Why is the burner flame yellow, high and sooting instead of bluish and controlled?
• The stove has not been sufficiently primed. Consequently, the fuel is not vaporized properly, and combustion is inefficient. Turn off the stove and repeat the priming. Be extremely careful when filling the priming cup if the stove is already hot. Remember that liquid fuels (especially gasoline/petrol) are volatile and may ignite explosively. Best advise is therefore to let the stove cool off prior to filling the priming cup with fuel or paste again. • Wrong fuel or bad quality fuel is used. A stove designed for gasoline only will not work off kerosene/paraffin. The burner of a gasoline stove is not designed to vaporize fuel kinds that are less volatile than gasoline. Kerosene/paraffin, diesel and similar fuels will consequently not vaporize in a gasoline stove, instead high, flaring, yellowish flames that are both dangerous and uncontrollable are produced. Most kerosene/paraffin stoves will work off diesel oil. The quality of diesel oil varies however a lot both geographically and wi
