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Chimney kettles, all weather biofuels burners

Chimney kettles, all weather biofuels burners

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TweetChimney kettles are small biofuels burners for all weather water boiling in a hurry No other small biofuels burner I’ve used gets water steaming hot faster during foul weather than a chimney kettle. I use the stainless steel Kelly Kettle® Trekker model, their smallest, for up to 19 ounces of hot water in a hurry. Nothing stills the chills and brings the feeling back to numb fingers and toes like a belly full of your favorite steaming hot drink. Hot sweet…

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Tea-fire on snow

Tea-fire on snow

TweetA one-match fire on snow, no knife or axe needed (OK, I used one match, twice). The tea-fire tradition crossed the Atlantic with early settlers when America was fresh and wild. A mid-day tea break was felt essential and restorative on even the most difficult trails. Tea drinking caught on everywhere. Tea trade reached the furthest remote indigenous populations, even Inuit nomads wandering traditional hunting grounds from Arctic tundra to ice flows in the Arctic archipelago. The immaculate white Arctic…

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Paraffin-dipped wood matches

Paraffin-dipped wood matches

TweetMaking paraffin-dipped wood matches, their utility. This is an old standard. I first made wax-dipped matches while a young boy scout long ago. Wax-dipped wood matches and wax-dipped egg carton section fire-starters were standard equipment for scouts, then. Today, I used a “household paraffin wax for canning, candlemaking and many other uses” to prepare kitchen matches for outdoor use. I purchased the one-pound box inexpensively at my local grocery store, just $4.29. The matches I used, “large kitchen matches”, “extra…

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