Hobo Stove- Ramen Noodles!

OK, decided to try cooking on the hobo stove, this time ramen noodles. You can already see the stove is getting a good carbon build up on it already...
What you see there is what I used for fuel. To start it this time I used a cotton ball rubbed/soaked in Vaseline. The cottton ball in Vaseline is friggin awesome! Burned hot and for a long time, I will definitely be adding some to my kit in the near future. Used my Swedish fire steel to light it and it did it real quick...

Notice how large and hot the flame is, flaming cotton ball from hell, some bark and some shaved pine from a 2x4. went up quick and burned nice and hot.

this is how you feed the stove. slowly push large sticks into the hole and add as needed. Dont add to many at once or it wont burn as hot. The sticks I used where a combo of cedar and blue berry from a bush I cleaned some dead wood out of. I would also add some cedar bark that was wet for some smoke to keep the skeeters at bay, they were bad today.

my little camping cookwear set. I have had it since I was in boy scouts, used the pot to boil some water. Hint: cover the pot and it will boil quicker by trapping the heat. It took about 7 minutes for the water to reach a full boil. crushed up my ramen noodles and dropped them in. about 5 minutes later it was close to done.

ramen noodles ready for the flavor packet. I added the packet and let them heat up for another couple of minutes.

Hot Chow!

Walla, hot chow via my hobo stove! Hot food is a great boost to your morale when out or even in a stressful situation. This weekend I will cook hamburgers on it! looking foward to that... Might also do hot chocolate and light up some cotton balls to see how hot and how long they burn. Will add some video of that.
 So it took around 15 minutes and I got a hot meal on a few handfuls of sticks. twigs and wood shavings. Didnt have to use a lot of energy chopping wood, just scrounged what I had around me and available and went for it. Also note, I used my CRKT Eatin Tool, got that from Cheaper than Dirt online for a great price...

The Hobo Stove part 2!

OK, I FINALLY got back to the Hobo Stove, got a pair of tin snips from work and cut the opening. Well a friend of mine gave me his old coffee maker, he replaced his with a new one, and I am not one to turn down "free". I started the fire with my magnesium fire starter, cedar bark, old man's beard and some shavings from a 2x4. It took me a few tries but as you can see I got it lit up. I fed it some cedar pieces at first to get it going hot then switched over to pieces of shavings and split wood from a 2x4 i had laying over by the wood pile. Used my SOG tomahawk just for that purpose. Its a great tool to shave and split 2x4's or small pieces of wood for the stove.

I let it burn hot to remove any lining in or on the can as well as start to burn the paper off. Then it was coffee time!

You can see how well and hot it burns,, alot better than I thought it would.

COFFEE TIME!!

you can see the 2x4 I used for fuel, I used less than half that piece to make my coffee, you can also see my magnesium bar just off behind it. It took about 10 minutes to finish the cup, and it was really damned good! Had a slight smoky cedar overtone with hints of pine and old man's beard.  I am now compelled to make ramen noodles tomorrow, and use a small cast iron skillet and cook a hamburger on it this weekend. Got the boys on board so we will have some fun with this... SO over all for its size I would call this a great success abd awesome little tool!!! You could use this to pasteurize water, cook a meal , keep a small amount of heat to warm you and roast marshmallows!!! and hot dogs on a stick!!

ONE DAMNED GOOD CUP OF COFFEE!!!

The final product,, one cup of really good coffee. I had a bug fly into he, he became a protein snack. I can not wait to do this with a #10 can and look foward to buidling a rocket stove as well...