Coffee Can Cooker

Really easy to make. Not my original idea seen it in one of my survival mags.
2 large coffee can, put them bottom to bottom, 3 self threading screws to hold together. drill air holes. And i cut 3 triangles on the bottom for air flow, works good Cool

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As well, the bottom inside i drilled holes too. Cool

Gotta have air to feed the flame Wink

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Cool.

What'cha gonna cook on it? Very Happy

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Thats pretty cool, mind if I ask a question? I'm a little confused, might just be what was in that micowaved turkey. but what does the bottom can do? I know the top part you burn wood inside.

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I see what you mean. Confused

There appears to be a bottom in the top can. Confused

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	TrooperMax wrote:
	Thats pretty cool, mind if I ask a question? I'm a little confused, might just be what was in that micowaved turkey. but what does the bottom can do? I know the top part you burn wood inside.

The bottom can is to keep the top can of the ground for one, cause you would never get enufe air flow.
So you have to cut air flow passages in the bottom, i cut triangles, 3, to draw the air up to feed the base of the fire.
Which gets it going better, also, its ment to be used as a cooker, so once you put the pot on top you cut off the air flow.
No air, no fire. So those 3 triangles help draw air up to the fire/wood. As well the bottoms of both cans have many holes as well to keep the air flowing up. Its like a vacuum once you cover the top off, thats why there are holes around the top too.
Must have air flow in a concealed area like that if you want good wood burn & heat. It boils water up pretty fast as well.
If your bored one rainy day try it and you'll see how it works, it's cool & easy.
And if you still don't get it, NO soup for you !! Razz

Cheers Troop.

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Ah I see thanks Dave I was a little confused, sweet deal

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Thats cool Drummer Dave Very Happy

Is it easy to take apart and pack?

eric

How well does the burner can hold up to the heat? I have made similar burners with soda cans (much thinner) and after about 10 min the cans will start to melt. I can see the use of the 2nd (bottom) can too, all the soda can burners left round burnt circles in the floor at work if i didn't put anything under them. But yeah, how well do the cans hold up to heat?

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	turd wrote:
	Thats cool Drummer Dave Is it easy to take apart and pack? eric

> Well, not really lol. Its screwed together at the bottom so after useing it its black, dirty, and i would think after awhile of taking it apart it might lossen up the screw holes & not hold together very well after awhile.
Its not really a packable item. car camping thing. There are places you can't have open flame, so this works well. Cool

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	Daffy wrote:
	How well does the burner can hold up to the heat? I have made similar burners with soda cans (much thinner) and after about 10 min the cans will start to melt. I can see the use of the 2nd (bottom) can too, all the soda can burners left round burnt circles in the floor at work if i didn't put anything under them. But yeah, how well do the cans hold up to heat?

> Thats the question i asked myself before i even started to make it, how long will it last ?. But after getting the coffee cans i checked them over & they seem pretty decent as far as thickness goes. Ive only burned in mine 5 times & see 0 effect to the metal bottom or sides. If you used it in a camping type way & used it for heat & cooking all the time, the metal will break down and become no good, but in my mind it would take alot of burn time before that would happen.
So as of right now they show 0 wear of any kind to the bottom or sides Cool

. Cheers Daffy.

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You could make it easy to break down and reassemble by not turning the screws in quite all the way on one of the cans. Then on the other can, drill holes that are just large enough to fit over the screw heads. Cut a slot out from each of those holes so that when you fit the cans together and turn them a bit, the screw heads overlap the slots. Just like the way some smoke detectors mount on the ceiliing. It would be best if the cans are slightly different diameters, so one can fit inside the other for carrying.

Good idea Bush Rat. I was also thinking if ? i make another one, i would use screws with wing nut's, keeping the wing nut part on the under side so its not so grungy to handle. Would be easyer to take apart. Cool

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Now I understand. Thanks Dave. Very Happy

Excellent solution, Bush. Cool

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Now that i look at my post, i should have spent more time explaning how it was put together. Sorry guys Embarassed

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I wonder how this would fair out if you had a large tomato or similar can and a large coffee can (as shown). One would fit inside the other for saviing space, and you should be able to get a pretty darn good fire going inside of one (i mean i had some serious heat in a soda can, nice for rainy days when noone was on the beach and we were surfing and had to warm up afterwords). You could drill a hole in the bottom of both cans and bolt them together so that the small can would stay put when yo make your fire. The rest of the project would stay the same as the one described here. I think it would work well, and when I get home again in november I'l try it out to see how much heat the smaller can (large tomatoe can) can withstand.

but yeah, i think that the space saving design would be nice. you could put other gear in it as well and use the coffee can lid to keep it all in place in your pack. I think it would be easy'r to fit in a backpack too, which makes it more practical in my mind. Just a thought tho. I doubt it would last as long as the thicker coffee can burner, but it isn't like you couldn't replace it after a few uses... i'l let yeas know how it holds up once i make it!

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Built one last summer and it works excellent.

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Can you take a picture of how you screwed it together? I dont see any screws holding the top to the bottom Embarassed

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	BXC wrote:
	Can you take a picture of how you screwed it together? I dont see any screws holding the top to the bottom

I beleive it's bolts, and the top actually clips around the bolts. Here's a link to a vid. Cool

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pN30_tG7S3A

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