I am disappointed and underwhelmed by the flamability of your common hand sterilizing alcohol gel. It burns, but not really intense nor impressive. I was unable to lit it with a spark at room temperature. I think it's 70% alcohol or so, my bottle doesn't list it. For this stuff to really BURN I guess you have to heat it so more volatile alcohol fumes are released.
Your comment was interesting as I thought that sanitizer (70% alcohol) would readily ignite from a spark. I tried quite a few times with my Swedish Steel (which you barely see in my hand the top left of the photo) and could not get the sanitizer to light up. It was only when I put a match or lighter to it that a flame resulted. This is good to know as I always carry as small bottle of sanitizer in the kit and now know what works and what doesn't work..
BTW, that is my fav backpacking dinner plate. Cheap ($2.97), very light and very versatile 6" aluminum pizza pan...
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