This is punk: home­made alcohol camping stoves. I saw one in a friend’s kitchen, but I sure didn’t know what I was looking at. Most people don’t cut up pop cans to some ambigous spec­i­fi­ca­tion and leave them lieing around their kitchen. I thought it was some aban­doned craft project until he pointed out it was a camping stove. Such a thing as a camping stove had best be a reli­able and durable arti­fact if you’re into say through-​​hiking the appalachian trail, as my friend is (or was). So you don’t much expect them to look like aban­donded cut-​​pop-​​can craft projects. In my world view, camping stoves cost over a hun­dred dol­lars and look like the german engi­neered key com­po­nent buried in a jet engine.

Nope. They look like pop can crafts. This is an emerging move­ment by the way, not because they are insanely cheaper than con­ven­tional hiking stoves, but because they are lighter and more reli­able. You can build one “on the trail, with a knife, in 11 min­utes”.

That is punk.