Heat Exchange Stove Shootout: Part 3Heat Exchanger Stoves

What everyone really wants to see is something blown up. Safely, of course.

Hi Joe

> What everyone really wants to see is something blown up. Safely, of course.

Sigh – you should read the articles at BPL, especially the one on
Exploding canisters! Your wishes would be answered. However …
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This burst at 100 C with one hell of a bang.

Cheers

I viewed the below linked video with the sound off, so I will not vouch for the narration, but the video is pretty interesting:
How not to use a stove.

P.S. The video is unnecessarily long. The action is at 7:47, so move the progress indicator to about 6 minutes when the stove goes out and he tries to re-light it.

Hilarious. The guy is utterly ignorant and incompetent!

Cheers

Hey Roger,

What happened to Part 4 of this series – efficiency, pot diameter etc.

I was also wondering if part 4 and 5 are up yet? It has been nearly a year and half since the last post.

thanks

Mike

Hi All

Yeah, been a while. I am still working on this with the help of Tony Beasley, but life has seriously intervened for both of us. I will try to get both of us back to it.

The short summary of our findings so far is that pot diameter does matter.
The larger the pot, up to a point, the better the efficiency of heat transfer. So beer cans are really inefficient.

Cheers