Another great video by GearSkeptic. Wind and stoves

An excellent and very informative series of videos.
I’d like to find a copy of his charts.

He linked his spreadsheet in the description.

Thanks Jon for sharing… I just geeked out for over an hour watching Pt.1 and Pt.2.

I use a BSR stove + a marginal wind shield I made from some thin foil… if it’s really windy, I find rocks to build a wind screen. Typically, no matter the conditions, I only use about 1/2 of a small canister for an 8 day backpack… coffee in the morning and freeze dried dinner at night. So I am typically carrying twice the fuel I need even with a small canister, a marginal windscreen, and a BSR…  so these tests are interesting, but not real relevant for me… I suppose I could use tests like this to take even less fuel… but I consider extra fuel to be a good thing to have… and an extra dinner…

Yeah, great video

On another thread people asked if a lid would save fuel if it’s windy.  That question is now answered, yes.

I was using my stove the other day and it occurred to me that not bringing lid didn’t make sense, but if I’m near temp and I take lid off, just leave it off for the fraction of a minute to reach temp.  Thus, I can avoid over shooting the temp which would waste fuel.

I’m looking forward to part 3. To me, not using a windscreen doesn’t make sense.  It will be interesting to see if the data confirms this

I’m looking forward to part 3. To me, not using a windscreen doesn’t make sense. It will be interesting to see if the data confirms this

Agreed.

Without even seeing the data, I would be EXTREMELY surprised, even in a no wind situation, if an wind screen did not add to fuel efficiency… because it serves as an insulating barrier that keeps the hot air near the pot longer… seems pretty intuitive to me…

The value of the video is to quantify performance in the wind.  Clearly, the BRS has issues in the wind but demonstrating  that 3 mph is about the limit is now tangible to most people.

what does not come across in the video is that even a 5 mph wind is in reality a very LOW wind speed.  People have a very hard time estimating wind speed and generally over report the true average speed.  My 2 cents.

Dang it. I had work to do this morning.