[Stoves] VERY small cooking: How to do it. / fire-starting

[psanders at ilstu.edu]

Dear Martin,

Quoting "Boll, Martin Dr." <boll.bn at t-online.de>:

> Dear Paul,
> Naturally I think of burning in the same stove, at first alcohol (or
> whatever ignites directly) and then secondly burning small wood.
> - If you start the TLUD quickly by a good amount of alcohol that _is_ a
> hybrid-burner.

In my opinion, that is NOT a hybred-burner if the alcohol is simply there to
assist ignition.
Your U-channel idea does seem to be a hybred, especially if it is to do more
than just ignite the TLUD.  But I think the U-channel is an unnecessary
complication.  If you develop it, please let us know.

snip

> But Tom's proposal for soaked charcoal is simpler, but I
> fear, the flames are more above the charcoal, then igniting them, and
> therefore needs a lot of alcohol;

I prefer to have a fuel (like wood chips) hold the starter fluid (alcohol or
other fluid) instead of charcoal.  That way there will be pyrolysis gases
available before the actual char-burning can get started.  Also, it is good to
mix the "fuel-with-starter" into the top centimeter of the fuel so, as you
correctly observe, the heat actually goes up into fuel to be ignited.

Paul



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