What do I need to cook with?

[Kermit]

LD--I know, but there are times when open fires are verbotten as well. Alcohol is pretty easy to smother, especially in the quantity held in a Trangia stove. Also, alcohol stoves don't hiss like the Coleman white gas stove that was in a neighbor's marquis at a rhondy years ago. I really prefer to burn actual charcoal (not briquettes!) in my brazier, but I once had that banned. I still want to cook/heat stuff!

[Loyalist Dave]

Oh I agree, there is no perfect solution.  I have alcohol stoves btw, which do work quite well, and as they are small and use limited amounts of alcohol they could be a welcome addition to a cooking kit.  I have tried those made from aluminum cans, and I liked them very much but I also found in cold weather, you need to keep the fuel bottle warm by keeping it near your body as the stoves without working parts work by the off-gases from the alcohol, and when it's cold out, the evaporation doesn't work as well to give you those gases.

I like the wood-gas stoves as the fuel grows in nature, and as far as I am concerned are not "open" fires.  They tend to be smaller and more efficient in some cases compared to a brazier with hardwood charcoal.  

LD

[Kermit]

Good ol' wood-gas technology. How may of these are still running around in Sweden? Sure would like to add it to my "kit."

[BEAVERMAN]

Good ol' wood-gas technology. How may of these are still running around in Sweden? Sure would like to add it to my "kit."

Whats the mileage? 30 miles to the cord??? :rotf  

[Kermit]

I'm waiting for some dog soldiers to have to deal with some 'skinner who shows up with a wood gasification setup at a primitive event. The first such production was in 1839, but I doubt there's much documentation for any in use in the Rockies pre-1840. But there weren't many plastic hooters either!