Love it when content creator cares enough to answer FAQ and follow up with a video !! Keep up.

So i get lured in with the penny stove and then you tell me the fancy feast stove is better 😂

You are the most on-target, literate, listenable person I've come across on the web doing these informational videos. And you do the best video demonstrations.

"looks cooler with 16 holes" *writes down in notes*

Now that was thoughtful to come back and answer the exact questions I had after watching the 1st penny can stove!

Ok, this video is awesome. I came here from your soda can burner video. I thought this video would be very simple and only tackle a single idea. You start out with an empty table and it ends with a full display of easy to make burners and stoves. You explain everything simply, practically and throroughly. This was an incredibly informative video and you sir are under appreciated. I am going to my local store to try this stuff out right now

If anyone is wondering...I made one of these penny stoves with 16 holes. Used a Sterno box and a soup can to get the penny stove about 3/4" from the grill. Just like he shows. Effortlessly cooked a big piece of fish and 10 jumbo shrimp in a stainless 8" pan. Used HEET from the yellow bottle. My penny stove consistently burns 15 to 18 minutes using approximately 1oz of fluid.

Add 4 to 6 fine threaded drywall screws to the highest part of the lip and that will be a nice raised surface to hold up a tiny pot while allowing air flow around the burner.

Man, you really do a great job explaining these cool stoves and burners. Thanks.

21:50 The ever present all powerful very useful block of wood.Where would we be without it?

That little coat hanger great grate pot holder you made might be a little more effective if you took some aluminum foil and wrapped each of the three sides with it...Thus giving you a wind shield...This will save fuel....which if in a survival setting would be *PRECIOUS* .....The will also concentrate the heat upwards....just my two humble pennies...God Bless...Much Love.... I found you through the Az tea can burner vid....LOVE IT SIR....excellent..!!!

Women use a make up remover cotton beauty pad that is already round and a stack of them would fit perfect. And they are cheap.

For my penny burner I made (which was because I watched your video) I cut a coffee can down a bit higher than the burner and put the burner in it. The coffee can acted as the stand so the burner did its job. I call it a poor mans Trangia. Thanks mate for interesting videos. Oh and being in the UK I use methylated spirits as used on Trangias.

Thank you for doing the leg work on making the burners more effective for us. This info could very well be a life saver!

Lots of great info in this video! This would have saved me a lot of trial and error had I been able to view it a long time ago. I didn't realize that 82 was the magic penny date. I was amazed the first time I melted one. Darn Good informative video Sir.

My next bike tour thanks you! I'll be attempting a simple stove with some modifications to your designs. Cheers from Michigan.

Very thorough explanations! TYSM for sharing :)

Heet works amazing! I tried the 91 isopropo and didn't like the soot. With heet it burns clean and easily. Thank you for this invaluable information!

I;d say, to be safe, cut a circle out of another can and use that, in case you don't have an older penny.

Thank you, you answered any questions I had... I appreciate you doing this video...

Hey, I originally came to your channel from that video you mentioned! Not being from the USA I was a bit unsure about the fuels everyone uses over there. After a little looking around I found that Denatured alcohol, is also called methylated spirit (in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom). Which is everywhere, any super market or corner shop. So if any international travelers are looking to fire up their stoves/burners in NZ or Oz, just look for methylated spirits, its purple, you can't miss it.

HEET, if anyone is wondering, is mostly methanol and isopropanol. Denatured alcohol is mostly ethanol with some methanol. Given a choice I'd probably use the alcohol, since I don't know what other additives might be in HEET that I wouldn't want to breath in after it's burned. As he said it's probably fine so long as you do it in a well ventilated area, but in my case I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Nice of you to do this. Thanks for all those asking questions. Lol.

The fancy feast or Vienna sausage stove 👌😆 we don't get those in the UK but hey I get the point! Great coat hanger pot stand tip. I guess you refill the fuel through the same holes in the centre?

Awesome info, while I knew pennies pre 82 were mostly copper I never thought about how the Zinc ones would melt under that kind of heat on the burner itself.

