What sort of alcohol stoves are available?
This website, naturally, focuses on the soda can variety of alcohol stove, but you can burn alcohol in all sorts of ways. Some people use it in a cat can stove. Supposedly there are even commercial alcohol stoves available, though admittedly, I’ve never seen any myself. In a pinch you could even cut a soda can in half, pour in some denatured alcohol, and light it to get a stove. It’s probably not the most efficient stove option, but burning alcohol isn’t a particularly high tech task either. I’ll leave it up other websites to provide designs for alternative types of alcohol stoves. Most of them probaby work just fine, but I’m happy with my soda can stove and haven’t felt the need to check out alternatives. A lot of the information about burning fuel in alternative alcohol stoves is exactly the same as using a soda can stove, however, so I’ll sometimes use the terms interchangeably.
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