WorldStove's Beaner Campstove - First Burn

Nat Mulcahy, over at WorldStove, sent me a Beaner Campstove and a PupStove for Christmas. Ever since I received Nat's cool stoves I've been itching to give them a try. And today that's just what I'm going to do, at least with the Beaner Campstove.

Both of these stoves are pyrolytic, multi-fuelled camping stoves, otherwise known as wood-gas stoves.

In case you're not familiar with pyrolization it is," the process of thermally decomposing hydrocarbons in an oxygen poor or oxygen free environment. The products are char, ash, various gases, liquids and tars. Charcoal is made by pyrolization by heating wood in a low oxygen environment. Often, the heat is provided by partial combustion of the wood. The partial combustion drives much of the fuel content is driven off as smoke, and leaves behind charcoal. Pyrolizing wood stoves harness the energy content in the smoke by adding hot air to it and burning it thoroughly. The heat is used for cooking or heating. The resulting charcoal can be burned for other uses, or composted to improve soil quality and provide a way to sequester carbon long-term to help fight global warming."

Todays' video is nothing elaborate, just the first burn of the Beaner Campstove. I just wanted to see what the flame pattern is like so I can make a pot stand for the Beaner Campstove. There will be more videos with labs upcoming.

For more information on WorldStove and it's stoves, go to the following links:

WorldStove's Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldStove

WorldStove's Web site homepage:
www.WorldStove.com

I want to thank Nat for his Christmas present. Max thanks him too.
And
Thank you for watching my video,
Hiram

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[digitizer101]

Awesome looking stove, can a pot sit directly on top of it or does it require a large pot stand?

Thanks

[hiramcook]

Yes it does need a potstand that fits over the inner piece. I made one for the next test.

[Trailtraveller]

These woodpellets can you make them yourself ? Or buy in the (web)store ?

[hiramcook]

I buy them at the local hardware store. I think it was less than $5 for the last bag I bought.

[jw934]

@jw934 Before I thought of the idea of using a fireplace gasket fiberglass rope, my favorite was to roll 7 green pea size tissue paper balls and soak them in alcohol. Place these on top of the pellets then light them. The paper balls prevent the pellets from absorbing alcohol and expanding to saw dust and plugging the gaps for the smoke to rise fast enough. Two sheets of toilet paper is enough for 10 balls.

[jw934]

@deezynar the inside cylinder acts like a chimney and draws in air from all the holes and the gap below. As for the gap above, the inside cylinder has a tight fit with the can's neck to keep it from moving.

[jw934]

The trick with lighting woodgas stove is that the top layer of wood or pellets must reach high enough temperature to give off gas. Since the fondue gel boils at 70 degrees, it actually keeps the pellets too cold to prevent smoking until all the fondue gel are gone. But iIf you carefully placed large droplets on 10% of the pellets without touching others, I think you will be able to light the stove. My favorite way is to put a piece of 2 inch long fibreglass rope dipped in alcohol place on top.

[jw934]

I just rolled a small sheet of aluminum foil, punched a few holes then inserted that into the coke can. I used an xacto knife to scribe a 1 inch circle on the side of the coke can then use the knife to easily remove that piece to create the hole. The result is a stove that can be held while it is burning. Nat informed me that aluminum burner is unsafe due to the aluminum fume. I see he has made his from steel and have most secondary air come from above the can. Looks great.

[MrBushLife]

@Trailtraveller Sure..take your old newspapers, brochures, tear it up, pulp it up in a grinder (blender) then grab yerself a container to compress them..not small pellets, but pellets none the less. You can add your own feul to em..to get em flamed easier. It works. cheers

[RobRichmondRPG]

@redfog42 Keeping in mind that zinc can also be toxic if one breathes in the fumes the issue with modern cans is the plastic resin coating which contains chemicals such as bisphenol A . It's bad enough that the chemical leaches into the products we consume however when the coating is burned the potential of breathing in the fumes or transferring the chemicals to food is very high. You can read up on BPA on the web.

[redfog42]

@RobRichmondRPG Is that right cos I've made penny stoves and and popcan stoves from coke tins. I dont drink the stuff cos it's foul, but I thought if the tin or can had edibles in it it would be OK to use it for stove making...I'm always wary (sp) of galvanised tins but how do you tell if they are galvanised?

[usframe]

that was interesting, thanks