Fosters Pot Stove??

The super venom is one of my favorites, and I think he has a video of it with a foster's post – should be similar in size. Anway, the stove is the pot support and I've got 6 minute boils with it on a 1/2 oz. of fuel. I pair it with a Suluk 46 windscreen and an SP 700. I bet that the aluminum can pots will boil even faster.

Stick 2 titanium tent stakes thru a small tight fitting windscreen, and you wont need a pot support.

An alcohol stove depends more on the windscreen, than the stove. They all do about the same thing, with about the same fuel, if they have a good windscreen and the right distance from stove to pot.

My thoughts on sideburners which support small pots:

1)it will reduce the area for heating on the bottom of the small pot.
2)for it to work as well as a stove that heats the whole bottom, you will need flames going up the sides which reduces efficiency and wastes fuel.
3)too much heat, or flames up sides will prevent you from picking the pot up by wrapping it with a bandana when using the short 2cup fosters pot. Fuel efficiency goes out the window if you have to wait for it to burn out before removing the pot, and cant reclaim unburnt fuel. You will always use extra to insure it reaches boil the first time.
4) they are actually heavy

My entire stove, AND windscreen, for my flat bottom 2cup fosters pot is 0.65 oz., and the windscreen could be smaller. Stores inside the pot, and total wt is 1.75 oz. Boils 16oz water at 7:20 on 0.5 fl oz, and continues to boil for another minute if I let it. I can reclaim the small amt leftover fuel. I think its actually consumes about 0.37 wt oz fuel.

What is this miracle stove that weighs 0.13 oz? A tealight cup with a bent piece of metal in it.

If it were me I'd just use my 3 cup pot and CC Sidewinder with the Trail Designs supplied alky stove that same with my Sidewinder. Great combo with the best efficiency going for alky.

But then again, I prefer ESBIT.

Travis,

I also use Foster's can cook pots. I purchased mine along with his generic 1 cup cook pot from Zelph's.

" I am trying to get away with not having a pot stand, so I am pretty much limited to a side burner {I think…?}".

Not so!

I too long for a stove that is its own pot support. The links and pictures below are the results of what I have come up with borrowing heavily from Zelph's Stoves, Zen Backpacking Stoves and Brian's Backpacking Blog.

In the picture below you see a Mini Fancee Feest clone stove.

In the link below is all the info that I have posted on how I got to the point of building this stove and its performance.

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=66158

Lately I've been experimenting with solid fuel stoves. In the picture below you see an aluminum flashing clone of Brian's Titanium Foil Esbit 'Tray' Stove.

Look closely at the picture below and you'll see the tray stove with a fuel tablet inside of the combo windscreen / pot stand.

All the information that I have posted on this experiment of mine is on the thread link below.

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=68338

So grab hold of a container of your favorite hot, warm or cold beverage and get comfortable because you have a lot of reading to do and pictures to view.LOL

Party On,

Newton

I've had good success with Zelphs Starlyte stove – more of a flame from the bottom and super light stand built in. Fits inside the pot.

Also been trying to make a stove like this but so far I have not got one to burn well.