The “ Scout” has a very skimpy appetite for fuel and will consume almost anything that will burn. I have never been in a desert environment where there was not some kind of scrub plant growth on the ground or GI trash that I could use as fuel for the Silver Fire Scout. Lots of sand but not lots of trees to chop up for fire wood. It has the footprint of a CD disk, is 2 1/2 inches tall when collapsed and weighs 12 ounces.Īs I said this stove would have been nice to have back in my desert warfare training days, where there was limited fuel lying on the ground. When speaking with Todd Albi, the designer of the Scout, he wanted to stress this stove is a minimalist type of stove. Small sticks, leaves, twigs, grass or just about any bio mass you can come up with will burn in the Silver Fire Scout.
Finally, I have one now and I have to admit the Silver Fire Scout is the slickest stove you can own that does not need any type of man processed fuel. The SilverFire 304 Stainless Steel Scout is the stove I should have had during all those days in Boy Scouts, Infantry training, camping and hiking in Alaska, during desert warfare training and functioning at my farm when the power goes out. However the answer to your on-the-run from “ walkers” ability to boil safe drinking water, cook your food, stay warm and even have some emergency light is another Silver Fire stove, the Silver Fire Scout Stove.
COLEMAN FIRE COMMANDER STOVE FULL SIZE
I have a full size SilverFire Survival Rocket Stove (and it really is an excellent stove, but if you are running for your life with just a backpack full of food and ammo there is no room for the size and weight of this stove. SilverFire Scout Stove SilverFire Scout Stove and Stowaway Pot I believe in time of crisis that the three most important things are: a firearm & ammo, lots of non-perishable food and a rocket stove. Of course you had to open the can, while it was still hot. If you did not blow up the C-rat can from heat generated over-pressure you might have a warm entree. We also just punched a hole in the C-rat can, stuck it in the cardboard box the meal was shipped in and burned the box. You could boil water in a canteen cup rather rapidly but trying to simmer your main meal item over trioxane was a challenge. You had to take an empty C-rat can and made a field expedient stove to burn the trioxane in. The Army would not give us Trioxane Fuel Tabs, you either bought your own “ tabs” off base at Ranger Joe’s, in Columbus, GA or you improvised. We cooked meals on the back bumper of the car using a small tin stove and cans of Sterno fuel.ĭuring Infantry school it was all about trying to heat C-rations as fast as you could, so maybe you might get a “ warm” meal once in a while in the field. In 1965 I toured Europe with my parents and two sisters in a tiny VW square back station wagon. To this day I still dislike scrubbing a charred cooking pot in the kitchen sink. Lots of messes at the camp site and lots of messes to clean up after I got home.
As I progressed in life to the Boy Scouts I had years of experience cooking at a campfire and blackening many a trail chef cooking set of pots and pans.
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