Posts Tagged ‘esbit’

When I came home from church on Sunday I was very hungry. I ate some left over chicken and started thinking about grid down survival. I decided to give the Esbit stove a try. I had some left over soup in the fridge and decided to give that a go. For this experiment I cooked outside on the ground of my patio. I used two petroleum cotton balls for fuel and my mess-kit to cook in. I did not time the experiment, but I would say that the soup was nicely simmering after about 7 minutes. That’s an assumption. But let me tell you there is something special about open fire cooking. I felt like I had earned that soup. Read the rest of this entry »