. Do you have any plan to teach us how to DIY prime plate?

Everyone overlooks the RUCAS stove?

Can’t read my writing? Of course not.
You’re a doctor. Thanks for all your videos.

interesting.... I just use a jar lid to set the stove on and dribble some alcohol in it
and yes it helps allot ! even on the simplest of stoves ! I made a soup can stove that had a ring of 3/8" holes around the base of the can about 1 1/4" from the base and another ring of holes near the top rim.... just pour in the alcohol into the can and light it ! it's the simplest I've seen yet and works very very good and you can set the pot right on it !
I have the top of a 8" cookie tin I use for the pre heater, but a large jar lid will do the trick as well.

Geeez...bring your mommy.

Wrap some aluminum foil around the bottom of the stove. Pull it away slightly or remove it entirely. put a few drops of fuel into it or better yet, use it to catch any spillage from filling the stove. Place the stove in it and light.

I stumbled on your channel a few weeks ago and owned zero stoves, now I have 4 and a steampunk eddy on the way. The primer ring looks like an awesome idea I will need to make or buy one. These stove videos are addicting thanks for making them

DIY alcohol stoves use a soaked wick on the outside of the stoves, cheap and works great :)

Great video that shows how to get an extra minute of boil/cook time. I use a side cutting can opener and make my priming plates out of soup or tuna can tops/bottoms! JMHO

.....or just get a Trangia and skip looking for the plate.

My lunch hours are now centered around learning everything there is to know about alcohol stoves.😁

Great tip! Have heard of this addition to alcohol burners and forgot about it for yrs…tried a tuna lid and works like a champ on trangia,lixada titanium,and the Tomshoo titanium….thanks Ernie! Made all 3 of these prime to full bloom in 10 seconds or less👍

Just cut the bottom off a tin can from the trashbin and have one for free.

Dr. Ernie, a heads up, with my experience with this pre heating pan there is no need to light the stove itself at all simply light the Prime-Lite Primer Pan and it will light the stove automatically which I'm sure will save fuel 'big picture' along the way, try it.

Well done brother

Hello Paleo chiming in, surely has it's place form intertaly self prim wire meash perhaps inexpensive goodes locly sourced

That is fantastic, Ernie, well done 👍🏼

I use a half-gallon V8 juice can lid. Our can opener cuts the seem, not the lid. The result? The lid comes off easily, w/ NO sharp edges.

Once again fantastic video,I do believe I'll be ordering one soon. Here in my part of Texas we've been in a burn ban for awhile now. It will sure make a difference. Thanks again!!!😊😊😊😊

I'm a little confused. If someone is deciding on a backpacking stove, and they are concerned about 1 stove taking 15 sec and another taking 60 sec, is your enjoyment of the outdoors make or break on 45 sec?

But are you burning more fuel in the priming pan than it would otherwise burn to self prime?

I got a Trangia preheater spirit burner. It has 4 spider feet that clamp to the sides of the stove.

It clips to the bottom of the stove, you push it up to the seam bottom,  to use, pull it down, the feet, click into that ring around most tangeria like stoves.

Under the stove, you have a pad you add fuel to, lightning it, to warm up the stove. 

You don't need to preheat.

Just don't pull it down into place.

Down it can be used as a stand to keep the stove bottom off cold ground, a 🥶 rock. 


Well, $10 is pricey compared to the stove price, and $2.99?

The Boundless Voyage has a priming wick. You put alcohol on it and light it. This heats up the stove and primes it.

THe primer is only 3 bucks, great!! But they want 10 bucks to ship something that weighs less than a fart. ABSOLUTELY NOT

Just make your own. I did.

How does the Trangia winter attachment help the Trangia?

FREE PRIMER TRAY !!!!! Use the lid off your Nacho Cheese Dip !!! It works GREAT !

Outstanding information Ernie, Thank You So much Sir !

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So why bother with the other designs? Get a Trangia and be done with it. Sure it's a few grams heavier but not having to carry extra fuel for priming compensates for that.

The tray is priced at $3 plus close to $10 for shipping. A first class letter can weigh up to 28 grams and the product weights about 8 grams. Something is not right here.

This priming plate is a very useful minimalist tool... thanks for sharing! You do need to work on your math in this video, as there are only 60 seconds in a minute, and a lot of your calculations were based on a 100 second minute. Just don't move the decimal point around when writing prescriptions, like my mom did... it cost her job and the patient his life. 😳

This donut tray/pan looks a whole lot like the metal disc on the front of a large 29 oz. caulk tube.

Mostly the problem is, the fumes are not igniting, because the fuel is burning inside and the jets are at the outside. Unprimed they don't touch each other. The priming hits the jets with a flame and they readily ignite. You could do the same with a match or lighter. Basics of fire-making: fuel, oxygen, IGNITION !

Use the priming tray before you light the stoves. Then time after you use it. Flames should be blue to be lit

I made something similar from a metal pickle jar lid. If I’m going to be using it in cold weather, I put a length of round lamp wicking inside the lip and it lights more easily.

It's $10 with shipping/tax