10-14-2022, 12:29 PM
Patience.
Shane got a 38 oz. can of Dinty Moore beef stew to use the can for a wood stove. Evidently he plans to make a single wall stove because he didn't get a smaller can for the inner wall. We'll see how it goes.
We went to the south side where there are two big thrift stores across the street from each other to look for a sauce pan and lid to fit it, and possibly a stovetop percolator. The first one had a bunch of lids with no matching pans. The selection at the other store was even poorer. There was a dollar store next to that store. We found an aluminum grease strainer and storage pot that would make a great camp pot for $6.
https://www.amazon.com/Bene-Casa-Dispens...B00BF84IGI
The pot needed to be wiped out and rinsed. That only took a few seconds. Shane was in such a hurry to have that stew out of the can and start working on the stove that he dumped the stew into a Walmart bag while I was rinsing the pot. Miraculously, it was a rare bag with no holes or leaks. He asked me if I wanted to hold onto it until the stove was ready. I told him to put it in the cooler since it was open.
I don't know what video he watched, but he made the stove with a closed top, as if to use the top as a cooking surface. None of the designs I looked at were like that. They were all designed to combust the wood gas near the top of the stove, producing no smoke.
So he stuffed the wood and kindling in from the bottom and inserted a Vienna sausage can to hold it all in. Then he set the stove down in the parking lot between my car and Scott's truck, sprayed some butane in there, and lit the fire.
And wandered off.
I'm lying across the car seats with the doors open, and I can't see the stove through the car door. I yelled for Shane and waited for him to appear. I asked him what the fire was doing. He told me, then I asked him if he was going to watch it. He said he would.
The pot of Dinty Moore is on the stove now, and Shane has wandered off again.
Shane got a 38 oz. can of Dinty Moore beef stew to use the can for a wood stove. Evidently he plans to make a single wall stove because he didn't get a smaller can for the inner wall. We'll see how it goes.
We went to the south side where there are two big thrift stores across the street from each other to look for a sauce pan and lid to fit it, and possibly a stovetop percolator. The first one had a bunch of lids with no matching pans. The selection at the other store was even poorer. There was a dollar store next to that store. We found an aluminum grease strainer and storage pot that would make a great camp pot for $6.
https://www.amazon.com/Bene-Casa-Dispens...B00BF84IGI
The pot needed to be wiped out and rinsed. That only took a few seconds. Shane was in such a hurry to have that stew out of the can and start working on the stove that he dumped the stew into a Walmart bag while I was rinsing the pot. Miraculously, it was a rare bag with no holes or leaks. He asked me if I wanted to hold onto it until the stove was ready. I told him to put it in the cooler since it was open.
I don't know what video he watched, but he made the stove with a closed top, as if to use the top as a cooking surface. None of the designs I looked at were like that. They were all designed to combust the wood gas near the top of the stove, producing no smoke.
So he stuffed the wood and kindling in from the bottom and inserted a Vienna sausage can to hold it all in. Then he set the stove down in the parking lot between my car and Scott's truck, sprayed some butane in there, and lit the fire.
And wandered off.
I'm lying across the car seats with the doors open, and I can't see the stove through the car door. I yelled for Shane and waited for him to appear. I asked him what the fire was doing. He told me, then I asked him if he was going to watch it. He said he would.
The pot of Dinty Moore is on the stove now, and Shane has wandered off again.
