[Stoves] Wick Burners: Martin's Tea Time Candle Stove

[Boll, Martin Dr.]

Stovers

 

The stove I promised to make out of tea-candles is a "MTT"-stove (Martins
Tea-Time).

 I made it a year ago.

The pictures and description are at: 

http://bioenergylists.org/en/bollmtt

 

The "burner": 6 tea-candles put in a circle plus 1 in the middle.

The "pot-stand": 3 wine-corks, standing upright, in a (likely) equal-sided
triangle (8"). If not exactly you can ply the stand together like in the
picture.

The corks are hold in position by clothes-hanger-wire (= sides of the
triangle)  (or a little bit stronger)

Both ends of the wire are cut with sharp edge to penetrate the cork easily
and have a rectangle ply. The two short ends are 1" long and stick each in a
wine-cork.

So the three wine-corks are the edges of the triangle.

 

You can bring to boil water in a kettle with 7 tea-candles, and keep the tea
warm with one candle only.

That's the 7 to 1 turning down ratio. 

If the tea-candles in the circle are putted on small aluminium-foil-strips,
t is possible to pull them still burning out of the circle and cover them
for extinguishing.

 

I think some of that "augmented rechaud" or "diminished stove" can make
sense with RHC (retained heat cooking), e.g. to keep "the potatoes" in the
low-temperature-cooking-range, which would be lost without additional small
heat.

 

Let us think more about wick-burning. This simple technique is worth
modernizing!

 

Regards

 

Martin