I finally checked out the Caldera Cone yesterday. Love the weight of the Graham Cracker.

With the rain and wind this last weekend, I was inside quite a bit, but not the whole time. Anyway, I tried my Super Cat stove a second time, and manufactured a Foster's can pot. Ah, yes! Back on topic, at around 4000', using two cups of room temperature water, two tbls. of vintage Denatured alcohol, the water was boiling in around 4 minutes, 15 seconds or less and had almost half a tbls.of fuel left when I blew the fire out. Without a windscreen, inside my house. Using my Atlanta stove, same temp water, Foster's pot, same amount of fuel, it did not boil, close. For my control, I boiled the water on my propane range, using an aluminum pot for household use, boiled the water in around 3 1/2 minutes.

In my few times using Esbit fuel, it seems to start slow then gets hotter. The Caldera Cone and Keg system sounds pretty niffty, something else to thing over.

Sorry, would be nice to know how much water, edited to read two cups.


Edited by hikerduane (12/22/08 11:39 PM)