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Esbit Survival Stove Fuel Testing | for Stealth Camping and Bushcraft
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Feb 3, 2024
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All right, so the kit I brought out is, I would consider this like a lightweight scouting
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quick trip kind of thing. It's the Heel Contacts, it's their fanny pack, I think it's the Foxtrot or Wombat
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I don't know, they got some weird designations, but that's the bag
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And then what's cool about it is, it's a traditional lumbar type pack, but hooked up this condor
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harness to it to give it some padding, give it some shoulder straps, but then also I can
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add the hydration bladder. And now, I just got my Kukri in here, which I'm not going to be using, and then added
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some water bottle pouches to the sides, to the belt, because they're molly, and that
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gives me some options for carrying more water, because I like to have canteens on top of
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hydration systems because bladders fail, they break, they leak, but if you want to carry
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a lot of water and you're moving long distance through the woods, you need a lot of water
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especially in weather like this. So I've got two 32 ounce Nalgenes, that's a pretty typical setup for me as a Nalgene
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I do like the canteens, military issue canteens, or the Nalgene Oasis canteens, those work
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really well. But these 32 ounce Nalgenes are pretty awesome. These are the lightweight ones, they're kind of flexible, they're not hard, they're not
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the Lexan, so they're softer, they're lighter. And then what I do, my Kuk kit, with this particular bag, because it's so small, I have
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to be really judicious with my space. I've got a titanium cup, it sits at the bottom of that nest in that bottle
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This is Wild Camping International is the brand, I've worked with those guys for many
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years and they make a really quality titanium cup. What I've done is, it has a bale that you can add to it, and I've taken the bale off
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so I can store that in the pouch
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I've got my lid, I've got my bale. And then for a kit like this, I don't have a lot of room to carry a ton of food, so I
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make up my own little, I guess I would call it a mini MRE, but this is all stuff that
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I got at the store. Super inexpensive, readily available, so I've got ramen just for some carbs, not a lot of
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nutritional value with these, so I want to add some protein, so there's some pulled pork
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BBQ, so I'll add that to the ramen. And then I always carry in all my gear the hydration multipliers from Liquid IV
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Add these to a bottle of water and they're going to help you if you're getting dehydrated
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and plus they taste good, so if you're filtering water or putting tabs in your water to treat
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it, this will help with the taste. And of course coffee, hot sauce, always have to have hot sauce to add to my food
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And then just a couple options, usually carry some type of meat stick, that's just a Jack Links
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This stuff I can pick up at the store, really not a big deal, it doesn't have to be an elaborate
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meal, especially if I'm moving a lot, I don't want to be weighed down with a lot of food
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and you don't need as much food as you would think, especially in the summertime when there's
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heat like this, water is way more important and you can get away with some small snacks
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adding things like peanut butter and tortillas is another good option, they're lightweight
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and they compress down pretty well. And then for my stove, this is a tried and true Esbit stove, this is a German issue
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this is an old one, I've had this for many, many, many years, used it quite a bit, it's
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the actual Bund designation on it. So Esbit tabs in themselves, people have different varying degrees of success with
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them, they're alright for me, I've not had too many problems, sometimes they don't boil
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a cup of water depending on the conditions, sometimes you have to add an extra tab, I've
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also thrown in twigs underneath with the tab to extend the fire, but a couple other options
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that I brought out, that you don't have to use the Esbit tabs, there are other different
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fuel sources available commercially
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So this is the Duraflame fire starter, you get these in the hardware section where the
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fire pits are at, so people will use these to start their fire pits
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They work pretty good. And then also, another brand, I'm not sure if they even make these anymore, they might
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these are the Kuglins fuel tabs, I haven't really tried these yet, so I'm going to actually
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light all three of these up and burn them and see which one burns the longest
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Alright, so I'm going to run a test on these three head to head
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I've never really done this, but I thought it would be a good demonstration for people
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who are trying to figure out what kind of solid fuel tabs they want to run in their
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stoves, and you don't have to use them with an Esbit stove, there's a lot of other different types of stoves out there, like the canteen stands, like the other fellows were showing
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those work really well with those. The nice thing about the Esbits are, the stoves themselves, because they're so low, that the
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flame is really close. Now of course that Dura Flame is putting out a lot more flame, but as you notice, it's
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putting out a lot more smoke, and that is a big no-go if you're trying to be stealthy
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hide your position, you don't want people to know what you're doing, that's going to
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alert people to your whereabouts. So if I had this, I would definitely want to be in a safe spot
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That Dura Flame is really kicking out the fire, so I mean, you know, as an emergency
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fire starter, it's awesome, that's what you want, but to cook on, with the smoke, that
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may not work. Of course the Esbit puts out very little smoke at all, if none, it smells a little bit more
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And then that Kuglin's tab is very similar to the Esbit, I think it's pretty similar
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makeup as far as what it's made of. What you don't have is a bigger flame, it's a smaller tab, so I would definitely probably
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do two or three tabs on an Esbit tray. What I forgot to do, what I forgot to do is try one of these new tabs, and Bear gave me
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this, and he just got these off of Amazon, and I'll put the name down below in the caption
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These are quite a much bigger than the Kuglin's, and I would say they're close to the Esbit
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in size, just a different shape. Let's see how that's going
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Yeah, so that's another smokeless option, I think these are probably some kind of Esbit
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knockoff, like another company's making them, just like the Kuglin's is. I can tell already, that's putting out much more flame than the Esbit. Esbit. Esbit
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That's a bigger flame, it's taller. Alright, so that's pretty much burned out, and that is right around the same time as
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the Esbit, a little bit longer, it's like 17 minutes, 18 minutes
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The Kuglin's was right around 12, and then that Duraflame, that went much longer
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That was close to, probably close to 20 minutes, I think. Alright, thanks for watching
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