I am surprised by the complaints about alcohol stove performance. My little one burner non pressurized Electrolux works great! The flame stabilizes very quickly when it warms up. Not much of a problem with handling a reasonable draft and gets my 12-cup percolator perking very quickly. IMO it is safer than propane for a variety of reasons and since my stove is directly under my companionway hatch it is easy to vent the moist air created by the stove. Also very efficient.
From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Chuck S via CnC-List Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 12:51 PM To: Joe Della Barba; CNC boat owners, cnc-list Subject: Re: Stus-List Stove 25 years ago, my family had a big party with lobster for twenty people. To cook all that lobster at one time, my father-in-law got all of his boat and camping stoves together in the kitchen and had an impromptu race to boil water to cook the twenty 1.5# lobster. We had a kerosene stove and an alcohol stove and white gas camping stove, and also used the house's natural gas stove. It was fun to learn how to safely light all of these different kinds and with various sized pots we had a totally uncontrolled experiment, but a lot of fun. We waited for all of the pots to be boiling, and then steamed the lobster and had an amazing dinner laughing about our crazy test. I think all cook w fire equipment can be used safely, if used properly. Chuck _____ From: "Joe Della Barba via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2015 8:01:33 AM Subject: Re: Stus-List Stove Have you ever actually tried that? Any significant pressure leak and you won’t be able to get anyplace near the stove. Joe Della Barba j...@dellabarba.com Coquina From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of John Irvin via CnC-List Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 10:17 PM To: Bill Bina - gmail; cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Stove Alcohol stove fires can easily be extinguished with water Surely a plus. _____ From: Bill Bina - gmail via CnC-List <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Sent: 2015-03-06 11:55 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Stove You would have also discovered that many insurance companies will not insure a boat with a pressurized alcohol stove. They go strictly by the numbers, and those stoves have a very bad track record for claims. It is one of the "hot" items they look for in the insurance survey. The other issue with alcohol is that the flames it makes are virtually invisible, which can also lead to unintended consequences. Bill Bina On 3/5/2015 10:14 PM, John McKay via CnC-List wrote: An question from another new C&C 33 MK II owner. I have been trying to get the original Hillerange two burner pressure alcohol stove working, and it scares me. One burner lights, flame is blue but not adjustable. The other sounds like a jet engine and burns about 8" high. Made an easy decision to scrap this. Any suggestions about a new stove top would be appreciated John from Enterprise _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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