 Hello everyone Dylan Schumacher Citadel Defense and today we're going to talk about the fire dragon stove This is the esbit stove, which most of us probably have right? This is a kind of typical infantry field stove. If you're not familiar with it it runs on these little alcohol cubes and Basically to set this up You're just setting up this little windshield here. You're gonna fold that in I'm gonna put one of the alcohol cubes in there and we're gonna light it on fire now The point of this video here is to see how well this boils and or heats up water This is a standard GI marine cup or not marine army canteen cup thing You know and I fill this thing up to the max and then I poured it into a measuring cup And it's about three and a half cups of water or liquid and I'm talking like full to the brim Three and a half cups, so I put about two cups of water in there Which is roughly if you can tell from there about halfway full and so the first thing we're gonna do is we're going to set the Sun fire We're gonna try to cook this with the lid off and see how well that does and how well that performs With just one cube and then we will dump this out Rinse it off put some cold water get the canteen back down to about roomish temperature It's about 60 degrees outside right now and then we will put the lid on and see how that does and see how that while that heats up water so Without further ado, let's see how well this does This is good because this will give you a good general idea When it comes to what you can cook in here You know if you want to boil water and make a soup or something like that is that doable Is that actually a feasible project to accomplish? Alright, I'm going to start the timer on my watch There not sure if you're able to see that and we will see how that does Okay, so judging by my watch here We're about five minutes in and I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to tell too well from here But there are some bubbles that are starting to form in the canteen But so far we're not near boiling or anything like that Okay, we are at about 10 and a half minutes here And I have a little candy thermometer that I tossed in here to give us an idea and we're looking like we're about 142 144 degrees right now as far as the water temperature goes And we are nearing the end of our fuel cell I'm not thinking this is gonna get much hotter, but we will wait so we're About what is that 80 60 70 degrees give or take short of boiling? We're at about 13 minutes and I expect this tab to expire pretty shortly here We're somewhere between a hundred and like 156 158 degrees is kind of where the thermometer is coming in here And at this point the tab is just expired. It's on its last flame So I'm gonna call it at about 13 minutes and 24 seconds That the hottest you're gonna be able to get is around 156 158 degrees With the lid off with about two cups of water So what I'll do now is I will dump this out I'm gonna rinse it with some cold water to kind of get it back down to you know quasi room temperature and then from there We will try it with the lid on this is still hot enough if you wanted to make like some kind of hot cocoa Or maybe just like a warmed soup or something like that But of course you're not going to be able to boil and purify water by any stretch of the imagination So if it's any kind of survivalist type deal, you're probably in trouble But if you're already using your clean water from your canteen and you just want to get it hot to make something like Coffee or soup or hot cocoa or whatever. This will probably work for you You know again see water is already starting to come down in temperature We're at 150 degrees and we're falling here at this point So we will dump this out. We will put the lid on and we will try again. Okay, so we are back Cooled it down just poured some cold water and it cooled down real quick And now I will drop another fuel tab in there We will light that one on fire and then We will put the lid on and we'll check it after 10 minutes because that's the last tab lasted about 13 minutes So we'll give it about 10 minutes with the lid on and we'll see where that gets us Okay, we are at about 10 minutes and 25 seconds so I'm going to take the lid off and Try to check the temperature and see how we're doing as compared to the other measurement So with the lid on we're not doing that much better if better at all We're currently coming in at about 150 degrees And I've left that for 10 minutes with the lid on now Maybe I cooled the canteen down too much. Maybe the water itself was colder when I started, but I'm I'm surprised we So do with that what you want. That's that's a rat But end of the day you're still getting about the same kind of numbers That we that we had before it and that alcohol fuel tab is about out right about 12 minutes here So I think our temperature is dropping and probably will continue to drop because we've lost flame at this point So I hope that was helpful for understanding kind of the esbit stove and its use in application You're not really going to be able to boil water with this if you want to do that You have to use something like a jet boil stove You will however be able to heat water up To make some kind of hot drink or potentially soup or something like that So hope that was helpful do brave deeds and endure