DIY Oil/Grease Camp Stove

I wanted a stove that used grease drippings as fuel so I could recycle my grease instead of filling a landfill. This is only a prototype so it doesn't snap together or fold into itself like some other camp stoves.

The nine wicks are made of toilet paper and the rest of the stove is made of various cans. In the video it's burning a combination of grill drippings and bacon grease.

The construction is similar to most wood-gas stoves because it IS a wood-gas stove with the grease burning insert in place of the vented wood-gas insert (shown to the right of the stove at the end of the video.)

The flame smells like burnt kerosene, sorry to dash your dreams of a bacon flavored camp stove. It's also not very hot, I couldn't bring a quart of water to a boil before the wicks clogged with soot (30 minutes, the wood-gas insert can do it in 20 minutes.)

Perhaps fiberglass wicks or a larger combustion chamber (to burn the sooty smoke) would improve the effectiveness.

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[siafulinux]

Like it, wonder how to get it to boil water though?

[tavelkyosoba]

@siafulinux oil/kerosene lamp wicks would be perfect, they're meant to burn this nasty stuff without clogging. I never tried it because this was mostly a proof of concept.

[siafulinux]

@tavelkyosoba hhmm okay thanks!