I stake my claim of being the first to make a single pot stove to boil 1 litre of water in under 2 minutes.

["New Dawn Engineering /ATEX" <crispin@newdawn.sz>]

Dear Stovers

I hereby throw down the gauntlet to all challengers who wish to knock me off
my throne as Boil King of the Stovers.

I have this afternoon tested an unmodified Basintuthu single pot stove
fuelled specifically for this type of a burn with ordinary pine wood taken
from a plank in the workshop.  I did add three paint cans on top of the pot
to get more updraft.  It boiled the 1 litre in well under 2 minutes and also
had boiled off  80cc of water when I stopped the test at 2:40.

The ease with which this was accomplished means that we will have to
re-evaluate what a meaningful boiling test will be like.

Sincerely,
Crispin in Swaziland

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Details:

Date of Test  7 January 2002, 6PM
Mean air temperature 27 deg C
Mass of water    1000gm
Mass of aluminum pot    510gm (the test was done with an open pot so I
could try to assess when it was boiling)
Mass of water + pot    1510gm
Mass of paper used to ignite kindling    4gm
Mass of pine fuel put into the basket grate    246gm
Mass of all fuel in the basket grate    250gm
Mass of fuel added during the test    None
Mass of water + pot at 2 minutes 40 seconds    1430gm
Initial Water temperature 22 deg C
Final water temperature (est from previous experiments)    96 deg C

Method
I found it very difficult to light the fire and start the stopwatch at the
same time.  I decided to light a piece of newspaper rolled up so it wouldn't
go out as a match can when simultaneously holding a stove up in the air and
starting a stopwatch at the same time.

I held up the stove in the air so I could bottom-light it with the end of
the rolled up newspaper and when the paper in the grate bottom caught
alight, I put the stove down on the ground.