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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?
Thanks
KAT

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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