Today, I'd similar to review the FeatherFire alcohol stove from
PackaFeather.com.
Thank you! to "RingTail" of Colorado for sending this stove for me to review.
OK, hence what's the FeatherFire's claim to fame? It simmers. In fact, it simmers really well. And non exclusively does it simmer well, it does hence on-the-fly without having to take the pot or adding whatsoever simmer rings or other divide pieces. Nice.
Let's receive got a look. The FeatherFire is a chimney type stove, similar to a 12-10 stove from
TrailDesigns.com. If you lot await closely at the photograph below, you lot tin dismiss merely encounter the ventilation ports underneath the silvery colored band of metal.
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| The ventilation ports on a FeatherFire stove |
The showtime matter I notice almost the FeatherFire is that it has outstanding build quality. I've seen a lot of alcohol stoves. This i is merely genuinely nicely made. For example, the stove comes alongside built inwards pot supports. Each pot back upwards has a fairly elaborate twist that allows it to a) retract nether the stove for carry together with b) to lock into house against the trunk of the stove acre cooking. Every curvature inwards the pot back upwards is merely so. Excellent create quality.
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| Every curvature inwards the pot supports is just done. |
The pot supports, equally I mentioned, rotate underneath the trunk of the stove for transport.
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| The pot supports, rotated underneath the trunk of the stove. |
The pot supports yet receive got upwards room, but I flora the stove packed reasonably good inwards my 1000ml Snow Peak pot. I had room inwards my pot for the stove, a Sierra Cup, together with a windscreen. I added a bandana (not shown inwards photo) to preclude rattling together with to pad the stove.
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| A FeatherFire stove, packed into a 1000ml pot alongside a Sierra Cup together with a windscreen |
Now, I mentioned simmering, together with inwards fact that is what sets this stove apart from many other alcohol stoves. How does it produce it? Take a await at the below photo. Notice that silvery colored band of metal? That band is direct over the ventilation ports.
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| A sliver colored metallic band is situated direct over the ventilation ports. Note too the seat of the pot support, locked into cooking position. |
The metallic band is held inwards house past times the pot supports.
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| Detail of metallic band together with pot supports. |
At the halt of the metallic band lies the surreptitious to this stove's mightiness to simmer: The "worm gear," hence named I suppose because it looks a bit like a worm crawling when the screw is turned.
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| The "worm gear" on a FeatherFire stove |
The worm gear tightens or loosens the metallic band over the ventilation ports. Tighten the band, the stove gets less air, together with the open fire gets smaller.
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| A FeatherFire stove alongside the metallic band tightly closed (simmering mode) |
Loosen the band, the stove gets to a greater extent than air, together with the open fire gets larger. Ingenious!
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| A FeatherFire stove alongside the metallic band inwards the fully opened upwards seat (maximum flame) |
OK, great, but how produce you lot opened upwards up together with unopen upwards the metallic band? Take a await at the below photo.
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| The command cable on a FeatherFire stove |
See that cable alongside the knob on the end? Just plow the knob.
That's it? That's all you lot receive got to do?
Yep, that's it. Turn the knob left to growth the flame. Turn the knob correct to trim the flame. And the best part? The cable sticks out past times your windscreen. You tin dismiss accommodate the open fire "on-the-fly," and you never receive got to burn downwards your manus trying to driblet a simmer band into place. You never fifty-fifty receive got to receive got the pot off the stove. SWEET!
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| The command cable together with knob on a FeatherFire extend out past times the windscreen. |
So, inwards practical terms, what does this await like? Well, I'll exhibit you. Take a await at the 2 photos below. Notice whatsoever divergence inwards the flames?
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| A FeatherFire stove on maximum. |
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| A FeatherFire stove alongside the open fire turned downwards equally far equally it volition driblet dead (simmering mode) |
So, what form of lawsuit on my cooking is this going to have? Well, you lot tin dismiss driblet dead from a full-on roiling boil.
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| A total roiling boil alongside a FeatherFire on maximum flame. |
To a nice, depression simmer.
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| A rattling nice, depression simmer alongside a FeatherFire stove on lowest flame |
Guys, produce you lot encounter the divergence betwixt the 2 photos above? That's a nice range. And what a peachy simmer. That's equally practiced of a simmer equally I larn on a gas stove. And that's "on the fly." In other words, I brought the H2O to a roiling boil, together with hence I reduced it to a rattling depression simmer -- without always taking the pot off the stove. That's pretty darned good. I was impressed.
Well, boiling H2O is all good together with fine, but tin dismiss it cook?
Fair question. Hmm. Now, let's see. What would live a practiced test? How almost my favorite, an omelet? If an alcohol stove tin dismiss create an omelet, hence that's a pretty practiced cooking stove inwards my opinion. Let's give it a try.
