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Robert Carver
(Rcarver) - MLife

Locale: Southeast TN
solid fuel on 01/04/2011 17:55:18 MST Print View

Which solid fuel tab leaves the least amount of residue on a cook pot?

Mark Verber
(verber) - MLife

Locale: San Francisco Bay Area
Re: solid fuel on 01/04/2011 19:15:22 MST Print View

WetFire seems to be the best when I ran a few tests, but they are more expensive and have less fuel than esbits. A big factor (at least for me) how well they burned. I found that inside the caldera cone there seemed to be less residue than some other systems I tried. I could clean off the residue with a used tea bag which doesn't exactly have a lot of scrubbing strength :-)

--Mark

Bob Gross
(--B.G.--) - F

Locale: Silicon Valley
Re: Re: solid fuel on 01/04/2011 20:01:38 MST Print View

I thought that WetFire was a firestarter, not a main fuel like Esbit.

--B.G.--

Mike M
(mtwarden) - MLife

Locale: Montana
wetfire on 01/04/2011 20:49:22 MST Print View

it can be used as a fuel (they (wetfire) sell a little ti stove- looks exactly like the old bpl one), but as a fuel it's pricey and not as efficient as Esbit

I did several back to back tests last (thread somewhere around)

as a an emergency tinder, one of the very best

should add that someone thinks the Weber fire cubes are the same makeup as the wetfire tinders, much cheaper

Edited by mtwarden on 01/04/2011 20:52:53 MST.