Hiking Ethanol Burner testing

Just trying out a little metho burner for camping. After about a minute alight, the heat of the unit and flame are enough to vaporise sufficient volumes of fuel that it begins to jet out of the little pinholes around the edge like a gas burner, instead of just a goofy flickering flame in the middle pool. It's pretty cool.

It boiled 2 cups of water in 7 minutes with 14g of fuel. Compared to ~3-4 minutes with 3 hexamine tablets, or 2 minutes and 7g of propane. They all have trade-offs with starting volume/weight and ending volume/weight depending on how many days or meals you intend to cook. This one is easily the most fun.

With 25% water mixed in, there is literally no soot on the cooking pot afterwards.

Not the methanol burner...testing a toasty on a car-camping frypan I found at Savers. Good thick aluminium, packs flat, no coatings so no scratch issues. This side is the frying side with a short rim. The other size is for grilling, and the lip on that side is actually a fat-drip-well. It's super cool. The square design holds precisely four pieces of bread.

Metho burner cold-start.

Fuel begins to vaporise in volume, and come out the pin holes around the edge forming a stove like burner ring.

So that's kinda fun. :)