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I still have and use a "L'il ***** Scout" Kerosene (K-1) hiking stove from time to time. It will burn any number of fuel combinations but I just use K-1 in mine. I've even added a bit of gasoline to a jar of K-1 to see it would help improve the speed of lighting it. It does. Otherwise you may have to dip the match in some K-1 twice to hold a flame in the generator coil long enough to assure ignition.
It comes in a small metal can where the base has brackets for the 3 pieces that form the cook top and there is a small wind shield tube. It also has a small wire pilot hole cleaning tool and a match which is dipped in the K-1and held in the flame loop. These were once inexpensive but there are all kinds of prices on them now as they aren't that common. But....they are effective.
NOTICE I would not use one of these indoors. I usually find a picnic shelter on the roadside or the equivalent.
It's a VERY simple appliance.
As you would see it packaged for sale. It all fits in the little can.
There is a screw on lid, seen at the right side above, on the body of the fuel vessel. It has a couple of lead disk which form the seal and if it should get too hot is designed to melt and release the pressure inside.
There are no moving parts. In the coil in the above photo there is a bottle cork inserted into the generator coil to keep the pilot hole from becoming plugged.
Between the can at the right side and the stove there are two brass strips where the one at the left holds the thin wire for cleaning the carbon from the pilot hole, and the one at right is the match. (you can see the gray wadding at the back end near the base of one of the three cook top elements.
I don't know if these are out of production today or not.
When I go on a road trip in the car and plan to cook lunch or dinner I often take this, a Boy Scout mess kit,
and a Little Playmate Cooler.
I can freeze water in plastic water bottles to put in the cooler along with some packaged food items
where with a little heating in the mess kit I have breakfast or dinner. I'm usually eating at a fast food
for lunch as I'm out of camp and traveling at that time. These 3 items fit neatly in a small card board
box. When the water has melted in the bottles I have Coffee, Tea or Or some other water bottle beverage
flavoring I use. Thus hot or cold beverages. Breakfast is usually an Omelet of diced veggies, diced ham,
stowed in the cooler and dinner a rice and Kielbasa sausage all in one. This can easily save $20 or more a day.
I also carry a copy of Bill Kaysing's cook book, "Eat well for .99 cent a meal"
There are a number of cook book like this dating back to the Hippie days of the 60's. (often found today at used book stores)
https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Well-99-Cent-Meal/dp/1559501375
You can prepackage some small meals and get creative with this. Example: Divide the contents of a box of
Rice a Roni and the flavoring envelope into two zip lock plastic bags. Half of the flavoring envelop in the bag first and tucked in a bottom corner. Place a twist tie around it tight. Then add the Rice a Roni and zip the bag closed as you evacuate all of the air out of it that you can. You can also save small resealable bottles of 1 to 2 oz size for condiments, coffee creamer, and cooking oil so you aren't carrying so much stuff along. A 2 or 3 liter Bottle of water will provide for cooking and clean up....and in all make a neat & small kit.
The nature of this kind of cooking is for short trips away from the living area with a small "field kitchen" where the savings in a couple of meals could cover the cost of your fuel.
It comes in a small metal can where the base has brackets for the 3 pieces that form the cook top and there is a small wind shield tube. It also has a small wire pilot hole cleaning tool and a match which is dipped in the K-1and held in the flame loop. These were once inexpensive but there are all kinds of prices on them now as they aren't that common. But....they are effective.
NOTICE I would not use one of these indoors. I usually find a picnic shelter on the roadside or the equivalent.
It's a VERY simple appliance.
As you would see it packaged for sale. It all fits in the little can.
There is a screw on lid, seen at the right side above, on the body of the fuel vessel. It has a couple of lead disk which form the seal and if it should get too hot is designed to melt and release the pressure inside.
There are no moving parts. In the coil in the above photo there is a bottle cork inserted into the generator coil to keep the pilot hole from becoming plugged.
Between the can at the right side and the stove there are two brass strips where the one at the left holds the thin wire for cleaning the carbon from the pilot hole, and the one at right is the match. (you can see the gray wadding at the back end near the base of one of the three cook top elements.
I don't know if these are out of production today or not.
When I go on a road trip in the car and plan to cook lunch or dinner I often take this, a Boy Scout mess kit,
and a Little Playmate Cooler.
I can freeze water in plastic water bottles to put in the cooler along with some packaged food items
where with a little heating in the mess kit I have breakfast or dinner. I'm usually eating at a fast food
for lunch as I'm out of camp and traveling at that time. These 3 items fit neatly in a small card board
box. When the water has melted in the bottles I have Coffee, Tea or Or some other water bottle beverage
flavoring I use. Thus hot or cold beverages. Breakfast is usually an Omelet of diced veggies, diced ham,
stowed in the cooler and dinner a rice and Kielbasa sausage all in one. This can easily save $20 or more a day.
I also carry a copy of Bill Kaysing's cook book, "Eat well for .99 cent a meal"
There are a number of cook book like this dating back to the Hippie days of the 60's. (often found today at used book stores)
https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Well-99-Cent-Meal/dp/1559501375
You can prepackage some small meals and get creative with this. Example: Divide the contents of a box of
Rice a Roni and the flavoring envelope into two zip lock plastic bags. Half of the flavoring envelop in the bag first and tucked in a bottom corner. Place a twist tie around it tight. Then add the Rice a Roni and zip the bag closed as you evacuate all of the air out of it that you can. You can also save small resealable bottles of 1 to 2 oz size for condiments, coffee creamer, and cooking oil so you aren't carrying so much stuff along. A 2 or 3 liter Bottle of water will provide for cooking and clean up....and in all make a neat & small kit.
The nature of this kind of cooking is for short trips away from the living area with a small "field kitchen" where the savings in a couple of meals could cover the cost of your fuel.
