Simmer Ring for the Fancee Feast Stove

[Bowlin]

As you might have seen in another thread I've built myself a Fancee Feast stove (Gourmet Stove over here in the UK I suppose!) which I've now used a couple of times for boiling water for coffee/ hot drinks.

This morning I tried making a simmer ring which seems to be successful (although a MKII will be made with fewer jet holes to increase boil time and run time even more).

Again "getting my Bushcraft nerd on" this morning using 25ml of meths and 250ml of water the Fancee Feast Boiled in 4m30s and went out after 9m, once the new simmer ring was used it boiled in 6m30s and went out after 11m21s. Also the boil when using the simmer ring wasn't as fierce as without (slightly more than rolling but certainly not a full-on boil).

I think that it's probably still too 'fierce' for heating food so the MKII simmer ring will have 6 jet holes rather than 8 to see if it'll calm the heat/ flames even more.

[Bragger]

Nice I like it. I tried a simmer ring last week the idea was a strip of aluminium so it can be rolled up in to the pot stand when pack down. But I was unable to get it to work as well as I wanted. Bit yours look nice and tidy. My new fancy feast is using a ceramic fibre wick and is working great

The new one is 7g lighter than the last one ceramic wick and a rolled aluminium pot stand joined with a flat locking seam.

[Bowlin]

Nice!

The thing I liked about the design of simmer ring I used was that it just sits on top of the 'lip' of the cat food can and so doesn't add to the bulk of the stove ( and not much to the weight either).

I shall report back once I've tried the 6 (or even 4) hole version.

Here is the YT video showing the design I used..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajQCwVlROIw

Cheers
Steve

[Bragger]

Been working on a new fancy feast with a ceramic wick and a pot stand with the right hight and a simmer ring to go with It. just looking in to how many holes to go with thing il start with 3 and just keep adding as I go

[Bowlin]

[QUOTE=Bragger;n7892]Been working on a new fancy feast with a ceramic wick and a pot stand with the right hight and a simmer ring to go with It. just looking in to how many holes to go with thing il start with 3 and just keep adding as I goQUOTE]

I'd be interested to see your boil / burn out times with the different number of holes (Yes I'm a gear nerd!) as I haven't had time to experiment yet. I'm looking to get to a stage where it never boils, just heats stuff up.

Have you tried with zero holes? (Maybe a bit like Hiram's version?)

Cheers
Steve

[Meadows]

Nerd alert...All hail Hiram.

I've wasted too many hours watching him boil water☺
How critical is the pot stand height. I imagine the higher it is the faster the burn but less efficient

[Bragger]

Ok Iv been experimenting and writing it down. So it was not just lighting fires really honest. But now Iv run out of fuel.

First of I tried a simmer ring with 6 holes of 1.6mm and a gap of 2mm and it wouldn't stay lit so I increased the holes incrementally to 3.5mm

with 300ml of water at 19°C it came to a simmer boil in 12.42min and had a burn time of 21.23min on 30ml of fuel. So that doubled the boil time and the burn time

Next I tried a simmer ring with no holes just a gap of 5mm and again it wouldn't say lit so I increased it to 7mm.
Agen with 300ml of water at 21°C it came to a boil in 5.38min and burnt for 11.24min. Which isn't that much difference from not having the simmer ring on

So the only things Iv worked out really so far is maybe a 3 hole simmer ring need looking in to. To cut down on a boil. But and this my just be my fancy feast stove with its fin wick and wider pot stand than the normal tomato paste tin pot stand but it seems really hard to keep the simmer rings lit. And this is indoors testing. Anyways il be of in to town on Saturday so il pick up some new and hopefully better grade fuel and continue the fun I meen experiment then.

[Mittagsfrost]

Very interesting. I'm looking forward to see more of your experiments.