Thanks bubby, this video is extremely helpful

love that you made a follow-up, usually unheard of :-)

I was actually looking for the right burner/stove for car camping. To also use a frying pan and cook some food. I'm thinking about using your penny stove design which seams to make it so I can adjust the height to get more of a medium heat instead of high/blasting. So I'd need more of a wider support base and the ability to go up or down with the pan. I think the Sterno thing could work well. The fancy feast thing looks great but I wonder if it wouldn't work the same way if the pan was lifted high enough to no longer cap the large opening. I've seen some people mention the penny stove can explode, but I imagine they must have not put enough ports and placed the penny down too quickly(?). You seam to put the penny down quickly and it works fine so it must be the ports and having a little flame around the base of the burner at first to warm it up.

Thanks a lot. Your explanation and demonstration was really good..

Somebody said it was nice of you to do this video..and I sure want to second that. Very well done and very interesting!

Thanks so much for your tried and true methods!

Your really teaching me,I enjoy learning thanks,

Very good info! Thank you!

Btw, best "memory maker" and thought provoking backyard project with grand children !! ...a little tent on a nice summer night.

Great video, thanks for all the info. The knock outs or anything galvanize I would not use. They produce posiones gases when hot enough. When you weld galvanize coated material you get a white stuff that is not good at all. Just wanted to mention for saftey. Your video was full of good info.

Thanks. Excellent guide. I've made a few now. The new quarters make a nice valve, and they turn blue which is cool.

So glad you had this linked in first vid. Learned so much more.

Thank you so much for sharing this useful information. This will make my trips so much lighter in travel. I subscribe and am looking forward to more videos. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge.

This is the perfect solution to supplement my twig burner stove! I was wondering what I would use if there was a fire ban someplace I will be hiking. Just need to figure out a way to keep fuel contained until I dial in burning off whatever I put in. Mostly will be needed to boil water. I’m thinking the crowler cans I have from the local brewery will be a good size to use! Wider than Arizona tea even! Thanks for the informative videos.

I just happen to have that Sterno rack so I was elated to hear use it! Made my day. 👌

Good information thank you

Hey awesome thanks I live in 🇨🇦 so it's already fall and cold out backpacking one or more times and will be trying your little heater

I LOVE your Vids, Sir! Very informative and practical! (AND...You answered ALL the Qs I had, so thanks for taking the extra time out to do a "Q Vid"!)

Thanks a lot good information to know such things when you're going camping around fishing one need a cup of coffee whatever .great day. Stay safe

You know what, I'm a guy who watch DIY video, and do it. And today, I already ordered Denatured Alcohol 99%.

Thank you so much for clarifying, made mine the night I watched your other video. Purchased some methylated spirit the next day. Haven't tested it yet as needed some roof inclination, but will now use cotton wool or steel wool. Thank you again. 👍

I stumbled across the penny can stove just by accident wasn't even looking for it. in truth I've never ever heard of it before. But watched it anyway and was completely aw struck by the item you made and read the comments and thought I'd better watch this video also. So I'm actually on my way to Walmart to purchase the needed items to in better words "attempt"to make one of these items. Although my daughter said she's going with me to purchase a fire extinguisher also. She heard how I burnt up my mom's kitchen boiling water when I was 16. Well, apparently I'm not able to get her out of the car so to Walmart we go.

I know I'm late to the party but it's cool. So those worried about fiberglass please don't be, it's literally Fiber glass. Or glass fibers, it's totally inert. Oh and the reason when you come in contact with it on your skin when installing it in walls or the ceiling etc. is because those tiny fibers are actually penetrating your skin. It's glass. Dude great vids!

You covered alot, great info! Thank You

This was a great series of videos on making a simple alcohol stove/burner. I learned a lot and will be using this on future camping videos. I'll be sure to give you credit! Greetings from and old Marine in Satellite Beach, Florida.

