Esbit burner testing

Fine and clear, thank you.

I store all my ESBIT tabs, used and new, in a roll top coffee bag, the kind with an aluminum/mylar lining.

When you pick up the snuffed out Esbit you get the crystals on your hands and put them in the coffee sack/bag along with all the rest of the esbit. Every time you put your hand in the sack/bag you get the crystals on your fingers and “maybe” transfer them to your food/water somehow. HYOH is what it’s all about….I know ;-) I’m just passing this info on to others that might be just getting into backpacking. I have spent a lot of time experimenting with esbit and know a little bit about it. I don’t need to sell esbit trays, I just make them as a service to those who can’t DIY.  I’m the only one that will tell it as it is. I don’t give out BS as others do just to sell a stove.

Sorry Dan, I was talking about unused tablets for the coffee bag.

My used tabs stay on the BGET holder and go into a ZipLoc bag for the next meal. Andh yeah, I’m careful not to get my hands on the stuff. Nasty!

Hi Eric.

Gentlemen, are we familiar with the TiMNEY MulTi-fuel?
http://www.ifyouhave.org/2014/10/timney.html

Thank you Robert…nice application of triangular holes. Interesting to read how the companies deliveries were delayed because of an earthquake. One of their items for sale is a lightweight wallet, very nice design.

Yes Dan, interesting that they recommend placing a stone on the lid to aid stability in windy conditions, because of the light weight of the Ti windscreen, which is a similar consideration to what I experienced with my Evernew windscreen (which must have less windage). But they appear to get excellent wood-burning performance, viz. the associated video.

Strange……most everything is SOLD OUT in their store:

https://ifyouhave.stores.jp/

I may have missed it, but where can one acquire an esbitmizer?

Dan th’Man can.

The Wiltshire Man discovers Esbit – using the 585 cookset – interesting lighting method, intrusive music track:

That’s waaaay to fussy. Just put some d@mn hand sanitizer on the ESBIT tab, light it and be done with it.

I only carry Vaseline soaked cotton balls when I’m going to light a wood fire in my Sidewinder W/Inferno insert. The cotton ball tinder is needed then for a longer burn time to insure tinder & small twigs get going.

I take a mini dropper bottle of ethanol for lighting esbit. 20ml outlasts a 2 week trip.

2 or 3 of drops of alcohol on an Esbit block takes a spark or flickof a lighter and usually has it going easily in a second or 2.

I don’t use hand sanitizer. Apparently tests show it’s less effective for sanitising than soap. And a hotel soap bar is lighter…

I like that 585 cookset. Looks like it has good heat exchanging capabilities sitting down inside the pot support/windscreen. Support has lots of contact with shape of pot bottom. Their esbit tray is nice to retain all the melting esbit. The hard anodized aluminum is a plus.

~ Evolution of the true Esbit User ~

After millions of years we are still playing with fire. ;o)

Are there no women Esbit users? And what does this indicate about men? 🙀

Esbit 3-piece Cook Set review, FWIW.

Apparently does not work with Esbit alcohol burner, without using a crosspiece.

Robert, women don’t like the smell of esbit.

Take a look at this little gem:

Cool video Dan. I’ve noticed that LOGOS produce quite a range of BP gear, cooking accoutrements usually, not in general the lightest or most compact, but likely suitable for midrange use, car camping etc.

[edited MK]

Snuff out an Esbit when it is in full fire mode and then listen to it sizzle while a white cloud of smoke rises. That’s the white noise ;-) DO NO SMELL THE SMOKE…..you will die! :-)

“White Noise” is a sound used to prevent someone from understanding what is being said behind a closed door. Usually the sound is produced by a speaker mounted in the ceiling tile above the door outside the room.

[edited MK]

Speaking of “you will die”, I recently found these berries in my local neighborhood park, and naively presumed as the tree was clearly from the fir/pine/spruce family that they would be ok to eat. They tasted delicious, and I naturally spat out the stones.

After having my wife try them as well, I thought I had better just make sure they were ok, and checked on the Internet. It turns out they are yew, and the entire tree – apart from the flesh of the berry, but including the stones – is highly poisonous… Individuals have died from brewing tea from the leaves/needles. Growing freely in our park, where young children play.

YEW – HIGHLY POISONOUS – DON’T INDULGE, DON’T BREW TEA FROM THE LEAVES, DON’T EVEN HANDLE THE WOOD WITHOUT GLOVES. DON’T BITE OR SWALLOW THE STONES.

Yew, the best wood for bow making. Talk about thread drift, how far away is this from Esbit burner testing.

Rational discourse, how far is that away from reality…

Incense burners, Iranian, 13th and 14th century.

Esbit is made from the sap of the Yew….don’t eat the Esbit 

From Wikipedia,

A Tommy cooker was a compact, portable stove, fuelled by something referred to as solidified alcohol which was issued to British troops (Tommies) in World War I.
It was notoriously ineffective; one soldier complained that it took two hours to boil half a pint of water. A variety of commercial or improvised alternatives were in use.

A refined version remained in use during World War II, using gelled fuel in a tin can; a steel ring fitted to the can supported a mess tin.

The British army still uses compact portable solid fuel (hexamine) stoves.

The term also came to be applied by the German tank crews as a derogatory nickname for the Sherman tank whose earlier models acquired a reputation for bursting up in flames when hit, due to improper ammunition storage.

 

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“ESBIT is made from the sap of the yew.”

I turn to the “ESBIT Burner Testing” thread every morning for a smile and today you didn’t disappoint. I had no idea yews were so “sappy”.