2 small soup cans, 2 large soup cans, 2 large coffee cans, 2 half-size large coffee cans, 2 tuna cans, 2 altoids tins, 1 pack of esbit fuel tabs, 1 pack of zip fire starters, some wax, some butcher's twine, some corrugated cardboard and a pile of twigs ready for experimenting this weekend with DS.

Attempt number one, in July 2011, of making a stove out of a pop can was a fail.



Lots of heat but we burnt through the can and had to put it into the can we put on top of it to try to boil water.



Lesson #1 - don't put you can stove on something flammable like a woo. The wooden pinic table we were using got scorched.

Lesson #2 - keep to hand something the you can handle the burning can with (i.e. tongs, oven mitts) and somewhere to put it, or some way to snuff it if it gets out of hand.

Lesson # 3 - aluminum cans are thin and a roaring twig fire inside them will burn through them.