Originally Posted by
Niles H.
Stuart,
I think you have been treated unfairly here by some people, who seem unable to stay with reason and substance, and descend to the level of personal insults.
I have found most of what you have said to be clear, intelligent, and on target, to a greater degree than most of your critics.
You have some appreciators here as well.
Thank you.
And yet it continues...
Originally Posted by
Erick L
He's good at drowning you in technical mumbo-jumbo to cover his lack of real world experience.
Using the term 'mumbo jumbo' is just short hand for saying that you don't understand something and don't want to understand. You really can't
use "technical mumbo-jumbo" unless you have some understanding of the "technical" part. And the only way to get understanding is with real world education
and experience. I have a more then passing understanding and knowledge of fuels because that has been the way that I make my money for bicycle touring for the last 30 years.
Although I may not have extensive experience with using alcohol fuels for cooking, I don't have zero experience. I don't have to jump off a cliff to know the problems and pitfalls. (I have actual first hand experience with falling off a cliff. It hurts.) just as I don't have to have thousands of hours of experience with alcohol cooking to know the problems and pitfalls with alcohol stoves as compared to hydrocarbon fueled stoves.
Research Grade Ethanol is the fuel of choice for camping because it has multiple uses; as fuel, a disinfectant and beverage
.....don't try the last one with denatured alcohol or Heet, you'll go blind and it's advised to cut the ethanol with something, maybe Sprite for a backwoods Margarita.
Please. No. Heet isn't even ethanol which is the alcohol you
can drink. It is methanol and will not only make you seriously blind but seriously dead. Buy a good single malt scotch or a nice tequila or a wonderful Sotol...it's like drinking liquid bacon, very smoky...and enjoy it. Leave the industrial ethanol alone.