I have cooked on my nut can/soup can alcohol stove with very good results, I can put my pot directly on the top and also have put it in my twig stove using it as a wind screen , that helped the stove work better on windy days

Thank you, Very well explained. So good that you spoke about the many variants:)

Thank you ! you answered many questions I had ! I Love tinkering with tin can stoves and I use that term to describe the aluminum ones too, lol. but the best I have come up with so far is the alcohol wick stove... I was playing around in the shop and found 2 soup cans that fit inside each other nicely ,they were the same height so I cut the outside one down 1.5" put in 4 holes in the inside can added a cotton T shirt rag as the wick and left it to over hang about 1/2" then took a small screw driver and pushed the overhanging wick down into the gap between the cans ,but just to the top edge.... this is by far the easiest stove to light and when I set a bigger can of water on the inner can it is very stable and it puts outs the inner fire out as well as alot of the fuel was being used up there.... it boiled a can of water in less than 5 minutes but I found that the 91% alcohol is rather dirty.... ( of course it could be my not so clean greasy rags I used as the WICK too LOL.... However the flame is not as pretty as with the Penny can stove but it is so much easier to light and get going especially outdoors ! so I will continue to make stoves like this as I want one that is easy to light puts out a Pretty flame and runs on easy to get Alcohol. I will get me a bunch of denatured Alcohol for these experiments ! thank you very much and I WILL make a few of those stands ! that's very ingenious of you !

Thank you

This Chanel is going to be huge

THANKS for the explanation that I did not see your link at first.

This man could survive anywhere.

Really cool video, very informative. Defiantly something to keep in mind because it's easy and practical to make if you are lacking in cooking gear.

Great video; the height definitely matters as the flame's hottest point is at its peek height. Also, the insulation works so well because there's less surface tension, which creates more opportunity for evaporation to happen; the more evaporation, the more fuel is available to be burned.

Thank you for sharing, and I am going to make a few of them.

Just an FYI - You are correct regarding the pennies. Half way through 1982, they stopped making them of mostly copper, and went to the zinc version. As far as quarters and dimes, 1964 and before were mostly silver, 90% I think. After 1964, the make them out of zinc. Nickels are still made of primarily nickel. (Trivia fact, during WW 2, nickel was needed for the war effort, so 1942 - 1945 nickels were made with 35 % silver, to save nickel. If you ever see one, it is obvious, as they tarnish like pre 1965 quarters and dimes.) Check out the website - coinflation - will show the differences in our coinage. I encourage my young relatives to go through their pennies, and save the pre 1982 ones. In 20 years they will be worth much, much more than 1 cent, due to the copper content. BTW - great vid.

FYI...I looked up the MSDS sheet on that type of yellow bottle of HEET and its primary ingredient is METHANOL. There's are two other proprietary ingredients; each less than .0001%.

I just watched the Arizona tea video, followed the comment section here. Added both vids to my important list As well as subscribed

Burn time starts at like 9:00

Awesome! You answered all of my questions from the other video! Thank you!

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Dude I like this videos do you have more survival tips

I use grain alcohol from the liquor store. Maybe more expensive, but works great. And good for mixing!

Another reason for why you wouldn't want to use coins made with zinc is because of the vapors being inhaled . It's the same reason you don't want to use anything that's been galvanized like making a galvanized garbage can into a BBQ or a stove to heat up an enclosed space . The zinc fumes can be deadly . For me fuel choice is about keeping the costs lower . Denatured alcohol and Heat are definitely more expensive than regular isopropyl alcohol and readily available at most places in many cases whereas Heet or denatured alcohol may not be and especially right now with the shipping issues going on everywhere .

That wire stand is good on rough ground to level the stove , but why waste all that cut up can material? Add it to the stand sides to make a wind shield around the stove. A tin or jar with a lid is handy too, it stores the stove when it still has fuel in it, which can be poured back in from the tin if any spills.

That burner can was hella neat and I like heat.

Pot stand was what I was looking for, thanks!

12:00 Thanks for that answer. I suspected the heat may be an issue with the copper in the pennies, but was wondering why it was important for, basically, a cap.

Thanks for this explanation video. 👍

For a sniffer I like to use a larger can like a soup can and just put it down over it for a minute but simply blowing on it usually works

ITS THE REASON WHY I LIKE WATCHING YOUR VIDEO THE STOVE IS THE BEST

Excellent! Thank You.

Watched your live stream , good one 👍, you are extremely creative. 🍃🌹

Quality information thanks

it would be interesting if you could test various coins the same as you did the later penny -- pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and see how they hold up

Great info. Thanks!

I think if you want it to be a stove just cut a coffee can both top and bottom, and cut it down to about an inch taller than the burner. It’ll support a bigger pan, and raise it up above the burner an inch. Just put the burner in the middle of the coffee can and you’re ready to go.

