I do this almost every spring, start making a new stove for camping. I've been through lots of types - wood-gas, simple twig burners, charcoal stoves, fan-assisted twig stoves, mini twin-wall perlite-insulated rocket stoves - and last year I finally got sick of trying to get found sticks to burn in a tin can in Britain, lol, and switched to ethanol.
I bought some little aluminium tins with screw-top lids, about 55 x 20 mm., next to nowt on eBay, and stuffed one with rockwool and topped it with aluminium mesh from Halfords. I mocked up a bean can pot stand last year and had one trip out on my bike, and it worked fairly well, but I wanted to make something folding or packable, and today I finished putting it together.
Link to pics at FB: stove
I'm happy with the stand. It slots together at the corners, and packs to almost flat. The burner isn't great, but workable. Although it's probably fine to use just with the open top and gives a good heat, the flame meanders around quite a lot, and I have a silicone pot-cosy that I've scorched once already, and I'm also not 100% sure how the stand will fare either. So I just did one test with a lid on the burner with a smaller hole in the centre - it's at the bottom of the second picture at the link. A mug of water took best part of half an hour to bring to the boil, so it'll be good for a simmer setting!
Instead of taking the lid off for the high-heat setting, I'm thinking of making something like a penny stove with another lid - a hole about 1 cm. in the centre that a "penny" (or similar) can go over, and a circle of small holes for jets around that, angled inwards. These jars come with a plastic insert for an air-tight seal, but they seem to be air-tight without it, so the stove should build up a little pressure and be more resistant to the wind blowing it about.
My usual pot is actually an aluminium drink bottle (without a plastic liner as most have) that I use as a kettle, and sits down in the recesses of the stand sides, so it's held securely, but a pan would also sit on top on the corners a bit higher. If the stand doesn't melt, the open top burner might work well with a pan.
I bought some little aluminium tins with screw-top lids, about 55 x 20 mm., next to nowt on eBay, and stuffed one with rockwool and topped it with aluminium mesh from Halfords. I mocked up a bean can pot stand last year and had one trip out on my bike, and it worked fairly well, but I wanted to make something folding or packable, and today I finished putting it together.
Link to pics at FB: stove
I'm happy with the stand. It slots together at the corners, and packs to almost flat. The burner isn't great, but workable. Although it's probably fine to use just with the open top and gives a good heat, the flame meanders around quite a lot, and I have a silicone pot-cosy that I've scorched once already, and I'm also not 100% sure how the stand will fare either. So I just did one test with a lid on the burner with a smaller hole in the centre - it's at the bottom of the second picture at the link. A mug of water took best part of half an hour to bring to the boil, so it'll be good for a simmer setting!
Instead of taking the lid off for the high-heat setting, I'm thinking of making something like a penny stove with another lid - a hole about 1 cm. in the centre that a "penny" (or similar) can go over, and a circle of small holes for jets around that, angled inwards. These jars come with a plastic insert for an air-tight seal, but they seem to be air-tight without it, so the stove should build up a little pressure and be more resistant to the wind blowing it about.
My usual pot is actually an aluminium drink bottle (without a plastic liner as most have) that I use as a kettle, and sits down in the recesses of the stand sides, so it's held securely, but a pan would also sit on top on the corners a bit higher. If the stand doesn't melt, the open top burner might work well with a pan.
