Yer alcohol stove was the key. Then today I went and fleshed it out with ECONOMY stuff. A fifty cent two ounce bottle and an old RC airplane fuel fitting made a dandy fuel bottle that fits the filler of the stove.
COOKWARE was another issue. Coleman makes a nice set for almost $30, but the dollar store had 2 pint and 3 pint anodized sauce pans for $1 each. I bought two 2 pint and a 3 pint. Carefully cut the rim off a 2 pint pan to make it fit as a lid inside the rim of the other 2 pint pan (a cover speeds water boiling) and double as a bowl. These fit nicely in a 3 pint pan, especially with the cheezy plastic handles removed. In their place, a single "L" shaped aluminum handle was cut from 1X 1/8 aluminum, and notched so it acts as a "poker" style handle. The slot in the short arm of the "L" loops over the screw head that originally secured the plastic handle, and lift the pot..... The handle stows in the 3 pint pan. My stove, pot stand, and alcohol bottle fit INSIDE the nested pans, which fit into a small stuff sack. (the stove and alcohol will get ziplocked to prevent contamination of the cookware.) Now I have a complete cook set, stove and all that will be a mass smaller than 6" cubed, and a secondary fuel supply can be carried in a disposable 12 ounce water bottle. Add some of mother's "fine china" (heavy duty paper plates and "starbucks-style" coffee cups, alsong with plastic spoons, etc), and I'm set.
Gonna do a river/lake 2 day fishing trip in August. The last (most difficult) part of my gear, the "kitchen" is now ready.
Thanks for the "thread drift" on the oil candle thread. Oh, the percussion cap can oil candle goes with as well
Ya never know where Leverguns will take ya, that's for sure.