Going down this rabbit hole today for some reason. FYI, I checked. Modern pennies are mostly zinc and melt at a pretty low temp (as demonstrated in the video). Modern nickels are 25% nickel and 75% copper. Both metals have much higher mleting points than zinc. I am not a credentialed chemist or metallurgist, but I am assuming that a 25/75 alloy of nickel and copper would be essentially impossible to melt. Modern quarters are made of a copper core with a nickel/copper alloy layer ou the outside, so it should also be un-meltable with an alcohol stove. Nickels weigh 5 grams and quarters weigh just over 5 grams. A penny weighs 2.5 grams. So if you're concerned about pressure lifting your coin, a nickel or a quarter should be better than a penny. Bottom line - I'd just go for a nickel or a quarter. Not only do they cover a larger refueling hole than a penny, but you don't have to go hunting around for a specific year that is getting more and more rare as time goes on.

ive got some leftover 99% irubbing alcohol, seems to burn very clean

Very informative!

Suggest adding following the terminologies: fuel wick/baffle & non-ribbed coin pressure regulator. Great video/s...thanks for the content/motivation.

Those electric box knockouts we called them “slugs”.

Awesome . Thank you.

Thank you for making your video there, right now I'm wondering what the difference is between the red heat and the yellow Heat cuz I used the red one and it made a really suity Flame no blue at all once again thank you!!!

I think you can use hand sanitizer for fuel and there is tons of it for really cheap. steel wool seems like a great option.

Question: does the wick in the AZ penny can need to be replaced? OR do you just continue to add fuel after 1 hour or so of use?

You should try dryer lint mixed with Vaseline for the fuel source. Vaseline will not combust unless it is wicked/aerated

It's a KZfaq video I was watching called "No Electircity Needed Heater" she says using crisco makes the candles more efficient more effective.If that's possible you can save money.I will use bigger candles for that experiment and bigger flower pots.And put a metal tea pot filled with water on top with a vent over it with a fan to blow the steam.And carry some extra tea bags and some sugar and try using a metal pot that don't rust.You can Google pots that don't rust and it will give you the names of the pots that don't rust.

If you're worried that that insulation is somehow coming through those holes and through whatever pan you're cooking in or blowing over the pan and into your food in quantities enough to do any harm to you I suggest you look up the air quality where you live. At that point you might as well start living by carrying around a SCUBA tank hooked to your back at all times so you're breathing nothing besides purified air.

I think Heet is the best because it's made of methyl alcohol. Though the percentage is not clear. CH3OH - methanol. Boils at +65 °C. It requires 6,4 kg of air to burn 1 kg of its mass. *In case of 95%. Ethanol for example boils at +79 °C. It requires 8,9 kg of air to burn 1 kg of its mass. Gasoline - can have different boiling point depending on its consist, but it requires 14,9 kg of air to burn 1 kg of its mass. Thus gasoline is unstable in these stoves/burners. That's why you get yellow flame and soot. Soot is basically wasted fuel, unburnt fuel. Unburn because of lack of air.

Another great video as always. Hope the move is going smoothly.BTW not sure if you knew but at the 2:58 mark the video kinda flips out for a second.

It would be nice to see you actually make Vienna sausage and tomato can version - step by step.

Why does the Red bottle of HEET not work well? Also, a suggestion: Do you know those little 50 cent pies you can buy from walmart? If you take the little pie pan when done and place your stove in that, add a little alcohol to the pan and light it, it acts like a mini preheater. If your stove doesn't fit very well (too wide), simply put in a few cotton balls (Underneath the stove) to hold the stove in place. Or some pea gravel or sand or even dirt - that works too. One could use a pint sized paint can lid to set the stove on, add alcohol, and light. It would act both as a preheater and a stabilizer. Light weight too. For the REALLY frugal folks, shape some aluminum foil into a mini dish, set the stove on that, add alcohol, light. You mentioned most of the alcohols out there. What about Jim Beam or Jack Daniels? 151 Bacardi and everclear are too hard to find in some places. Oh and you have a good video too.

I ran outta fuel dad so I put the Seagrams Seven in there

Can you reuse the same can? Or make a new one each time? Does the material inside burn up or can it be refilled with liquid? If yes, how many times? What’s the best way to separate the cans?