I found a two year old esbit tab still wrapped in its foil package so I decided to test it out. I put 16oz of cold water in a SnowPeak Trek 700 and then set it on the BPL Firelite esbit stove. It took 10 minutes for the water to come to a full boil and to my excitement it continued to burn for another 10 minutes.
Next, in the first ten minutes while waiting for the water to boil I had a citronella candle burning and was being eaten alive, as soon as it began to boil I ran inside and grabbed my 3M ultrathon lotion and never had another bite the next ten minutes.
I also learned that 16oz of beer taste much better than the standard 12oz.
