Sunday, June 18, 2017

Coconut Oil as a Stove Fuel – BGET Burner



I decided to do a trial with my BGET Esbit stove using coconut oil soaked cotton balls.
I came across a thread on WhiteBlaze.net https://whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php/124692-Cocoanut-Oil that was discussing the virtues of coconut oil. Of course, it made me think...will it boil water?  So, here we are!

I used 9g of Dr. Bronner’s Organic Virgin Coconut Oil sopped up into a cotton ball and sat it on my BGET burner under my Toaks 550 Kit from Zelph with Trail Designs Ti Sidewinder Cone.

It took 14:46 outdoors in 82F calm weather for 2 cups of water to come to a full boil using 9g of coconut oil fuel on a cotton ball.

Th epic fail for this trial is the amount of soot and mess this produced. Yes, it works, but the cleanup is NASTY! A full 1mm of flaky oily soot gets deposited all over the pot.

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