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Re: Silly
@Stephen - I completely agree with how the process works, but you didn't say anything that was not demonstrated in the video. Why Crisco? Because I have seen demonstrations of paraffin, beeswax...

In Make Your Own Gear » Crisco Cottonball Firestarter
April 17, 10:29pm
Should have included the study notes for you.
@Stephen, did you really miss the entire point of the video? It was explaining why cottonball firestarters work - wicking. I'm not sure how that is silly and it certainly is not denigrating Vas...

In Make Your Own Gear » Crisco Cottonball Firestarter
April 17, 4:28pm
Crisco Cottonball Firestarter
I decided to dig a little deeper into cottonball firestarters. Far too often I have seen people pull one out and not only does it fail to be an effective fire starter, often they fail to even get i...

In Make Your Own Gear » Crisco Cottonball Firestarter
April 16, 9:29am
Right on both counts
Eric, That is the progression. Very well stated. Those two lines are reversed. The incremental increase by adding the lower cozy is small, but it is an improvement. Pete

In GEAR » How effective are Cozies?
February 22, 7:36pm
Answer is very effective
@Roger - that may be true to during the summer, but on cold winter days, it takes very little time for things to cool off. It also allows boil-in-bag meals to re-hydrate in the cozy instead of on t...

In GEAR » How effective are Cozies?
February 22, 5:23pm
Re: That does it
I was thinking that with the reflectix booty, you could pull your foot out, put your BOB meal in it to re-hydrate, and then it would be nice and toasty when you stick your foot back in. Dual use - ...

In GEAR » How effective are Cozies?
February 22, 11:33am
Thanks, for the kind words
Thanks, it was my pleasure. I really like doing these kinds of reviews. I am working on a review of wood stoves as well. I should probably start a thread to share that progress as well.

In GEAR » How effective are Cozies?
February 22, 8:37am
How effective are Cozies?
I was interested to see just how well the reflectix cozies that I have for my backpacking pots and containers actually work. In this review, I tested the temperature loss of aluminum heiny pots, zi...

In GEAR » How effective are Cozies?
February 22, 6:58am

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