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| A pocket-sized backpacking type pan on a FeatherFire |
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| Cooking the eggs |
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| Adding salmon together with shredded cheese |
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| A delicious omelet! |
And the lastly results? See for yourself. I got nice, fluffy eggs, together with I gotta say, it was delicious. And this was alongside a inexpensive footling lightweight pan. I got a footling sticking, but nix bad. NICE!
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| Minor sticking occurred |
So, inwards summary, this is a genuinely practiced cooking stove, together with
really practiced for an alcohol stove.
OK, hence squeamish stove, but how's the weight?
On my scale, it weighs 45g/1.6oz. Maybe a footling heavy compared to something similar a Trail Designs 12-10 stove at 16g/0.6oz, which is about 1/3 the weight, but the FeatherFire's weight includes the pot supports together with the footling snuffer cap, features non included inwards the 12-10 stove, together with the FeatherFire simmers. On the other hand, compared to the 112g/4.0oz
Trangia burner, the 45g/1.6oz FeatherFire seems equally lite as, well, a feather.
Downsides? Well, maybe a couple, both inwards the durability category. First, the pot supports are mayhap a footling spindly. I mean value they could driblet dead bent alongside use. They're surprisingly strong, together with I haven't had whatsoever problems hence far, but I've been careful. Second, volition the simmering apparatus stand upwards up to the rigors of the trail? I can't nation for sure, but at that topographic point are to a greater extent than pocket-sized parts on this stove than on other stoves. No blatant "red flags" here, but something to comport inwards hear equally i uses the stove. Of course, if the band were to neglect somehow, you lot could yet purpose the stove equally a non-adjustable chimney stove, hence you lot wouldn't live completely stuck out on the trail. You'd merely lose some of the precise simmer control. I haven't had the stove for long, but I genuinely mean value the simmering apparatus volition live OK. It's those pot supports I worry about. I notice that PackaFeather has a minute stove, the XL. The XL is
not an "e
Xtra
Large" version of the FeatherFire but rather appears to live inwards the same flat equally the FeatherFire. The XL appears to receive got improved pot supports of a type that volition lastly well, hence it appears that PackaFeather may live good aware of the limitations of the pot supports of a FeatherFire. I receive got non had a lead chances to review an XL equally of this writing.
One other exceptional of note. Sometimes a FeatherFire "burps." What produce I hateful past times "burp?" Well sometimes you'll hear a popular together with at that topographic point volition live a flash of flame. It seems to move on most when you lot plow upwards the stove. It doesn't seem to move on at all on fully opened upwards or fully closed. But if you're somewhere inwards between, sometimes the stove merely evidently burps. I'm non completely certain what's causing it although I suspect vaporized alcohol is escaping out the ventilation ports, edifice up, together with hence "flashing" from the estrus of the open fire when sufficient create upwards occurs. It doesn't seem to wound anything although it is a footling flake weird. I flora that past times playing alongside the open fire command setting, I could uncovering "burp free" settings.
I was able to capture what the open fire from a burp looks similar alongside my camera.
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| The open fire from a "burp" on a FeatherFire |
Notice that inwards improver to the the principal open fire arising out of the burner, there's sort of a wraith similar open fire merely nether the pot. This is the open fire from a "burp." Like I say, odd, but it doesn't seem to wound anything. If it happens, merely accommodate the open fire knob downwards a flake together with it typically doesn't recur.
The footling snuffer cap (0.07oz/2g) that comes alongside the FeatherFire is form of handy.
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| The snuffer cap of a FeatherFire exclusively weighs 2 grams! |
Now, if you're merely boiling water, you lot tin dismiss pretty chop-chop figure out how much alcohol you lot require to boil, say, 2 cups of water. So, inwards that case, you lot merely dispense the proper amount of alcohol together with allow the stove burn downwards itself out. But alongside existent cooking, it's a lot harder to predict how much fuel you'll need. With the FeatherFire, don't worry almost it. When you're done cooking, unopen the vents on the stove together with set the snuffer cap on. The stove chop-chop goes out. Hopefully you've got the
excellent PackaFeather cap along alongside you lot together with you lot tin dismiss hence merely vacuum upwards the leftover fuel. PackaFeather has set together a squeamish footling organization here.
I didn't receive got a PackaFeather windscreen together with estrus reflector to essay at the fourth dimension of this writing, hence I cannot comment on those items.
The FeatherFire stove: Highly Recommended except
maybe for the pot supports. Time volition tell on the pot supports.
Thanks for joining me on some other Adventure inwards Stoving,
HJ
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