Good container for heating triox bars

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Good container for heating triox bars

Post by kturnerga » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:52 am

Hello
I have some Trioxane bars from the pre-1992 era. I save the flameless heaters for true emergencies. But what size of container will function best for a stove? I find the "yam can" size a bit large. I thought about a severed propane lantern tank. I have seen the little folding trays but worry about exposed flame when I cook on a fishing dock.

Ideas anyone?
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Post by kman » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:34 am

What you use for a stove partially depends on what you're trying to cook with trioxane. I've only "cooked" water with trioxane before - either in a army canteen cup or in a small pot. For those uses, the esbit/folding stoves have worked just fine for me. Or in a pinch, a small hole in the ground also works great with trioxane.

If you were trying to cook something more than water and were using a bigger pan, I might worry about the stability of those folding stoves.

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Post by BigMark » Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:27 am

From my experience, those little stoves can hold quite a bit, so long as you dont wiggle it back and forth or anything. They might get looser with age, I don't know, but mine held a 2 qt pan w/ water in it.. it just takes forever to even get it hot.. hardly worth the effort.

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Post by dex » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:55 pm

Not very compact but serves many purposes, I use a Swiss Ranger Stove. They are very light weight.

http://bumblebeeammo.com/military6103.html . I don't like using triox to much though, but I keep some around in my preps just the same.

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Post by dermeister025 » Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:54 pm

That swiss ranger stove link doesn't seem to work, is that the one with the aluminum pot and pan, big black stove and an alcohol burner and bottle?
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Post by CaptBob » Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:00 am

The link works if you take out the period at the end of "...html"

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Post by kman » Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:46 am

Thanks for pointing that out, CaptBob - I fixed the link above.

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