K--

little confusion- with a penny stove- why would you need a separate priming pan?

after you fill it, just add a teaspoon ON TOP of the penny-

the alcohol on top both heats the alcohol underneath AND ignites the jets once vapor come out.

I know this works on the shorter ones I built....

Heat rises.

In colder wx, I've had trouble with top priming.

HJ

the Trangia has a brass inner wall in the central chamber that conducts heat to the vaporization chamber... I know that it's fun to make the penny stoves, but it's nice to be able to extinguish the flame to preserve fuel...

In cold weather the fuel on top would burn out before vapor starts coming.



Just use something to snuff the flame and pour out the remaining fuel.

Those Trangia's look very nice, Les. I've got one on my wish list.

In the meanwhile, we made a snuffer out if the bottom of a third can. It fits perfectly over the top of the penny stove, covering all the jet holes.

I hope you are looking at the various types of Trangia cooksets; the stove really works best in an integrated system. My favorite is the Mini-Trangia (T-28). It is perfect for one or two people. It also works well with canister stoves.

You know, I'm not much of a shopper, except when it comes to outdoor gear. I've been trying to ignore to cook sets but I guess if the burners work better with them... :-)

Thanks hikermor!

Just wanted to follow up to confirm that we did have a fire extinguisher on-hand when we did this experiment.

Here's a picture of the snuffer we made out of another can. SO simple!

BPJ,
Talking of home-made alcohol stoves. I found a few years ago I could quickly drill the outgas holes in the top of the stove by chucking an ordinary straight pin in an electric drill.
Re: cook kits. I have used an aluminum pot-pie pan to cook small muffins in the smaller of two cooking pans, suspending the pie pan above the inner surface of the cook pan with a small spiral of aluminum foil.
A hiker named "Risk" did a nice write-up of trail baking on his website. www.imrisk.com

My son and I have made more progress on our penny stove project and turned it into a cook set project! The plan is to make a compact kit on the cheap that we can use to boil water and heat up food. It's also includes a small backup fire kit.

We're still working on it but here's how it sits this afternoon:

COOK SET PACKED (packed in really big mug along with a spoon)


COOK POT PACKED


CONTENTS OF KIT


COOK POT CONTENTS:
-penny stove/snuffer/penny
-hobo stove/pot stand/wind screen *repurposed can of corn
-lighter
-SA matches/cotton balls/pine pitch *in repurposed film
-canister
-alcohol (HEET)
-cook pot with lid/frying pan *repurposed SS sugar canister
-bandana
-aluminum foil

TO DO:
-need small bottle for fuel
-add some iodine or microPUR tabs
-add more air holes and rack in hobo stove
-make wind screen for hobo stove
-make pot cozy for cook pot
-upgrade lighter to butane