Simple Stoves
About the simplest and least expensive of these is the “Rush Stove.” It is simply a rectangular box-like affair that folds up flat. It will burn any kind of solid fuel, but works best with wood. It costs about five dollars, and can be set up in ten seconds.
This stove weighs but seven pounds and folds into a package only one and a half inches thick. It may be packed under the seat of an auto or strapped on the back of a motorcycle. Nevertheless, this stove is thoroughly substantial, is made of 20-gauge sheet steel with four thicknesses at the corners, where strength is needed.
Another very satisfactory stove for solid fuel is the “Livingood.” This is somewhat more extensive and complete than the one just mentioned and costs [[66]]about twice as much money. The “Livingood” folds flat to a thickness of four inches. It comes with oven, three-quart water container, eight-cup coffee-pot and will roast a sizable potato in thirty minutes. When set up the stove proper is roughly two feet long, a foot wide and a foot high. It works best with wood or charcoal. In material the top is 22-gauge black iron, the body and oven of 26-gauge black iron, and the hinges of copper built with the body. The stove alone without the extras comes to $7.50.
Various kinds of cooking apparatus. At the top is the dingle stick; immediately below is the Kampkook gasoline stove; to the right of the Kampkook is the Livingood stove burning solid fuel and having the advantage of folding into a flat form when not in use. At the lower left is the Juwel, a kerosene burner.